SVA Style - Fall 2018

Most important accessory

Shoes that are comfortable and cool.

Art students have unique concerns when it comes to their personal style. Senior Lewis Derogene told us she loves to show her personal style with accessories because, “As a Fine Arts student, my clothes will be ruined from paint or resin, but I can walk around with messed-up clothes and still look good because of my earrings and scarves.”

Our students are resourceful for finding one-of-a-kind items. Recent grad Trevor Munch says his grandmother’s mothball-filled closet is a gold mine—as are trash receptacles in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. “People throw out the most amazing things,” he says. “I once found a ’60s Harley-Davidson jacket in a dumpster.” Senior Jackson Dahl found his striped hoodie in the lost-and-found of his residence hall’s laundry room. (We assume all efforts were made to locate its original owner.)

Other students find gems online. Amazon and shopgoodwill.com are good resources if you don’t want to leave home.

Think you got style? Or want to nominate a fashionable pal?

Send a name (and a pic, if you have one) to style@sva.edu for our next issue.

ART I S T ATT I R E

CASSANDRA NUNEZ

FOURTH-YEAR STUDENT, BFA CARTOONING

My fashion inspirations ’50s rockabilly, ’70s punk and ’90s grunge.

My favorite accessories Heart-shaped sunglasses, chokers, platform shoes.

SHUQI YANG

FOURTH-YEAR STUDENT, BFA DESIGN

My style in a few words Joyful and comfortable.

Where I got this outfit The skirt is from Anthropologie and the blouse is from Oak + Fort.

My fashion inspirations Leandra (Medine) Cohen (Instagram: @leandramcohen) and Wenjie (Instagram: @yaludaily).

SITES, BITES AND

AN SVA ALUM AND NATIVE NEW YORKER HIGHLIGHTS AWESOME

Noel Núñez-Caba

BFA 2016 DESIGN

Graphic designer, SVA alumnus and native New Yorker Noel scoped out all the deals, discounts and cheap places found around campus. “Aside from knowing good bargains, I love exploring, studying and traveling—for a low price,” he says.

THE COFFEE SHOP Classic, cozy diner on Union Square. 29 Union Square West THE COPY SPECIALIST Spot for book binding and large prints. 44 East 21st Street

THE CUTTING ROOM Funky concert venue with table service.

44 East 32nd Street

D & H CANDY Cheap sweets are found here. 127 East 23rd Street

DESI GALLI Super tasty and very affordable hole-inthe-wall.

101 Lexington Avenue

EATALY An oasis of all things Italian.

200 Fifth Avenue FLYING TIGER COPENHAGEN

Cool home goods and cute items.

920 Broadway

INDIKITCH*

Top Indian spot: all is recommended.

25 West 23rd Street

LAMARCA

Great pasta and cheese at great prices.

161 East 22nd Street

LITTLE INDIA

This market will change your palate.

385 Third Avenue

MELT SHOP

Best grilled cheeses served here.

55 West 26th Street

MILK BAR

Dessert paradise with soft serve.

220 Eighth Avenue

MUJI Notebooks under two bucks.

16 West 19th Street

PAPER PRESENTATION*

My fancy textured papers come from here.

23 West 18th Street

PITA GRILL Tasty falafels, pita and hummus.

441 Third Avenue

POKE CHAN Quality ingredients and fresh fish, cheap.

315 Fifth Avenue

POTBELLY SANDWICH SHOP

Sub place with perfect combos.

333 Park Avenue South

RICKY’S NYC

Colorful cosmetics spot.

142 Eighth Avenue

THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART*

Peaceful showcase of Tibetan art.

150 West 17th Street

SHAKE SHACK

Its burgers are worth the long lines.

Madison Square Park

SHORTY’S New York’s best cheesesteak.

66 Madison Avenue

TRADER JOE’S

Quality groceries and diverse options.

675 Sixth Avenue

WOORIJIP*

Korean spot with fresh hot selfserve food.

12 West 32nd Street

*My favorites

OTHER DELIGHTS

SPOTS CONVENIENTLY LOCATED ALONG THE SVA SHUTTLE ROUTE

SHOPPING SPOTLIGHT

COMBINE A RANGE OF RUGGED, outdoorsy products with a memorable graphic identity and you have the Best Made Co., purveyors of everything from maps and notebooks to apparel and furniture. SVA alumnus Peter Buchanan-Smith (MFA 2001 Designer as Author) founded the company in 2009. Prior to starting Best Made, he had an enviable creative career that included designing books and album covers (he won a Grammy for the design of Wilco’s A Ghost Is Born ), doing branding for high-wattage clients such as David Byrne and Philip Glass, and serving as art director of The New York Times ’ Op-Ed page.

What prompted your decision to get a master’s degree at SVA?

I really wanted to learn how to bring the components of a book together and give it shape working with designers and editors. I signed up for the inaugural class of Steve Heller and Lita Talarico’s program, MFA Designer as Author, and had this great interview with Heller. He said, “At the end of your two years, do you want your portfolio sitting under your bed gathering dust or do you want your work out in the world as a real thing?” I hadn’t realized how entrepreneurial I was until that moment. When I completed the program, I published my thesis as a book, Speck: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001). I highlighted collections including air samples from around the world, whiskers shed by someone's pet cat and a selection of used lipsticks.

How did you come to create the axe that launched Best Made?

When I moved to South Orange, New Jersey, it was the first time since I was a kid growing up on a farm that I had this beautiful space for a workshop. I started building things. I had a firepit and I needed something to split wood. I couldn’t find an axe that I liked, so I made my own. Then I thought, “The axe, that’s it! I’m going to build a brand of my own that starts with this one evocative, amazing tool.” I had no business plan, nothing. But Best Made was born, and although now we have hundreds of products, the axe is still the embodiment of what we stand for. Ralph Lauren started with a necktie. The axe is much cooler.

What’s next?

We’re adding to the apparel line. The goal is to combine utility, timelessness and beauty in clothing suitable for all the adventures of work and life.

STUFF WE LOVE

MY FIRST COMIC BOOK

Nathan Fox

don’t remember exactly how old I was, but when I was a teen my family and I got stuck at an old bay house in La Porte, just outside of Galveston, Texas, in one of the worst Fourth of July storms I can recall. The tropical storm in the gulf changed direction and amped up to a full-blown hurricane heading straight for us. We couldn’t get out of La Porte and we had to

discover an issue of Spider-Man and this gorgeous Conan issue. I had never really read comics up until that point other than the occasional Sunday funnies, cartoons or trades of Calvin and Hobbes. I cracked open the Spider-Man first to see what all the hoopla was about. I must have gotten only a few pages in, because I remember being immediately bored by all the random action, teeth, screaming and inhuman anatomy. I immediately put it down and picked up the Conan issue. That blew me away.

I pored over that thing. Reading and rereading—studying it. The art, world and story were so mesmerizingly imaginative. I had no idea a comic book could be like that.

make a last-minute supply run. In a rush I grabbed the first double-bagged pack of comics that caught my eye. By the time we got back the power was out. We hunkered down for the night to wait out the storm. Flashlight in hand I tore into the bag to

It got me through the storm and introduced me to a whole new art form. Funny thing is, even though the issue was a huge discovery that night, I really didn’t take comics seriously until about a decade later in college—when I would discover them all over again. Crazy, but there you go.

Chair, MFA Visual Narrative

“It got me through the storm and introduced me to a whole new art form.”

SKETCHBOOKS

where We Work Out our ideas

Sarah Kim BFA Design, fourth-year student

“I invested in a Moleskine for my junior year. Using a high-quality sketchbook has made me more attached to it and made me want to write in it more and more. I carry it with me wherever I go. I like to see my progress from the beginning of the year to the end and see how much I’ve grown. The sketchbook is my artwork and represents me.”

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ÓThese are notes from my UI/UX class, when we learned basic HTML/CSS. Coding is something that takes a while to learn. In order for me to fully grasp a concept, I have to jot it down and analyze it. Knowing I’d need to go back to the PowerPoint presentation from class, I took screenshots of it and pasted them here. My notes from class are on the right.”

Ä “This was an assignment to choose a quote and create a typographic visualization of it. I chose ‘I’m kind of a kid, but not really.’ Studying in New York City has changed me for the better; I’ve grown so much as an artist and as a person. But even though I’ve learned so much, there’s still so much I don’t know. So that’s why I related to this quote.”

escapes from manhattan

OFF THE BEATEN PATH City

Island

Reacquaint yourself with the calmer side of our city by taking a day trip to City Island. This one-and-a-halfmile-long scrap of New England in the Bronx provides a quick escape from Manhattan’s hyperactive concrete and glass hardness.

Hop on the northbound 6 train to the end of the line (Pelham Bay Park) and grab the Bx29 bus to City Island. On your way over, watch boats bobbing peacefully in the Long Island Sound and people fishing on the shore and enjoy a hazy faraway view of the Throgs Neck Bridge. Get off the bus at Fordham Road for a scoop at Lickety Split, a tiny shop with traditional ice cream parlor chairs, outdoor tables and Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald standards playing softly in the background. For a history fix, visit the City Island Nautical Museum (open weekends only), at 190 Fordham Street, or the Samuel Pell House, once occupied by a wealthy oysterman, at 586 City Island Avenue.

City Island Avenue is cool and shady under a canopy of ginkgo, London plane, locust and weeping willow trees. As the island gets narrower and narrower toward Belden Point, its

Snug Harbor

For the price of a subway fare and a free ferry ride to Staten Island, you can travel to Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Gardens. You’ll find yourself transported to a peaceful place of 14 different lush botanic gardens and expansive green lawns dotted with clover, where the loudest sounds are the wind in centuries-old trees and the calls of robins, mourning doves and swallows. The grounds also house the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Artist Residency Program, Staten Island Muse um, Staten Island Children’s Museum, Noble Maritime Collection, Art Lab, Children’s Harbor Montessori School and Staten Island Conservatory of Music.

Snug Harbor, originally established in the 1830s as a haven for “aged, decrepit and worn-out seamen,” features a collection of architectural styles. Now one of the largest ongoing adaptive reuse projects in America, it’s a great place for contemplation, quiet sitting, reading or strolling through its 83 acres.

Don’t miss the New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden, modeled after the gardens of the Ming Dynasty. A little entry path through tall bamboo leads to pavilions, bridges, a koi pond and waterfalls.

southernmost end, all of the little side streets start to become dead-ends with no more than three or four houses apiece.

Let’s face it: the main reason to visit City Island is the wealth of seafood restaurant options, from the Original Crab Shanty to Sammy’s Shrimp Box to Johnny’s Reef Restaurant. Johnny’s is super casual, like a giant high school cafeteria. Order your food from the counter and carry it out to a table under a shaded awning overlooking the water. The fried seafood is perfection: greaseless golden brown fillets of red snapper and porgy, plus baskets of fried shrimp, lobster, scallops and softshell crab, along with a raw bar for briny clams and oysters. Nothing like a day at the shore—and just a subway (and bus) ride away.

Bistro SK offers authentic French classics in a quaint setting with a patio for alfresco dining.

Even if you don’t have a boat to park, the marinas are peaceful just to stroll through.

THE BRONX

STATEN ISLAND

”The main reason to visit City Island is the wealth of seafood restaurant options.”

SVA CRIBS

BY ELENA WOZNICK BFA 2017 Design

MAKING YOUR ROOM YOUR OWN

Residence Hall

Decorating Tips

After moving to New York City, getting settled in your classes and trying to meet as many people as you can, the care for your residential space can fall to the wayside. Here are some ideas you can use to help make your room feel a bit more like home.

Choose Your Items Wisely

That kiddie pool sounds like a great idea to have for a weekend, but your downstairs neighbors will not be happy when their ceiling starts leaking—nor will your RA.

A Great Place to Spend Your First-Year

matt iacovelli

BFA Design, fourth-year student

Some residences may be newer, but that doesn’t mean they’re the best—so says BFA Design student Matt Iacovelli. Now a senior, Matt fondly recalls the benefits of the 23rd Street Res, which offers first-year students suite-style living.

The full kitchen allows you to save money and eat healthier—dining out is expensive, and is not always so good for you.

Show off your cooking skills by having a dinner party in the common space, which includes a dining table big enough for all your friends.

More suitemates equals more pals—or at least there can be a buffer for that one suitemate you’re not getting along with currently. (Each suite has four to six students.)

It’s right in the heart of the action: next door to the main campus building, and on the Shuttle route. Suites offer more room to move around. Much more spacious than sharing a single room.

waking up to your bed sheets on fire is definitely not Zen.

COMMAND HOOKS

These are great for attaching SVA post ers to the walls, hanging clothes and creating storage solutions. You can also use them to hang string lights. They are easy to apply and remove from the wall when it’s time to move out.

STORAGE: Storage boxes are great for stashing away items. Play around with your layout as well—the dresser drawers can fit underneath your bed.

AMBIENT LIGHTING

Much of the lighting in the dorms can be a bit harsh and institutional-feeling, so a desk lamp or string lights with warm white light can make a space feel less sterile and more homey.

More from Elena!

Small-Space Cuisine

Rice cookers can do more than just cook rice, and they’re one of the best items to own while living in the dorms. Here is a recipe I enjoyed making for myself on a weeknight—or for a few friends on weekends. This recipe was made using an Aroma® rice cooker, which has multiple cooking options.

PLANTS

You can’t have pets in the dorm— but you can have plants! They bring a room to life and freshen the air. There are many plants out there— don’t be shy to ask a florist which will work best for your space based on the light available. And don’t forget to water them!

● 2 1/2 cups uncooked short-grain rice

● 4 cups chicken broth

● 1 14.5-oz can diced tomatoes

● 2 tsp Cajun seasoning

● 2 tsp black pepper

● 1 tsp chili powder

● 2 tsp garlic powder

● 2 tsp cayenne pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

● Place the butter, onion and bell pepper in the rice cooker and press the «steam» button.

● After about 10 minutes the butter will be melted and the onions will start to turn opaque.

● Add in your sliced sausage and cook for another 5 to 10 minutes.

● Add the rice, chicken broth, diced tomatoes and spices. Stir and press the «white rice» button.

● When the timer goes off, stir the jambalaya, put the cover back on and let it sit for a few minutes to thicken.

“Use any type of meat or veggie protein you want! Sausage, bacon, soy chorizo or mushrooms work well for this dish.”

24 STREET RESIDENCE TH

CARLI MALEC BFA ADVERTISING FOURTH-YEAR STUDENT

SVA

’s newest residential hall is pretty awesome. Rooms come equipped with not just Wi-Fi—they have HDTVs and free cable as well! But why stay in your room when you have access to common spaces that include communal kitchens; a terrace with barbecues for grilling out and enjoying killer city skyline vistas; a fitness center that features cardio equipment, weights and a yoga studio, and even a laundry room with free washers and dryers. We asked senior Carli Malec to grab a camera and give us a day-in-the-life of a 24th-Street resident. What’s her favorite thing about it? “I love the location. It’s near campus but it’s in a much quieter area. You’re still close to everything, but you can catch your breath.”

“My collection of cigarette cards are half vintage and half replicas. I bought them off eBay and they’re all sent from the UK.”

© 2018, VISUAL ARTS PRESS, LTD.

Anthony P. Rhodes, executive creative director

Gail Anderson, creative director

Brian E. Smith, senior art director

Carli Malec, Sabrina Tseng, designers

Sheilah Ledwidge, editor, writer Angela Riechers, writer

Declan Van Welie, Tyler Kufs, Angela Riechers, photographers Matt Iocavelli, illustrator

ZIXUAN ZHOU Cigarette Card

“As I look at the meteorite, I immediately go into a state of wonder.”

RICHARD

WILDE Meteorite

2.  Lauren Beato

3.  Steven Davis

4.  Steven Heller

5.  Brittney Najar

6.  Jay Qct

7.  Bethany Robinson

8.  Richard Wilde

9.  Ora Xu

10.  Rhea Zaveri

11.  Zixuan Zhou

“Every time I see these I remember all the times I got in trouble for bringing them to school.”

STEVEN DAVIS Tech Deck Dude and Board

“Kennedy had back problems and the rocking chair gave him some relief.”

STEVEN HELLER John F. Kennedy Figurine