Art + Design

Different Paths To Take

Fashion


Architecture


Landscaping


Interior Design / Decor


Paint


Draw


Sculpt


Theater


Media

Reading List

Industrial Landscapes by Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher

The Artist At Home by Imogen Racz & Jill Journeaux 

The Creative Act: A way of being by Rick Ruben

The War Of Art by Steven Pressfield

The Laws Of Simplicity by John Maeda

Thinking with type by Ellen Lupton

The Design Of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman

Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon

The Artists Way by Julia Cameron

The New Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain by Betty Edwards

100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People by Betty Edwards

Art & Fear by David Bayles

The Art Book by Phaidon Press

The Architecture Of The City by Aldo Rossi

Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture By Robert Venturi

Wild By Design Margie Ruddick

The Encyclopedia Of Landscape Design by Chris Young

The Interior Design Handbook by Frida Ramstedy

Right At Home By Bobby Berk

The Art Of Home by Shea McGee

Made For Living By Amber Lewis

Videos

Sites

Schools

Parson The New School Of Design , newschool.edu

University Of California Davis , ucdavis.edu

California Institute Of The Arts , calarts.edu

Stanford University , stanford.edu

Johns Hopkins University , jhu.edu

University Of Michigan , umich.edu

New York University , nyu.edu

Temple University , temple.edu

Art Center College Of Design , artcenter.edu

Columbia University , columbia.edu

Maryland Institute College Of Arts , mica.edu

Pratt Institute , pratt.edu

Massachusetts College Of The Art , massart.edu

University Of California Berkeley , berkeley.edu

School Of The Arts Institute Of Chicago , saic.edu

Columbus College Of Art & Design , ccad.edu

Rhode Island School Of Design , risd.edu

Royal College Of Art , rca.ac.uk

Savannah College Of Art & Design , scad.edu

School Of Visual Arts, New York , sva.edu

Central Saint Martins , arts.ac.uk

The art institute, artic.edu

CalArts , calarts.edu

The university of Texas at Austin college of fine arts , utexas.edu

College of fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University , cfa.cmu.edu

Minneapolis college of art and design , mcad.edu

Virginia commonwealth university , vcu.edu

The cooper union for advancement of science and art, cooper.edu

Otis college of art and design, otis.edu

Yale school of art , yale.edu

“Hey Siri, play Basquiat by Jamila Woods ft. Saba Pivot”

“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not” - Jean Michel Basquiat

Fashion

Fashion

If you find a spark in fashion design, it’s because you want to help people just as much as a medical professional. What you wear, what you adorn your vessel with, your temple with, matters. When you look good, you feel good, you do good. and looking the part really is important. To want to be a fashion designer is to want to make a difference. It’s wanting to connect with and contribute to others. It’s seeking to enhance the realities of others in a very real, very positive way. People might say the industry is oversaturated, inauthentic, and all about the trends. That Mass production and money hungry investors are all that’s left. But that isn’t you. You’re passionate and serious about the impact you make. And that’s what fashion needs. We hope you’ll pursue it.

It’s Art You Do What Feels Good

This Month’s Architectural Inspiration...

A Beach House! The Possibilities feel endless with the sandcastles, seashells, palm trees, and a large body of water that makes you feel small in a really big way!