Building João Vasco Paiva's 'Mausoleum' at Art Basel Hong Kong
When Hong Kong-based Portuguese artist João Vasco Paiva needed a studio assistant to help with a large-scale sculpture for Art Basel Hong Kong, the news spread quickly by word of mouth. Jakarta-born...
View ArticleWho will Lululemon design for next?
The downward trend for Lululemon’s sales and reputation seemed to stall with its announcement of a line of pants tailored to the male anatomy. The yoga and activewear brand is likely considering...
View ArticlePreview Fred Spector's furniture collection for High Point Market
Watch as the owner of Frederic Spector Design Studio shows how he creates award-winning residential furniture. In this demonstration, livestreamed here on Tuesday, April 7 at 5:30 p.m. EDT from the...
View ArticleSteven Alan's 'smart' growth story
As Steven Alan prepares his brand for further expansion, he’s reflecting on how he got his start. After launching in 1994, the American fashion force spun his unique approach into a global presence...
View ArticleLivestream: One-of-a-kind rides by JT Nesbitt
Bienville Studios' lead designer JT Nesbitt drove his vehicle the Magnolia Special from New York to Los Angeles. It wasn’t your average drive because the 89-hour trip was powered purely by natural gas....
View ArticleLivestream: Lauren Bush Lauren feeds hunger with fashion
One of Fortune Magazine’s“Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs” and Inc. Magazine’s“30 Under 30,” Lauren Bush Lauren has mastered the art of ‘creating good products that help feed the world.’ Since...
View ArticleJohannes Torpe: rock star of holistic design
From food to music to fashion, Copenhagen, Beijing and Padova, the practice of Danish designer Johannes Torpe is without borders. Or, as he says, holistic. It’s an approach rooted in his upbringing by...
View ArticleChalk it up to 30 years at Sidewalk Arts Festival
In today’s world of sophisticated gadgets and apps, simpler tools like chalk and cement wouldn’t seem capable of producing a wow moment. Yet 34 years after its start, the annual Sidewalk Arts Festival...
View ArticleArchitects will save the planet
Architecture students, get your super-suits ready. We need you. Other keystone players will also play critical roles in promoting climate change and halting resource depletion, but I’ll stick with the...
View ArticleSandcastle like a pro: world champ teams up with students to sculpt Tybee
Master sand sculptor Ted Siebert’s enormous creations - more than 700 sculptures in 30 years – makes the practice of sandcastling look effortless. But the world record holder knows differently: the...
View ArticleJoey Katz' adventure to a college Emmy
How do I travel for free and make this my job? Many ask this question, but Joey Katz (B.F.A., film and television, senior) answered it. Winner of a College Television Award, the Adventure Katz web...
View ArticleRandi Zuckerberg uncomplicates social innovation
Randi Zuckerberg is a busy woman. She’s the former director of market development for Facebook, the founder and CEO of boutique marketing firm and production company Zuckerberg Media, an author and, in...
View ArticleAnimation captures modern dilemma of digital overload and ADC Award
Be they images or social posts, videos or emails, staying on top of digital keepsakes can overwhelm. Leave it to digital art to perfectly capture how it feels to tame our digital memories into...
View ArticleSCAD descends on Tybee for Sand Arts sculpting contest
Savannah College of Art and Design students adorned Tybee Island, Georgia for the annual Sand Arts Festival, a sculpting contest that is a rite of spring. Angling for prizes totaling $11,400, the...
View ArticleHong Kong's chalk-over
More than 50 student-artists gathered in the north parking lot of Savannah College of Art and Design in Hong Kong to participate in the Sidewalk Arts Festival, a tradition that connects the...
View ArticleStudents dive deep into Hong Kong's contemporary art fairs
Art Week is the most anticipated time of the year on the Hong Kong gallery scene. This international art frenzy brings together a community of artists and art lovers for a series of citywide pop-up...
View ArticleAsk Vivienne Westwood: insights on the SCAD MOA exhibition
Vivienne Westwood traveled to Savannah College of Art and Design to receive the André Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award. The fashion icon and activist joins a distinguished cohort of designers who...
View ArticleVivienne Westwood's conversation with André Leon Talley
Fashion luminary Vivienne Westwood ignited the punk movement, illuminating a path for generations of designers to come. Regardless of how Dame Westwood shines, she is obsessed with turning off the...
View ArticleInside the preservation story of Atlanta's Ivy Hall
In honor of Preservation Month, we celebrate Savannah College of Art and Design's Ivy Hall. On May 21, 1917, the Great Fire of Atlanta spared one of the South’s rare examples of Queen Anne-style...
View Article'Ovation for Oscar' director on Cannes and fashion films
Rare projects require rare talent. To make the documentary Ovation for Oscar: An Exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art− about the first posthumous museum tribute to Oscar de la Renta − Savannah College of...
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