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Brenda McManus
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B.A., Rutgers University; M.S., Pratt Institute; founding
partner and creative director of the design firm BRED;
previously design manager for Prudential Retirement,
senior designer for Skouras Design, and designer for
Leibowitz Communications, Inc.; has been recognized
by Print, Graphis and How magazines and the Art
Directors Club, the Type Directors Club, the University
and College Designers Association, the Museum
Publications Design Competition, and the Creativity
Design Competition; work has been included
in the TDC46 Awards Exhibition, Summit AIGA/NY
Exhibition, the 37th ADCNJ Awards Show, the UCDA
Conference Exhibition and the American Association
of Museum Design Exhibition; has also taught at
Rutgers University and F.I.T.
Scott Menchin
Adjunct AssociAte Professor
Pratt Institute; Arts Students League; as art director
worked for How Magazine and Seven Days; as
illustrator worked for Intel, Sun Microsytems, Toyota,
Time, Newsweek, Esquire, Wired, GQ, Fast Company,
Bloomberg, Saveur, Rolling Stone, The New York Times,
The Washington Post and The Boston Globe; work has
appeared in American Illustration, Print Magazine, The
Society of Illustrators and The Society of Publication
Designers; his first illustrated children’s book, Taking
a Bath With the Dog and Other Things That Make Me
Happy, won the Christopher Award and was voted “A
Best Book of the Year” by The Bank Street College.
Kelli Miller
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.F.A., College For Creative Studies; M.F.A., Cranbrook
Academy of Art; independent art director and designer
working in motion, digital media, and print design; work
has run the gamut of independent print publications to
start-up websites to network branding; has worked on
projects for Nickelodeon, Sundance Channel, Disney,
TV Guide Network, PBS, Coke, Wrigley, Reuters, IFC, and
MTV; as design director for Interbrand, has worked
as art director for Thornberg and Forester and as
art director at College for Creative Studies; artwork
has been shown, performed, and screened
internationally; has taught undergraduate classes at
Pratt and College for Creative Studies; has lectured
at Cooper Union, SVA, Portland State University, SUNY
Purchase, Maryland Institute College of Arts, and
College for Creative Studies.Katya Moorman
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.A., SUNY Purchase; M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art;
co-founder and principal partner of Studio2k, a design
and video studio that blurs the boundaries between
art and design, materiality, and the ephemeral nature
of technology; published and received awards from
both Output06 design annual and I.D. Magazine; widely
shown at PS122 and Williamsburg Art Nexus in New
York City, as well as in Detroit, Durham, Toronto, and the
Sarai New Media Center in India.Ann Morris
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.A., M.A., Hunter College of CUNY; creative director,
design: Ann Morris; worked for 16 years in corporate
America as creative director of TV Guide’s Advertising
and Marketing Department; her own graphic design
business has included a variety of clients: The New York
Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, The Museum of the City
of New York, Columbia University, The New York City
Opera, Elizabeth Arden, The Alan Guttmacher Institute,
Dunhill Tailors, The Learning Annex, Dino Di Laurentiis
Productions, and Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Centers.Katherine Muth
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.A., Michigan State University; M.Des., Carnegie
Mellon University; M.F.A., New School University;
senior interaction designer for marthastewart.com,
New York City; began her career in newspaper/
newsweekly design and has formerly held positions in
content strategy, interaction design, and information
architecture at NYC agencies Addison, Siegel + Gale,
and Carpenter Group. Clients include Smith Barney,
Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and MetLife. Muth has
taught communication design fundamentals and basic
typography at Carnegie Mellon.Gala Narezo
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.A., Yale University; B.F.A., Art Center College of Design;
is a photographer, art director, NGO representative,
and co-founder of What Moves You?, a company thatcreates platforms for social issues through design, story,
and art; has exhibited work internationally and recently
had a book of photographs published in Mexico City,
titled Locales, Portraits of the Colonia Roma; has
been an NGO representative with the United Nations
for Designmatters, locating opportunities for design
students to collaborate on a UN issue, building bridges
to connect the world of design and social impact.Nancy Nowacek
Visiting AssociAte Professor
B.F.A., University of Michigan; M.F.A., California College
of Art; M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University;
worked for Bruce Mau Design in Toronto for several
years before serving as the art director and a
contributing writer at Metropolis magazine from
2003–2008; creative consultant work has included
Harter Furniture, Institute of Play, and IDEO; has written
for a number of publications including Education of
an E-Designer, edited by Steven Heller; has received
several design awards, including the Barclay-Simpson
award for excellence, Print magazine regional design
award, AIGA 100, and ADC Young Guns; has been a
guest critic at Parsons, NYU/ITP, UT-Austin, and CCA,
and was a faculty member in the M.F.A. Design and
Technology Program at Parsons from 2001–2004.Eric O’Toole
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B.I.D., Pratt Institute; Principal, Exhibit A Design Group.
Eric oversees all aspects of design and development
work produced by his design firm for a broad array
of cultural institutions and National Parks across the
country. His firm is the recipient of several awards
for design excellence from professional design and
museum organizations for his exhibition design work.Peter Jay Pultorak
Visiting instructor
B.A., University of Notre Dame; corporate consultant
and creative director with over 15 years of experience
leading and inspiring creative individuals and teams;
as a photographer and designer has worked for
Architectural Digest, Vogue, Spin, The New Yorker,
Newsweek, and Time Magazine.