The New School recently launched Spark, a brand-new annual celebration showcasing the work of students, faculty, and staff throughout the university. bit.ly/43Av6nm

Graphic Design USA featured the work of four current Parsons Communication Design students Janet Delavan, Rodrigo Albuquerque Gouveia, Alexander Soukakos, and Trinity Yeung in their annual story about the top graphic design students to watch. bit.ly/3TJKBoC

Third-year BFA Fashion Design students were given a variety of Tory Burch materials—from sample garments and products to scrap leather, from piles of trims to shoelaces and pearlescent buttons—to upcycle the materials into extraordinary new garments. bit.ly/4995dfu

Noemi Florea (BA/BFA Integrated Design and Environmental Studies '23), founder and lead designer of Cycleau, launched a Governors Island project as “an opportunity to monitor the long-term operations of our system in a real-world environment.” bloom.bg/3Tjr3qK

The Palais de Tokyo in Paris will host the finalists for the Loewe Craft Prize, which includes Hee Chan Kim, Part-Time Lecturer at the School of Constructed Environments and the First Year program. bit.ly/43x9zvJ

On the occasion of the inauguration of the athletes' village in Seine-Saint-Denis, Jilly Traganou (Professor of Architecture and Urbanism) analyzes the heritage of the sites built for previous games. bit.ly/3TIGmdY

Emily Huggard (Assistant Professor of Fashion Communication) spoke about the aesthetics of cellphones, and why a return to girly designs of the early 2000s should extend to the now ubiquitous tech accessory. bit.ly/43rJdv8

Balbina Brunell (BFA Fashion Design '24) won the tenth edition of the Italian Vegetable Tanned Leather Consortium's Craft the Leather competition for her collection, 'An Analogy of Tarnished Culture.' bit.ly/48Ovrnp

Time was against Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen (MFA Fashion Design & Society '21) when she decided to stage a runway show for her Fall 2024 collection, but then her community rallied. bit.ly/3TemihZ

The New York Times profiled Danielle 'Joy' Mckinney (MFA Photography '13) who has risen to great acclaim in the art world and is currently preparing for her third solo show in New York. nyti.ms/3TfAZkS

Denise Lim (Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Black Material and Visual Culture) won the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her project based on Ponte City, a Brutalist-style landmark and diverse community in South Africa. bit.ly/48xSB1k

Luam Melake, Senior Researcher at the Donghia Healthier Materials Library, provides tips and insights for determining what sort of materials to look for when starting a sustainable materials library. bit.ly/3P2SYKm

Jonah Groeneboer (Assistant Professor of Fine Arts) was awarded the prestigious art grant for his project, The Sound We Make Together, a multichannel sound installation that centers around transgender and non-binary experiences. Read more about the award: bit.ly/3P2y2D3

Miguel Robles-Duran (Director of the MS Design & Urban Ecologies and Associate Professor of Urbanism) was quoted in The New York Times for a story about the top real estate commercial sales broker in New York, and how he can operate so successfully. nyti.ms/49yMPxg

Preethi Gopinath (Director of the MFA Textiles program & Associate Professor of Textiles) warns that “sustainability often gets misconstrued as anything biodegradable,” emphasizing that how something breaks down is not the only aspect of sustainability. nym.ag/3uNN74r

Fashion designer and Topo Studio founder Natali Germanotta (BFA Fashion Design '14) has created some of her sister's more recent stage looks, including outfits for the 2022 Chromatica Ball and Gaga's Las Vegas residency. bit.ly/49tfq7G

Christopher Udemezue (BFA Integrated Design '08) discusses his newly-opened show at Ryan Lee Gallery: 'in this moisture between us where the guinep peels lay.' bit.ly/3SwYntO

The wooden printing blocks, vibrant hues and the use of indigenous techniques served as Shuchita Sancheti Garg's (BFA Interior Design '17) initial inspiration, resulting in vVyom By Shuchita, her label of home and lifestyle products. bit.ly/49wUADS

Color-analysis expert Ari Cho (BFA Communication Design '23) founded Ari/rang Color Studio in Midtown to share the positive experience she had receiving and training in color analysis in Korea. bit.ly/3uCRSxZ