California College of the Arts

Alysha Naples

Alysha Naples is design director at Blurb, where she makes a whole lot of books in addition to working on the application and the website.

She received the D&AD Silver award for Interactive Art Direction for her work with Nike. Her ongoing work with Amanda Marsalis Photography has received several awards, including the first place PDN/Nikon Self-Promo Award in 2007.

Her work has been exhibited at North Carolina State University, Yale University, and the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College, as well as having been featured in Photo District News magazine, Copper Press magazine, and Los Logos.

In her free time Alysha enjoys snowboarding and playing songs on the accordion that were never intended for such an instrument.


Adjunct Professor, Graphic Design.

BFA, North Carolina State University School of Design; MFA, Yale University

Selected Work