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which has produced flags for innumerable landmark moments
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in American history, including presidential inaugurations and
college of art and design, business and
funerals, expeditions to the North Pole and up Mount Everest,
technology. It is published three times a
and the Battle of Iwo Jima. Annin
year by the Division of Communications and External Relations, 227 West
Facebook The invitation to watch The Little Prince in the Haft Auditorium on March 14 reached 567,000 users. Of those, 42,000 viewed the event page, and 1,900 RSVPed yes.
is also the family business of
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was a child when the Apollo 17 spacecraft touched down on the moon, she honed her manufacturing skills at FIT and is now a
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A report that FIT was named the top public college in New York State by ranking specialist Niche.com: 1,200 likes, 40 comments, and 77,000 total views.
and collaborators including Trupal Pandya ’16 and Alexander Papakonstadinou ’16.
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last year’s Museum at FIT exhibition about the legendary nightlife impresario. Webbys, the top prizes for internet content, are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts
—Mark Shearwood, Photography, from “The Kids Stay in the Picture,” page 22
A link to an Observer article about Fairy Tale Fashion at The Museum at FIT: 1,400 likes, 43 comments, and 73,000 views. Twitter and Instagram The street signs on FIT’s corner: 8,000 views on Twitter and 1,190 likes on Instagram.
Sunshine and shadows on Seventh Avenue: 7,800 Twitter views and 970 Instagram likes.
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>> WATCH: A short film that lovingly details the lives of nomads in the Himalayas, by Associate Professor Praveen Chaudhry
“I just want to make beautiful pictures.”
A small sampling of cool talks on campus this spring
12 MIRROR, MIRROR Fairy Tale Fashion casts a spell at The Museum at FIT
14 EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN A professor photographs the struggles of nomads in Tibet and Kashmir
16 THE WIGMAKER Raffaele Mollica’s whole career is a hairy situation
NICK PARISSE, PHOTOGRAPHY ’09
18 RAISING THE STANDARD What do the American flags at Lincoln’s funeral, the North Pole, and Iwo Jima have in common?
22 THE KIDS STAY IN THE PICTURE Children’s fashion is a mainstay for Photography alumnus Mark Shearwood
25 THE FORCE IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE Hanging out at Skywalker Ranch with costume-keeper Joanee Alina Honour ’92
26 SIX CAREER-DEFINING PIECES BY MARIA CANALE, JEWELRY DESIGN ’82 Diamonds are this girl’s best friend
28 CREATURE FEATURES It’s alive! Or is it? Ben Kilgore, Computer Animation and Interactive Media ’04, explains CGI
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