Parsons

23rd November 2015 

I have recently just come back on a trip to New York. While i was there i took a visit to Parsons School Of Design which is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is one of the seven colleges of The New School. Parsons was the first school in the United States to offer programs in fashion design, advertising, interior design, and graphic design. Parsons offers 13 undergraduate bachelor's programs and 17 graduate master's programs, and it is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious art and design schools in the world. It is currently ranked as the #1 art and design school in the United States and #2 in the world, just behind the Royal College of Art in London.

Parsons has a renowned fashion design program and has educated some of the most respected designers in the industry including Donna Karan (founder of DKNY), Marc Jacobs, Alexander Wang, Tom Ford, Anna Sui, Jason Wu, Narciso Rodriguez, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez (founders of Proenza Schouler), Isaac Mizrahi, Derek Lam, Prabal Gurung, and Jenna Lyons (President and Creative Director of J.Crew).

While i was there i had a tour of the college and work spaces and was shown some examples of work and their briefing timetables and how they work through projects. I had a talk with the head of department.

New School is a private institution that was founded in 1919. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 6,695 and its setting is urban. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. New School's ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 127. Its tuition and fees are $42,977 (2015-16).

some of the courses that off animation and motion graphics within the programme: