Parsons - Layout Settings

Faculty

Faiyaz Jafri

Part-time Assistant Professor

Email
jafris@newschool.edu

Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street

Download vCard

Faiyaz Jafri

Profile

Faiyaz Jafri (1968) was born and raised in rural Holland of Dutch and Pakistani descent. He studied at the Technical University of Delft (MS) and is self-taught as an animation artist and music composer.

With over 25 years of experience, Jafri is fluent in most aspects of digital media, its tools, and its applications, ranging from illustration to animation to 3D printing, graphic design to motion graphics to post-production and music scoring.

Jafri’s art explores Jungian archetypes in the modern world, distilling the pop references of mass media and global popular culture into a visual shorthand of neo-archetypes. His work developed from flat line art into a stripped-down 3D computer graphics style he calls hyper-unrealism. Despite the endless possibilities offered by computers today, he stays close to his subject, leaving out unnecessary frills and extras until he’s left with an image that is unambiguous and almost obscene in its blunt power.

Degrees Held

MS, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands (Industrial Design Engineering)

Future Courses

  • Digital Dialect
    PSAM 5065 - Spring 2027
  • Motion Graphics: Introduction
    PSAM 5440 - Spring 2027
  • Animation Design
    PCAC 0645 - Summer 2027

Past Courses

Take The Next Step

Notice of Nondiscriminatory Policy

The New School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.