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Fashion tips Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be afraid to mix materials: denim, wool, flannel.

Most important accessory Shoes that are comfortable and cool.

JONATHON YELLOWHAIR ALUMNUS, BFA ANIMATION

How often I change my hair color About once a season. Any color palette as long as it’s neon.

CASSANDRA

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FOURTH-YEAR STUDENT, BFA CARTOONING

Describe my style Faery punk, rainbow goth or neon cute with creepy undertones and some rockabilly overtones.

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.

My fashion inspirations Harajuku street style, Melanie Martinez and the No Frills Twins.

ART IST AT T IRE

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

My favorite clothing items Jackets: biker, jean, fringe. And if it comes in bright red, I have to have it.

JACKSON DAHL FOURTH-YEAR STUDENT, BFA INTERIOR DESIGN

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

TREVOR Where I got this outfit I made it!

MUNCH ALUMNUS, BFA PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO

Shopping tip My online secret is shopgoodwill.com.

SHUQI YANG

FOURTH-YEAR STUDENT, BFA DESIGN

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

My style in a few words Joyful and comfortable.

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

My favorite clothing pieces High-waisted pants, overalls and jumpsuits.

My style in a few words A balance between comfort, modesty and a touch of authority.

LEWIS DEROGENE Where I buy my clothes From artist friends and thrift shops.

FOURTH-YEAR STUDENT, BFA FINE ARTS

SITES, BITES AND

AN S VA A L UM AND NATIVE NEW YOR KER H IG H LIG H T S AWES O M E S

THE COFFEE SHOP

Noel Núñez-Caba BFA 2016 DESIGN

Notebooks under two bucks.

29 Union Square West

16 West 19th Street

THE COPY SPECIALIST

PAPER PRESENTATION*

44 East 21st Street

23 West 18th Street

THE CUTTING ROOM

PITA GRILL

44 East 32nd Street

441 Third Avenue

D & H CANDY

POKE CHAN

127 East 23rd Street

315 Fifth Avenue

DESI GALLI

POTBELLY SANDWICH SHOP

Spot for book binding and large prints.

raphic 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.

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A classic New York dollar-pizza spot. 755 Sixth Avenue ABRACADABRA

A costume store with all that you need. 19 West 21st Street ADORAMA

Convenient tech and rental place. 42 West 18th Street BLICK ART MATERIALS

Essential art store and top supply source. 237 West 23rd Street CHA CHA MATCHA

Tea haven with soft serve and treats. 1158 Broadway CHELSEA MARKET

Food hall and funky shopping. 75 Ninth Avenue CHELSEA PAPAYA

Tastes best when balling on a budget. 171 West 23rd Street THE CONTAINER STORE

All you’ll need to organize your home. 629 Sixth Avenue

MUJI

Classic, cozy diner on Union Square.

Funky concert venue with table service.

Cheap sweets are found here.

Super tasty and very affordable hole-inthe-wall. 101 Lexington Avenue EATALY

An oasis of all things Italian. 200 Fifth Avenue

WOORIJIP

My fancy textured papers come from here.

31ST ST

Tasty falafels, pita and hummus.

Quality ingredients and fresh fish, cheap. 30TH ST

Sub place with perfect combos. 333 Park Avenue South RICKY’S NYC

Colorful cosmetics spot.

29TH ST

142 Eighth Avenue THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART*

FLYING TIGER COPENHAGEN

Cool home goods and cute items. 920 Broadway

Peaceful showcase of Tibetan art. 150 West 17th Street SHAKE SHACK

INDIKITCH*

Top Indian spot: all is recommended. 25 West 23rd Street

Its burgers are worth the long lines.

CHA CH MATCHA

Madison Square Park SHORTY’S

LAMARCA

Great pasta and cheese at great prices. 161 East 22nd Street

New York’s best cheesesteak.

27TH ST

66 Madison Avenue TRADER JOE’S

LITTLE INDIA

This market will change your palate. 385 Third Avenue

MELT SHOP

Quality groceries and diverse options. 675 Sixth Avenue

26TH ST

WOORIJIP*

MELT SHOP

Best grilled cheeses served here.

Korean spot with fresh hot selfserve food.

55 West 26th Street

12 West 32nd Street

MILK BAR

*My favorites

Dessert paradise with soft serve.

2 BROS PIZZA

220 Eighth Avenue

BLICK’S

CHELSEA PAPAYA

INDIKITCH

7TH AVE

22ND ST

MILK BAR

TRADER JOE’S

ABRACADABRA

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20TH ST

THE CONTAINER STORE

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18TH ST

ADORAMA

RICKY’S NYC

17TH ST

RUBIN MUSEUM

16TH ST

15TH ST

6TH AVE

CHELSEA MARKET

MUJ

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25TH ST

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THE COPY SPECIALIST

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THE CUTTING ROOM

POKE CHAN

SITE SPOTS

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ART SUPPLIES FAST FOOD CART CLOTHES

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COFFEE IRVING PL

THE COFFEE SHOP

GYM RESTAURANT STAND

SHOPPING SPOTLIGHT

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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.

The store in SoHo includes apparel items and, of course, the signature axe. You can also check out the merchandise online at bestmadeco.com.

STUFF WE LOVE M Y F I R S T C O M I C BO O K

Nathan Fox

Chair, MFA Visual Narrative

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

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

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. 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.

S K E T C H B O O KS w he re W e Work Ou t ou r ide a s

Ã 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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“These 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.”

“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.”

OFF THE BEATEN PATH esca pes from m a nh at ta n

City Island

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

eacquaint 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 THE BRONX 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

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

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

Snug Harbor

or 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 STATEN grounds also house the Newhouse Center ISLAND for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Artist Residency Program, Staten Island Museum, 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.

Open daily, from dawn to dusk. General admission is free, but there is a $4 student admission fee for the New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden and the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art. .

This charming shop offers ice cream and other desserts, along with coffee and espresso, with outdoor seating.

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.

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2 3RD S T R E E T RESIDENCE A Great Place to Spend Your First-Year

matt iacovelli

BFA Design, fourth-year student

BY ELENA WOZNICK BFA 2017 Design

Some residences may be newer, but that

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MAKING YOUR ROOM YOUR OWN

fondly recalls the benefits of the 23rd Street Res, which offers first-year students suite-style living.

Choose Your Items Wisely TIP!

The full kitchen allows you to save money and eat healthier—dining out is expensive, and is not

That kiddie pool sounds like a great idea to have for a weekend,

not be happy when their ceiling starts leaking—nor will your RA.

always so good for you. Show off your cooking skills by having a dinner party in the common space, which includes a

but your downstairs neighbors will

Residence Hall Decorating Tips

doesn’t mean they’re the best—so says BFA Design student Matt Iacovelli. Now a senior, Matt

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

fter 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.

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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

No Flames

Candles and incense may seem

like a relaxing way to unwind

Shuttle route. Suites offer more room to move around. Much more spacious than sharing a single room.

and be calm after a long day, but waking up to your bed sheets on fire is definitely not Zen.

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

COMMAND HOOKS

on the light available. And don’t

These are great for attaching SVA post-

forget to water them!

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.