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  • Brian Biggs

    Brian Biggs

    Adjunct Faculty

    Brian Biggs is an illustrator, designer, and writer. He has published more than 70 children's books, some of them being New York Times bestsellers, as well as having created work for clients such as The Museum of Modern Art, Warner Bros, Adobe…

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  • Ziui Chen Vance

    Ziui Chen Vance

    Adjunct Faculty

    Ziui Chen Vance integrates motion tracking, virtual materiality, and visual narratives into screen-based immersive environments that expand the boundaries of digital craft and experience. Working across emerging media and extended reality, she…

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  • Laurie Churchman

    Laurie Churchman

    Adjunct Faculty

    Laurie is the principal of Designlore, a place for making, thinking and teaching design. She has over 30 years of graphic design experience recognized by Communication Arts, Creativity, How Magazine, and AIGA. Her book, The Art of Boat Names was…

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  • Georgiana Constantinescu

    Georgiana Constantinescu

    Adjunct Faculty

    A Philly-based art director and graphic designer, Georgie has been in the business of creating for nearly a decade. Georgie specializes in branding, print, and web design for nonprofits, institutions, and businesses, with a passion for typography…

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  • Mia Culberston stands in a Tyler design studio, holding a book in her hands and smiling at the camera.

    Mia Culbertson

    Assistant Professor

    Mia Culbertson is a designer and educator whose academic research focuses on diversity, equity, and representation in the design community and in the classroom. Culbertson has a love for combining typography and brand identity with modern…

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  • Matt Curtius stands in front of a yellow wall, with room number signs for two design classrooms at Tyler on each side of him.

    Matt Curtius

    Associate Professor

    Matt Curtius is an artist, illustrator and educator whose creative practice is a collaborative endeavor split with his partner, Gina Triplett. Their fine art has been exhibited widely, including at the National Museum of China, Delaware Art…

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    Anthony DeLuca

    Associate Director of Strategic Communications

    Anthony is an interactive and motion designer with experience in website design and marketing. Since graduating from Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2012, he has worked in agency, in-house and freelance environments. For the past 10+…

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  • Michael George

    Michael George

    Studio Technician

    Michael is the Studio Technician in Tyler’s Design & Illustration program. He specializes in illustration, character design, digital sculpture, 3D printing, VR design, and digital animation.  He is proficient with applications such as…

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  • Keith Greiman

    Keith Greiman

    Adjunct Faculty

    Keith Warren Greiman’s paintings, prints and drawings focus on humans as conduits of the gritty, vibrant energy that propels our day-to-day living.  BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University www.keithgreiman.com

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  • Abby Guido smiles at the camera, looking relaxed and confident.

    Abby Guido

    Associate Professor and Chair of Design and Illustration

    Abby Guido is a communication designer, educator, and academic leader whose research focuses on collaboration, leadership, and the evolving role of the designer in education and practice. She investigates how human-centered design principles and…

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  • Sara Hall

    Sara Hall

    Adjunct Faculty

    Sara Hall is a seasoned User Experience professional who has contributed her expertise across the health, public, and private sectors. Presently, she serves as the Director of Digital Services at the City of Philadelphia's Office of Innovation and…

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  • Kelly Holohan smiling at the camera.

    Kelly Holohan

    Program Head of Design and Illustration, Director of Graduate Studies and Professor

    Kelly Holohan is a designer activist whose creative research focuses on issues surrounding the LGBTQ+ community, women’s rights, health and wellness and environmental protection. She is co-creator of We the Women, an initiative designed to raise…

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  • Paul Kepple

    Paul Kepple

    Adjunct Faculty

    Paul Kepple is the Creative Director and founder of Headcase Design, an award-winning graphic design studio based in Philadelphia that specializes in publishing, typography, and illustration. Paul has created ambitious and richly elaborate book…

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  • Jason Kernevich

    Jason Kernevich

    Adjunct Faculty

    Jason Kernevich is a principal and creative director of the Philadelphia-based design agency The Heads of State. BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University www.theheadsofstate.com

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  • Soonduk Krebs

    Soonduk Krebs

    Adjunct Faculty

    Soonduk Krebs is the president and creative Director of SK Designworks—a full-service graphic design firm in Philadelphia. She uses her experience to develop creative, dynamic design solutions for some of the region’s most important commercial,…

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  • Scott Laserow smiling and looking at the camera.

    Scott Laserow

    Professor

    ON LEAVE, SPRING 2025   Scott Laserow is a graphic and poster designer who blends traditional graphic design techniques with emerging technologies. His research into political/social/environmental poster design began in 2004. Most…

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  • Michelle Leclerc

    Michelle Leclerc

    Adjunct Faculty

    Michelle LeClerc strives to add context and meaning to the growing world of information design. She has developed infographics for brands including American Express, Uber and Google. In 2017, she created the data visualization for Elizabeth Warren’s…

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  • Dermot MacCormack, wearing a blue shirt, stands in a design studio at Tyler, looking at the camera.

    Dermot Mac Cormack

    Professor

    Dermot Mac Cormack, originally born in Ireland, is a graphic designer, educator and writer. His research is multi-faceted and involves four interrelated, and mutually reinforcing components: design as a means of educating audiences; the use of…

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  • Nicole Medina

    Nicole Medina

    Adjunct Faculty

    Nicole Medina is an illustrator who creates surreal imagery that tells a story and has a sense of adventure. She uses bold color and detailed patterns to create eye-catching illustrations. Some of the companies she's worked with include Target, Meta…

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  • Marissa Raybuck

    Marissa Raybuck

    Adjunct Faculty

    Marissa Raybuck is a Philadelphia-based graphic designer whose work blurs the line between the modern and the relatable. She currently works at Running Press Book Publishers, an imprint of Perseus Books, where she employs her design specialities of…

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    Bryan Satalino

    Associate Professor

    Bryan Satalino is a designer, educator and entrepreneur whose practice and teaching focuses on the intersection of design and entrepreneurship. He is interested in how the iterative process can shape designed artifacts by incorporating economic,…

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  • Josh Schott

    Josh Schott

    Adjunct Faculty

    Josh Schott is the UI art director at Anthropologie. His skills include UX/UI, branding and identity, as well as advertising. MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University BA, Susquehanna University www.joshschott.com

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  • Georgena Senior

    Georgena Senior

    Adjunct Faculty

    Georgena Senior is a Philadelphia-based artist, educator, and designer. As an artist, her work centers around themes of archetypes, goddess culture and iconography. Georgena’s focus is handbuilt ceramics supported by screenprinting and illustration…

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    Paul Sheriff

    Professor

    Paul Sheriff is a graphic designer and educator who specializes in design for the nonprofit sector. His studio, Sheriff Design, has repositioned cultural organizations, such as the Annenberg Center of the University of Pennsylvania, The Grand…

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  • Keith Somers

    Keith Somers

    Adjunct Faculty

    Keith Somers is the Creative Director of DIY Media Group. He has extensive knowledge working with multiple brands and in various marketing channels and is skilled in web design, print design, art direction, brand identities, typography, SEO and…

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  • Katey Stafford

    Katey Stafford

    Adjunct Faculty

    Katey Stafford is Designer + Illustrator + Maker at Hideaway House Studio. Tucked away in a peaceful patch of trees, her studio is nestled within a charming old stone house. Katey believes design should be fun, vibrant, and full of life! Whether it…

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  • Hallie E. Thornton

    Hallie E. Thornton

    Adjunct Faculty

    Hallie is a senior designer with over 13 years of experience creating playful, impactful work across both print and digital. She is a reliable, collaborative creative with a deep love for typography, and a special interest in lettering and…

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  • Armando Veve

    Armando Veve

    Adjunct Faculty

    Armando Veve’s illustrations depict uncanny juxtapositions, whimsical storytelling, and commentary on contemporary and historical subjects. His vividly detailed compositions—a Sonoran Desert toad applying lipstick, absurd furniture designs, a…

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  • Frank White

    Frank White

    Adjunct Faculty

    Frank White is a sports designer by day, and adjunct professor by night. After graduating from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2020, he began working for the Philadelphia Flyers, and recently completed his 4th season with the team. Frank…

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  • Mitch Wiesen

    Mitch Wiesen

    Adjunct Faculty

    Mitch Wiesen is an obsessively passionate (or passionately obsessive?) creative. They are a designer and illustrator at Truth & Consequences – a branding agency with a really long name, the owner and founder of a boutique font foundry – Deli…

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  • Matt Wolf

    Matt Wolf

    Adjunct Faculty

    Matt Wolf founded Wyndetryst Graphic Design Studio in 2010, after working as an in-house graphic designer for 8 years at various higher education institutes. He has been running a design studio, focused on both print and website design, for over a…

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  • Nathan Young smiling.

    Nathan W. Young

    Assistant Professor

    Nathan Young (he / him) is a designer and educator interested in using graphic design to amplify truths through the seemingly impenetrable noise of contemporary public discourse.  Drawing from an abiding interest in performance, Young's…

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Faculty Emeriti

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  • Alice E. Drueding

    Professor Emerita

    Alice Drueding, a graphic designer whose practice addresses sociopolitical, cultural, and environmental issues, joined the Tyler faculty in 1989. She has been working in collaboration with Joe Scorsone, Professor Emeritus and former MFA…

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  • Stephanie Knopp

    Professor Emerita

    Stephanie Knopp is a graphic designer, photographer, educator and writer whose work explores cultural, political, social and environmental issues. Her graphic design practice focuses on poster design. As a photographer, she uses lens-based,…Professor Knopp’s work has been published and won awards in many well-respected journals and books, including Graphis, How International Design Annual and Print Regional Design Annual. Her graphic design has been shown internationally in prestigious…

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  • Joseph Scorsone

    Professor Emeritus

    MFA, University of Illinois BFA, University of Buffalo Selected Exhibitions International Poster Biennale, Warsaw, Poland Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Fort Collins Lahti Poster Biennial, Finland The…

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