A CELEBRATION OF TEACHING AND LEARNING

Ai New York City Liberal Arts and Sciences instructor Diane Orr recently attended WNET's Celebration of Teaching and Learning at the New York Hilton Hotel on March 17.  This symposium is held annually and the 2012 edition is the seventh such conference. 

Diane chatted with actor Henry Winkler ( "The Fonz from the TV series "Happy Days") (see photo below) who gave one of the inspirational speeches heard at Saturday's session.  Diane also interacted with Professors Michael Sandel and Henry "Skip" Gates who spoke on Saturday.  Diane notes that Professor Sandel authored the Justice series which is currently used in her Ethics class.  Professor Gates previewed his new public television series which will air on March 25 at 8:00 p.m.  The show will trace popular Americans' roots and origins.  Featured on the series will be actor Kevin Bacon and Georgia Congressman John Lewis who appears on one of the sample speech films used in the Public Presentation class at Ai New York City.

Diane Orr & Henry "The Fonz" Winkler

AI NEW YORK CITY DESIGN PRODUCTION TEAM CLASS GETS REAL-WORLD TRAINING

Ai New York City instructor Soosan Silanee lead her Design Production Team class in a real-life new business project, collaborating with real-life clients EdVenture Partners and an emerging internet company called Zaahah, which is a platform that socially connects you with your online searches.  The students created their own marketing/design agency and each student was assigned a specific department such as finance, public relations, strategy, advertising, coordinators, research and presentations.  The "agency" was given a $3,000 budget to work with as well as the business objective to gain 75,000 registered users on Zaahah.com via Ai New York City marketing.  Planning a promotional event such as the event held in the Gallery on Thursday evening, March 8 was one of the course requirements for the quarter.  The event boasted three DJs, three raffle drawings, design competition (similar to cut & paste), food and prizes, which included Beats by Dre, A Wacom tablet, 16GB flash drive as well as complementary gift cards for the first 25 users registered.  Check out the web links and poster below!

We are proud of everyone who contributed to this effort.  Great job Soosan and your design production team! 

http://zaahahainyc.tumblr.com/
http://www.facebook.com/zaahah
http://edventurepartners.com/

AI NEW YORK CITY CREATES DESIGN EXCELLENCE

Join us this evening, Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 5-7pm, in the Beach Street Gallery to celebrate DESIGN EXCELLENCE! a show of Graphic Design Students and Graduate recepients of the Creativity Annual Awards. The show is currently in the gallery till March 23, 2012.

The Art Institute of New York City received the most awards of any college participating in the competition (24 total). Among other participating colleges were Art Center College of Design, Drexel University, New York Institute of Technology, Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, Ringling College of Art + Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the School of Visual Arts.

Student winners are:
Stacey Raia (Gold Medal Winner)
Jeff Kasper (Gold Medal Winner)
Angel Kim (Gold Medal Winner)
Patrick Egglinger (Silver Medal Winner x 2)
Anna Sudit (Silver Medal Winner)
Rowen Davis (Silver Medal Winner)
Jorge Artega (Silver Medal Winner)
AJ Tarrant
Stalin Espinal
Fei Suzuki
Lauren Mullins
Sophie Cooke

Thanks to GD Faculty Simona Prives and GD graduate and Gold Medal Winner Jeff Kasper for designing, hanging and coordinating the show and invitiation. 

Congratulations all!  You make us proud!

Hope to see all of you there!

HELP US HELP YOU!

This a friendly reminder to all Ai New York City Students from the Student Affairs Department to complete the Noel-Levitz Survey using your myaicampus.com account.  If you have already completed the survey ... Thank you! 

For those who have not, it's easy ... just to to your myaicampus.com account and click on the Student Satisfaction Survey link and let us hear what you have to say.  Your responses will help us make Ai New York City an even better place to go to school!

So what are you waiting for???  Won't you please complete the survey today?  Thanks!

THERE ARE PORTFOLIO SHOWS IN YOUR FUTURE!

Ai New York Career Services department is currently preparing for the Week 11 Portfolio Shows that will take place starting Monday, March 19 and concluding Thursday, March 22.  With the exception of Monday's Digital Filmmaking screening that will take place at the 92Y Tribeca, the rest of the week's events will take place in the Ai New York City Gallery.

A detailed schedule of events appears below:

Monday, March 19, 2012 - DIGITAL FILMMAKING
VENUE:  92Y TRIBECA - 200 HUDSON STREET, NEW YORK, 10013
TIME:  6:00-9:00 p.m.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - GRAPHIC DESIGN/WEB DESIGN-INTERACTIVE MEDIA
VENUE:  AI NEW YORK CITY GALLERY, 11 BEACH STREET, NEW YORK 10013
TIME:  5:00-9:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - INTERIOR DESIGN
VENUE:  AI NEW YORK CITY GALLERY, 11 BEACH STREET, NEW YORK 10013
TIME:  5:00-7:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 22, 2012 - FASHION DESIGN
VENUE:  AI NEW YORK CITY GALLERY, 11 BEACH STREET, NEW YORK 10013
TIME:  5:00-7:00 p.m.

If you know of any employers who would like to come to any of these showings.  Please contact Helen Kogan, Director of Career Services at 212-625-6006 or e-mail her at hekogan@aii.edu with the employer's details.