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Cathy McClure’s Playthings

  • March 24th, 2010
  • Posted in Spotlight

Plush mechanical toys, that find their way into the studio of Cathy McClure, are stripped of their fluffy faux pelts. Their exposed cheap plastic innards are disassembled and recreated in highly crafted metals such as silver, bronze aluminum.  McClure transforms the mass-produced machine-made toy skeletons to newly handcrafted framework.  The reincarnated toys often maintain their [ READ MORE ]

Sonia Avila Leads Southwest Airlines Design Team
(5th in a series on Communication Design Alumni)

  • October 28th, 2009
  • Posted in Class of... . Reminiscences . Spotlight

“I’ll never forget how I got into design, “explains Southwest Airlines Graphic Design Team Manager Sonia Avilla (2003 BFA Communication Design) Southwest Airlines Graphic Design team manager. I read an article about design and came to talk to Carla Tedeschi in her then “cave “ office wedged in between restrooms in the architecture building. That [ READ MORE ]

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