Hostos Media Design Programs

10/27/2022

Lecturer - Digital Design and Animation in Bronx, New York, United States

Career Opportunity: Digital Design and Animation here at Hostos is hiring a full-time Lecturer! The minimum qualification is a Bachelor's degree. Review of applications is set to begin on 11/10, so please apply now if you're interested and/or share widely.

The mission of Eugenio María de Hostos Community College is to offer access to higher education leading to intellectual growth and socio-economic mobility through the development of linguistic, mathematical, technological, and critical thinking proficiencies needed for lifelong learning and for suc...

07/15/2022

Spotlight ⭐️ Stefano Imbert

Stefano brings color, composition, and whimsy to every class he teaches at Hostos. His own illustrations can be seen on theater posters around New York and book covers. Students frequently comment on Stefano really listens to a student’s story to help them move through their projects. Check out his work when you have a chance!

Stefano shared his answers to some of our burning questions:

***“How long have you been teaching at Hostos and what do you teach?”***
I have been teaching at Hostos since Spring Semester 2017. I teach Illustration, specifically Digital Illustration II, Color Theory, and Foundation Drawing.

*** “What do you love about teaching at Hostos?”***
Hostos' students are the main reason why I love teaching there. They are very energetic, with a healthy hunger to learn new ideas. Their passion for learning new notions and techniques to improve their work makes the ideal terrain for an educator. I love the exchange of positive energies between teacher and student.

***“If you have one piece of advice for students who are trying to enter the industry, what advice would you give them?"***
What I always suggest to my students who are about to enter into the art/animation/graphic design industry, is to remember that the field is already quite saturated and it's paramount to have something unique that can carve your own special niche in the industry. Incorporating your strong passion in life with your work can only enhance the chance of succeeding in the business.

06/02/2022

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬!
Digital Design & Animation 🎉
Digital Music 🎉
Game Design 🎉
𝐖𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐃𝐎!

05/25/2022

I am pleased to introduce our followers to the newest member of the team… Samantha Rodriguez! Samantha will be the Outreach Associate for the Media Design Programs this summer. What does this mean? Well, Samantha will be using her expert design skills that she’s been honing at Hostos to create content and project manage our IG. Please join me in welcoming Samantha to the team!

05/05/2022

Our Game Design program capstone course, Game Studio, will be having a showcase event for each of the two classes. If you're on campus, come check out the games and show them some love!
◈ Tuesday, May 11th, 2-3pm
◈ Friday, May 20th, 5-6pm

04/15/2022

Hostos Game Design Program - itch.io

Hey folks! CUNY Hostos is seeking a full-time Lecturer of Game Design to begin in Fall 2022. Hostos was founded to serve the Latinx community and other underserved communities in the South Bronx (NYC). The selected candidate will be joining me and one other full-time faculty member in our AAS Game Design degree program. More info on our program can be found at http://hostos.itch.io/

It's a teaching and service position with no scholarship expectations. The teaching load is 24 credits per year (usually 4/4 fall/spring). All CUNY faculty are unionized. There is a tenure-equivalent for CUNY lecturers after 5 years. Salary range is $63,133 - $82,091 (commensurate with education and experience). Minimum qualifications: "Bachelor's degree in area(s) of expertise. Also required are the ability to teach successfully, demonstrated scholarship or professional achievement, and the ability to cooperate with others for the good of the institution."

We welcome applications from women, Black and Latinx applicants, as well as other marginalized folks (and definitely anyone who cares about inclusivity!!!). Feel free to DM me with questions. Open until filled with review of applications to begin on 4/20.

Please feel free to share this with friends and colleagues and to spread the position through your networks.

For more information or to apply, visit the following URL:
https://cuny.jobs/bronx-ny/lecturer-game-design/80309302F193429582400E06458371D2/job/

The A.A.S. degree in Game Design at Hostos encourages the exploration of art, design, animation and code for game development, encompassing a broad range of experiences from analog to digital game design, entertainment to non-entertainment fields, using industry-standard animation and game productio...

04/15/2022

Are you a current Game Design student looking for a part-time job? In addition to our Outreach Associate position, we are hiring a student worker as a Game Design Community Manager! Expected start date is late April and the position lasts until the end of July with a mix of remote and on-campus work. $20/hour for up to 10 hours/week

More info at tinyurl.com/gdcm2022

04/14/2022

Are you a current Media Design student looking for a “Job on Campus”?! I’ve got the gig for you! Thanks to the grant from MacKenzie Scott, Media Design is able to hire a student to assist with content development for Instagram and other platforms 🙌🏼! Be a part of the team that shares our stellar community with prospective students! The job would report to Professor Lewis beginning asap and continues through the summer. It would be 10hrs per week at $20 per hour💥and would be mostly remote with periodic in-person meetings. What are some skills we’re looking for? Organizational skills, Image and Video editing, Writing skills, and an excitement for WHO we are and ALL that we do! DM any questions on IG and email CLEWIS at hostos.cuny.edu {subject line “Outreach Associate”}with why you’re interested, the skills you bring, and a portfolio of work. Looking forward to hearing from you!

04/13/2022

Adjunct Spotlight ⭐️ Emmy Thelander

Emmy Thelander has been an adjunct with Hostos for a number of years. She has taught a WIDE variety of classes that have addressed both skills-building AND concept development. What does she love about teaching at Hostos?! Emmy shared, “The students are imaginative and playful—so fun to work with. They have wonderful senses of humor, characters they want to bring to life, and stories to tell. I love witnessing the fruits of their labor when they create something they didn’t know they could.”

Check out Emmy’s own creative practice! Descriptions on comments 🎉

04/08/2022

• Media Design faculty CANNOT wait to get all y’all majors back into a room together! Here are some snaps from our March 2018 All Majors Meeting where we did an with monsters on poster board 🐉. Dang, it was A LOT of fun. Fingers crossed we can gather again soon… there’s nothing like a party filled with talented designers, passionate animators, visionary game makers, and incredible music-makers and audio engineers! 💥

04/02/2022

Happy Saturday! Here’s……
*𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐳* by Gabriel Silva
from GD205 Code for Games
with Prof Juno Morrow
https://avlisx.itch.io/ratz

Infiltrate a not so guarded science lab to collect parasite infected rats that scientist are trying to make a flesh eating virus from. Collect them all to save the world.

03/30/2022

DD201 Communication Design students Cynthia Ouamba, Hector Almonte, and Bryan Perez from Professor Simona Prives’ class were the finalists for the poster for upcoming play “Hotline” ☎️ directed by Professor Angel Morales! The winner was Cynthia Ouamba and her poster will be used to promote the play! Such great work coming out of the classroom these days! 💥

03/21/2022

Hostos Media Design is ALL about collaboration and community. In the spring of 2018, students from Professor Inmaculada Lara-Bonilla’s LAC 272 Latin American Film and Literature wrote film treatments for their own stories. Based on these stories, Hostos illustration students from Professor Catherine Lewis’ class illustrated film posters. The collaboration brought the stories of fellow students to the image-makers and the image-makers had the opportunity to bring them to life.

Illustrators:
Leonard McLean
Jose Munoz
Manon Balta
Rainier Florian
Rosalie Solis
Joanne Philius

03/17/2022

If loving stippling is wrong then I don’t want to be right! Check out these lovely projects from Hostos Media Design first semester students getting all the fundamentals in DD100 Foundation Drawing!
Jesus Flores • Julian Cepero • Nathan Marquina • Riley Gomez Keep up the great work, y’all!

03/17/2022

Do you need to know everything before coming to Hostos? The answer is emphatically NO! Featured here is the illustration work of a tremendously hard-working and talented Hostos Design student named Carlos. Swipe to see where Carlos began his semester in Illustration class and then see where he arrived with his Galapagos Island poster. How did he do it?! Carlos took every opportunity to develop his skills! The professor recommends workshops to learn new illustrator tools? Carlos did them. The professor recommends iterating on a design to take it to the next level?! Carlos iterated! Bring your hard-working attitude to Hostos and we’ll get you where you want to go!

03/16/2022

Alumni Highlight ⭐️ Hostos Design Grad Zaira Ramos is about to complete her MFA (!) at City College CUNY . All the while, Zaira has been a TA in 2D Design and Typography classes at Hostos to hone her skills as an educator and guide more Bronx designers towards their goals. We asked Zaira to answer a few questions:

*What has life been like since you graduated from Hostos and What are you up to now?*

Life since graduating Hostos Community College has been nothing but achieving success. I went straight into The City College of New York to earn my B.A in graphic design. From there I started interning for the Langton Creative Group, with Professor David Langton who graciously offered me a position as a designer in his firm and welcomed me as his Teaching Assistant for his 2D design class at Hostos.

*What is it like to return to Hostos to teach?*

Coming to teach at Hostos has been a dream come true for me! I am so grateful to be a part of the program that opened the doors to my career. I have always been interested in teaching and doing it at a college level has been nothing short of inspiring. Due to my opportunity as a TA, I decided to go back to school and earn my Masters in Fine Arts so I could become a full time professor.

*What was the most important thing you learned at Hostos?*

The most important thing I learned while at HCC was that anything and everything is possible if you are committed to your future! From the very beginning the professors that I have had have seen my dedication and effort to learn and have taken that drive and helped mold and prepare me for the real world. Design can be a competitive field, but if you show dedication and willingness that can take you farther than expected.
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Thanks so much to ZAIRA for sharing AND sharing her skills and guidance with our students! We sure think you’re amazing! ⭐️

Find Zaira’s Work Statement in the comments 🙌🏼…

03/14/2022

Illustrator Elizabeth Quinones Diaz killed it with her American Traditional Tattoos pattern in DD114 Digital Illustration today. So the building murals *might* just be Photoshop magic but someone NEEDS this on the side of a building, right?! Way to go, Elizabeth!

03/12/2022

Thinking back 10 years to when Hostos Media Design students had a show at a world renowned art museum 🙌🏼. The Hostos Design Lab was a two-week summer design intensive in North Adams, MA for twelve outstanding students and two alums from the media design programs. The student collaborative, with the guidance of two Hostos professors Sarah Sandman and Catherine Lewis functioned as a temporary 16-person design firm from August 1-12, 2011. It was a blast; it was fantastic; it was outrageously hard work; it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience!

with art and design work by
Amara Dioubate,
Krisely Franceschini
Brian Gonázlez
Ruben Henríquez
Shanyce Lora
José Martínez
Eduardo Méndez
Derick Moore
Edgar Neusom
Rosa Elena Oliveras
Michael Paguay
Rocio Rayo
Elijah Richmond
Laura Vega

03/11/2022

𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 that in 2012, Hostos pioneered the 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 game design degree program to be offered by a public college in New York State, which is currently the only one of its kind within CUNY or SUNY, and was recently awarded “𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦" by Intelligent.com in their list of Best Community Colleges in New York in 2022??? I͟t͟’̲s͟ T͟r͟u͟e͟!̲ Check out more about the program on Twitch. Link in bio.

03/10/2022

𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎-𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛. Recent Hostos grad Kevin Richiez designed this powerful illustration as his final project in Professor Lewis’ Digital Illustration class in fall 2021. Throughout the semester students attended group Read-a-longs as part of the Core Books project supported by The Teague Foundation and led by Profs Fabrizio and Marks from the English Dept. Kevin participated in the read-a-long for W.E.B. Du Bois’ 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑘. Others participated in readings of 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, and Douglass’ 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦. The project brought some deep and reflective conversations to the illustration classroom while giving the students the opportunity to use illustration to contextualize the written word. What a great project! More examples to come…

03/07/2022

Capturing Light and Shadow with white geometric shapes in DD100 Foundation Drawing today… one with shaded graphite and the other with stippling in Micron pen. It’s a labor of love that stippling ❤️.

03/04/2022

Illustration students Lisbeth Estevez & Greidy Moreta shared a piece of themselves with their WPA-style illustrations of the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴❤️ during the depths of the pandemic in fall 2020. The best thing about being a designer of any kind is making beautiful things even during dark times. Thank you, Lisbeth and Greidy!

03/03/2022

to when Hostos Design & Animation students had their work featured on scaffolding that graced Madison Avenue! 💥 They were included in MetroNY and interviewed for NY1. Hostos students can do anything!

03/02/2022

Did you know that all Hostos’ Media Design programs - Digital Design & Animation, Game Design, and Digital Music - have articulation agreements with NYC DOE’s CTE schools?! Here is Professor Lewis chatting about it all for the High School of Fashion Industries virtual college fair! Thanks for including Hostos, !

01/18/2022

Timeline photos

📢Enrolled students must upload their proof of vaccination to CUNYfirst by tomorrow, Jan. 18.

🧑🏾‍🎓Students who do not upload their documents will be de-registered from in-person and hybrid classes.

🖱️cuny.edu/coronavirus

10/28/2021

Photos from Student Success Coaching Unit's post

10/27/2021

ATTENTION: Unpaid community service opportunity from Hostos Office of Veterans Affairs:

"This will be a fantastic opportunity for our digital media students to participate in this endeavor which will include the President, Former President and Former VP SDEM and Channel 12 news. We need a student to be able to assist in the video recording, editing and collection of various individual video recordings from various persons and to assist in content collection of images which will be organized into a prerecorded video ceremony. This will air November 9th. As a result we will need to complete this video no later than November 7th.

The experience and the project will forever be accredited to the student. The student will be working closely with former Samsung Video Manager that produced numerous commercial videos for Samsung and other fortune 500 companies. The student will get mentorship and guidance from this professional who still actively works in this profession. The individual referenced has volunteered his time to assist our office with this but, he will need someone on the ground to assist in in the above mentioned collection and recording."

If you're interested, please contact SFC Ricardo Garcia US Army Ret. at [email protected].

08/24/2021

NEW: The FDA fully approved a COVID-19 vaccine on August 23, 2021, triggering a 45-day deadline for students to be fully vaccinated. Students now have until September 27, 2021 to upload proof of vaccination in CUNYfirst.

06/16/2021

Hostos Digital Design and Animation “Shelter in Place” at Governors Island - Hostos Community College

Hostos Digital Design and Animation “Shelter in Place” at Governors Island - Hostos Community College

Hostos Digital Design and Animation “Shelter in Place” at Governors Island - Hostos Community College

06/07/2021

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
■Director: Stanley Kubrick
■Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth
■Production Design: Ernest Archer, Harry Lange, Tony Masters
■Art Director: John Hoesli
■Color Timer: Harry V. Jones
■Colorist: Blake Jones
■Color Consultant: Stewart Brown, Doug Haig
■Special Photographic Effects Designer: Stanley Kubrick

05/20/2021

Join us Saturday, May 29, for the Down Under The Major Deegan Virtual Film Festival, featuring work from our Digital Design and Animation majors.

More information: http://ow.ly/vUeI50ERo97

05/18/2021

Congrats Taisiia!

Meet Taisiia Smekalenkova, Hostos’ 51st Commencement Ceremony Salutatorian!

Taisiia, a Digital Design and Animation major, hails from the Ukraine and has worked hard toward her dream of becoming a designer and animator. After graduating from Hostos, she plans to work for a couple of years before pursing her Bachelor’s degree.

Learn more about Taisiia: http://ow.ly/pWTW50EPw3n

05/12/2021

Photos from The City University of New York's post

05/08/2021

Workshop: Get that job! Writing a great resume for games!

Need to make a resume for working in games? https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/workshop-get-that-job-writing-a-great-resume-for-games-registration-151843334501

This talk covers the basics of putting your best foot forward for your career search in games.

05/07/2021

The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy

"Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/magazine/deana-lawson.html

Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history.

05/06/2021

Hostos Arcade SP21

Please join us for our Game Design program capstone showcase event, Hostos Arcade, on Wednesday, May 19th at 1:30pm! twitch.tv/hostosgamedesign

04/07/2021

Timeline photos

Let’s end this pandemic for good. so we can all be together on campus again. For information on making an appointment, visit www.cuny.edu/vaxupcuny.