Category Alumni News

The Angelmaker Code

Faculty Editor | Jason Booher Sometimes you get to work on a project that expands beyond the specific world in which the design problem is set. The jacket for Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker has been one of those for me. And it allowed me to delve into something I was obsessed with growing up—coded language. I [...]

Winterzine Release Party

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Guest Contributor | Dwight Armstrong AAS GD ’11 Alumi Dwight Armstrong  has been hard at work on Winterzine, the latest issue of the magazine Seasonzine. Seasonzine is the brainchild of Dwight and his friend Christine Huang, both California-born Brooklynites. After years of cursing the seasonal tempermentality of the East Coast, Dwight and Christine decided to suck [...]

Lillian Lee (GD ’05) Launches The Grand Assembly on March 15th

[  ] IS MY CURRENCY is an exhibition highlighting 14 creatives’ interpretations of what their currency is in life. This exhibition launches The Grand Assembly, a curated online community of creatives 60 years and older, who are making work and telling their stories through their individual video portraits. PLEASE JOIN US at the opening reception [...]

AAS GD Jan Sabach ’02 featured in CA Fresh

Jan Sabach (Graphic Design ’02) is featured today in the Communication Arts

Parsons’ AAS GD Alumni and Faculty Collaborate to Create re:D Magazine feature.

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Guest contributor | Ed Pusz As a designer and art director for the past 18 years, I’ve become intrinsically aware that a good collaborative process makes for good results. This past October, The New School’s Communications and External Affairs (CEA) Design Studio had occasion to reunite teacher and student for a special feature on the [...]

AAS Graphic Design Work 04 receives a “Certificate of Typographic Excellence” from TDC

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Editor-in-chief | Katarzyna Gruda   It is my great pleasure, as Director of AAS Graphic Design and the Editor and Photographer of the publication, to announce that our publication WORK 04 has been recognized by the Type Directors Club with a “Certificate of Typographic Excellence.” Colaborating with me a three-person design team (art direction by [...]

CONVERSATION ABOUT DESIGN WITH JOEL TOWERS

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SUMMERZINE ∣ release of very first issue of seasonzine ∣ Christine Huang & Dwight Armstrong (AAS GD ’11)

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Summerzine is the first issue of Christine Huang & Dwight Armstrong‘s Seasonzine series, a new quarterly publication dedicated to celebrating the seasons. Summerzine features summer-inspired stories, photographs, and illustrations from 40+ creators from New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Asheville, Austin, Detroit, Bangkok, Amsterdam, and beyond. All work is original content. These limited edition zines [...]

Jan Šabach (GD ’02) selected for Graphis Design Journal Americas 001

We’re happy to announce that Jan Šabach’s work was selected as one of  New York’s design firms for Graphis Design Journal Americas 001. Graphis Journals replace Graphis magazine and the first issue features 24 inspiring design and illustration professionals, the majority of whom have been consistent Platinum and Gold winners in our past Annuals. The second [...]

Jon Lopkin (GD ’07) starts a design studio in Boston

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amüsegrafik (pronounced amooz-grafeek) is the multidisciplinary design studio founded by Parsons alum, Jon Lopkin. Jon will act as principal and creative director/designer while his business partner, Amy Forni, a former colleague of his, will serve as the marketing director. Jon credits visiting the studios of Mucca Design, Team Pro-Am (led by Parsons Adjunct Professor John [...]