Interior Design Faculty

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Alan Rapp

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

M.F.A. Design Criticism, School of Visual Arts; B.A.

English, Loyola Marymount University; editor, writer,

and book developer, he is a former senior editor at

Chronicle Books, San Francisco, where he acquired

and developed dozens of titles in the art, architecture,

design, and photography lists; former managing editor

of the New City Reader, whose office operated on

the gallery floor of the New Museum in fall 2010, and

former U.S. editor of DomusWeb International in 2011;

has taught at Parsons the New School of Design and

leads a graduate thesis seminar at RISD; currently, he

operates a visual book consultancy and packager,

ARstudio, where he works with authors, visual artists,

photographers, and designers to develop visual book

projects and bring them to publication.

Marc Rosen

Visiting AssociAte Professor

B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University; M.S., Pratt Institute;

president, Marc Rosen Associates.

Mark Sanders

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

B.S., Clemson University; M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth

University; has taught at Parsons The New School

for Design, and Rutgers University; principal of Q

Collective; design awards from International Design,

How Magazine, AIGA, and International Association of

Webmasters and Designers; work has been published

by The New York Times, HOW magazine, Harper Collins,

and Pepin Press.

Ashish Shah

Visiting instructor

M.S., Pratt Institute; B.F.A., M.S., University-Baroda,

India; multimedia art director for Burnett Group, NYC;

previously worked in India as a partner/creative director

for Third Eye Advertising, senior graphic designer for

Solution One, and visualizer for Adroit Advertising

and Marketing; awards include Neenah Paperworks

Letterhead Competition, Gold Award, HOW International

Design Award, Gujarat State Lalit Kala Award for

Photography; professional affiliation with Usability

Professionals’ Association, New York City Chapter.

Christie Shin

Visiting AssistAnt Professor

B.F.A., M.S., Pratt Institute; clients include Hearst

Corporation, Kaplan Inc., Sony BMG Music

Entertainment; has previously taught at Fashion

Institute of Technology and Hofstra University.

Ryan Waller

Adjunct AssistAnt Professor

B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design; M.F.A., Yale;

joined Pratt after returning from a research fellowship

in Switzerland on a Fulbright Award, Ecole cantonale

d’art de Lausanne, and Federal Office of Culture, Bern;

received the Mark Whistler Memorial Prize at Yale;

a Design Distinction Award from I.D. Magazine; an

ADC Young Guns Award; and was recognized by Print

magazine’s “20 Under 30”—the 20 best artists and

designers under the age of 30, selected each year;

clients have included The New York Times, Bloomberg,

Virgin Records, Yale School of Art, Hunter-Gatherer—

NYC & Co., Mother NY—Condé Nast, Art Director’s

Club, Nike, MTV, Damiani; has taught at Pratt and held

workshops at CalArts, RISD, and Yale.

Pirco Wolfframm

Adjunct AssistAnt Professor

M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; Diploma in Visual

Communication, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach

(Germany); has gathered varied experiences to become

a versatile “designist”; has lived and worked in Frankfurt,

London, New York, and Bangkok; her list of clients

ranges from corporate juggernauts to niche cultures;

while her passion and expertise lie in brand and identity

development, Wolfframm has applied her research-

based methodology across all media to projects from

small scale to complex in scope; she is the recipient of

a Faculty Development Grant and her work as well as

her writings about design have been published and

exhibited internationally.

Edvin Yegir

Visiting AssociAte Professor

B.A., Connecticut State University; M.F.A., Yale University;

associate professor of graphic design at the University

of Connecticut and art director of the Design Center

Studio there; has been a guest critic at Yale and RISD;

work has been recognized by AGI, AIGA, ID, Graphis,

Print, and Communication Arts; currently principal

of Typotopia; designer and activist for Class Action, a

design collective; previously a senior art director for

Context, Strong Cohen Design, and Concerned Citizens

for Humanity.

Alisa Zamir

Professor

B.A., Central School of Arts and Crafts—London; B.F.A.,

M.S., Pratt Institute; Since, 1981, Alisa Zamir has been the

Executive Vice President and Design Director at Taylor

and Ives, Inc. Having worked as a design professional in

Israel, London and America, she has over four decades

of experience as a designer of annual reports, corporate

literature and corporate identity programs. She

graduated from the Central School of Arts and Crafts

in London and earned her post-graduate degree from

Pratt Insititute, where she has been a professor in the

Graduate Design Department since 1971.

“Studying at Pratt

exposed me to teachers

and professionals who

taught me a lot more

than I realized at the

time. Graduate students

at Pratt were required to

write quite a bit, and that

developed my writing

abilities.”

—Isaac Kerlow,

M.S. Communications

Design ’83,

Artist in residence, Earth

Observatory of Singapore