Vince Quevedo
Biography
Vince Quevedo is an international award-winning designer/artist/author in the areas of fashion design and fiber arts. Professor Quevedo received his Bachelor of Science degree in Clothing and Textiles and his Master of Science degree in Workforce Education and Development with a focus on college teaching at Southern Illinois University. He received his Master of Fine Arts in textiles/fiber from the University of Nebraska. Competition comes natural to Vince Quevedo since he trained as an elite gymnast and was coached by his mother who was an Olympic gymnastics coach and professor. He competed in ten gymnastics and tumbling nationals to include the NCAA and winning the top award at the USTA Nationals in 1983. He has taught at the university level since 1990 and has had many years of industry experience to include owning his own men's and women's contemporary design company in San Francisco and an athletic wear company in Illinois. He has four patents and has won the top design award more than anyone in the International Textile and Apparel Association’s annual design competitions. Currently, he has his own fashion label: “Vinci”
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Professor Quevedo's research includes the integration of fiber into the arts to express an aesthetic viewpoint by means of incorporating quilting and/or digital technology in clothing and artwork. He teaches technical courses such as flat pattern, draping, apparel production, color theory, fabric manipulation, fiber arts and graduate level apparel design with a focus on contemporary, avant-garde, functional and non-functional clothing, wearable fiber arts and quilted garments. Professor Quevedo is a recipient of numerous national and international awards. One of his most significant achievements is his five Best-in-show/Lectra awards from the International Textiles and Apparel Association's design competition where he competed among other fashion design faculty from around the world. International Textile and Apparel Association is the premier organization in our field. Vince Quevedo considers his greatest accomplishments from his students who have garnered regional, national and international awards for their creations under his guidance.
Teaching has always been a passion for Professor Quevedo. Graduate level design courses that include conceptual design and the production of contemporary art in fiber have been a successful endeavor he is involved with. Understanding the importance of conceptual ideas and supporting it with a body of work to substantiate that idea is important to the emerging design scholars. The researcher as practitioner reinforce Vince Quevedo's teaching philosophy that positive role models can mentor students to investigate, experiment, report and synthesize ideas to make their own.
Selected Honors & Awards
In 2014, Professor Quevedo received his fourth patent. The patent is a storage device with separate entry/exit features that encloses products that can be easily released and retract from the collar region of a jacket. This patent is a collaborative team project to include Robert Romero from NASA and Klarita Kosova from Cleveland State University.
In 2009, he received his fifth “Best of Show” Lectra Outstanding Faculty Design Award. Top faculty award for the annual International Textile and Apparel Association's Juried Design Exhibition. Supported by the Lectra Design Software Company, this award provides for an all-expense paid trip to Paris, France and admission to Premier Vision, the largest annual event of couture fashion shows and textile exhibits. Professor Quevedo holds the most record for receiving this award.
2008. Patent. Removable Drag Rescue Device, Inventors: Dr. Semra Peksoz, Vince Quevedo, Donna Branson, Tricia Hock, John Karban, Stacy Boland and James Cabot.Role: Assisted in designing the functionality of the DRD within the turnout coat. IPC8: AA41D1300F1USPC CLASS 2 93 Patent application title. Royalties apply.
2008.Patents (3). Turnout Coat, drag and rescue device and pant, Inventors: Dr. Semra Peksoz, Vince Quevedo, Donna Branson, Tricia Hock, John Karban, Stacy Boland and James Cabot. Role: Prime designer indesigning a pant that performed within fit and function parameters. IPC8: AA41D1300F1.USPC CLASS 2 93 Patent application title.Royalties apply.
2006.Bernina Fashion Show Honors introduced the top forty designers selected by peers and industry professionals based on portfolio and awards. This honor and recognition has been awarded to Vince Quevedo a record of six times.
2000 “Best of Show” Lectra Outstanding Faculty Design Award.Top faculty award for the annual International Textile and Apparel Association's Juried Design Exhibition.Supported by the Lectra Design Software Company, this award provides for an all expense paid trip to Paris, France and admission to Premier Vision, the largest annual event of couture fashion shows and textile exhibits.
Education
B.S., Bachelor of Science, Education, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, Clothing and Textiles: Apparel Design, 1987. Illinois State University, Normal, IL, Fine Arts, General, Non-degree, 1981-1984, M.S., Master of Science, Education, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, College of Education, Department of Workforce Education and Development, with an emphasis on college teaching. 1990., M.F.A., Master of Fine Arts, Textiles, University of Nebraska Lincoln, College of Fine and Performing Arts, Department of Art and Art History, May 2004.
Expertise
Fashion Design
University Teaching
Haute Couture
Wearable Arts
Conceptual Design
Flat-Pattern making
Draping for Fashion Design
Mentorship