David Karam is usually a programmer; yet sometimes he is a designer, musician, or teacher. His career began in Austin, Texas, where he produced the interactive graphic adventure, To Preserve Quandic, which was distributed by Prickly–Pear software in 1984. After finishing high school in 1987, Mr. Karam moved to San Francisco, where he inadvertently became a desktop publisher.

In 1993 he founded Post Tool Design with partner Gigi Obrecht and began teaching technology to graphic designers at California College of Arts and Crafts. In the following four years, Post Tool's print and interaction design was published in every major graphic design journal worldwide.

By 1997 Mr. Karam's focus was diverted from graphic programming to server–side and database. In the last 10 years his clients have included Apple, Nokia, J. Paul Getty Museum, SFMOMA, Swatch Watch, and The Body Shop.

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Adjunct Professor, Design

BFA, CCAC

Website: www.posttool.com