Jennifer Kinon is a founding partner of The Original Champions of Design and faculty at the School of Visual Arts MFA Design Program. OCD is a new, independent, branding and design agency. Jennifer most recently worked as a designer for Michael Bierut at Pentagram in New York City. Her work with Pentagram has won awards from the D&AD, AIGA365 and the Type Directors Club, among others. It has also been included in the permanent collection at the Museum of Sex. Prior to joining Pentagram, Jennifer was design director of New York City’s 2012 Olympic Bid and art director for Graphis Inc. She graduated from the University of Michigan, then earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Jennifer is the first SVA MFA program graduate to join the faculty.

Jason Santa Maria is a Graphic Designer from Brooklyn, New York. He’s worked for clients such as AIGA, Housing Works, Miramax Films, The New York Stock Exchange, PBS, WordPress, and The United Nations focusing on designing websites that maintain a balance of usability and effective content presentation. He serves as Creative Director for A List Apart, an online magazine for people who make websites, and maintains an award-winning personal website, jasonsantamaria.com.

Albert Lee is a creative strategist and director currently working for WPP. Previously, he worked at 2x4, as a designer, an art director and most recently as the managing director of the Beijing office. He has also worked as an architect in the offices of Frank Gehry and Michael Rotondi.

He has collaborated with clients such as Lincoln Center, KnollTextiles, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, CCTV, the Guggenheim, Chanel, Novartis, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Brooklyn Museum and SFMoMA, among others. In 2006 he was chosen as an ADC Young Gun. He has been a visiting critic at Yale, Pratt, Parsons and Columbia. He holds a B.A. in Architecture from U.C. Berkeley, a M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Yale and a M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Launching Doyle Partners twenty three years ago with the idea of merging graphic design with marketing, Stephen Doyle says he just wanted to get the inevitability of his  own failure behind him. For that he is still anxiously waiting. Designing before there even were pixels, Doyle continues to search for memorable ways to make ideas and language visible, and is unafraid to wield a glue gun if it helps tell a story. He has designed identities for Barnes & Noble, Martha Stewart, Tishman Speyer, St. Regis and The US Green Building Council among others. Their range of work includes packaging, publishing, installation works, film titles, editorial work and illustration.

Previously, Stephen was the art director at M&Co.  Collaborating with Tibor was eye-opening, thrilling, infuriating and hilarious. And he was color blind. There, he learned an important design lesson: Why have a personality if you’re not going to use it? Earlier stints at Rolling Stone and Esquire  ingrained in him the idea of the narrative in design, not to mention speed while designing, which earned him the nickname “Lightning.”

Stephen currently teaches in the graduate program at SVA, and he has taught at Yale, Cooper Union and NYU.

Ian is Design Director of nymag.com, where he oversees the visual design and user experience of the website of New York Magazine. Since 1994, Ian has woven a career out of work in interaction design, information architecture, editorial design, identity, strategy, illustration, time-based media, DJ’ing, diorama-building, and—in case it’s not obvious—distraction.
 
That career has included: shaping interactive and video experiences for Microsoft and the MIT Media Lab; organizing information for Samsung and the U.S. House of Representatives; consulting on user interfaces for Verizon and Boeing; creating environmental graphics for Nike; and designing websites for clients huge and tiny. Ian was also the founding Art Director of Slate.com. His drawings, patterns, lettering, and typographic illustrations have appeared on numerous record covers as well as on the pages of domino and the New York Times Magazine.
 
Mr. Adelman holds a BFA in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and is an X-Acto expert. He takes himself very seriously and loves to write about himself in the third person.
 

I’m a Brooklyn-based graphic designer. In 2005, I co-founded WORKSHOP (where design and social responsibility meet) with my two best friends, Creighton and Josh. Creighton and I happen to be married now. We’ve been fortunate enough to complete branding, web and print projects for such forward-thinking clients as Echoing Green, Moving Windmills and TED. I’ve got Southern roots, am passionate about color theory (especially rainbows), and believe in the power of Beer Fridays and amazing neighbors.

Matteo Bologna is the founder and President of New York-based Mucca Design Corporation. Born and raised in Milan, Italy, Matteo’s grounding in architecture, graphic design, illustration and typography facilitated his early business successes and inspired his decision to create a New York agency.

Under  Matteo Bologna’s direction the Mucca Design team has solved numerous design challenges and created uniquely successful work for widely varied companies, among them André Balazs’ Properties, Starr Restaurants, Patina Restaurant Group, Sant Ambrœus, Balthazar, Schiller’s Liquor Bar, Pastis, Morandi, Country, Victoria’s Secret, Adobe, Target, Harper Collins, Penguin, Random House, Domaine de Canton and Butterfield Market. Mucca Design is also responsible for the highly successful re-branding and Art Direction of Rizzoli Publishers in Italy and its paperback division, BUR.

The designs and typography produced by the Mucca Design team have been widely recognized by industry publications, competitions and exhibitions, including: AIGA, Communication Arts, Eye, Graphis, HOW, PRINT, STEP, The Art Directors Club, The James Beard Foundation, and The Type Directors Club.

When  he isn’t obsessing over boring design details of a typeface, Matteo can  be found obsessing over his daughters Olivia and Sofia.

As Communication Design Lead in the New York office of IDEO, Mimi O Chun helps organizations articulate ideas and opportunities through all phases of their program, from the initial expression of a strategic vision through concept development and prototyping to consumer touchpoints that live in the world. She has led design efforts for clients across a range of industries including financial services, hospitality, and publishing.

Mimi received her BFA in Graphic Design from Carnegie Mellon University, and her MFA from Yale University where her thesis work focused on developing new ways of mapping both quantitative and qualitative data such as behaviors, perceptions, and processes. Her personal work attempts to reveal patterns in banal information too often overlooked, such as the color palette of our food intake or the astrological signs of all 44 US presidents.

Jordan is a multi-award winning creative director with a history of pushing global brands beyond their traditional corporate roots. His approach is based on his experience bridging the worlds of art, design and technology bringing a unique vision to the clients he works with. Through his creative leadership with Wolff Olins, Jordan brought a category-defining aesthetic to their brand creation work with Target (up & up), helped usher in a new building with a bold contemporary edge for the New Museum in New York City, branded the unbrandable city through the creation of the NYC brand identity and most recently led the global creative effort in reinventing AOL. Over the past two years, he has also set the creative direction for Wolff Olins’ own brand presence online.

Jordan is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a Masters from Cornell University.

Doug is an Art Director at Ultrabland, a creative promo boutique focusing in editorial and motion graphics.  Prior to joining Ultrabland, Doug worked as a freelance Art Director for clients such as MTV and YouTube. He has collaborated with studios, networks, and agencies in NY and LA on film titles, network branding, TV promos, commercials, and online media. He has also held design positions at Yahoo, G4TV, and Kaleidoscope Films.

Doug hails from Detroit, MI and studied Fine Art at Michigan State University.  He has a passion for minimalism, pop culture, and all things Kate Moss.

Allison Henry is an Associate Design Director at Bumble and bumble where she gets to work on everything related to nice hair — from campaigns and names to buttons and bottles. Prior to Bumble, she did branding at DesGrippes/Gobé, books at Harry N. Abrams and branding and books (and a little TV) at Number 17.  In her previous life, she was an Art Director for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City where she worked on — you guessed it — greeting cards.  Allison received her BFA in Art from Miami University and her MFA in Graphic Design from SVA in 2002.

Julia Hoffmann, Creative Director of Advertising and Graphic Design at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art in New York was working previously as an interactive art director at the Colorado-based agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, where she worked on the interactive side for clients such as Burger King, Microsoft, and Volkswagen. She started her career working first for Stephen Doyle at Doyle Partners and then for Paula Scher at Pentagram in New York, where she designed identities and branding systems, packaging, and publication designs for clients including the Public Theater, TIME magazine and The Criterion Collection. She also helped to develop the redesign of The Metropolitan Opera in New York, and was the lead designer on the award-winning bestseller The Daily Show with Jon Stewart PresentsAmerica (the Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction. She also enjoys organizing information and working on illustrations which appear in the New York Times and other publications.

Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Julia earned her graphic design degree from New York’s School of Visual Arts, where she now teaches.

Jonathan Jackson is founding partner of WeShouldDoItAll (WSDIA), a New York based graphic, interactive, and spacial multi-disciplinary design studio. Established in 2004, WSDIA designs, develops and mediates interactive, print, motion and architectural projects for a diverse range of clients in varied professions. WSDIA has been recognized nationally and internationally through various awards and competitions, including the prestigious Art Directors Club Young Guns 5 award. Jonathan Jackson graduated with a Bachelors degree in Architecture from Kent State University. He previously worked as an architectural designer at Studio Archea in Florence, Italy, Archi-Tectonics//Winka Dubbeldam, and Lindy Roy in New York.

For more than a decade, Jill has focused on creating smart and compelling digital experiences that influence behavior and add value to people’s lives. By working with global brands such as Nike, Nokia, and T-Mobile, she has become fluent at extending product experiences to the digital space and across physical environments. Currently, Jill is the executive creative director on R/GA’s Nike account, where she leads a multi-disciplinary team to develop innovative work.  She was a key player in designing the Nike+ platform, which Adweek named “Campaign of the Decade.”  Jill’s work has garnered a dozen industry awards including the Cannes Titanium Lion, Cannes Cyber Lion, Clio Interactive Grand, Clio Interactive Gold, and D&AD Black Pencil. Her “FlyOver Channel” concept was chosen as “Best in Category” in the I.D. magazine’s 2009 Annual Design Review. She also teaches interaction design at the School of Visual Arts.

British-born Eddie Opara is the principal and one founders of The Map Office. His projects include designing large print / packaging projects, web and interface design, environmental graphics and branding for clients such as UCLA, Studio Museum Harlem, Jazz at Lincoln Center, JWT (J.Walter Thompson), The Baffler, Princeton Architectural Press and Harry N. Abrams. Winning numerous award such as Art Director Club, AIGA 365 and ID Magazine awards. His work has appeared in publications such as Archis, ID Magazine, Graphis, and Surface. Previously he worked at Imaginary Forces and 2x4. His work as part of 2x4 is part of the permanent collection at the MoMA.

Currently focused on building Map, Eddie is a visting critic at Yale University and was recently a lecturer at RISD and Columbia University School of Architecture before that he lectured at Yale University School of Art from 1998 – 2004. Eddie received his Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design from the London College of Printing in 1995, and a MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University in 1997. 

Chris Rubino is originally a Bostonian; New York has been his adopted hometown for the past 14 years. His work has been exhibited in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and the U.S. He recently has created designs & illustrations for such clients as The New York Times, Banana Republic & The NY Public Theater. Rubino’s work has been strongly influenced by his screen-printing background making limited edition posters for bands such as The Rapture, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Psychic TV. Recently a series of his posters has been added to the permanent collection at the Museum of Design in Zurich. Rubino holds a BFA from Syracuse University, was selected as an ADC Young Gun and is a co-founder of the Transitionist art movement.

Lucille Tenazas is both an educator and graphic designer. Her studio, Tenazas Design was based in San Francisco for 20 years but relocated to New York in 2006, returning to the city where she originally began her practice in 1982. She is the Henry Wolf Professor in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design where she is developing a graduate concentration in Design, Craft and Technology. Previously, she was the Founding Chair of the MFA program in Design at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Lucille’s work has been featured in many publications and exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including a 2003 retrospective of her work from the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Among her clients have been the San Francisco International Airport, Chronicle Books, Rizzoli International and Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art and projects for numerous non-profit organizations and institutions.

Lucille has had a long and enduring relationship with the AIGA, sitting on the boards of the San Francisco chapter for many years before joining the National board in the early 90s. From 1996 to1998, she was the national president of the AIGA, the first from outside of New York in its then 90-year history. In 2002, she received the National Design Award for Communication Design by the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum and has been honored in 1995 as one of the ID Forty, ID Magazine’s selection of America’s leading design innovators.

Lucille studied at California College of the Arts after arriving in the United States from the Philippines in 1979 and holds an MFA in Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. 

After working as a senior book jacket designer at Alfred A. Knopf for seven years, Gabriele established her own studio in 2006. While continuing to cultivate her roots in book design, she has since ventured into music and beauty packaging, corporate branding, and art direction for a number of small publishers.  A sampling of her clients include: Vintage/Anchor Books, Abrams, Rizzoli, Penguin, The Poetry Society of America, Victoria’s Secret, Jason Organics, Buttermilk Channel, and Blue Marble.

Her work has been featured in various publications, including By Its Cover: Modern American Book Design, Chip Kidd: Book One, Communication Arts, New Vintage Type, Print, Retrofonts, and the AIGA 365 and 50 Books/50 Covers competitions. She has been a judge and guest lecturer for the Type Director’s Club, American Association of University Presses and the Alcuin Book Awards of Canada.

Gabriele is a teacher at Parsons School of Design and many years ago taught English in the Czech Republic where her love of graphic design began.

Willy Wong leads the creative vision across major initiatives on New York City’s behalf as SVP Creative Director at NYC & Company. He started out in banking with JP Morgan, crossed into management consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers, shifted to interactive development with Sapient, and ultimately lept over to design and art direction with freelance projects for Yale School of Architecture, Creative Time, Wingspace, Nylon, Rizzoli, and Cynthia Rowley. Prior to NYC he worked at a small agency on brands like Coca-Cola, Clinique, Perry Ellis, Godiva, and The Grinch Musical. Willy’s been a guest critic and lecturer at NYU, Yale, Columbia, and Parsons. Willy received an AB from Dartmouth and an MFA from Yale.