For our latest “Alumni Spotlight,” we would like to tell you about Christina Quintero, who graduated from NYU’s MS Publishing: Digital & Print Media program in 2010. She was awarded the Oscar Dystel Fellowship for demonstrating a strong command of her academic studies as well as remarkable creativity, inventive ideas, and dedication to a career in book publishing. She currently works as the Executive Art Director of Licensing and Intellectual Property at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Her favorite book as a child was Roald Dahl’s Matilda. MS in Publishing: Digital and Print Media student Alysyn Reinhardt spoke with Christina about everything from how the program helped her career to what she does all day on the job: [Read more…] about Alumni Spotlight: Designing for Life
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SPI Visits HarperCollins
“I was fortunate, but it’s not impossible.” That sentiment, shared with us by Paige Doscher, Editorial Assistant with Harper Design, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, was the overarching theme of our industry visit to one of the top publishing houses in New York. Actually, it might be the big takeaway from all six weeks of the NYU Summer Publishing Institute: while it definitely takes a little luck to break into the book and magazine industries, it’s also definitely possible. [Read more…] about SPI Visits HarperCollins