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Nina Ovryn, Institute Chair Nina Ovryn has more than 30 years of experience as a graphic designer and art director, including 15 years of work in higher education. She has worked with the magazines of Rutgers, Penn State, Teachers College of Columbia University and Wagner College, among others. Her company, Nina Ovryn Design, has been integral in developing marketing, promotional and recruitment publications as well as Web sites, annual and strategic reports for numerous colleges and universities. Ovryn’s work has been honored by CASE, the Art Directors Clubs of New York and New Jersey, the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, the Association of Educational Publishers and the Folio Awards.
Ronn Campisi Ronn Campisi specializes in publication design. He is the former design director of the Boston Globe, and has also served as design director of Boston Magazine, The Real Paper, and Fusion magazine. Campisi has won well over 300 awards for his work. In 1983 he was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for a special Boston Globe magazine section titled “War and Peace in the Nuclear Age.” His work has appeared in the Graphis Annual, Graphis magazine, The Type Directors Club Annual, The Society of Publication Designers Annual, Print magazine, and CA magazine. Campisi currently designs magazines for Boston University, Cushing Academy, EMC Corporation, Harvard Law School, RSA Security, Smith College and Textron.
Scott Dasse Scott Dasse is the creative director for new media at Boston University, where he leads the effort to elevate the user experience of online communications during a major transition from traditional media. Dasse has designed Web sites for clients ranging from MIT to Exxon. His work has been recognized by professional associations such as the American Institute of Graphic Artists and the Council for Advancement and Support of Dasse studied digital sound and image at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst and received a master’s degree in graphic design from Boston University.
Robert Davison Robert Davison has 20 years experience in graphic design and brand management, including over 10 years in higher education.
Tammy Dayton Tammy Dayton is the principal and founder of Moth Design, a three-person graphic design firm in Boston's South End. Since opening its doors six years ago, Moth has created award-winning work for a broad range of clients, from local institutions to national retail, from arts organizations to leaders in high performance computing. The studio's philosophy is built upon the idea that the designer's role is always to create graphic design solutions that reflect the nature of the client, not the studio. This means that our portfolio is always evolving and that new challenges never have old solutions. Before launching Moth, Dayton worked as an art director and designer at some of the top design firms in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles. Over the course of her career she has been awarded recognition for her work by the Type Directors Club, the AIGA BoNE Show, and UCDA. Her work has been published and featured in a wide of array of magazines, including Communication Arts, Print, Step, and How. Dayton is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design where she has also served as an adjunct faculty member in the Communication Design Department.
Ted Dillard Ted Dillard's career in digital imaging started around 1994 with Photoshop 3, in the very early years of digital photography. Concentrating on digital printing and scanning, and then moving to the highest quality digital capture, color management and workflow systems, Dillard went on to become a respected imaging specialist and a valued resource to photographers working in digital photography in New England. He is an accomplished author and teacher, as well as occasionally, when his schedule permits, a photographer. He has exhibited nationally, and has taught at the Maine Photo Workshops, New England School of Photography, the Art Institute of Boston and Northeastern University. Dillard is currently the founder and manager of Tech Superpowers Professional Imaging Services in Boston and is on the board of the Griffin Museum of Photography.
Joanne Dus-Zastrow Joanne Dus-Zastrow has more than 20 years experience as a graphic designer and art director, and she has also received the distinction of being named “Designer of the Year” by CASE. As senior director of creative services, an editorial, graphic design, photographic, print production, licensing, and Web and multimedia service department at Rutgers University, Dus-Zastrow oversees the creation of marketing, promotional, recruitment, fundraising, and informational communications for the university. Under her direction, the unit has won numerous design awards from CASE, regionally and nationally; the Art Directors Club of New Jersey; the Webbys; the University and College Designers Association; and Graphic Design USA.
Pamela Fogg Pamela Fogg is the art director at Middlebury College where she designs the alumni magazine and oversees the design of a plethora of media—from print to electronic. In her almost 10 years at Middlebury she has been very involved with University and College Designers Association (UCDA), co-chairing two Design Summits and serving as an officer on the board of directors. She has been the recipient of numerous awards from Society of Publication Designers, UCDA, AIGA and CASE. Fogg has been very involved with issues of sustainability—creating a paper policy for Middlebury and incorporating green issues into UCDA’s programming and practice. This past year she started a program to make alumni magazines more aware of their impact called “Power of 10%”. (www.poweroften.org)
James Grady With a classic Swiss design training that emphasizes precision and balance, James Grady has extensive experience designing materials for the education, real estate development, financial services, healthcare and retail markets, and a proven track record communicating with high-level donors and other key audiences. As an associate at kor group, Grady works directly on concept development and design, as well as managing projects and leading creative teams. Since joining kor group in 1999, Grady has completed a variety of projects for leading real estate developers, including Collers International and The Congress Group. His fundraising experience includes branding and design for high-level donor events, such as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Dreamday at Fenway. In the education market, he’s designed undergraduate admissions publications for Emerson College, as well as branding admissions materials, and fundraising pieces for the Summit Country Day School in Cincinnati. He helped lead the rebranding of Yale Appliance + Lighting, a major Boston-area home retailer. Grady is a graduate of the Fine Arts Visual Design program at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He is a member of the Boston chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Artists, and his work has been recognized by HOW, Print, Graphis, American Corporate Identity and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
Don Hamerman is an independent photographer with over 25 years of experience shooting for colleges and universities, as well as nonprofits, corporations, magazines, newspapers and design firms. He's worked directly for dozens of institutions from two year community colleges to large state universities; clients include Bard College, Bryant College, Hamilton College, Sarah Lawrence College, Macalester, Marquette, Augustana, Rutgers University, The New School, University of Illinois, Yale and Columbia University. Hamerman also completed numerous assignments for design firms such as North Charles Street Design Organization, Pentagram and Lipman-Hearne. His photographs have been featured in Communication Arts Magazine, and he has also published two photography books. His fine-art work appears regularly via 20x200.com where his limited edition prints are available.
David Horton David Horton is principal of Philographica. Horton received his design degree from The Art Institute of Boston, where he is now an adjunct faculty in Design. He honed his skills as a designer, design manager, and creative director at several leading Boston-area design firms, and has won many awards from such organizations as the AIGA, CASE, Hatch, Graphis, and The Society of Publication Designers. His work has been published in magazines such as Communication Arts, Print, How and Step Inside Design. By day, Horton is committed to creating elegant design solutions for clients, employing proven branding principles and close attention to the finest typographic details. By night, he channels his artistic talents as an accomplished musician.
Art Jahnke Art Jahnke is a veteran magazine editor who, in the mid 1990s, took his talents to the Web. Since then, Web sites launched and directed by Jahnke have won numerous awards. He is currently executive editor at Bostonia, the alumni magazine of Boston University, and executive editor of BU Today, the university’s daily news Web site. He has been a magazine and Web editor at IDG, an editor at Boston Magazine, and a writer at the Boston Real Paper. Jahnke has taught writing at Suffolk University and Harvard University Summer School, and has written for several national magazines.
MB Jarosik “Nothing is more rewarding than creating communications that help clients meet or exceed their business goals,” says MB Jarosik, who leads and manages scores of high-level communications projects, and is a co-founder and principal at kor group. Jarosik has built a diverse team of designers who combine strategic thinking with creative, effective design solutions to help clients meet their business objectives. Her extensive branding experience includes creating publication design guidelines for OSRAM Sylvania North America. She worked with executives at the company’s German headquarters to adapt their marketing collateral for the U.S. market while maintaining OSRAM brand standards, and briefed the company’s design vendors on proper implementation and use of the new guidelines. She developed new information systems for Waterstone Booksellers’ U.S. operations, collaborating closely with architects to improve retail flow at the company’s U.S. properties. She created undergraduate admissions recruitment materials for Emerson College, developing design and messaging that positioned Emerson as a leading communications school and captured its unique culture. These materials resonated with prospective high school students, and Emerson’s College of Communications and Arts saw qualified applicants rise by 12 percent. Prior to kor group, Jarosik held high-level design and project management positions at some of Boston’s leading architectural an environmental design firms. She was a judge for the 2005 CASE Circle of Excellence Awards, and her work has been recognized by the HOW, Graphis, Print, CASE, and the Society of Marketing Professional Services. She received a bachelor’s degree in visual design from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, where she later taught classes in visual design.
Tony Leone Tony Leone is principal of Leone Design, a graphic design studio and consultancy located in Boston’s Copley Square. Leone Design has produced a wide range of projects in the areas of publication, packaging and Web site design, with a special focus on brand and corporate identity. Recent projects include naming and brand packaging for Soundblox™ guitar effects pedals by Source Audio, layout and design of specialized cookbooks for Chronicle Books, and ongoing collaboration with Moth Design on the identity for MassArt, Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Since 2004 Leone has worked with IDEO Boston on various packaging, service and brand strategy projects. Prior to establishing Leone Design, he held senior-level positions with Boston’s leading design firms and Web agencies. He has worked on both print and interactive projects for Boston Acoustics, Nieman Marcus, Polaroid, and Ofoto/Kodak. Leone’s work has garnered an impressive array of regional and national recognition, including honors by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and The Brand Design Association. His work has appeared in the design publications Communication Arts, Critique, Graphis, How, and Print; he has also been featured in two publications by design historian Stephen Heller. Leone is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where he continues to serve as a visiting critic and adjunct instructor.
Gerry Meccia Gerald D. Meccia is the senior designer for the Department of University Relations Creative Services office at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. With Rutgers since 1999, he has designed, art directed and produced high-end print publications and Web sites, including annual reports and recruitment materials, and was deeply involved in the implementation of Rutgers' rebranding in 2007. His work has been meritoriously recognized by Graphic Design USA, the Art Directors' Club of New Jersey, the University and College Designers Association and CASE. Meccia has dedicated his entire career to the support of higher education and has worked more than 15 years as graphic designer. His other professional positions have provided him with extensive knowledge of prepress production and photography as well as experience in public relations and special events. Meccia received his bachelor’s degree in industrial technology with a concentration in graphic arts from Kean University. John Ombelets Ombelets holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Susquehanna University, and did graduate work at Penn State’s School of Journalism.
Carole Otypka is an art director, publication and product designer, and bookbinder. She is presently the art director of The Penn Stater magazine, the bimonthly magazine for the 160,000 members of the Penn State Alumni Association. In the past five years, The Penn Stater has won more than 180 national awards for writing, design, photography and illustration. Otypka has held design positions at Hearst Publications and Time Out New York, and has designed products for clients such as Starbucks, Barnes & Noble, Real Simple magazine, the Frick Collection, the Asia Society, the Guggenheim Museum, the V&A Museum and The Brooklyn Museum of Art. She was a designer at SCAD's Working Class Studio in Savannah, Ga., and was creative director at Galison in New York, publisher and global distributor of fine stationery and paper gifts. Otypka earned her master's degree in graphic design from the Savannah College of Art & Design. She has continued her studies at the Pratt Institute, Harvard University and the Maine College of Art. Her work has appeared on the influential design*sponge blog, has been featured in HOW magazine and PRINT's Regional Design Annual, and has received awards from CASE, UCDA, SNAP, the Mercury Awards and others.
Pamela Rodriguez In 2001 she founded supersonique.com, an integrated marketing consultancy that caters to entrepreneurs in her professional network and provides a full range of creative services. In addition to consulting, Rodriguez has been working full-time at Northeastern University as a senior interactive designer and developer since 2006.
Jeremy Allen Thompson Jeremy Allen Thompson has fifteen years experience devising effective marketing and communication strategies for institutions of higher education, arts organizations and municipalities. Currently he is director of marketing for Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where he oversees the Office of Marketing and Communications and is responsible for developing and implementing integrated strategies to advance MassArt's reputation.
Susan Trevithick Susan Trevithick is principal of Philographica. Trevithick has held positions in design and design management at independent studios, as well as the corporate design departments of General Motors, J.P. Morgan, and Aetna. She believes that results speak for themselves. It isn't about what's pretty, it's about what works. Ask her about Quick-Prototype Testing—she may be the only Bostonian who knows what it is. Trevithick earned her master’s degree in graphic design from Yale University, where she studied under contemporary masters Armin Hofmann, Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson, and Wolfgang Weingart.
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