Last night I went to the NYU Design Show opening. For those wanting to get a glimpse at the new generation of designers produced by that institution I believe the work is on display all week. Not sure about hours, probably regular business hours I would assume. Quite a good class.
I got yelled at by a friend of mine when I was there. Well, not so much yelled at as spoken to with a bit of shock and awe. It seems that when you type lighting designer into Google on the first page of results is my portfolio.
The last time I checked that search term was quite a while ago and I was somewhere on page three. I am not really sure why the ranking is so high, but it sure is nice. Apparently it has been up there for some time now. At least that is the story I heard from my friend.
There was a nice display up in the main hallway with pictures from years past collaborations between the design department and the dance department. I submitted the picture below. I must say it looks a lot better on a computer screen than it does printed. Some of that is the luminescence of the light itself comes through better in a medium based in light than one that is so flat as a digital printout.
It was fun to see so many people I know. Many people who were classmates of mine who have since become colleagues and coworkers. Friends I have not seen in months or years. There are some people who, it seams, I only see at Design Show. It is a wonderful chance to reconnect with people lost for months and years as we all work on various projects and hear rumors of each others goings on.
Of course there are recent alums at Design Show, but also quite a few people who graduated twenty or more years ago. An interesting mix of people. I had a lovely time catching up with friends and looking at the work of the outgoing class. It will be interesting to see what happens to them as it has been interesting to watch my own classmates go off in our various trajectories these last few years.
Tags: dance, design show, lighting design, portfolio
Someone that I worked with in San Francisco should have been in the NYU class this year – Brian (and for the life of me right now I can’t remember his last name). I’m assuming he completed his degree but I lost touch with him. We were applying for many of the same schools at the same time.
Brian Jones? He was there. He was a board-op on a show I assisted on seven or eight years ago. Really nice guy.