The 2011–2012 academic year was another period of firsts for the School of Visual Arts...
How the Sausage Really Gets Made
21thru24
Nice Cubes
BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department

Unbroken
Grace Brown
Dubbed one of “30 Must-See Tumblr Blogs” by Time magazine, Project Unbreakable is the brainchild of current...

Pillow Talk
Laurie Anderson
The competition for memorable commencement speakers can be intense, but SVA made another stellar choice...
Enhancing Behance
SVA Portfolios
Hall of Famer
Kevin O’Callaghan
Heading to Havana
Walter Rivera
Marvellous
Joe Quesada
Body Language
Russ Maschmeyer

Pleasure and Pain
Liz Magic Lazer
November 2011 saw the return of Performa, the performance art biennial that, in its fourth season, brought New Yorkers...
Elf Esteem
Keith Lapinig
Flower Power
George Tscherny
Cooking Up a Documentary
Alexa Karolinski

Chapter and Verse
Debbie Millman
In January 2012, Rockport Publishers released Brand Bible: The Complete Guide to Building, Designing, and Sustaining...
From Album to App
John F. Simon Jr.
A Female Perspective
“The Influentials”
High Society
BFA Illustration and Cartooning Department
Small Works, Big Impression
Matt Hoyt
Remembering 9/11
“here is new york”

Inked In
Trent Thompson and Amedeo Turturro
Fall 2011 saw the debut of INK, an online magazine for and about SVA’s active comics community. The brainchild...
Conversation Starters
Molly Heintz, Aileen Kwun, Avinash Rajagopal and Vera Sacchetti
Pop-Up
Keith Haring

Hazardous Conditions
Ron Gabriel
Striking a nerve with users of New York’s perpetually busy streets, the video component of a thesis project by recent...
Origin of a Species
Matt Gossett
Catalysts for Innovation
New York’s Design and Architecture Schools
Fashion Show
Stephen Frailey and Jimmy Moffat
A Class Divided
“Fragmentation”
Cushioning the Ride
Kathleen Fitzgerald and Lizzy Showman
Critically Speaking
David Levi Strauss

A Mind for Design
Steven Heller
On September 13, 2011 in a White House ceremony, first lady Michelle Obama honored MFA Design Department...
Miami Meets Manhattan
Design Architecture Senior High
Winning Ramus
Danica Parry
Cumulative Effect
SVA in Helsinki
Master Class
Chermayeff & Geismar

Waves of Influence
Art Brewer
In June 2012, the SVA Gallery unveiled “Art Brewer: Surf Evolution,” a retrospective exhibition of the work...
Emmy Repeat
Jesse Averna
In Retrospect
SVA at the Affordable Art Fair
Funding for Healing
David Wasserman

An American in Venice
Sarah Sze
In February 2012, it was announced that New York-based artist and SVA alumnus Sarah Sze (MFA 1997 Fine Arts) had been...