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Otis College of Art and Design Magazine 2008 Vol.5 16 26 Otis College of Art and Design Magazine 2008 Vol.5 16 26 Otis is 90! As the Otis community celebrates the College’s award-winning visual effects, high fashion, 90th anniversary in Fall 2008, we can be proud and popular sports apparel. that we have lived up to our mission—Otis The insights and wisdom of many out- prepares diverse students of art and design to standing alumni are being captured for enrich our world thorough their creativity, their posterity through the Otis Legacy Project skill, and their vision. (see pg. 14-15). In aggregate, they tell an Otis holds the distinction of being the first inspiring message that passion for creativity independent professional school of art in Los is life-long. Angeles, and has grown from a small training Galleries are collaborating with Otis to school for artists in 1918 to a nationally recog- present our faculty and alumni work this year nized and innovative college of art and design in “Otis Across L.A.” (see pg. 30-31). The an- in 2008 (see Otis’ historical highlights in the niversary festivities culminate with a Home- centerfold timeline). coming Weekend celebration in October which President Hoi with (from left) teaching assistant Amanda McGough Celebrations marking the 90th milestone includes an alumni exhibition opening and (‘08), Summer of Art Program Director Kathleen Masselink-Valenzuela, and instructor Marcie Kaufman. are multi-faceted, including publications, ex- world premiere (see pgs. 6 and 12 ). hibitions, art commissions, alumni reunions, We can look back at almost a century of and, of course, parties. influential art and design education that has Otis’ great alumni successes are captured nurtured compelling artistic voices, shaped in Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art and the cultural landscape, and driven the creative Otis Designs. The former volume, document- economy in Southern California and beyond. ing achievements in fine arts, was published Otis’ future is even more promising. The in 2006 in conjunction with the very successful Otis of 2008 continues to evolve its academic and widely seen exhibition at the Los Angeles programs to meet the needs brought about by Municipal Art Gallery. Otis Designs, released social, aesthetic, economic, and technological for the 90th Anniversary homecoming (see pgs shifts. The creative impact of Otis alumni and pg. 3), celebrates achievements in design. These faculty will continue to radiate concentrically publications are a testament to the depth and from the Los Angeles epicenter of 1918 to the reach of Otis’ distinguished alumni, who have global community. propelled art and design movements, reflected social history through art, and created icons —Samuel Hoi, President such as the Oscar statuette, the animatronic IZ MP3 player, classic animated characters, Cover: Mark Dean Veca (‘85) Imbroglio, installation at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, 2007 Inside back cover: Tim Biskup (‘88) Asylum #5 Cel Vinyl Acrylic on Wooden Panel, 36 x 24 inches CLASS NOTES Otis College of Art and Design Otis College of Art and Design 9045 Lincoln Blvd. Non-Profit Org Los Angeles, CA 90405 U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 427 Los Angeles, CA IN THIS ISSUE: At the Heart of Kung Fu Panda • The Art of Design • 25 Years in the City of Light • What is Chicano Art? • www.otis.edu A Place Where All Dreams Come True 23 04 Otis prepares diverse students of art and design to enrich our world through their creativity, their skill, and their vision. Founded in 1918, Otis is L.A.’s fi rst independent professional school of visual arts. Otis’ 1200 students pursue BFA degrees in advertising design, architecture/landscape/interiors, digital media, fashion design, graphic design, illustration, interactive product design, painting, photography, sculpture/new genres, and toy design. MFA degrees are offered in fi ne arts, graphic design, public practice, and writing. Otis has trained generations of artists who have been in the vanguard of the cultural and entrepreneurial life of the city. Nurtured by Los Angeles’ forward-thinking spirit, these artists and designers explore the landscape of popular culture and the signifi cant impact of identity, politics, and social policy at the intersection of art and society. 2008 Vol.5 In This Issue: Editor: Margi Reeve, Communications Director 02 Celebrating 90 Years 21 College News Co-editor: Sarah Russin, The Art of Design Alumni Director First Step onto the Fashion Runway Five Titans of Design Photography: Al Bello/Getty Images; Keith Puccinelli’s Wondercommon Sheldan C. Collins, Whitney Museum of Marc Dean Veca’s Hallucinatory Spaces H2O + Forward-Thinking Terrestrials American Art; Morgan Cuppet-Michelson (‘08); At the Heart of Kung Fu Panda 25 years in the City of Light Wayne McCall; Lee Salem A Place where all Dreams Come True Otis’ New Website Staff Writer: George Wolfe 2008 Meeting of the Minds Creative: Intersection Studio 1918-2008 (timeline) Design Direction: Greg Lindy Design: (Yee) Jeanie Chong (‘07) 24 Alumni Around the World Font design: Jiberis, by (Yee) Jeanie Chong (‘07) River Montijo in Qatar Contributors: 18 Otis Monitor Howard N. Fox is Curator of Sojung Kwon in Amsterdam Contemporary Art, LACMA Practicing in Public: Carole Ann Klonarides is a freelance curator The San Joaquin Valley Project Meg Linton is Director, Ben Maltz Gallery What is Chicano Art? 26 Class Notes and Public Programs Vernon Becomes the Factory Otis Across L.A. Carlo McCormick is Senior Editor, Omage ’08: Otis Artists, Designers, Paper magazine and Writers at Track 16 Gallery Lisa Melandri is Deputy Director for Public Programs, Santa Monica Museum of Art Christopher Michlig is guest instructor, Architecture/Landscape/Interiors Mohammed Sharif is Assistant Chair, © Otis College of Art and Design Architecture/Landscape/Interiors Publication of material does not necessarily Joan Takayama-Ogawa and Perri Chasin are indicate endorsement of the author’s viewpoint faculty members, Liberal Arts & Sciences by Otis College of Art and Design Otis College of Art and Design FEATURE “Since I was six, I wanted to go into the fashion design. I wanted to go toward the creative end. Otis definitely prepared me for the real world. My first job in London was a great exampple. Thhere werer a lot of incrc edibly talented and creative designers but when it came to actually knowing the calendar, and how to put garmem nts together—the functionality and weearabbilityy—thhatt shoh wed me how much I hah d lel arned.d” Twelfth Street byy Cyynthia Vincent The Art of Desig excerpts from the essay by Barbara Isenberg for " Otis Designs, " a history of design at Otis published to celebrate the College's 90th anniversary “We do a lot of motion graphics, web site design, movie posters, and graphic design ranging from t-shirts to car air fresheners. Otis opened doors for me. I went to a school that had a great reputation. When I meet a young artist from Otis, I feel like he’s in my tribe. All the freelancers who work for me are from Otis.” —Chevon Hicks (’95),, President and Creative Director,, Heavenspot “Otis planted the seed that art is everything—it’s the integration of visuals. Innovation is always driven by the idea. If films didn’t push the envelope in terms of effects and looks, technology would probably be 10 years behind. With almost every film I have embarked upon, we went in having no idea of how we were ever going to accomplish some of the things we intended. But put a bunch of brilliant and creative artists and scientists together, and it’s magic!” —JimmR Rygiel (‘8(80),0) three-time Oscar winner for the Lord of the Ringss trilogy OMAG 202 FEATURE “Otis taught me how to think as a designer, and how design was not a craft but rather a framework through which I could see possibility. That’s guided me throughout my whole career, even as I switched from being an illustrator to a designer, and from print to digital.” —Khoi Vinh (‘93), Creative Director, NYTimTi es.com ign For 90 years, Otis has provided students with continuity of design education in Southern the basic skills and knowledge for art making California,” says Bill Stern, Director of the as well as the confidence and contacts to take Museum of California Design. “Teachers are that training in unlimited directions. Expanding one generation, students are another, and its offerings as the design world itself grew and each influences the next. Otis is pivotal in our changed, Otis has trained generations of artists design lineage.” not only to draw and paint but also to design everything from billboards and apparel to toys, Executives at prominent global corporations games and websites. refer to the diversity of the student body at Khoi Vinh (‘93) is now the creative director Otis, the most diverse independent art and for NYTimes.com. Cassidy Park (‘88) was hired design school in the country, as well as its abil- by Mattel’s Barbie design group as a senior de- ity to blend technology and creative thinking. signer, later becoming vice president of Barbie These attributes are particularly important in product design. The animatronic MP3 player, cutting-edge areas of study such as Otis’ Digital IZ, created by Kris Paulson (’03) and colleagues Media Department, which President Samuel at Big Monster Toys, was listed as one of Time Hoi describes as “the first of its kind in the Otis Designs magazine’s inventions of the year in 2005. region to address motion graphics, special ef- With over 125 illustrations, this 180 pg. Vinh, Park and Paulson join a tradition of fects and other emerging digital art forms.” publication chronicles alumni contribu- artists taught to honor their creative instincts. “Otis students have a strong foundation tions to the design world from the 1920s Alumni George Maitland Stanley sculpted the in the arts, and don’t just focus on the techno- to the present.
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