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Schlossberg Presentation Team Pays Follow-up Visit to Interactive Design Pioneer at Manhattan Office
City Tech Foundation executive director Jewel Escobar and Jewish Faculty & Staff Association President Albert Sherman with Edwin Schlossberg, center, on November 3.
Jewel Escobar, executive director of the City Tech Foundation and the College's director of development; Albert Sherman, president of the Jewish Faculty & Staff Association (JFSA); Michele Forsten, director of communications; and Dale Tarnowieski, assistant communications director, met with interactive design pioneer Edwin Schlossberg at his Manhattan firm -- ESI Design -- on November 3. The visit was a follow-up to Schlossberg's well-attended May 1 presentation in City Tech's Klitgord Center Auditorium. The presentation was part of JFSA's ongoing distinguished speakers series, which has featured on-campus appearances by columnist Pete Hamill, Buchenwald liberator Leon Bass, and other prominent figures.
The four presented Schlossberg with a framed copy of the event poster designed and produced by Department of Advertising Design & Graphic Arts (ADGA) students and faculty and an album containing scores of photographs, press releases, press clips and other print materials documenting his May 1 visit to campus. The visit was proposed and planned by the College's Office of Communications in collaboration with the City Tech Foundation, which had coordinated a reception for Schlossberg following his spring presentation. Some 100 students, faculty and community leaders attended the reception.
Schlossberg escorted the four on a tour of his firm's design studios and computer operations. Just outside the door to his private office the framed "Edwin Schlossberg Day in Brooklyn Proclamation" issued last spring by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz was prominently displayed.
During the 30-minute visit, Schlossberg expressed an interest in participating in ADGA's highly successful speaker's series and interactive design-related jury competitions, and extended an invitation for City Tech students to apply for ESI Design student internships. ADGA faculty were also invited to inquire about a student group tour of the firm's facilities and a meeting with its design staff.
ESI Design's award-winning accomplishments include the Ellis Island American Family Immigration History Center and the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center. Schlossberg's very first project, a career-defining assignment undertaken in 1970, involved the design of interactive exhibits for the Brooklyn Children's Museum. Other major projects have included the design of similar exhibits for the Children's Museum of Los Angeles, the Charlotte Children's Learning Center, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the SONY Wonder Technology Lab in New York City.
Photo by Michele Forsten
