Across a diverse array of press coverage this week, SVA alumni and faculty are featured doing heroic things, utilizing their design expertise and gaining momentum in the New York City art gallery scene.

1. ArtNet News writes this week about the growing prominence of “Asia Week,” a celebration of Asian art across galleries and museums in New York City, noting the increasing number of Asian-owned and -managed galleries popping up in NYC, as well as the growing art markets of China and South Korea. The piece mentions SVA’s significant enrollment of Chinese students, saying, “the past decade yielded a new generation of graduates ready to make their mark on the gallery scene.” SVA, the art world is ready for you!

2. In a piece about the “tapback” icons that debuted in text message exchanges with iOS 10, Fast Company looks to design aficionado and MFA Design Co-Chair Steven Heller for his straightforward take on how they stack up against the more detailed collection of emoji reactions: “Frankly, despite not ‘loving’ ha-ha, I thought it a nice respite from the yellow smiling faces, which I think are reducing our emotional state to a backwater town,” he says. MPS Branding Chair Debbie Millman also weighs in, saying, “In a time when every nuance in a text can be analyzed to death in order to determine the context, these whimsical acknowledgments offer a crystal-clear, telegraphic response.”

In this week’s ‘The Five,’ SVA’s talented community members are seen in such publications as ‘New York,’ ‘Fast Company’ and ‘Animation’ magazine.