Shefelman’s Ooze
Dan Shefelman is an illustration department professor who understands the bottom of the food chain. He writes the comic strip “Ooze,” which appears in the current December issue of Mad magazine....
View ArticleContents of Pandora’s box re-captured
There are two garish babes bursting with vanity and a gloating cross-legged, primed prima dona. There are the furious fat spider, a he-man who boasts, and a lecherous pair of wide-open mouths sporting...
View ArticleIn Meagan Meli’s portfolio: A Forest Princess, Cyclops & Valentine
Within many of Illustration major Meagan Meli’s creations are a potpourri of themes, imagery and cultural references. Several of Meli’s illustrations are playfully dark and scary in an Edward Gorey...
View ArticleRaves for Cintiq keep coming
It’s not a new disco, a cutting edge designer or the stylist from the Hunger Games. It’s a revolutionary technology in the drawing industry. “Think of it as an interactive iPad connected to a...
View ArticleFrom Gropius to Cintiq
It started with just showing dad around the workplace. But then Tom Shefelman, 86, visiting from Austin TX, sat down to get the feel of one of the new Cintiq stations. The drawing technology, new to...
View ArticleStudents Join Mashable.com Vine Challenge
Mashable.com’s weekly Vine Challenge produces a frenzy of infectious animation snippets on topics like creepy fantasy creatures, Jack-O-Lanterns, playing with food, and talking cars. The more...
View ArticleChalk FIT back by popular demand
FIT chalk artists will soon take to the outside walls of FIT. Illustration grad Angel Garcia (2013), initiated Chalk FIT today with a toothy character pointing the way to student chalk work that will...
View ArticleMisery loves company in the Pomerantz Center
The world’s evils, appearing in 3D, are currently on display on the third floor of the Pomerantz Center. It was Pandora of Greek mythology who disobeyed Zeus by opening a box of evils. Prof. Dan...
View ArticleEight FIT students, a record in Society of Illustrators’ competition
Babies of wire confetti, a crowned rabbit, little girls watering topiary, a vet mechanic, and skeletal love, are among the themes of the eight FIT student illustrations selected by the Society of...
View ArticleIt’s More Than a Game for Clever Evolving Media Students
Entering FIT’s first full semester of remote learning last fall, Prof. Dan Shefelman says he was searching for a way to approach his Illustration BFA course, Visual Storytelling for Evolving Media II,...
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