In the Making / Fall Faculty Presentations: Josh Nimoy, Chris Hamamoto, and Laurel Schwulst

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IN THE MAKING is a new student-run faculty lecture series. This series aims to explore the grad school experience… how faculty members developed of a personal way of working in school, including relevant challenges, influences, and transition to their current practice.
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The Fall Series included:
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Josh Nimoy / Friday, Oct 16th, 3pm
Josh Nimoy is a multifaceted software artist with a design and new media arts education. He makes a heavy use of computer programming to produce a lot of his work, and allows the world of code to inspire both is process and his aesthetic. Josh is interested in producing interactive work which “addicts” the audience, through use of synaesthesia and simple game design fundamentals.Josh has spent the last half decade writing simulations and custom generators in Hollywood for use in Film and Television, most notably the hologram elements in TRON:Legacy. 

Josh attended undergraduate school at UCLA Design | Media Arts until 2002, and got a Masters in Professional Studies from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in 2004.
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Chris Hamamoto / Friday, Nov 20th, 3pm
Chris Hamamoto is a San Francisco based graphic designer currently working with Landscape in the Lower Haight. He most recently worked with Flipboard after completing his MFA at RISD. Prior to graduate school, Chris worked at FontShop, Studio Kudos, RISD Museum, and taught at RISD. He now teaches at CCA and co-designs, develops, and writes for Typographica and Type Review.
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Laurel Schwulst / Friday, Dec 4th, 3pm
Laurel Schwulst is a designer and artist. She is currently Designer in Residence at California College of the Arts for the Fall 2015 semester. She is owner of Beautiful Company. Previously she worked at the design studio Linked by Air and lectured at Yale University. She is interested in the intersection of art, nature, and the internet.