Graphic Design Program, Santa Monica College

Part-Time Faculty

The Graphic Design Program prides itself with its diverse and outstanding adjunct faculty drawn from the industry. These instructors are published authors, award-winners, and established working professionals in the field. They have a passion for teaching and bring real world experiences into the classroom.

• Deborah Campbell
Deborah is a designer/illustrator who has worked for a variety of industries from advertising and publishing to digital media, web design and gaming. She has created illustrations for Bantam Dell and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and article illustrations for various magazines including Forbes Magazine. Deborah has provided art direction, interface designs and illustration for educational interactive games in the Jumpstart and Knowledge Adventure brands, and packaging for Mattel. She has been part of creative teams for Activision, Disney Interactive and KNBC/Bravo.

Email: campbell_deborah@smc.edu
Website: www.thepaintedmoon.com

• Jamie Cavanaugh
Jamie earned a Masters of Arts degree in Film and Television Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles with an emphasis in New Media. After graduate school, Jamie worked for 5 years as Interactive Producer at KBDA, a multidisciplinary graphics and communications design firm in Los Angeles. Since 2003, she has been working freelance developing and producing web projects for a wide variety of clients. Jamie has developed web sites for the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, Prostate Cancer Foundation, UCLA Anderson School of Management, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, and Nike. She has worked on interactive projects for The Huntington, Occam Networks, and Nike. Jamie has taught at Santa Monica College since 2006 and also teaches at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Email: jamie@jamiecavanaugh.com
Website: www.jamiecavanaugh.com

• Stephanie Donon
A graduate of Art Center College of Design, Stephanie is a talented designer from Los Angeles. She has designed large scale graphics/identity projects all over the world for companies such as Disney Imagineering, Warner Bros. and many prominent architectural firms. She also lived in New York and worked for the world famous designer Milton Glaser. She is an accomplished illustrator with several published works. She has been teaching at Santa Monica College since 1995.

Email: donon_stephanie@smc.edu

• Chris Fava
Chris is an award winning Art Director and freelance graphic designer
who has been working in the industry for over 10 years. He graduated
from the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science with a B.S. in
Graphic Design. Chris was an Art Director for Blik Surface Graphics where his work was featured in ID Magazine, NY Times, Metropolis and other design books. In addition to teaching at Santa Monica College, he currently works as the Art Director for Paul Mitchell Systems in Beverly Hills. Other clients include: Chip and Pepper, The Eames Store, Asics, Urban Outfitters, The Keith Haring Estate, NBC's Apprentice, NY's Hotel on Rivington and Giant Robot. In 2007, Chris was selected to compete in CUT & PASTE Los Angeles, a competition pitting designer vs. designer, and placed #1 with the audience and online voters.

• Donald Gerds
Don is an award-winning graphic and product designer, holding a BFA in Design from the University of Southern California and an MA in Design from the California State University, Los Angeles. After several years as a product designer working for McDonald-Douglas Aircraft Company, he established his own design office and starting teaching at Santa Monica College in 1970. Don conducts design and drawing workshops throughout the United States. Additionally, he is a published author and has written three books: Perspective, The Grid System; Markers for Interiors, Exteriors and Product Design; and, Markers for Advertising Comps.

Robin has over 20 years experience as a freelance graphic designer whose clients have included Dermalogica, Air New Zealand, Xerox Corp, and Suzuki Motor Corp. to name a few. She maintains her own design business as well as teaching at Santa Monica College since 1996.

• Mona Kasra
Mona is a media artist who holds a B.A. in Graphic Design and a M.F.A. in Video Digital Art from California State University, Northridge. She is an active member of the Los Angeles Art Association and a subcommittee member at the SIGGRAPH 2007 International Conference & Exhibition. Mona’s videos have been displayed in exhibitions and festivals around Los Angeles. Her most recent work, a collaboration with Collage Ensemble Inc., includes LA MENU MUNCHIES DVD which was premiered at the Japanese American National Museum in Sept. 2006. During the past few years, Mona continues to work as an independent freelance designer for a variety of clientele, as well as teaching Digital Art courses at California State University, Northridge.

• Ian MacGillivray
Ian has a B.S. degree in Industrial Design and has operated his own
graphic design/consulting business since 1985. His graphic design work has focused primarily on logo/identity design and various print media. He has produced digital typefaces and worked on signage projects for the Walt Disney Company, Universal Studios, and Hollywood Historic Walk. He began teaching as a consultant in 1987 and has been a part-time instructor at Santa Monica College since September 2000.

• Eve Mazzara
Eve is a graphic designer who maintains an active freelance design studio in Santa Monica called Get Art Graphics. She has worked for over 20 years in the graphic design industry. Early in her career she worked at CBS Television and other areas in the entertainment industry. Her current clients include law firms, financial firms, doctors, medical practices, non-profit organizations and publishing companies. She has been teaching at Santa Monica College since 2002.

Email: mazzara_eve@smc.edu

• Kimberly Robinson
Kimberly has been teaching art and design classes at Santa Monica College since 1994. In addition to teaching at Santa Monica College, she conducts studio classes and workshops, and works independently as a painter, illustrator and designer. Her watercolor paintings have been exhibited internationally. Kimberly is the author of Travels on the Big Sur Coast. She received her formal education at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, College of Architecture, spending her fifth year abroad at the University of Copenhagen.

Email: robinson_kimberly@smc.edu

• Bonnie Tanaka
Art Director/designer, Bonnie brings twenty years of professional
experience to her teaching. She has won numerous design awards while working with varied individual clients, design firms and advertising agencies throughout Los Angeles. Bonnie's freelance design practice since 2000 specializes in print, identity and web. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, the School of Visual Arts in New York, and received her BA from Union Institute at Vermont College. Bonnie has been an adjunct at Santa Monica College since 2001 andalso teaches at CSUDH.

• Natassa Triviza
Natassa is an interactive designer originally from Athens, Greece. She has worked as a designer and programmer in New York and Los Angeles. She also contributes articles on culture, technology and art for MARIE CLAIRE Greece and other magazines. Natassa currently teaches at the Art Institute of California and Pepperdine University. She studied Communications and Mass Media at the University of Athens, Greece and has an MFA in Computer Graphics and Interactive Media from Pratt Institute, New York.

A graduate of Portfolio Center in Atlanta, Robin was an art director at an award winning advertising and design agency in Chicago, Bagby and Company. Clients included Sony, McDonald’s, International Trucks, Loyola University's Museum of Art, and Philip Morris. After Bagby, Robin moved west and worked at KBDA in Los Angeles, where she honed her publication design, brand strategy and client management skills. Robin currently works as a freelance art director and designer for her own clients as well as for design firms in the LA area. Recently she has completed projects for Smart Papers, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, The Four Seasons in Scottsdale and Westlake and the world-renowned Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

• Cherry Wood
Cherry got her degree from Long Beach State University and then studied marker illustration with the famous Woody Woodcock at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. She also attended other prestigious art schools including Parsons in New York where she studied computer illustration with Marty Levin, a cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine. Cherry lived in Spain and worked for Saatchi-Saatchi International in Sevilla. In the 1990’s she got into web design, became art director for Geocities, and then moved into computer illustration for online games.

• Ellie Zenhari
Ellie is an Art and Photography graduate of California State University Los Angeles with continued education in Multimedia and Graphic Design at UCLA. She has worked on interactive and graphics projects for clients ranging from Technicolor, Weston Mason Marketing, ODX Creative, Corbis, as well as photographing and designing music CD covers and documentary film promo packets. In addition to teaching in the Graphic Design program, Ellie also teaches in the Photography department of the college.