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Runup to the runway: fashion design majors showcase capstone collections
Graduating fashion design majors showcased their capstone collections Thursday, April 9 in the annual Fashion Design B.A. show at Alumni Hall. In this visit to the studio, students shared the conceptual underpinnings of their collections, and how they'd borrowed media and techniques from across their Eskenazi School courses to fabricate their designs.
Turning a designer’s good idea into a real-world product, manufactured in quantity, meeting the requirements of legislators, quality control, the customer, and the C-suite is the work of a product developer. On WFIU's Nice Work, Eskenazi merchandising faculty Deb Pearson shares what students learn about the evolution from idea to inventory.
From dressing rooms to ‘Changing Rooms’: design students soft-launch new exhibit
Comprehensive design students in Lecturer Max Fertik's "Healing Commons" course have taken over a former Victoria's Secret to interrogate what a "changing room" is. The installation in the former retail space now occupied by Pillar Arts is part of MDWST Fable's exhibition "SOLACE."
10 exhibitions to see in upstate New York this April
Painting faculty Caleb Weintraub's exhibition at Perry Lawson Fine Art is among ten spring shows in upstate New York galleries recommended by Hyperallergic. Noted for "fantastical realms" that "tinker with the familiar and unfamiliar," "Both Sides of the Mirror in the Studio" is on view in the Nyack gallery through April 26.
Reducing friction on the road to innovation: Eskenazi student launches Aero Bib
The Little 500 bike race is a tradition. So are those paper number bibs cyclists and runners pin to their jerseys. But the bibs create drag, flap in the wind, and are a nuisance to put on. Cutters team rider Gage Pratt should know. So, the comprehensive design major has developed an alternative: enter Aero Bib.
MFA students are "Inspired by Inquiry" into IU Libraries' Wylie House Museum
Two of the first-year MFA students prompted to excavate IU's archives for inspiration for their own artwork chose objects in the Wylie House, home of IU's first president. The undertaking demonstrates the value of historical archives within the creative process, and the power of art to bring the past to life.
