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Anne Galperin |
Anne Galperin is an Associate Professor of Art in the Graphic Design Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She received her BSc in Education from Northwestern University and her MFA in Two-Dimensional Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Professor Galperin is the recipient of two merit awards from Bookbuilders West and a Print Magazine Regional Design Award; her work is in the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) archive.
Professor Galperin’s practice is comprised of editorial art direction and design, theoretical and empirical research, and writing. She has designed more than sixty books and covers for mass-market, art, university and small presses including Chronicle Books, Distributed Art Publishers and Princeton Architectural Press. Professor Galperin has presented research on topics including design education and material culture at national and international design conferences.
Her essay “Envisioning Music in the Digital Environment” will appear in Coverscaping, to be published Spring 2009 by Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen. She is currently writing and designing a communication design textbook Page to Screen, Still to Motion.
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Arthur Hoener |
Arthur Hoener has worked as a professional designer since 1982 and has been teaching at New Paltz since 1993. His research and professional work centers on digital typography, type design, signage, and inscriptional lettering. He received his MFA in Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1993. His thesis "Lettering into Type: toward an integrated approach to letterform design" investigates the relationship between hand carved inscriptional lettering and digital type design.
His writing has been published in Teaching Exceptional Children and ZED. Before coming to New Paltz Hoener taught Design classes at Rhode Island School of Design, and at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Current works include the design of a series of books on Art and Ecology, authored by Linda Weintraub, and inscriptional lettering and signage commissions.
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Aleanna Luethi-Garrecht |
Aleánna Luethi-Garrecht has over twenty years of professional experience as a practicing designer, primarily in the areas of packaging, letterform and logo design. Her international corporate and non-corporate work includes such clients as: Sunkist Growers, F. Hoffman-La Roche, Nestlé, Wispride, Swatch, Co-op Supermarkets Inc., Basel Museum of Antiquities, Pro Helvetia, Cardinal Beer Inc., Swiss Milk Producers, Pillsbury, Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel, Purina, Mars Company, and Consolidated Foods. She established her own design practice in Basel, Switzerland in 1987. Her work has been published both in the US and Switzerland for Letter Arts Review, Discover Magazine, Design Review, and Swiss trade magazines.
Her education has spanned two continents, receiving her Master’s Aequus from the Basel School of Design, Switzerland, a Bridge-Programme certificate from Yale/Brissago, USA, a BFA from Philadelphia College of Art, and a certified chef’s OS Culinary Arts degree from the Culinary Institute of America, USA.
Aleánna has fifteen years as a design instructor, working full time at the Basel School of Design, Art Center Europe, and St. Gallen School of Design in Switzerland, where she taught in the Foundation, Typography, Continuing Education, Swiss-Undergraduate, and International Graduate departments. Since joining the faculty of the SUNY Graphic Design Department in 2006, Aleánna has taught courses in Graphic Design Basics, Visible Systems, Typography, Visual Language, and Printed Books. Her pedagogical and didactical direction encompasses a broad understanding and infusion of the five human senses. Her research interests lie in the themes of lineform/letterform, type and image, and letterforms in the built and free environment.
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Ric Febre |
Ricardo Febré is a upstate graphic designer, photographer and college lecturer. Originally from Oakland, California—Rick worked for several years in advertising photography, first as an assistant to several prominent San Francisco photographers, then as a product photographer for the communication firm, Vertis.
In 2004, Rick moved to upstate New York to pursue an MFA degree in Intermedia at the State University of New York at New Paltz. After graduating, Rick spent the next two years working in print, advertising and web design at an upstate advertising firm. In addition, he also provides design services and consultation to local non-profit organizations.
He is currently a lecturer of graphic design at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
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Peter Demuth |
Dan Stein
Instructional Support Technician
BFA Photography + Imaging, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
Adjuncts, Spring 2009
Jeff Lesperance
Alexander Canelos
