Meet Our
Design & Illustration Faculty
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Brian Biggs
- Email: brianbiggs@temple.edu
- Website: BrianBiggs.com
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 Systems, and the Philadelphia Free Library.
BFA, Parsons School of Design
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Brian Cassidy
- Email: tua57865@temple.edu
- Website: www.briancassidygraphics.com
Brian Cassidy is a graphic designer at Backe Digital Brand Marketing in Radnor, Pennsylvania. He specializes in creating motion graphics and animations for web and video based projects.
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple/University
AD, Musician’s Institute
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Laurie Churchman
- Email: tuo15742@temple.edu
- Website: www.designlore.net
Laurie is the principal of Designlore, a place for making, thinking, and teaching design. She has over 30 years of branding and publication design experience with work recognized by Communication Arts, Creativity, How Magazine, PDN:Nikon, AIGA, and others. She brings a Human-Centered Design approach to community and civic challenges, as well as teaches Design Thinking/HCD and Data Visualization at Johns Hopkins University.
MFA, Yale University
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Emily Cohen
- Email: tug32144@temple.edu
- Website: www.emilycohen.com
Emily Cohen has consulted and worked with many leading design firms across the country. In addition to her work as a designer and client advocate, she has developed, tested and curated key business insights and strategies that have helped these firms become more effective and profitable, as well as fun places to work.
BFA, Purchase College, State University of New York
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Dom Costanzo
- Email: dominic.costanzo@temple.edu
- Website: instagram.com/domcostanzodesign
Dom Costanzo has a passion for digital media and currently puts his interactive and web design skills to practice as an Art Director at Merck Creative Studios. Dom brings his real-world experience in web design, branding, animation and illustration to the classroom and strives to help new designers find their way in the creative world.
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Assistant Professor of Instruction
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Mia Culbertson
- Email: mculbertson@temple.edu
- Phone: (215) 777-9090
- Office: Tyler 240F
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 technology and the idea of community. Clients include Consensis, Philadelphia Contemporary, and AIGA, and her work can be seen in the publications Graphis, Creative Quarterly, and Graphic Design USA.
Culbertson's work has been exhibited in a variety of settings, including Atelier Art Gallery, The Morean Arts Center,...
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Associate Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Matt Curtius
- Email: matt.curtius@temple.edu
- Phone: (215) 777-9090
- Office: Tyler 240G
- Website: GINA & MATT Studio
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 Museum, Woodmere Art Museum, and galleries in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere.
Their paintings are an artifact of their dialogue in the studio, working out ideas as they pass canvasses back and forth, reacting to each other’s contributions. These discussions have varied over time, but often return to themes of art historical...
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Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Sam Cush
- Email: cush@temple.edu
- Website: www.j2made.com
Sam is an interdisciplinary designer and artist specializing in the creation of scalable and conceptual brand identities and experiences for his clients. He has worked with clients like the Village of the Arts and Humanities, Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Nerdwallet to create compelling visual identities, designed experiences, and campaigns. His interests further lie in examining the intersections of graphic design, tech ethics, textile development, and queer frameworks of design.
BFA, Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Anthony DeLuca
- Email: tub53101@temple.edu
- Website: www.anthonydelucadesign.com
Anthony DeLuca is an interactive and visual designer currently working with Nutrisystem's in-house digital marketing team. In addition to creating marketing materials, he is constantly researching ways to improve the process of designing with the Adobe Creative Suite.
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Professor Emerita
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Alice E. Drueding
- Email: alice.drueding@temple.edu
- Website: http://www.sdposters.com
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 Program Head of Graphic & Interactive Design, for over thirty years. Their work, consisting primarily of poster design, has appeared in many international publications and exhibitions, received numerous awards, and is in permanent collections around the world. They were the honor laureates at the prestigious Colorado International...
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Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Keith Greiman
- Email: tuk46430@temple.edu
- Website: www.keithgreiman.com
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
Associate Professor and Curriculum Coordinator
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Abby Guido
- Email: abby@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9890
- Office: 240O
- Website: www.abbyryandesign.com
Abby Guido is a communication designer, educator, and podcast host, whose research examines the process of implementing graphic design principles through a human-centered design approach. Design collaboration and leadership are also of particular interest, explored through Guido’s podcast, "Design Together." Additionally, her research probes how both advances in technology and deeper empathy for others can disrupt the industry and change the landscape of teaching graphic design.
When not teaching, Guido spends time creating work for Abby Ryan Design, a design studio she founded...
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Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Sara Hall
- Email: tuq08359@temple.edu
- Website: thesarahall.com
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 Technology. In this role, she leads interdisciplinary teams, comprising content, user experience, and technology experts, collaborating with software engineers to craft accessible, cohesive, and top-notch digital experiences for the city's residents. As an adjunct professor, she brings her in-depth knowledge of user experience practice into the classroom, teaching studio design courses to up-and-coming designers.
MS Industrial Design, University of the Arts
BArch, Philadelphia University
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Caleb Heisey
- Email: tud32828@temple.edu
- Website: www.goodbonesstudio.com
Caleb Heisey is a freelance designer, illustrator and owner and principal of Good Bones Studio, the Philadelphia-based full-service design and branding studio.
MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BA, Susquehanna University
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Mike Herceg
- Email: michael.herceg@temple.edu
- Website: mikeHerceg.github.io
I am a Tyler Graphic & Interactive Design graduate. I enjoyed designing for the web so much that I learned how to make my designs a reality. I now work full-time as a web developer building web interfaces.
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Professor and Program Head of Design & Illustration
Design & Illustration
Kelly Holohan
- Email: kholohan@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9733
- Office: Tyler 240M
- Website: www.holohandesign.com
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 awareness and build platforms around women’s rights. Holohan is also a member of the women’s activist group, Sisters in Solidarity. Elizabeth Resnick’s book, Developing Citizen Designers, features a community partnership project developed as part of her graduate curriculum at Tyler.
Holohan’s teaching practice parallels her...
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Adjunct Associate Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Paul Kepple
- Email: pkepple@temple.edu
- Website: www.headcasedesign.com
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 designs that immerse readers in the diverse worlds of Stranger Things, Hamilton, Game of Thrones, Wicked, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, The Sopranos, and J.J. Abrams’s meta novel S. He has also illustrated for many prominent editorial publications and publishers including Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Fortune, GQ, The New York Times, NPR, Time, HarperCollins, Quirk Books, and Scholastic.
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Jason Kernevich
- Email: jjkernev@temple.edu
- Website: www.theheadsofstate.com
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
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Alex Kim
- Email: tuf95029@temple.edu
- Website: akimdesign.com
Alex is a brand designer with a specialty in motion graphics. He has worked with small and big companies in the education and finance sectors.
BFA, Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University
Professor Emerita
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Stephanie Knopp
- Email: stephanie.knopp@temple.edu
- Website: www.saknoppphotos.blogspot.com
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, alternative and digital techniques to produce images focusing on the manmade environment. She is currently co-authoring a book about art and music.
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...
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Adjunct Associate Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Soonduk Krebs
- Email: tua00113@temple.edu
- Website: www.skdesignworks.com
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, educational, public service and not-for-profit institutions.
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Scott Laserow
- Email: slaserow@temple.edu
- Office: Tyler 240P
- Website: www.scottlaserowposters.com
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 recently Laserow’s work explores the relationship of interactive technology and its effects on traditional poster design. His new research includes animated, augmented reality (AR) and interactive posters and how they engage the new generation of users.
Most of Laserow’s work has been pro-bono in...- Read More
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Michelle Leclerc
- Email: tug78254@temple.edu
- Website: www.michelleleclerc.com
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 book, This Fight is Our Fight, a No. 1 New York Times bestseller.
BFA, California State University
Professor and Department Chair of Design & Illustration
Design & Illustration
Dermot MacCormack
- Email: dermot@temple.edu
- Phone: 610-653-8227
- Office: Tyler 210T and 240L
- Website: www.21xdesign.com
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 coding/technology to create interactive design & installations; typographic design; and writing. His studio, 21xdesign, which he co-founded with his wife in 1997, prides itself on creating collaborative projects (in analog and digital mediums) that give voice to the forgotten and voiceless in contemporary culture as well mining Ireland’s...
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Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Sean McCabe
- Email: sean.mccabe0001@temple.edu
- Website: rappart.com/artists/sean-mccabe/
Sean McCabe has worked in many areas of graphic design including branding, motion graphics, print design, environmental design, music packaging, and web/interactive design. He has worked with brands such as MTV, Apple, Hasbro, Adobe, Macy’s, American Express, and Comcast, as well as for music labels Sony, RCA, and indie labels including Matador, Merge, One Little Indian, and Polyvinyl Records. Over the last 23 years, he has worked primarily as a successful editorial and advertising illustrator. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Time, Esquire, Forbes, and various other national and international publications.
BFA, Tyler School of Art & Architecture
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Matthew McGlynn
- Email: mmcglynn@temple.edu
- Website: matthewmcglynn.com
I'm a creative thinker with a strong background in art direction, user experience design, and team management. Working for various startups in the past has trained me to maximize efficiency by focusing on what counts. I enjoy following projects through from inception to execution and optimization; always seeking to foster healthy interaction between designers, product partners, and technology teams.
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Nicole Medina
- Email: tun53962@temple.edu
- Website: www.bynicolemedina.com
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, Scholastic, The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
BFA, University of the Arts
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Nick Olshefski
- Email: nolshefski@temple.edu
- Website: www.thinkcompany.com
Nick Olshefski is a currently a Senior UX/UI designer at Think Company in Philadelphia, PA. He loves exploring interaction design through high fidelity prototypes, working with design systems, and collaborating with other designers/creatives through sketching and wireframing. He has worked with a variety of Fortune 500 corporations from a variety of industries.
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Marissa Raybuck
- Email: Marissa.Raybuck@temple.edu
- Website: www.marissaraybuck.com
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 illustration and editorial layout.
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Associate Professor of Instruction and Director of The Hatchery
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Bryan Satalino
- Email: bryan.satalino@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9889
- Office: Tyler 240I
- Website: www.bryansatalino.com
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, functional, aesthetic and user-level constraints. His work considers the imprint this process can have on designed artifacts when incorporated into the artifact’s own narrative.
His current practice involves running two design-centric businesses, PhillyRow and Sol & Luna Yoga. PhillyRow is an experimental research-based...- Read More
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Josh Schott
- Email: tuf20100@temple.edu
- Website: www.joshschott.com
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
Professor Emeritus
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Joseph Scorsone
- Email: joseph.scorsone@temple.edu
- Website: sdposters.com
MFA, University of Illinois
BFA, University of BuffaloSelected Exhibitions
International Poster Biennale, Warsaw, Poland
Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Fort Collins
Lahti Poster Biennial, Finland
The International Biennial of the Poster in Mexico, Mexico City
The International Triennial of the Political Poster, Mons, Belgium
The China International Poster Biennial, Hangzhou, China
Selected Collections
Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus, ...- Read More
Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Paul Sheriff
- Email: paulsheriff@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9887
- Office: Tyler J240
- Website: www.sheriffdesign.com
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 Opera House of Wilmington Delaware, The Academy of Vocal Arts of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Zoo.
For the past 10 years Paul has been writing and producing the documentary My Sister Hali, a project that utilizes his design skills through the process of cataloging six years of photographic history from the 1960s...- Read More
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Keith Somers
- Email: professorkeith@temple.edu
- Website: www.keithsomers.com
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 email production.
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Courtney Spencer
- Email: tud05185@temple.edu
- Website: www.dearfellow.co
Courtney Spencer is the CEO of Dear Fellow—a design studio that creates custom websites, interactive products, branding, and marketing assets for companies from startups to Fortune 100 corporations. She specializes in interactive products by creating strategic and compelling websites, apps, and other content for brands and people.
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Jennifer Urdang Stern
- Email: tuk47343@temple.edu
- Website: www.452design.com
Jennifer Urdang Stern is owner and chief creative officer of the Philadelphia-based firm 4:52 Design. She brings 20 years of real-world graphic design and business experience into the classroom. Obsessed with graphic design - have had my business for 20 years - and even more obsessed with teaching at my alma mater, the best design school I know.
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BA, Pennsylvania State University
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Mitch Wiesen
- Email: tue97304@temple.edu
- Website: mitchwiesen.com
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 Fresh Type Co., a community-taught tattooer, a printmaker, a painter, and a whole lot more. Most importantly, they can't wait to teach you something and learn something in return.
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Adjunct Professor
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Matt Wolf
- Email: matthew.wolf0001@temple.edu
- Website: www.wyndetryst.com
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 decade and has learned all the ins and outs of what it takes to be a successful freelance designer and small studio owner. He is passionate about educating both new and seasoned designers how to run a successful freelance practice that is not only financially stable but also creatively and personally fulfilling.
BFA, Marywood University
Studio Arts Center International Semester Abroad
Assistant Professor of Instruction
DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Nathan William Young
- Email: nathan.young@temple.edu
- Website: www.nathanyoung.design
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 work contends that if “all the world’s a stage,” graphic designers should look the audience in the eye and tell them as such. To do so, his practice expands upon many tactics found in metatheatre, including meta-reference, defamiliarization and what he calls, “I See What You Did There”—emphasizing a transparent process and honesty of...
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