Two posters, designed by Matthew McPherson and Fahad AlHunif, students in my spring 2012 Process & Skills class, are currently on view in an international poster exhibition at the City Hall of Leipzig, Germany. The show ends 09/23/12. These posters were designed as an assignment in my class in response to the international call for [...]
AAS GD students winners in poster competition ‘Occupy: What’s Next?’
I am very happy to share the news that two students from my ‘Process and Skills’ class are winners of the international poster competition ‘Occupy: What’s Next?’. Both Luiza Dale’s and Fahad AlHunaif’s posters were selected in the student category amongst hundreds by an international jury of designers in which I participated. This poster design [...]
Call4Posters
Contributor | Jeanne Verdoux I will be a jury member for this poster competition amongst an international panel of designers. This event will lead to online shows and exhibitions around the world. Deadline : April 30, 2012 at midnight Send in your designs here: http://www.nextbydesign.org About the competition: In the midst of economic, social and climate [...]
THE NEW YORK DESIGN EXPERIENCE 2012: FRIDAY, MARCH 16
Editor-in-chief | Katarzyna Gruda PARSONS SPRING BREAK CONFERENCE TISHMAN AUDITORIUM 66 West 12 Street Director/Host: MARA KURTZ: Graphic Designer/Photographer/Photoillustrator. Associate Professor, Parsons AAS (Graphic Design) Associate Professor, The New School (Media Studies) President, Type Directors Club, 1996-98 SCHEDULE 10:15 NICK LAW Chief Creative Officer, R/GA Digital Agency 11:15 LOUISE FILI Principal, Louise [...]
New Student Web Design Competition
Senior Editor | Charles Nix Brian Miller, author of Above the Fold, has just launched a new web design competition (sponsored by HOW, Adobe, and Webdesign Tuts+). The entry fees are minimal, the judges are smart/talented, and the awards are pretty decent. Check it out at: awards.abovethefoldbook.com
re:D Magazine Cover Designed by AAS GD Faculty and Students wins the “Certificate of Typographical Excellence” from tdc
Editor-in-chief | Katarzyna Gruda When Isa Gouverneur (then Art Director) and Paula Giraldo (then Senior Designer, now Assoc. Art Director) of New School Communications and External Affairs Design Studio asked us last year to design the cover for 2011 Spring 2011 issue (“Design and the Body”) of re:D, the Parsons Alumni magazine, [...]
AAS Graphic Design Work 04 receives a “Certificate of Typographic Excellence” from TDC
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 [...]
Color Smarts: Q&A With Parsons Color Theory Team: Thomas Bosket and Langdon Graves | AAS GD FAculty
Re-posted from Imprint | The Online Community for Graphic Designers | Interview by Jude Stewart Can you teach an instinct for color? Some colorists think not; those who say you can compare the process to something slyer, a delicate sussing-out of an affinity we all draw upon daily. I spoke to Thomas Bosket, Coordinator of [...]
GETTING THERE FROM HERE photos by Julia Gorton at the Glen Ridge Train Station
It’s not easy knowing where you’re going, but whichever way that you are heading, there is always something to see. These photos were taken during the past year; on, of and from various types of transportation. Many were taken on my commute to teach my Graphic Design 1 class. It’s often said that it’s the [...]
