MFA Design News

MFAD Faculty doyen Maira Kalaman’s latest one-person show is now on view at the Julie Saul Gallery. Her delightful vision of a colorful yet unsweetened world comes to life in the current work on view.

Go here to learn more:
http://www.printmag.com/Article/The-Painterly-Ms-M

And here to see her “Illustrated Woman” TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/maira_kalman_the_illustrated_woman.html

MFAD faculty member Milton Glaser was honored with an exhibition at the Belgrade Department Store in the heart of Belgrade this past week (until April 10). The premiere of the exhibit coincided with a three day conference titled ME?UNARODNA KONFERENCIJA DIZAJNER: AUTOR ILI UNIVERZALNI VOJNIK (a.k.a. Designer: Author or Universal Soldier).

Learn more here:
http://www.kvartmagazin.rs/konferencije//#sectionKonferencija

MFAD faculty, staff and students have gone fishing until March 15. See you here then.

For the past months Pelin Kirca (MFAD ‘07) has been working in Istanbul continuing her efforts in arts and animation. Her most recent work is a collaboration with the music group 123 and Brendan O’sullivian as the producer. The project is entitled “Grisha” which aims to interpret the short story by Anton Chechov.

View the trailer here:
http://www.grishatheshort.com/trailer.html

Vivian Rosenthal of Tronic speaks about new media and new ideas at today’s MFAD first year’s lecture series. For more on Tronic visit:
http://www.tronicstudio.com/

(Poster by Tyler Mintz)