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Design Entrepreneur
It is not a new idea, though it is a revolutionary one. Modern design entrepreneurship has been around at least since the late nineteenth century. But today, Entrepreneurism is a natural vocation and avocation for a slew of international designers. Who else has the creative know-how to conceive a wide range of marketable product ideas, big and small, and be able to produce and fabricate them?
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Lita Talarico and Steven Heller - "The Design Entrepreneur"
SVA MFA Designer as Author: Paul Rand Lecture Series
Steven Heller Lectures on Design History
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Designing Graphic Design History
SVA MFA Designer as Author: Guest Lectures
Visiting designers and critics talk with MFA Designer As Author students.
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Omar Vulpinari
SVA MFA Designer As Author: Thesis Projects
MFA Designer As Author graduates discuss their thesis products.
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Potential Energy Exhibition
SVA MFA Designer As Author: Student Coursework
MFA Designer as Author courses cover a wide range of media, but ideas are the key concern. Here students show their wares on a variety of platforms, each built on a narrative that makes the work more than a simple solution to a design problem.
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Serious Fun: Kevin McDonnell
MFA Design - Information Session
The School of Visual Arts’ MFA Design program, a two year intensive, prepares students to excel as designers and “authors” of original ideas and unique products, using a wide range of media and media platforms.
Building on fluency in graphic design and typography, the Designer as Author (or Content Creator) program stimulates the independent creation of ideas, with the goal of transforming designers into design entrepreneurs. The result is a designer who conceives and creates objects (and products) of value.
SVA MFA Designer as Author is ranked as one of Business Week’s “World’s Best Design Schools” and in U.S. News & World Report’s “Top Ten Graduate Schools: Graphic Design.”
