By processing the “Mo Money Mo Problems” music video, Nick Hardeman has generated a series of images which display the color and action of the video in a highly abstract form.

Surface Film is an experimental project from students at the Parsons School for Design which examines the life of a city through an underground perspective looking up at a semi-permeable surface.  The thesis project required an elaborate filming stage and creates perfectly unique cinematography for the shooting perspective.  The project’s website describes the film,

This ‘urban symphony’ transforms human actions and street objects into beats that harmoniously compose a grand audio and visual composition. The film emphasizes the ideas of ‘point of contact’, ‘human identity’ and notion of ‘live footprints’.

The director now does freelance motion graphics and it will be [...]

We’re excited to have Simon Collins, Dean of Fashion at Parsons, join us at our upcoming PSFK Conference NYC 2009. Simon will discuss how sustainable, economic and socially conscious issues are driving the design of new products and services on a panel moderated by Dave Pinter (PSFK, GRID2) with Ryan Jacoby (IDEO), Matthew Lusk (Hecho, Inc) and Sarah Beatty (Green Depot).
First, who are you and what do you do?
Dean. School of Fashion. Parsons the New School for Design.
I provide direction for the Fashion School’s 1300 students and 200 faculty, am Parsons’ ambassador to the fashion industry and press and represent [...]

The Internet Famous Class at Parsons New School is all about studying the art and science of getting hits.  Recently featured on Current TV, the course is dedicated to teaching students the most effective ways of leveraging social media to gain the largest possible audience online.
In order to test their theories and experiment with new strategies for gaining popularity, students are expected to develop their own projects, either collectively or on their own, utilizing any and all media in conjunction with the internet.
What makes the course particularly interesting is that students’ grades are based entirely on how much traffic they [...]