FIDM Magazine

FIDM SF to Host FASHION+TECHSF Career Workshop

FASHION+TECHSF presents Mentors & Apprentices, a career workshop and a networking event for the fashion, technology, and creative industries in the SF Bay Area. Business owners who work in fashion, marketing, technology, art, and design related professions will introduce their businesses and/or products, explain what they do, discuss their industry challenges and the nature of their internship opportunity, followed by a Q&A session. Mentors will then be available to meet and interact with participants and for additional informational interviewing.

Students, entrepreneurs and those interested in additional career options are highly encouraged to attend. Internship opportunity and requirements are determined by each mentor and will vary. Resumes recommended.

What: Mentors & Apprentices
Where: FIDM, 55 Stockton Street, 5th Floor, Conference Room
When: February 21, 2012, Tues, 5:30pm to 8:30pm, please arrive early
RSVP: Buy Tickets, $10 General Admission
Free Admission with Student ID (all schools)

Speakers include Beth Blecherman, Techmamas Founder/Editor of Technology Mom, Rebekah Iliff, Talk Tech Communications CEO & Co-Founder, and Lili Balfour, Founder of Atelier Partners. Moderated by Owen Geronimo.

Winners Announced for the Pasadena Magazine FIDM VisComm Competition

For the second year, FIDM Visual Communications Students were recently challenged by Pasadena Magazine to create visual displays in four Pasadena stores (Macy’s, Whole Foods, Barnes & Noble, and the Pasadena Convention Center), with the theme of “Reasons to Love Pasadena”. 

Photographs of all four teams’ designs are featured in the December 2011 issue the magazine and the winning team’s installation will be featured in the magazine in January 2012.

The members of the winning team, Sasha Lewis, Megan Sveum, and Dylan Thomas each won $500, for a total of $1,500 in cash and prizes. Their design of stacked suitcases was at the Pasadena Convention Center, celebrating travel and tourism in Pasadena. Their victory was announced at a reception at Macy’s Pasadena, where the 2012 Tournament of Roses® Rose Queen & Royal Court were the models in an Eileen Fisher fashion show.

The judging panel was comprised of Brian Dyches, International President of the Retail Design Institute; Daryn-Reid Goodall, a nine-time Emmy nominee and current Set Decorator for Disney’s Shake It Up!; and Timothy Opsomer, Vice President of Visual Merchandising and Store Planning for MGM Resorts International.

Frontline Design Visits FIDM Film & TV Costume Design Classroom

How amazing would it be to make costumes for some of the most exciting superhero films imaginable? FIDM Film & TV Costume Design Students found out when Frontline Design, a company that creates costumes for major motion pictures such as Spiderman and the upcoming Superman movies, visited their classroom. Frontline Design gave students an up-close look at some of the costumes and talked about how they're produced. For more photos, visit the FIDM Flickr page.

Bisou Bisou/FIDM Giveaway in InTouch Magazine

In the September 5, 2011 issue of InTouch, a lucky reader will get the chance to shop the Bisou Bisou capsule collection featuring FIDM Student designs for their back-to-school wardrobe.

Bisou Bisou was FIDM's International Manufacturing & Product Development partner last year.

FIDM at Fashion's Night Out!

Neiman Marcus, Fashion Island will spotlight multiple FIDM presentations including "The Art of Draping," featuring five FIDM Fashion Design Alumni, "The Art of Illustrating," with FIDM Instructor, fashion illustrator, and author Nancy Riegelman, and "The Art of Creativity," featuring DEBUT 2011 selections in the windows. There will also be a special Bentley Prince Street project of "carpet dresses," created by FIDM Designers in the store (pictured, left).

At Westfield Century City, 23 FIDM Students will work in teams to create eight "garments" on dress forms from retail shopping bags. FNO shoppers will be able to observe while the students create their designs. At the end of two hours, judging will take place, and the garments will be taken to the main stage for the winning announcement. The winning team will receive a $1500 Westfield gift certificate.

Fashion's Night Out is September 8, 2011.

FIDM Student Wins Bisou Bisou Competition

FIDM Student Jenny McClain with her winning collection

Each year, FIDM's International Manufacturing & Product Development (IMPD) program chooses an Industry Partner to work closely with students as they learn to create a cohesive product line. This year's partner Bisou Bisou collaborated with JCPenney and FIDM in challenging the students to create a series of designs for the Bisou Bisou label. The students developed their designs with mentorship from Bisou Bisou founder and designer Michele Bohbot. The winner, Jenny McClain, will receive a $2,000 scholarship and her winning designs will by produced by Bisou Bisou and sold at select JCPenney stores nationwide.

Jenny came to FIDM directly from high school. After graduating with an A.A. degree in Merchandise Product Development, she was accepted into FIDM's Advanced Study IMPD program. Jenny will be starting FIDM's Bachelor of Science in Business Management program in the fall.

FIDM San Diego Students Visit Digitaria

A class from the FIDM San Diego campus visited the neighboring Digitaria, a marketing and technology company, where they met with Creative Director Paul Drohan who engaged the group in conversation about branding, design, and community involvement.

Read the entire article here.

FIDM Students Compete in Bisou Bisou Runway Your Way Contest

Bisou Bisou, jcpenney, and FIDM challenged a group of student designers to create runway style for today’s modern women. Led by Michele Bohbot, creator and designer of Bisou Bisou, the competition was narrowed down to four finalists and they need your help choosing which student will win the $2,000 scholarship!

To cast your vote for FIDM Students Jon Rosario, Jenna Goldberg, Jenny McClain, and Alyse Guercia, just post the name of your favorite designer in the Moderator box at jcpenney's YouTube Channel. Voting continues through June 15. You can also watch the student videos while you are there.

Interior Design Students Win Thos. Moser Awards

Thos. Moser, one of the world’s foremost designers and builders of solid wood furniture, recently teamed with FIDM Interior Design Students for a design challenge in a special Furniture Construction and Design class, during the Winter 2011 quarter, at the Los Angeles and San Francisco campus locations.

The 10 class members at each FIDM campus were given the challenge to create an original furniture design in the Moser style, specifically, a companion piece for the Thos. Moser “Lolling Chair”; in essence, they were to design a “New Sidekick for the Moser Lolling Chair.”

S.F. Student Meghan Carozza and L.A. Student Maelee Lungren (pictured) were each the winner of the Thos. Moser Design Committee Award. They will be flown to Maine, by FIDM, where they will meet key designers, Thos. Moser associates, and take a factory tour of the Thos. Moser headquarters.

"Working with Thos Moser on this design challenge was an amazing experience. We as a group were all very supportive of each other's designs, and all shared our advice," said recent Graduate Ryan Campbell, who won the People's Choice Award for his dog bed design. "I am very proud of ourselves as a collective group, and was impressed with how wide a range our designs were."

S.F. Student Jamie Clugston and L.A. Student Mark Griffin received the Interior Design ASID Industry Award. Congrats to all of the award recipients.

 

Pivot Furniture Showcases FIDM Student's Work

Pivot Furniture, which creates luxury organic children's furnishings, sponsored Interior Design Student Maelee Lungren's work for "Chairing Styles," an exhibition on display at the Pacific Design Center through April 22, 2011.