Nazgol Ansarinia (2003) is currently teaching at Tehran Al-Zahra University in Iran. She is also a member of the editorial and design boards for Manzar magazine, and has served as a consultant for the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2006, Nazgol was awarded a four-month artist residency at the Fondazione Pisstelitto in Biella, Italy. In 2004, Nazgol's photographs were published in the international magazines Frieze and ID. Nazgol was also selected to present a paper at the international design conference "New Views: Repositioning Graphic Design History," which was held in London in October 2005.
Stacy Asher (2002) is an assistant professor in Graphic Design at the Ohio University School of Art in Athens, Ohio, and has previously taught at the University of Dayton. For her advanced-level course Graphic Design and Social Change, her students have been building an online publication that serves as an overview of the history of graphic design and social change. Stacy has also served as a visiting professor at Centro Design School in Mexico City, where she taught an interactive mapping workshop.
Jill Bliss (2004) is a stationery and accessories designer for her own company, Blissen, and designs an eponymous stationery and gift line for Chronicle Books. Her work is featured in numerous exhibitions and boutiques worldwide.
Molly (Wanning) Cooper's (2004) graphic design studio, Martha Cooper Design, provides identity, print, and web services to nonprofit and arts organizations. In the holiday season of 2004, Molly launched Olive & Page, a letterpress greeting card company. Her cards can be purchased in stores throughout the Bay Area, San Diego, and Maine.
Chris Corwin (2002) is serving as the founding chair of the undergraduate graphic design program at the University of San Francisco. Chris was selected to present a paper at the international design conference "New Views: Repositioning Graphic Design History," which was held in London in October 2005.
Liz Craig's (2005) work recently appeared in two exhibitions, one at the Woodstock Opera House in Woodstock, Illinois, and another at Design Commission in Seattle, Washington, as part of Seattle's First Thursdays event.
Julia Flagg's (2002) thesis publication was featured in the 2005 edition of the Steven Heller publication Becoming a Graphic Designer.
Pamela Flaherty (2006) has been teaching several classes per semester at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. When she isn't teaching, Pam is helping to establish a Safe House as part of her post-thesis work with anti-trafficking. Pam is now engrossed in helping to find the house, meetings with potential donors, giving talks to raise public awareness, and designing materials to support the effort.
Maggie Fost (2004) is working as a designer for Merge Records, where she produces CD packaging, posters, and marketing materials for Merge bands such as Spoon, the Arcade Fire, and Magnetic Fields. Maggie also won a national competition to serve as the full-time designer in residence at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, for the 2004–5 school year. An edited version of Maggie's graduate thesis was published in the design journal Inform.
Debra Glass (2004) was selected to present a paper at the international design conference "New Views: Repositioning Graphic Design History," which was held in London in October 2005.
Ellen Hsu (2005) received widespread recognition for her design of the Eleven Eleven literary journal.
Anne-Li Karlsson's (2004) student project work was featured in the 2005 edition of the Steven Heller publication Becoming a Graphic Designer.
Cassandra Kegler (2005) was selected to serve as a speaker and panel presenter for the American Institute of Graphic Art's "Future History" conference in Chicago in October of 2004. Since graduation, Cassandra has been working for Liz Goldwyn Films, a design office in Los Angeles, where she recently completed design of the book Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens.
Edward Maravilla's (2005) student project work was featured in the 2005 edition of the Steven Heller publication Becoming a Graphic Designer.
Sasha Panasik (2004) is currently serving as a senior art director at Agency.com in San Francisco and is a cofounder and principal designer of the studio Grand Object. During the past three years, Sasha's company has produced unique products that have been brought to market in local stores such as Zinc Details and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Adriana Pérez (2005) will be serving as an adjunct professor at University of California, Davis, and at Napa Valley College. She is the founder and creative director for Cultura Design, where she recently designed two journals, Poetry Inside Out and Two Lines, for the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco. Her other clients include Sutter Health and the Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Rachael Posnak (2006) has accepted a teaching position as an assistant professor of art and graphic design at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
Jackson Pritt (2006) has accepted a full-time position as a graphic artist and product development specialist for Gama-Go in San Francisco.
Louis Schalk (2003) is the founder of the design studio Plinth in Albuquerque, New Mexico. One of Louis's papers was accepted for the MX Design Conference "Design Perspectives: Envisioning Design for the XXI Century" at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City in October 2005. Louis also teaches design, video, and art history to high-school students at the Albuquerque Academy.
Dan Shafer (2005) was selected to present a paper at the American Institute of Graphic Art's "Future History" conference in Chicago in October of 2004 and the "Schools of Thought" conference in Pasadena in March of 2005. Following graduation, Dan accepted teaching positions at two schools in Seattle: Seattle University and Cornish College of the Arts. Dan was hired by Cornish to rebuild the school's Book Arts program from the ground up and has recently become a member of the board for the Seattle Center for Book Arts. Dan has also recently exhibited his work in the exhibitions For the Chicks at the Design Commission Gallery in Seattle, Night Visions at the M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery in Seattle, International Boulevard at CCA's Oliver Art Center, and Catalog at the SOIL Art Gallery in Seattle.
Linsey Silver (2003) is serving as an assistant professor of graphic design at American University in Washington, DC. Linsey's thesis publication, articulation, was featured at the international conference on the "Future of the Book" in Cairns, Australia, as well as the 2005 edition of the Steven Heller publication Becoming a Graphic Designer.
Joshua Singer (2004) has served as a professor in the design programs at the Academy of Art University and the San Francisco Art Institute and is currently teaching full-time in the design program at San Jose State University. Josh published an article about one of his graduate projects, "Olam Kattan: The Cycling Jew," for the Amsterdam magazine Orange Juice. His writing has also been published in CMYK magazine.
Kamomi Solidum (2004) recently accepted the position of senior graphic design coordinator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she will work closely with the museum's curators and exhibition design team to design print and exhibition projects.
Jennifer Sonderby (2002) is the head of graphic design and creative director at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her thesis, "Fastphoric," was nominated Best-in-Show by Artweek magazine in March 2003 and was featured in the 2005 edition of the Steven Heller publication Becoming a Graphic Designer. In April 2003, Jennifer presented her work at an international conference on the "Future of the Book" in Cairns, Australia, and the University of Technology in Sydney. She has taught design workshops in Harare, Zimbabwe, and Nagoya, Japan. Since graduating, she has received design awards in the following competitions: American Institute of Graphic Arts' Grown in California design competition (2004), AAM Museum Publications Design Competition (2005), New York Book Show (2004), Print Magazine's competition the Big Event (2004), and Print's Regional Design Annual (2004, 2005). Photographs that Jennifer made while working with the designer Saki Mafundikwa in Zimbabwe were featured in Eye magazine.
Jacob White (2006) has been designing web-based projects for Apple Inc.