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Howard Allen
Visiting instructor
M.P.S., Pratt Institute; B.F.A. University of Illinois, Chicago;
independent consultant focused on the intricate details
of design within the world of branding; clients include
Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger, JP Morgan, Bridge
Culture: International Festival of Music Storytelling and
Dance, Brooklyn Office of Travel and Tourism, Imagine:
NY Schools, and Higher Heights for America;
he has also served as a senior design manager and
client manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers, where
he helped help establish a strong culture of design and
strategic thinking among his creative peers; currently,
he is developing an investment methodology which will
enable investors to understand how design influences
the quantitative value of a corporation.
Jeff Bellantoni
chAir, grAduAte coMMunicAtions design,
AssociAte Professor
B.F.A., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; M.F.A.,
Virginia Commonwealth University; co-author and
designer of three internationally published titles on
Typography and Media: Type in Motion; Moving Type,
Designing for Time and Space, and Motion Design;
has written on graphic design for How magazine and
various other design publications; design work has
been recognized by Print magazine, the AIGA (50
Books/50 Covers), and Connecticut Art Director’s Club;
has previously taught at University of Connecticut, VCU,
Mercy College, and The Wanganui School of Design,
New Zealand.
Chava Ben-Amos
Professor
B.A., Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, Israel; served
two years in the Israeli Army, then returned to school
and began her design career upon graduation; won
several awards, including one for a Holocaust memorial
postage stamp and moved to the U.S. in 1964, produced
posters for Broadway productions; served as art director
at several prestigious New York design firms before
founding her own studio.Barry Berger
Visiting AssociAte Professor
B.I.D., Pratt Institute; founder, owner, and creative
director of Barry David Berger + Associates, Inc.,
established in 1977, specializing in merchandizing
packaging, product design, graphic design, and
commercial interiors; Fulbright Grant recipient, member
of AIGA, IDSA, and APDF; had previously taught at Pratt
for many years before taking a sabbatical.Warren Bernard
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B.A., Hampton University; M.S., Pratt Institute; currently
freelances with Dwight Johnson Design while
maintaining his established clients; has worked with
Time Magazine and Vibe; several start-up magazines
have solicited his help in development; has designed
book covers for labels, such as BET Books and Simon &
Schuster Inc.; creates corporate identities inclusive of
Abyssinian Development Corporation; has written for
the AIGA’s Journal of Graphic Design; honored by Pratt
as a Distinguished Student.Jennifer Bernstein
Visiting AssociAte Professor
B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., Yale; has worked for the
New York firms Wechsler & Partners and Balsmeyer &
Everett Inc.; while senior designer at Balsmeyer Everett,
originated the concepts and design for title sequences
for such feature films as Fargo, Girl 6, The First Wives
Club, and Waiting To Exhale; in 1998, established her own
New York–based firm Level Design Group to focus on
design for print and motion; clients include The New York
Foundation for the Arts, Deutsche Bank, P.O.V. on PBS,
The Nature Conservancy, and MetLife; film work has been
featured at The Sundance Film Festival, “New Directors,
New Films” at MoMA, The New York International
Documentary Film Festival, and on PBS; work has been
published in The New York Times, Type In Motion, I.D.
Magazine, and in Zed, The Virginia Commonwealth
University Design Journal; work has won Best of
Category in the I.D. Magazine Design Annual, and a 2008
Create Award; has been on the faculty at UArts since
2000, and has also taught at NYU and SVA.Jean Brennan
Adjunct AssociAte Professor
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; B.F.A., M.S.,
Pratt Institute; upon graduation from the Graduate
Communications Design program went to work as a
broadcast designer at Lee Hunt Associates, working
with clients such as PBS, Oxygen, and Arte; continued
with the LHA team after they were acquired by Razorfish
in late 1999; in 2002, became the Nick Jr. Art Director,
where she worked on in-house graphics for the 2–5 age
programming of Nickelodeon; currently freelances as
an art director in broadcast, online, and print projects.