Education 

TYPE DRIVE CULTURE Cha Che Chi Conference on what’s happening in Latin American typography today March 3–4, 2023

COLLEGE ARTS ASSOCIATION Conference 2023

BRUNO MUNARI: The Child Within
Center for Italian Modern Art New York, NY, January 7, 2022

TYPOGRAPHICS 2022 June 2022

TYPOGRAPHICS 2021 June 2021

TYPOGRAPHICS 2020 June 2021

COOPER UNION Grid Systems: Eight-Hour Type Spa with Ellen Lupton, July 12, 2020

YALE UNIVERSITY After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet: A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy, May 10, 11, 2019

TYPE DESIGN FOR NON-TYPE DESIGNERS with Matteo Bologna, October 28, 2017

AGI: CS3 Adobe Photoshop Level 3 Workshop, CS3 Adobe Flash Workshop

INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Digital Photography, Flash and Studio Lighting

CONDE NAST: OS X Class, Adobe InDesign Class, Microsoft PowerPoint Class, Microsoft Outlook Class

LYNDA.COM: Adobe Creative Suite, WordPress

NEW YORK MacUser’s Group: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Aldus Freehand, Adobe Flash, HTML, QuarkXPress

NOBLE DESKTOP: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Tips for HTML Email, CSS, Word Press workshops

SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS: Milton Glaser Design and Personality, Computer Silkscreen

PRATT INSTITUTE: MFA in Painting, Art History and Photography, Adobe After Effects Workshop

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY: BA in Art with Honors

Awards 

The Nature Conservancy’s 2021 Andy Warhol Visual Arts Program Grant
Sebastopol Center for the Arts Exhibit Merrit Award
Arts Center East Wearable Art Exhibit Honorable Mention
Maryland Federation of Art Honorable Mention
American Institute of Graphic Artist’s Award
New York State Assembly Community Service Citation
Roslyn Little League President’s Award
California State Scholarship
New York State Higher Education Grant
Pratt Institute Fellowship

Experience

FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGN & ART DIRECTION 
2005 — Present: Benchmark Education Company, Castle Connolly Graduate Medical Publishing, Ltd., CHANEL, Condé Nast, CurtCo Media, LVMH, Pratima Spa, Surgeons OverSeas, Whole Foods

NASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE Adjunct Professor: Advertising Art, Computer Illustration, Digital Imaging, Graphic Design l & 3, 
Packaging for Graphic Design, Typography for Graphic Design 
Fall 2014—Present

THE ART INSTITUTE NYC Adjunct Professor:
Designing with Type l, 2, & 3, Graphic Identity, Graphic Symbolism,
 Electronic Production, Marketing, Portfolio 1, Fall 2011—Fall 2016

LOEWS CORPORATION  Senior Graphic Design
 October 2012—May 2013

GOURMET MAGAZINE Senior Graphic Design Marketing  1995 —2005

Affiliations

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County Residential Horticulture Member, Herb Lubalin Lectures Series–Type@Cooper NYC, MoMA, College Arts Association, Sea Cliff Arts Council, The Whitney, The Heckscher Museum, The Type Directors Club, The Poster House

Special Interests

HERB LUBALIN Lectures Series–Type@Cooper NYC

INSTITUTE OF CULINARY EDUCATION Staples For An Israeli Kitchen Master Class with Adeena Sussman

ACADEMIA BARILLA Cooking class in Parma

FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY  Design/Marketing Tabletop, Machine Knitting

NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY Writing for Magazines

BABALONIA, FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NEW SCHOOL: Italian Language

MARYLAND ART INSTITUTE Painting & Art History in Sorrento, Italy

SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS Painting in Urbino, Italy