Program in Graphic Design Alumni

Program in Graphic Design alumni work in a variety of areas within the broad practice of professional graphic design, including: motion graphics, design education, type design, editorial design, identity design, marketing and branding, web design, and design criticism.

MFA Alumni

Anne Burdick
Burdick is the Chair of the graduate Media Design Program (MDP) at Art Center College of Design and Design Editor of Electronic Book Review.
www.burdickoffices.com

Barry Deck
After working at Ogilvy and Mather’s Brand Integration Group (BIG), Deck runs his own company specializing in branding. His clients have included Coca-Cola, MTV Networks, AT&T Wireless, Atlantic Records, Conde Nast Publishing, Sundance Channel, and MoMA. He has designed over 20 typeface families.
www.barrydeck.com

Jessica Fleischmann
Fleischmann is proprietress of still room, where she designs books, identities, and all things print and screen, mostly for the cultural sector. Her work has been recognized and published by the AIGA, Communication Arts, Graphic Magazine, Graphis, and Print Magazine. She teaches typography and graphic design at Otis College of Art and Design.
www.still-room.com

Jens Gehlhaar
Gehlhaar is Creative Director at Brand New School, where he directs commercials and designs network identities. He has received an Emmy for broadcast graphics and has won awards for graphic design, for directing, for type design and for visual effects.
www.brandnewschool.com

Barbara Glauber
 Glauber is the principal of Heavy Meta, a graphic design studio based in New York. Aside from designing things graphically for her arts and entertainment industry clients, she has edited, curated and designed exhibitions; judged competitions; taught classes and workshops;  and directed creatively. Her work is in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and has won numerous awards. Barbara is on the faculty at Yale University and is a founding partner of the Smoking Gun web site.
www.heavymeta.com

Denise Gonzales Crisp
Gonzales Crisp is Associate Professor in Graphic Design, at the College of Design, North Carolina State University.
www.superstove.com

Hilary Greenbaum
Greenbaum is a designer for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and a professor for New York University's School of Continuing & Professional Studies. Her work has been recognized by the Society of Publication Designers, the Type Directors Club, and the Output Foundation.
www.hilarygreenbaum.com

Sibylle Hagmann
Hagmann is a Swiss designer and creator of the award winning typeface families Cholla and Odile. Besides her unconstrained interest in the macrocosm of alphabetical characters, her studio client base includes the art sector and institutions like The Menil Collection, Houston, and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others. She teaches at the University of Houston.  
www.kontour.com

Yasmin Khan
Khan is a graphic designer, design educator, and partner in Counterspace, an LA-based design firm specializing in publications and identities for artists and cultural institutions. Her current interests lie at the intersection of culinary and graphic arts.
www.counterspace.net

John Kieselhorst
Kieselhorst is a designer and creative director living and working in Los Angeles. He has been an art director and creative director for Arnold, Wieden+Kennedy, and the Brand Integration Group/Ogilvy. John is currently the Director of Design at David&Goliath, Los Angeles. His work has been recognized by the Art Director’s Club, ANDY, Communication Arts, AIGA 365 and AIGA 50 Covers award shows.

Somi Kim
Kim is Creative Director of Neutrogena and a steering team member of Johnson & Johnson’s Global Strategic Design Office. She traveled through a taxonomy of design professions including freelancer, teacher, independent boutique principal, consultant and agency hack before arriving at a client-side role that is macro, meta and mass market.

Deborah Littlejohn
Littlejohn is a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Design Program at NC State University. Her work looks at the social, economic and technological shifts underway in the design field to explore emerging pedagogic practices in graduate design education and the relationships among academic design culture, curricular innovation and the particular circumstances of the teaching environment in which instruction takes place. In 2009 Deborah was selected as the co-winner of the AIGA Faculty Research Grant.

Ian Lynam
Lynam runs a multidisciplinary design studio in Tokyo. He writes for Idea Magazine, CNN, This American Life, Néojaponisme, and is the author most recently of the book Parallel Strokes, an inquiry into the crossroads of graffiti and type design.
www.ianlynam.com

Kevin Lyons
Lyons has been Art Director for Girl Skateboard Company, Art Director for TOKION Magazine, Design Director for Stussy and Creative Director for Urban Outfitters. He is now the Design Director for New York City based Anomaly.

Geoff McFetridge
McFetridge was part of the Beautiful Losers Exhibition, and has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, London, the Netherlands and Japan. In 1998 he started the design studio Champion Graphics.
www.championdontstop.com

N Silas Munro
Munro is the Design Director at Housing Works a HIV/AIDS non-profit in New York. Silas is a past Designer-In-Residence at NC State and former Design Fellow at the Walker Art Center. His work has been recognized by the AIGA, ADC Young Guns, AR100, ID, and Print. His writing is published in GOOD, Novum, SpeakUp, and the Walker Design Blog.
www.silasmunro.com

Kali Nikitas
Nikitas is Chair of Graphic Design at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. She has lectured, hosted workshops, curated symposia and exhibitions internationally, and has a boutique design studio called Graphic Design for Love (+$) with Rich Shelton.

Lisa Nugent
With a focus on improving patient experiences and emerging care systems, Nugent’s work spans design research and creative direction of industrial design, interaction design, packaging, branding, and system design. Prior to working at Johnson & Johnson as creative director, she was cofounder and principal of ReVerb, core faculty at Art Center College of Design, primary investigator of Living Profiles a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, and recipient of numerous awards for her design work.

Stuart Smith
Smith is a graphic designer living and working in Los Angeles. Specializing in book design, he works in the publications depart of the J. Paul Getty Museum and on independent projects under the name Happy Client. His work has been recognized by the AIGA, The Art Directors Club,  The American Association of Museums and The American Association of University Presses.

Jon Sueda
Sueda is principal of Stripe SF, co-editor of Task Newsletter, and co-organizer of AtRandom Events. He lives in Oakland California and is an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts (CCA) where he teaches in both the Undergraduate Graphic Design Program and Graduate Design Program.
www.stripesf.com

Jae-Hyouk Sung
Sung teaches visual communication design at Kookmin University in Seoul, Korea while maintaining his own studio, IMJ. Since 2006 he co-curated the exhibitions: Enroll in Brand New School; Yokoo Tadanori Poster Exhibition; Out of Print—Mevis & Van Deursen; Starting from Zero: 10 years of exhibition, Werkplaats Typografie at the University’s Zero-One Design Center in Seoul. He has won awards from the Type Directors Club, the Art Directors Club, Adobe and I.D. magazine.
www.iamjae.com

Andrea Tinnes
Tinnes is a type and graphic designer and educator based in Berlin. Through her own label, typecuts, she publishes and promotes her type designs. Andrea is professor of type and typography at Burg Giebichenstein, university of art and design, in Halle/Germany. Previously she taught at Bergen National Academy of the Arts/Norway.
http://www.typecuts.com

Amanda Washburn
Since 2003, Washburn has been Senior Book Designer at The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BFA Alumni

Sean Adams
Adams is a partner AdamsMorioka, a design consultancy in Beverly Hills and New York. Sean is a past national president of AIGA, the world’s largest communication design organization, and author of several best-selling books. He teaches at Art Center College of Design.
www.adamsmorioka.com

Kinda Akash
Akash is a Lebanese-Syrian graphic designer living and working in New York, where she is currently Associate Creative Director at the boutique design studio Superfad. Her work can be seen on TV/web in commercials for Motorola, Google, NYSE, Nissan; on the big screen in films such as Red Riding: 1980; and in print in ’boards magazine and STEP magazine.
www.kinda.tv

Kemper Bates
Bates is a Senior Art Director and manager of Schematic's motion group, designing navigation for future models of television and connected screens. He has worked as a broadcast designer for Paramount and Fox Sports. He has lost at the Emmy's 5 times and won once.
http://www.schematic.com

Ryan Corey
Corey is an LA-based graphic designer whose emphasis is on type design and fine typography.
http://www.ryancorey.info

Sara Cumings
Cumings has worked on a range of projects including CD packaging, posters, t-shirts, websites, band logos, custom typefaces and editorial illustrations. In 2007, she launched greeting card company Paper Loop, with a growing number of retailers across the US and internationally.
http://www.graphicdessert.com

Kim Dulaney
Dulaney is an illustrator, motion designer and art director based in New York City. With her eye for detail and integration with mixed mediums, her visual style becomes more ornate allowing less perfect shapes and more of an organic romanticized feel.
www.kimdulaney.com

Tahli Fisher Harkham
Fisher Harkham runs Family—a curated bookstore in Los Angeles—with her husband and friend.
www.familylosangeles.com

Roman Jaster
Jaster works runs his own studio in Los Angeles working for cultural organizations and artists. He is the co-founder and co-editor of Mammut Magazine, and teaches design classes at Chaffey College, the USC Roski School of Fine Arts, and Otis College of Art and Design.
http://romanjaster.com

Max Erdenberger
Erdenberger is Art Director at Wieden + Kennedy Portland, the world’s only independent creatively-led global agency that exists to create strong and provocative relationships between good companies and their products.
http://www.central-office.org

Zak Keyes
Kyes, is a Swiss-American graphic designer based in London whose practice encompasses editing, publishing and curating. His work engages with publications and their dissemination as sites for debate and exchange rather than mere documentation. He joined the Architectural Association as Art Director in September 2006, and has curated the touring exhibition Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design. He founded Bedford Press, a private press established at the Architectural Association. He is a visiting professor in the MA programme at Ecal, Lausanne.
www.zak.to

Jonathan Notaro

Notaro founded Brand New School in 2000, and has since cultivated the commercial production studio into a bicoastal directing collective with a globally respected creative approach. Under Notaro’s watch, Brand New School has won numerous awards from organizations such as the Art Directors Club, the D&AD, the AIGA, the MVPA, the BDA, and the Type Directors Club.

www.brandnewschool.com

Brian Roettinger
Roettinger works primarily as a graphic designer under the moniker Hand Held Heart. He has completed several works for cultural institutions including the Hammer Museum and the Southern California Institute of Architecture where he is currently the design director. In 2009 he was nominated for a Grammy for the No Age, Nouns album packaging.
www.handheldheart.com

Brad Tucker
Tucker is creative director at Stardust. He has worked for some of the most renowned firms in the motion graphics industry, including Buck, Brand New School, Logan, and many others. Brad’s contributions as a key member of Stardust’s team have helped land and develop countless extraordinary projects, and have scored himself numerous industry awards and vast international editorial exposure.
www.stardust.tv

Jeff Zwerner
Zwerner is Senior Vice President of Brand Design at Palm, Inc. Previously he was principal of the San Francisco office of Factor Design, where his clients included Apple, Coca-Cola, Gap, Hewlett-Packard, Nike and the Walt Disney Company.