Chair, Graduate, Undergraduate Design and Creative Direction

Ming Tai is an Emmy award winning director and designer with over 18 years of experience in the motion design industry. He is the co-founder/partner/creative director of the award winning motion design agency Mfactor. Ming is also the Faculty Director of Motion at Art Center College of Design with over 12 years of experience as a educator and mentor. B.A. Cal Poly Pomona, College of Environmental Design, Graphic Design.

Member:
Promax/BDA Clients: Bloomberg, Fox Sports, LA Sports Commission, NBC Universal, NBCSN, NFL, NFL Network, Philips, Wall Street Journal, YES Network Awards: Promax/BDA, Emmy

www.mfactor.com

Associate Chair Master of Fine Arts, Graphic Design

Jan is a seasoned creative who’s worked in diverse media for some of the world’s most influential companies, lifestyle brands and non-profit organizations including Sundance, The Walt Disney Co, ABC Networks, Viacom-Nickelodeon-MTV, HBO, Live Earth, Transworld Media, NewForm Digital and The Library Foundation Los Angeles. Jan has a broad range of experience in film and television, multi-dimensional branding, advertising, experiential entertainment, publishing, consumer products, social media and digital. Notably, Jan served as VP, Executive Creative Director-Producer for Robert Redford | Sundance. Over 12 formative years, she helped to shape the Sundance brand across all its related organizations; developing and producing content and branded experiences for Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute, Sundance Film Series, Sundance Resort and Farms, Sundance Cinemas, Sundance Catalog and also by serving as VP, Head of Creative and Content for SundanceTV.

Prior to Sundance, Jan was an executive at The Walt Disney Company. While at Disney, she led creative development for several large-scale new businesses, including an extensive educational brand with an associated learning channel for Disney-ABC Networks; Disney’s first Regional Entertainment concept:  Disney ClubHouse, and several digital innovation projects with Walt Disney Imagineering. Before coming to Disney, Jan created and executive-produced one of Nickelodeon-Nick Jr’s premiere preschool series, Allegra’s Window. She considers herself fortunate to have begun her career at Children’s Television Workshop in New York, where for 6 life-changing years, she was mentored by some of the finest and most generous minds in media history, otherwise known as the people who created Sesame Street.

Tom Cordner

Associate Chair, Creative Direction

Tom Cordner is a distinguished figure in the advertising world, renowned for his pivotal role in shaping some of the most successful campaigns of the past few decades. In 1988, he founded Team One for the Saatchi & Saatchi network and launched the brand of Lexus—a previously unknown brand—into the global luxury market it is currently known for. Cordner's creative and visionary leadership was instrumental in crafting the iconic slogan, “The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection”. Under his guidance, Lexus not only entered the competitive luxury car market but quickly outpaced established giants like Mercedes-Benz and BMW within just three years which is chronicled in Jonathan Mahler's prestigious book, “The Lexus Story”. 

At Team One, Cordner built a cohesive, creative, and digital team that revolutionized the brand’s presence, setting new standards in the industry. After 15 years of steering Lexus to success, Cordner took on the role of Worldwide Chief Creative Officer for Ford at JWT-Detroit, further solidifying his reputation as a leader in automotive advertising. 

Cordner’s expertise extends well beyond the automotive industry. He has masterminded campaigns for a diverse array of global brands, including Air New Zealand, Korean Air, Yamaha Motorcycles, Microsoft, Kirin Beer, and Adidas. As a creative director and art director, his work has garnered nearly every major industry award.  

His influence is felt on a global scale, having served on Saatchi’s Worldwide Creative Board and JWT’s creative leadership, where he traveled extensively across Asia and South America with the mission of elevating the creative profile of brands worldwide. Cordner’s philosophy is simple yet profound: as creatives, our primary responsibility is to Make them look. Make them think. Make them care. 

Associate Chair, Master of Design: Brand Design and Strategy

Gerardo Herrera earned his B.F.A. degree in 1991 with Honors in Graphic Communication and Packaging design from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California.

In 1996, Gerardo was recruited by Nokia to build and head The Brand Experience Design Teams in the US, UK, China, & Finland. The team provided strategic insight and advanced design for Nokia’s global brand, Vertu Brand, Nokia’s N-Gage Sub-brand, product development, user interface and experience design creation. As Global Director of this strategic design team, they set the vision of Nokia’s future as well as set up the foundation to integrate purpose and process with all the disciplines inside and outside of Nokia Design. Recently, Gerardo has co-developed, designed, manufactured and launched the premium pet lifestyle company {yep yup}, whose mission is dedicated to merging pet tech and their people lifestyles. He is also an associate at Design Studio Nuovo, with founder Frank Nuovo, former chief of design for Nokia and founder/creator of Vertu. Design Studio Nuovo is an incubator for developing compelling ideas, design solutions and innovative technology systems for commercially viable products and services with global brands and new ventures.

In addition to leading {yep yup}, Datzing – a micro location software platform and Head of Brand Experience for DSN, Gerardo is also the Director of Packaging for Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He leads his departments faculty in the continued development of the curriculum, while teaching and working with Art Center’s Educational Partnerships for Corporate Sponsored Projects & DesignStorms® . These all are vehicles to explore industry challenges and envision the future through a team of multi-disciplinary design students and, faculty.
www.designstudionuovo.com  

Associate Chair, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design

Monica Schlaug is an experienced Creative Director and Designer whose career has spanned from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, and has included agency, in-house and independent work. She is the former Creative Director of AdamsMorioka, where she worked closely with Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka on direction of the design team and other collaborators. Notable clients included The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Annenberg Community Beach House, the Broad Foundations, Cedars-Sinai, Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival, LA Family Housing, USC, UCLA Anderson Executive Education, Target, Disney, and Adobe. Most recently, she led an in-house team of seven Designers and Art Directors at John Paul Mitchell Systems, responsible for creating ongoing branding and packaging for the company’s many sub-brands. monicaschlaug.com

Assistant Chair, Screen Based Media

Elaine believes there is always a story to be told. This mantra guided her career working in advertising, interactive design and motion graphics. A graduate of ArtCenter in the early 90s, she helped shape the early development of interactive identity design for Time Warner and Launch interactive. With a love of branding and sequence, she transitioned to motion design, where she has enjoyed working for several Los Angeles based design firms including, Picture Mill, Imaginary Forces, SuperFad, Brand New School and Ant Farm. Her client list includes Nike, Sony, HBO, Paramount Pictures, Universal, Disney, Target, Toyota and Apple. She has served as senior lecturer at Otis College of Design and has been teaching at Art Center since 2014. Elaine credits a strong foundation in storytelling as the guiding force in her ability to problem solve in any design platform. She teaches with a strong focus on concept, directing students to find their authentic voice in every detail of their work.

Assistant Chair, Transmedia

Brad Bartlett is a designer, educator, author. He has been faculty at ArtCenter College of Design since 1999 and was awarded Great Teacher in 2003 and again in 2014. Brad is the Assistant Chair of Transmedia in the Graphic Design Department where he has developed Transmedia pedagogy and overseen curricular implementation. Brad is also an onscreen author at LinkedIn Learning, where he recently published a course on Transmedia Typography.

He has worked with global brands, international publishers, leading cultural institutions and visionary artists. Brad’s Los Angeles-based studio has been recognized by the Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, Communications Arts, Dezeen, AIGA Year in Design, AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers, Graphis, I.D., How, and Print, among numerous others. He is also a four-time winner of the the Frances Smyth-Ravenel Grand Prize for Excellence in Design by the American Alliance of Museums. Additionally, Brad has juried leading design competitions, including Communication Arts and Graphis, among others. Brad earned his Masters Degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, graduating with the highest honors. He also holds a Bachelors Degree from North Carolina State University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. His graduate work at Cranbrook, exploring the relationship of design, technology and media, was presented at MIT and Fabrica of Benetton in Italy.
http://bradbartlettdesign.com

Assistant Chair, Print and Packaging

B.F.A., Visual Communication: California Institute of the Arts
Teaching and Administration (Art Center College of Design): Recipient of Adams Fellowship, 2001-2003, Dean of Faculty and Students – 2001, Chair of Foundation Studies – 1991-2001, Associate Chair of Graphic Design -1986-1991. Faculty member in Foundation Studies, Graphic Design-Graduate and Undergraduate levels and the Liberal Arts and Sciences department (HDS) since1984. Taught at the Otis Art Institute 1980-1984. Fine Art: Group shows in Germany, Japan and Thailand 2001-2012, Andlab 2005-2008, Sturt Haaga Gallery 2013, Solo exhibitions in Los Angeles at LA Art Core 2002-2010.

Clients:ARCO, The Los Angeles Music Center, the Otis Art Institute, Mitsubishi, Gillette and the Tishman Corporation. Regular panelist for the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. Board member of Art Division, an inner-city school that addresses the needs of underserved youth in the Rampart district of Los Angeles

Christina Aumann combines contemporary language with typography and antique letterpress printing technologies. She views the letterforms she works with as miniature sculptures with battle scars from the years they have lived through. These imperfections reveal themselves in the prints, adding a human quality to her artwork.

Aumann received a BA in Studio Arts from University of California, Santa Barbara, and her work has been exhibited at venues including Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Brewery Project, and Artworks/Bookarts. She is an assistant professor at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, and recipient of a 2017 Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography Educators Grant.

Marian Bantjes is a designer, typographer, writer and illustrator working internationally from her base on a small island off the west coast of Canada, near Vancouver. She is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), and regularly speaks about her work and thoughts at conferences and events worldwide.

Her career spans 3 stages: she worked as a book typesetter from 1984–1994: she co-founded and ran a graphic design studio, Digitopolis, from 1994–2003; and since 2003 she has worked on her own as a designer/artist/letterer. It is this latter work for which she has become internationally known.

Marian’s art and design crosses boundaries of time, style and technology. She is known for her detailed and lovingly precise vector art, her obsessive hand work, her patterning and ornament. Marian’s work has an underlying structure and formality that frames its organic, fluid nature. It is these combinations and juxtapositions that draw the interest of such a wide variety of designers and typographers, from experienced formalists to young students.

B.F.A., Art Center College of Design; UCLA
Owner, Carla Barr Design
Former vice president/creative director, Calvin Klein Cosmetics
Art director, Connoisseur
Associate art director, Life, Rolling Stone, Esquire
Publications: IDEA, Photo/Design, PhotoGraphis, Graphis Annuals. Awards: Art Directors Club (N.Y.), Society of Publication Designers, AIGA

Graduate Graphic Design / Graphic Design / Integrated Studies / Product Design
GMGX-611L-01: Grad Thesis 1: Portfolio Lab

GPRT-103-01: Type 1: Fundamentals
GRFX-456-01: Portfolio & Career Preparation

M.F.A., UCLA, B.F.A. Reed College. Creative Director and Principal, Pure Media Design, specializing in Information Design, Interactive Prototyping, and Visual Design for interactive multimedia media presentations.mClients include: Nokia, O2, Disney, Hasbro, Oracle, Marvel Comics, SEGA, Nintendo, SONY, IBM, Philips, Lightvision, ICON, UCLA, USC, Loyola Marymount, and Art Center. Awards include a Cine Eagle for his animation Smoky Night, and an NEA Grant for visual effects. Author of Discovering Nature's Alphabet, a children's book of photos depicting letters formed entirely by natural objects.

Business Strategist, Freelance Consultant, Field & Edge, LLC
Lauren is a multi-disciplinary strategist with a focus on venture design and innovation. She is an accomplished management executive in the financial industry, who decided to change gears and focus on her passion for design after working on Wall Street for close to 20 years. She has held a number of senior positions, including COO and Trading Manager of a proprietary hedge fund, Strategist to the CEO, and a Product Manager for an Innovation Consultancy. She holds an MFA as Designer + Entrepreneur from the School of Visual Arts (where she was the 2017 Graduate Valedictorian), an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA magna cum laude from Columbia University in Astrophysics. Lauren currently runs her own creative consulting firm, Field & Edge where she works with companies to create new business strategies by tackling issues of human-centered design

B.F.A. Art Center College of Design.
Ivan Cruz is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, freelance animator /designer, founder and CEO of Hexen Inc.

Clients: Apple, IBM, EXXON, UCLA, Target, Nike, Vizio, Verizon, Northrop Grumman, Castrol, Katy Perry, Mazda, TEDx, NFL, Stoli Vodka, Ueberall: Awards: 2010/2012 Promax Design Award for “Adobe CS5” and “8-Balloons”; “Think Metric” featured in IDN : Vol.18 no.4 : 2011 Interactive Annual 19; IBM THINK Exhibit featured in the Communication Arts Interactive Annual 19, Emmy Certificate for Individual Achievement for Art Direction in the Animation Category for “Heart of Stone”
ivanjcruz.com

Partner at Dieline, Jessica is also a packaging designer and faculty member at ArtCenter College of Design. She has worked as a professional hands-on designer for a wide array of notable brands since 2005, but in 2014 she took a step back and became a partner at Dieline where her ultimate goal was to “Make Shit Happen.”

In 2016, Jessica became a faculty member at ArtCenter College of Design teaching Packaging 2, and she recently received a 2018 ADC bronze cube for her contribution as an instructor to the student project “Wise by Patagonia.” 

While Jessica is still working on her memoir and Ted Talk, when she isn’t “Making Shit Happen” or shooting for the stars, she enjoys spending time with her husband, daughter and loveable fur baby.

B.A. Art Center College of Design Principal Owner TDGD + AD (Ty Drake Graphic Design + Art Direction) Tyrone Drake is a Graphic Design Professional and Design Educator based in Los Angeles, California. He has collaborated on graphic design, branding, and visual communications related projects with clients in Hospitality, Sports, Architecture, Music, Film, and Health and Beauty. He is Former Art Director for USC School of Architecture, A + D (Architecture + Design Museum) and Natsun America Apparel Company. Selected Clients: Los Angeles Clippers (NBA), Montage Hotels and Resorts, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Ringo Starr, KCRW 89.9 FM, 20th Century Fox Entertainment.
Works:
Earth Wind + Fire - “The Remixes” Volume 1.
“Expansions” The Remixes.
“Astral Traveling” The Remixes

www.tydrakedesign.com

Ms Geller grew up in Rome, Italy, the daughter of two expatriate artists. She is a polyglot, published poet and literary translator (she received her MFA from Otis College of Art & Design), and has taught English to foreign students of all ages since 1993. Her keen understanding of learning another language and the perseverance it takes is what she believes makes us better writers; as artists and designers who observe the world, as outsiders who bring greater empathy to our surroundings. She has been teaching undergraduates and graduates (MDP, Designmatters, and MGx) at Art Center since 2015 and is the recipient of both a Samsung Teaching Advancement Award and Faculty Project Grant. She is currently creating an educational aide for ELL students and writers in need of inspiration.

Her sister, Hillary Geller, was a Graphic Design/Packaging major at ACCD and is Design Director at StudioLab in Chicago.
www.pollyopolis.tumblr.com

Gary Goldsmith

Gary Goldsmith is the Associate Chair of the undergraduate Creative Direction program at ArtCenter and co-founder of Underhead, a network of global talent in every discipline, including advertising, digital and social media, package design and film. With over three decades of experience as a top creative at such firms as DDB, Chiat/Day and Young & Rubicam, he has worked on campaigns for Volkswagen, IBM, Hershey, Everlast, J.P. Morgan, ESPN, El Al Israel Airlines, Barneys New York, Mercedes-Benz, Sony, The Coca-Cola Company, Heineken, Saab, GMC and Macy’s. He was the co-founder of Goldsmith/Jeffrey, a top New York agency in the 1990s. After it was acquired by Lowe Worldwide and the Interpublic Group, he became chairman and chief creative officer of North America.

Goldsmith says, “ArtCenter, with our strong parallel programs in entertainment, digital, film, photography and environmental design, is positioned to build not only the first truly modern advertising program in the world but one that will prepare our students to tap into broader sources for careers than ever before.” He was named by Ad Age as one of the “100 Best and Brightest,” and his work has been honored by Cannes Lions, One Show Pencils, Clios, Art Directors Club, Andys, Communication Arts, Graphis, the New York Film Festival, the London International Film Festival, D&AD and the Association of Independent Commercial Producers. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Goldsmith graduated from ArtCenter in 1981 with a BFA in Advertising with honors. Previously, he earned a BA from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the founder of Adhouse and Yourchitect, a former faculty member of the School of Visual Arts in New York and a guest lecturer at the New York University Stern School of Business.

B.F.A. Design, Carnegie-Mellon University;
M.F.A. Graphic Design, Art Center College of Design.

NASAD Accreditor.
Author, The Seven Essentials of Graphic Design (How).
Editor, New Design: Los Angeles (Rockport).
Former Acting Chair, Graphic Design Department; Former Assistant Chiar, Digital Media Department.
Former Art Director/Project Manager, Sussman/Prejza & Co., Inc.; Art Director, Office of Richard Saul Wurman/ACCESS Press.

Trevor Greenleaf is an avid entrepreneur, developer, designer, and educator. He is the founder of Moodzer.com, an advanced web application used to collage images, colors, and type into beautiful mood boards. Trevor also co-founded CodeTime.io, an online-learning network where anyone can learn to code - for free! He runs a design agency creating custom web design and infrastructure solutions. Before teaching at Art Center College of Design, Trevor taught at California State University, Northridge for six years. Trevor is passionate about building world-class products and educating his students.

www.trevorgreenleaf.com

B.A. Graphic Design, CSU Northridge. Dan is an independent design consultant and a full-time faculty member at Art Center College of Design. As a passionate and dedicated instructor he brings to his classes over 35 years of experience in visual communication, and 30 years of teaching experience. He has a high level of expertise in design, packaging, and packaging materials. He has led many trans-disciplinary projects and has worked with global companies such as Nestlé, Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Nissan/Infinity. Former designer Ramone C. Munoz Design Associates. Dan has instructed at Woodbury University, CSU Northridge, and Otis/Parsons.

B.F.A. University of Illinois. Honoray Alum Art Center College of Design.
Partner, Hunt Design Associates, Pasadena.
Clients: Walt Disney Company, Henry Ford Museum, Staue of Liberty, San Diego Zoo, Los Angeles International Airport, National Park Service, Universal Studios, Kennedy Space Center, Cities of Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Sacramento, Santa Monica. Editor, Designing and Planning Environmental Graphics. Author, Urban Entertainment Graphics; Environmental Graphics Process & Projects.
www.huntdesign.com

B.F.A. Graphic Design, Art Center College of Design; B.F.A. Painting & B.F.A. Industrial Art, San Francisco State University & Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze
Graphic Designer
Clients: American University Museum, Armory Center for the Arts, Cherry and Martin, Chronicle Books, GOOD Magazine, Harvard University, J & L Books, LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Now-Again Records, NYT Magazine, powerHouse Books, Stüssy, The Third Rail, University Art Museum (CSU Long Beach), Vans, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Awards: The Bookbinders’ Guild of New York, Type Director’s Club, Output 09
Published Works: 365: AIGA Year in Design 28; Fully Booked; Graphic 12; Graphic 14; Output International Yearbook; Typography 29; Webdesign Index by Content; Web Designing; Young GraphicDesigners: Americas

B.A. Bath Academy of Art, England; M.A. Kunstgewerbeschule, Basel, Switzerland.
Graphic Designer/Artist. Founder of Simon Johnston Design, 8vo studio London and Octavo magazine.
Clients: Whitney Museum, Steidl Verlag, Getty Trust, Norton Simon Museum, UCLA, Oxford University Press, Gagosian Gallery, Princeton Architectural Press.
Solo exhibitions: Subject/Verb/Object, UC Davis; Indefinite Articles, American Cement Building Los Angeles
Publications: 8vo: On the Outside; Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design Since the Sixties; Typography: When Who How; New Design: Los Angeles; Cutting-Edge Typography; Eye Magazine; Dot Dot Dot; Creative Review.
Awards: New York Type Directors Club, AIGA 50 Books, ID Magazine Design Review, American Center for Design 100 Show, Brno Biennale (Czech), American Association of Museums.
Lectures: Interprofile 8 Bremen, Germany; CPC Taipei, Taiwan; UC Davis: UCLA; CalArts: Otis
Professor: Art Center College of Design. Director of Print/Branding. Creative Director and Faculty Liaison, Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography
www.simonjohnstondesign.com

Jini is a 3rd generation designer. Her earliest memories involve drawing & discussing design themes with her family. She graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Illustration and then began this incredible adventure in her design career. 

She has a passion for inspiring and strategically leading teams of creatives to soar far beyond the realm of what they thought possible. She believes that teams that are well-fueled and empowered are able to create above and beyond their expectations. Over her 15 years in branding, packaging, product design, style guide creation and design leadership, she has learned that keeping herself inspired, remembering it is about the people, not the task and finding the learning in each project keeps her curious and highly engaged.

In Jini's 20 year design career, so far she has held in-house creative leadership positions at LEGO, Airstream Inc, Disney, Mattel (Hot Wheels). 
https://keaslingjl.wixsite.com/jinizopf

Managing Director, Gx

UCLA: Multimedia Design
Co-Faculty: 1st ever IxDA/Google Awards: STEPs project, Portfolio and Career Prep

Ronni Kimm is a design and innovation strategist and the co-founder of Collective Future. Her work spans 25 years of diverse partnerships with organizations, creatives and technologists. Her expertise using human-centered design approaches has helped numerous organizations understand how to best solve problems strategically to generate value for their organization. Her most recent work focuses on futurecasting and storytelling through human lenses to help clients imagine new possibilities for their future. She has led future visioning initiatives across industries with multiple clients including Autodesk, Ford, Nike and VF.

As an educator, her background includes lectureships and visiting artist/critic roles at ArtCenter, California Institute of the Arts, General Assembly, Otis College of Art & Design, Sci-Arc, UCLA and USC. As part of her exploration of new meanings and forms, Ronni loves to incite conversations and collaborations with brilliant thinkers and doers whenever possible.
collectivefuture.com

Excecutive Director, HMCT

Gloria‘s career spans both design and fine art practices. As a design consultant to national and international firms, she has contributed to, and helped evolve, extensive branding, identity and packaging systems. Clients benefiting from her expertise include Aon, Avon and Goodwill Industries. As the owner of a letterpress and fine stationery company, she has developed more than 100 custom stationery and gift items sold online, through direct mail and in national retail chains.

A dedicated design educator for more than two decades teaching typography and visual problem solving, she works to redefine the value of typography and analog technology in the digital landscape.Her fine art printworks and fine art press books are in private and public collections including AIGA, the Getty Research Institute, UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. In recognition of her interest in social, cultural and environmental issues, she received the AIGA Greening of Design award. She earned her BA in fine art from CUNY at Brooklyn College, New York, and her MFA from Art Center. Prof. Kondrup is the Excecutive Director of the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography, and the Director of Archetype Press.

M.F.A. Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw, Poland; Academy of Fine Art, Krakow.
Clients: A%26M Records, Brentwood Publications, Improv Theater, L.A. Gear, Los Angeles Rams, Mark Taper Forum, Raquel Welch Productions, Richard Simmons Show, Solari Theater, Tele-Film Canada, Warner Bros., Art Center, Ottawa.
Group exhibitions: Los Angeles Conty Museum of Art; University Art Museum, Long Beach; CSU Fullerton; Museum Zacheta, Warsaw; Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem.
Teaching: European Academy of Art, Warsaw; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CSU Long Beach; Califoria Institute of the Art; CSU Fullerton; USC, Los Angeles; Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw. USC, Los Angeles.
Awards: Certificate of Design Excellence, Print’s Regional Design Annual 2001, 2003. Graphis Annual Poster 2004 – winner. Juri – Xth International Theater Poster Biennale, Poland 2005

B.A. CSU Northridge
Previous design director / partner at Intersection Studio
Currently creative director / owner of Lux Typographic + Design
Specializing in font development for clients and retail licensing
Clients: Johnson & Johnson, ReVerb, Dolby, John Deere, AVG
Awards: TDC, American Center of Design 100 Show
www.luxtypo.com

B.F.A., Art Center College of Design.
Creative director, BOCU & BOCU. Formerly: Associate Art Director, Bon Appétit magazine.

Clients: NBC, Los Angeles Dodgers, W Hotels, DIRECTV, Condé Nast Publications, University of Southern California, Pasadena Tournament of Roses.
Awards: Communication Arts, Print, Print Typography.
www.bocubocu.com

For 20 years, Rudy has stayed true to the belief that graphic design, in its truest form, has the unique ability to bridge cultural and disciplinary boundaries. With that mindset, Rudy founded Pastilla, a leading branding & creative agency built upon strategic branding that encompasses digital, print, film & animation, advertising, and marketing. Pastilla has partnered with global names such as Nokia, Microsoft, SAP, Disney, ESPN, Relativity Films, and the Westfield Group to produce a full breath of award-winning work. Rudy has been published internationally in numerous design journals and has received numerous awards and accolades throughout his career, including the Print International Design Award, HOW Awards, Telly Awards and IXDA Showcase Awards.  Rudy received his B.F.A at ArtCenter College of Design with honors in graphic design. 
www.pastilla.co
www.rudymanning.com

B.F.A Parsons School of Design, NY, M.F.A. Cranbroook Academy of Art
Senior Associate Sussman/Prejza & Company, Inc. 1998-present
Miles brings a broad interdisciplinary background of professional work and academic experience to Art Center. He has taught in the Industrial Design department at CCA, San Francisco and within the Environmental Design Program at Otis, Los Angeles before joining Art Center to develop the Mediatecture curriculum. His professional work includes environmental graphic design solutions, exhibition design work and streetscape programs for multiple client types.

ArtCenter Professor of Graphic Design Specializing in Decolonizing Methodologies

Distinguished Senior Lecturer & Designer, Writer, Decolonizing Historian
University Of Texas Austin Design

Cheryl D. Miller was previously founder of Cheryl D. Miller Design, Inc., N.Y.C., a Social Impact Design firm; she is a designer, author, trade writer for PRINT Magazine, and theologian. Cheryl has a MS in Communications Design, Pratt Institute, a BFA in Graphic Design, Maryland Institute College of Art, completed Foundation Studies, Rhode Island School of Design and the Doctor of Humane Letters, the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a MDiv, Union Theological Seminary. A countless awards recipient, she is dedicated to Visual Arts advancement. The Cheryl D. Miller Collection at Stanford University is her legacy professional archive, including her memoir research and manuscripts. The collection features, D&I initiative, Corporate Communications developed for Fortune 500 corporations and Corporate Communications for National African American organizations, developed post Civil Rights Era 1974-1994.

She is a decolonizing graphic design professor, lecturer and revisionist historian and a AIGA 2021 Medalist.
www.cdholmesmiller.com

B.F.A., Advertising; M.F.A., Fine Art, Art Center College of Design.
Teaching and Administration (Art Center College of Design): Recipient of Adams Fellowship, 2001-2003, Dean of Faculty and Students – 2001, Chair of Foundation Studies – 1991-2001, Associate Chair of Graphic Design -1986-1991. Faculty member in Foundation Studies, Graphic Design-Graduate and Undergraduate levels and the Liberal Arts and Sciences department (HDS) since1984. Taught at the Otis Art Institute 1980-1984. Fine Art: Group shows in Germany, Japan and Thailand 2001-2012, Andlab 2005-2008, Sturt Haaga Gallery 2013, Solo exhibitions in Los Angeles at LA Art Core 2002-2010. Former graphic design clients include: ARCO, The Los Angeles Music Center, the Otis Art Institute, Mitsubishi, Gillette and the Tishman Corporation. Regular panelist for the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. Board member of Art Division, an inner-city school that addresses the needs of underserved youth in the Rampart district of Los Angeles.

B.F.A. Graphic Design, Art Center College of Design; B.S. Advertising, University of Colorado at Boulder
Owner of Chesley.la, Long Beach. Focus on web and brand design.
Clients: Sony Electronics, Guess, Juvenile Arthritis Association, Lupus LA, and other clients in the film, design, interior design, and architecture industries.
www.chesley.la

Head of Strategy & Foresight - Werklig
Liisa Puolakka is the Head of Strategy & Foresight at Werklig. She is former head of Nokia’s global brand identity. When Michiel Maandag, a colleague during her time at Nokia, got in touch to suggest writing a book together, she jumped at the opportunity. She is allergic to marketing jargon and complex models, always driven to find a different, unique angle to things – like this no-nonsense brand book for businesses. A fashion designer by degree, she illustrates for fun. Liisa is Finnish and lives in London with her husband and two daughters.

Olecki is a graphic designer and art director with 17 years of experience in branding and design, with a strong focus on print. She grew up and studied in Germany and hold a masters degree in Graphic Design. Olecki’s portfolio is a range of work as a freelance art director and designer with examples for the following industries: editorial, fashion, beauty, culture, entertainment, technology.  Projects include magazines, brand identities, brand campaigns, OOH, experiential design and some broadcast. Some notable past clients include National Geographic Magazine, Sony Entertainment, Hulu, Sephora, WWD, Surface Magazine, Swarovski, A+E Networks, BET, Disney, The Goethe-Institute, The Artist Space, RES, and more. 
http://www.pamelaolecki.com/

Vice President of Design Innovation, PepsiCo
Christian Saclier is a multifaceted Creative Design expert, who currently serves as the Vice President of Design Innovation at PepsiCo. His focus is the operationalizing of innovation through design, leading to added strategic business value across PepsiCo’s global brands and businesses. With over 20 years of experience in multiple industries, Mr. Saclier has taken the stage to share his unique cross-functional knowledge at design and innovation conferences all over the globe. A respected Guest lecturer at highly ranked MBA and Design schools worldwide, Christian Saclier is leveraging and extending his vast knowledge in a variety of future-facing industries. 

Stephen Serrato lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He began his independent graphic design practice after receiving a BFA from the ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena in 2005. From the fall of 2008 to Summer 2010, Serrato was a participant in the post graduate program, Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem, the Netherlands where he earned his MFA. His work has been exhibited internationally and most recently included in the “Work from California” exhibition curated by Jon Sueda at the 25th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, Czech Republic.

His studio works across various media but specializes in design for art and cultural institutions and independent record labels. Clients include: Amsterdam School of the Arts, Bing, Circular Facts, de Appel Arts Center, Kunstverein Publishers, Kindred Spirits Records, Mochilla, Naked Faces Films, Netherlands Architecture Institute and Publishers (NAI), Poo-Bah Records, Stedelijk Museum, Stonesthrow Records, UCSD Art Gallery, and Warp Records among others. 
www.sserrato.com

Chief Design Officer, Binance.US
Nasahn Sheppard is a C-level executive leader with a passion for creating meaningful experiences in people’s lives through design. A visionary and transformational leader with service mindset, and entrepreneurial spirit who lives to build human-centered design organizations that delight customers, deliver breakout products/ services, and scale customer-obsessed businesses.

Amanda is a Media Artist and designer with a professional background in visual communication. She has experience working with design teams in large design studios, independent agencies, and non-profit organizations. Currently, Amanda is an educator at Loyola Marymount University, Art Center College of Design and works for an urban planning studio that services the LA Metro and other local city governments. She also volunteers her time at HOLA, Heart of Los Angeles teaching creative coding and visual arts. Amanda graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from Monmouth University and is educated at Art Center College of Design. She recently completed her MFA at UCLA in the Design Media Arts Department.
b. Ottawa, ON, Canada 
She is a Member / Co-founder at voidLab and co-founder of DECENTRALIZING THE WEB by voidlab 
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Creative Strategist and Writer
Terry Lee Stone began her career as a design manager with top U.S. brand design firms, including AdamsMorioka and Chase Design Group. She has taught the business of design at CalArts, Otis College of Art and Design, and now at ArtCenter College of Design where she is a professor in the Humanities & Sciences Department and Graduate Graphic Design in the M.F.A. and MDes programs. She teaches online for LinkedIn Learning. The author of six books on graphic design, she has written for major American design magazines, and is co-author of the cookbook, Booze Cakes. Copywriting engagements include exhibitions for Los Angeles Natural History Museum, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Orange County Water District and The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Other clients: Western National Parks Association (U.S. National Park Service), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Dell Computers and BMW Group DesignworksUSA. Stone was active in AIGA for 20+ years, serving on the Board of Directors in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Miami. She has presented lectures and workshops for numerous design organizations and universities

Professor Carolina Trigo is an artist, designer and researcher based in Los Angeles. Her practice is performance and text based, it explores the notion of impurity in relation to politics and transformability. Trigo holds a Magna Cum Laude Ph.D in Philosophy from the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee Switzerland, obtained under the supervision of Catherine Malabou (principal) and Judith Butler (muse). Prior to her doctorate, Trigo received an M.A in Philosophy with Distinction from the European Graduate School, a B.F.A. from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, and a a Fine Arts education in Buenos Aires.

Trigo's work has been exhibited in the U.S. in Los Angeles and New York (notably at the Storefront for Art and Architecture), in Germany, Finland, Lithuania, Argentina, France and online at Anti-Utopias. She has taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) Mediascapes Program, Visual Studies Program, and SCIFI Graduate Programs—all Master of Design Research Programs (MDesR)—, at UCLA Design and Media Arts, at Art Center College of Design, at the Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan, and in Finland at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture Masters Degree Program,—in both the Department of Art and Research and the Department of Design—. She also taught at the University of Jyväskylä’s Masters Degree Program in Digital Culture at the Department of Art and Culture Studies.

She has lectured at the University of the Arts Helsinki (Theatre Academy), the Universidad de Mendoza in Argentina (at Mundaneum: International Meeting of Architecture and Design), at Tama Art University in Japan, Art Center, SCI-Arc and UCLA. She was awarded a working grant from the Arts Council of Central Finland, a Graphis Gold Medal for design and the Graphis Gold Medal award for top instructor.
http://www.thisother.com

Petrula is a designer, author and educator, based in Los Angeles and has been recognized as an essential voice raising the understanding of design within the industry and among the business and cultural communities. She is creative director and owner of Vrontikis Design Office (@vrontikis and 35k.com) and has taught senior-level graphic design and professional practice courses at Art Center College of Design for over 20 years. She is an avid traveler and visual translator. It’s not unusual to find her 85 feet underwater, climbing a steep and rocky slope, or twisting her body like a pretzel in a yoga class.
B.F.A. California State University, Long Beach, Visual Communication Design, University of Denver, Graphic Design Studies
Clients: Carnegie Observatories, The Giant Magellan Telescope, Monterey Bay Aquarium, University of Southern California, The Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board, University of California, Los Angeles
Awards: AIGA Fellows Award, Permanent Collection of The Library of Congress
www.35k.com

Wilfred Wong is an ArtCenter College of Design alum with over 25 years of industry experience as a motion design/art director with companies such as Paramount Pictures, Ignited Minds, Keep Me Posted–Fotokem Company. He has won several awards and was nominated for a PrimeTime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title for Norm. Partial client list includes Sony Playstation, ABC Family, Disney Channel, Adidas, Warner Bros., Activision, Namco and more.

B.F.A Art Center College of Design. Awards: Promax/BDA, Telly Awards, Webby Award, Primetime Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Main Title.
Clients: Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Showtime, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Jr., ABC Family, Marvel, USA Network, Fox Sport Net, MTV, Playstation, Activision, Namco, LA Weekly, Motorola, Adidas.