MFA Design News

Esther Ro-Scofield, MFAD’s veteran administrative assistant and director of the SVA Workshop in Venice and Rome, received her MFA in Computer Art with the completion of her thesis “Dollhouse” (2010), a fine art installation of an HDTV encased within a dollhouse structure. The HDTV plays a video depicting a figure jumping and levitating in 7 different rooms. Each room was hand built in miniature, captured, and composited with live-action video.

See it here

Co-chair Steven Heller is the online moderator for the current Glass House Conversation on the following theme:

“What are the legal and ethical lines in the sand with regard to intellectual property and images? In your experience, what is appropriate appropriation?”

Join the conversation here.

Jeffery Everett (MFAD’04) announces available The Gaslight Anthem’s 2010 US Summer Tour posters! “Sold out at shows but a few are available at his website.” They comes in Night and Morning (color variant) edition. Coming soon – posters for The Budos Band, The Gaslight Anthem, The Bouncing Souls, Wovenhand, and New Medicine!

http://www.eljefedesign.com/storemain.html

Matthew Heckart (MFAD’10) is a recipient of the 2010 Implementation Award from Design Ignites Change, a monetary grant to further his Masters Thesis “Two Wings.”

“Two Wings” is a creative campaign produced by an international team of animators, designers and musicians, to advocate for LGBT refugees and asylum seekers. Partnering with ORAM (Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration).

Tamara Gildengers Connonlly (MFAD ‘08) announces her new website: " It has work that goes back to my time at SVA and new work as well," she says. It’s exciting to have this broad span of my work from different mediums presented like this."

gildengersconnolly.com