Not unlike many college students, I headed south for Spring Break. But gone are the days of relaxing, as I was lucky enough to attend the famous South By Southwest conference, SXSW or simply “South By” as the locals call it, in Austin, Texas. The 10-day event starts out with Interactive and Film as the [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Twitter power. It’s no secret that companies utilize Twitter to expand their brand and sell their products, some in blatant ways like straight up ad-speak, and other more subtle ways like leaking products to bloggers and letting them do the big reveal. My Twitter feed is a cacophony [...]

Congratulations to the Julianelli family, for a long overdue publication honoring their family of shoe designers.  Mabel and Charles Julianelli were shoe designers who reached the top of their field in 1950, and still influences designers to this day. Some of their work is in the Parsons Archive Collection, and we are pleased to note [...]

Twitter as a platform for instant – albeit brief – conversation, was created to directly and immediately connect co-workers, while collaborating on projects. I envision Twitter as a big dinner party. Twitter is the table of technology.  Pull up a chair, because you’re invited. First, let’s plan our dinner party. The people you decide to [...]

Booking a 6 hour layover in Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, I happily took the chance to go into town for breakfast.  A shopping visit to Paris is not complete without a visit to the boutiques in the Marias, seeing as it was only 9:00 a.m., I took a croissant and café crème on Places [...]

Tamara Albu, Director of the A.A.S. Fashion Design Program at Parsons, sat down in a virtual space with London College of Fashion Award Winner, and Founder of the online education lab, Social Alterations, Mary Hanlon. In November, Mary won the award for “Systems for a Sustainable Fashion Industry” out of the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, [...]