Results tagged “SVA” from Grids

The SVA 2010 Yearbook

SPD Grids just got its hands on a hot-off-the-presses copy of the 2010 SVA student yearbook. Compiled and designed by faculty advisor/instructor/creative director Genevieve Williams and a top team of seniors, the book is packed with brilliant design and imagery.... MORE

Back to School--for an MFA in Design

I met Ron Gabriel in the fall 2009 semester of my Just Type class in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts, where I teach. He looked familiar to me, and I soon figured out why. A longtime... MORE

Best! Books! Ever! (Part 5!)

This list makes 25! More great design books from your friends and peers--purchases you need to make to fill up that Herman Miller bookcase. If you have a book you'd like us to include, contact me at ganderson@spotnyc.com...... MORE

The Wilde Years [at SPD]

If you're an SVA graphic design department alum, then you remember sitting in the darkened 23rd Street amphitheater, hoping that your work would appear on screen in Richard's class. If you're as old as I am, you designed your name... MORE

Time to Refuel?

The Speaker Series kicks off the Fall Season with Richard Wilde, who asks, ...in the course of our careers we lose sight of our essential nature and our work becomes more mechanically driven and we also lose sight of our... MORE

Results tagged “SVA” from Speaker Series

RICHARD WILDE on Refueling: Putting Myself Back Into My Work

LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN FOR SALE AT THE DOOR!Tuesday night. October 6, 2009.The SPD Speaker Series is back, and with a big night to kick off the year! Richard Wilde, celebrating 40 years of shaping the visual culture at SVA with... MORE

Results tagged “SVA” from Grids

Paula Scher: Raising the Bar

In the late eighties, Paula Scher came to SVA to teach portfolio.   When the semester began, the other students in Paula's class were Gail Anderson, Drew Hodges, Jackie Murphy, Jackie Seow, Mario Pulice, Archie Ferguson, Deb Bishop, Richard Baker,... MORE

Paula Scher: One of a Kind

In 1984 I moved to New York from Calgary to go to the School of Visual Arts. Richard Wilde said "I think we will put you in Paula's class." I had no idea at the time who she was or... MORE

Be Careful What You Wish For

Michael Walsh, the art director of the Visual Arts Press, asked me to do the next SVA subway poster this past January. I was completely blown away, and of course, said I'd be honored. The next day, the lovely Ric... MORE