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School of Visual Arts Presents The Chair ProjectStudents in the MFA Design Department at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) will exhibit design concepts in a multimedia display at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), May 17 - 20, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City.
The students were challenged to re-purpose a raw wood IKEA-brand chair based on contemporary cultural touchstones like disco, suburbia and machismo, and the resulting products were created under the guidance of SVA Chair of 3D Design and MTV designer Kevin O'Callaghan.
SVA is one of four schools selected by ICFF organizers to participate, along with the California College of the Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design and Yale University.
"To address the challenges confronting graphic designers in the face of ever-changing visual media and rapidly evolving business environments, our students focus on entrepreneurship in the broadest sense: developing a viable concept, and then working through the process of prototype fabrication, production, and marketing of individual intellectual properties," said Lita Talarico, who co-chairs the MFA Design Department at SVA with Steven Heller.
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