GO TO SCHOOL IN NEW YORK

Miami Ad School's New York location is in DUMBO, an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Dumbo has two sections; one located between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, and another section which continues east from the Manhattan Bridge to the Vinegar Hill area Brooklyn has become the hippest area of New York City for artists, writers, filmmakers and all other varieties of creatives, particularly digital creatives making it a perfect location for Miami Ad School.

DUMBO, a former warehouse and factory district, has become one of New York City’s hottest arts districts with galleries, design shops, the Dumbo Arts Center, really cool book stores, coffee shops and art studios. Catch a performance at St. Ann’s Warehouse performance space, a not-for-profit institution. The annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival, a celebration of Hip-Hop music and culture, is also held in DUMBO. Fulton Landing is home to Bargemusic, a floating venue for classical music. With the water taxi to the Financial District and the F train a couple blocks away, Manhattan is also at your fingertips.

Dumbo is a haven for many of New York’s cutting edge digital agencies, such as Big Spaceship, Huge, Domani and Carrot Creative. Instructors are industry professionals from leading agencies all over New York City including: R/GA, AKQA, Droga5, BBH, Y&R, Ogilvy & Mather, Kaplan Thaler Group, HUGE, Big Spaceship, The Barbarian Group, JWT, MIR, Carrot Creative and Publicis Modem to name a few.

Agency Spy calls Dumbo "the new digital advertising hotspot"

For whatever reason, Dumbo has become a high-tech incubator for the digitally inclined who walk their dogs on the area’s cobblestone streets. There’s a puppy park adjacent to the human park known as Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, considered the most beautiful park in New York. And it’s the only place where you have touching access to the East River. Believe it or not, you can skip stones across the water. At sunset, it’s perhaps the favorite place for serious photographers to capture the millions of lights in the skyline of New York, framed by the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. Grimaldi’s alone is reason enough to come to Dumbo. The lines stretch around the block for Grimaldi’s pizza. But there’s also the other extreme such as River Cafe, a perfect place to entertain parents on the river’s edge. In between, there are dozens of small cafes, deli’s and bakeries- make sure to keep an eye for the Waffle Truck!

The space resembles its factory origins with brick walls and overhead ducts. The walls have giant flat panel screens and touch screens that show the student exhibition of award winning work. The space is filled with our trademark bleacher seating and colored rubber coated metal tables and benches.

Programs taught in New York:

Art Direction
Copywriting

Bootcamps:

Bootcamp for Account Planning (Starting Summer 2012)