Behnoush McKay

Assistant Chair, Graphic Design
Logo Design, Publication Design, Motion Typography

Phone:818.252.5290

Email:behnoush.mckay@woodbury.edu

Behnoush McKay is Assistant Chair of the Department of Graphic Design and Associate Professor at Woodbury University. She received her BFA in Graphics and Packaging Design from Art Center College of Design and her MFA in Visual Communication from California State University, Northridge. As an instructor, her goal is to assist students in developing analytical views in design and theory through research and its application in order to translate complex materials into a clear and cohesive message and advance professionally within the fields of graphic and communication design. Courses taught include Typography, History of Graphic Design, Portfolio Presentation, Degree Project Research, Degree Project, Motion Typography, Expressive Letterforms, Graphic Design, and Design & Color Elements.

She has presented papers and lectured at both international and national design and educational conferences, on topics including educational assessment and social responsibility in design. Since 1990, Behnoush has been a principal in McKay Consulting Group, Inc. With a solid background in Art, Design, Color Studies, and Visual Communication, she has designed and provided art direction on projects involving packaging, multimedia, print, and product design. Clients have included Eveready Battery, Inc., J. Schmidt & Associates, Digital Evolution, Party of Three, Nokia Inc., Universal Network Inc., the City of Santa Clarita, and CSUN Art Galleries. Currently Behnoush is exploring experimental typography, motion graphics, and Time/Space installation designs.

Cate Roman

Assistant Professor
Exhibit Design, Package Design, Typography, Sculpture

Phone:818.252.5136

Email:cate.roman@woodbury.edu

Cate Roman is an accomplished artist, art director, and designer whose work in private practice and education spans over 16 years. Her extensive professional experience ranges from packaging design to exhibit graphics. Clients have included Mattel, Inc., UCLA Events Office, Caruso Affiliated, and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. Cate has taught classes in Design Communication, Computer Graphics, Packaging Design, Typography, Portfolio Presentation, and Business Practices. She has mentored many students on to successful careers in the graphic design industry.

Before joining Woodbury as full-time faculty, Cate taught in the Communication Arts Department at Otis College of Art and Design. She holds a BA in Art from Pitzer College and an MFA in Sculpture from Claremont Graduate University. Cate’s interest in community building and social responsibility in design have kept her involved with community-based projects throughout her career.

Cate’s fine art practice includes both photography and sculpture. Her recent work is inspired by the ways in which text-only media can lead to miscommunication. Her word-based sculptures present language as a visual experience in the hope of engaging the viewer into a meaningful and thought-provoking experience. For an exhibit schedule, please visit www.cateroman.com.

Brian Herbst

Corporate Communications, Publications

Phone:818.252.5283

Email:brian.herbst@woodbury.edu

Brian Herbst has been an instructor in the Graphic Design Department at Woodbury for over a decade, teaching courses in computer graphics and print production. He holds a BS in Graphic Design from Woodbury and an MFA in Visual Communications from California State University, Northridge. In addition to his teaching position, Brian is a professional designer having provided service to clients such as American Honda, Rain Bird, Washington Mutual and Revgear Sports. In 1999 Brian opened MediaFive, a Los Angeles design firm, which specializes in a wide range of clients and project types including retail packaging, corporate communications, logo and identity design, catalogs, brochures, posters, and collateral.

Ryan Achzet

Interactive Design

Ryan Achzet is an adjunct faculty member in the Graphic Design department at Woodbury University, where he teaches Interactive Design 1 and 2. Ryan is also a Producer at MOKU iMedia and Entertainment Insight where he leads a team of designers and developers in creating a wide variety of online applications. He has extensive experience working on multi-dimensional projects, often spanning multiple mediums, for companies like Warner Bros., Sony, Disney, Paramount, Lionsgate Films, Relativity, Music DNA, Kaiser Permanente, DexCom, Intuitive Surgical, SoCal Edison, UCLA, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and Sierra Health Services. Ryan has a BS degree in Graphic Design from Woodbury University. In his spare time, Ryan enjoys exploring new techniques related to user interfaces for desktop and mobile devices. He can also be found with his family trackside at any local racetrack or testing his own abilities in kart racing.

Carsten Becker

Motion Design

Carsten Becker teaches Motion Graphics at Woodbury University. His professional career as a motion designer/director and editor includes a wide variety of film, television, and experience design projects. Building on a dual background in cinematography and digital design, his promotion of computer graphics matches his passion for analog devices like stop-motion and the zoetrope. After graduating as a Master of Arts from the American Film Institute, Carsten joined Hollywood design firm Imaginary Forces and world-renowned title designer Kyle Cooper in creating animated sequences for movies such as Across The Universe, The New World, Zoolander, Dawn Of The Dead and the Spider-Man trilogy, as well as the ubiquitous Marvel film logo. In television commercials, his clients include Sprint, Apple, Visa, hp, Microsoft, Nike,
Sony, and Panasonic. His experience design credits include IBMʼs Centers for e-Business and the U.S.A. Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. Carsten also teaches at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia and has conducted workshops at SCI-Arc and the American Film Institute. He is a recipient of the Art Directorʼs Club Merit Award and was nominated for an Emmy for his contribution to the Academy Awards® graphics package in 2005.

Dan Hoy

Package Design, Corporate Identity

Dan Hoy is an adjunct faculty member in the Graphic Design department at Woodbury University. He has taught courses in Typography, Graphic Design, Package Design, Portfolio Presentation, and Advertising. Dan has also been a professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena for over 20 years. He has vast professional experience and specializes in package design and corporate identity. He has worked on a wide range of projects for numerous companies including Atlantic Richfield Company, Siemens Solar Systems, Micro Matic USA, Great Western Savings, and Terry Industrial. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design from CSU Northridge. He has also taught at Otis Parsons Art Institute, CSUN, and Caltech. Dan has led many trans-disciplinary projects for top companies from around the globe. On the side he is an avid golfer, a collector of packaging from around the world, and has a particular interest in sustainability.

Bert Johnson

Screen Printing, Book Design

Bert Johnson is a partner in Graphics Two, a general graphic design firm started in 1972. He and the firm have worked in all areas of graphic design, including labeling, packaging, book and magazine design, corporate identities, marketing support, signage, and trade show booth design. He has taught courses in Computer Graphic Design, Computer Illustration, Typography, Print Production and Screen Printing. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois. He is a member of Bookbuilders West since 1968, a professional organization comprised of book designers, production people and book manufacturers. He has been a presenter at various seminars and meetings dealing with design and production issues. Recently he has started to pursue a study of limited edition printing in the screen
printing arena and has started to publish multicolored limited edition
fine art prints.

Niku Kashef

Photography

Niku Kashef is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and photographer, living and working in Los Angeles. She came to Woodbury after both teaching and finishing her MFA at California State University, Northridge. Her work stems from a desire to use art as a way to understand the world. Often the work deals with memory and answers questions of “holding on,” why we hold on so tightly that one is lost in some event that happened in the past or anticipates something that lies ahead. Niku has shown work at the Monterey Museum of Art (Monterey, CA), The Museum of Arts & Crafts-ITAMI (Japan), the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, the Washington Gallery (Washington DC), SCA Gallery (Pomona), Arena 1 (Santa Monica), and the Brand Library Art Galleries (Glendale).

Louise Lewis

Art History

Louise Lewis is former director of the California State University Northridge Art Galleries, a position she held from 1980 to 2008. During that time, the Galleries sponsored over 500 exhibitions, including eight premieres of shows organized by the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Lewis is also CSUN Professor Emeritus in Art History at CSUN, where her specialization was the history of graphic arts. Lewis received her B.A. from University California at Berkeley and studied at the Sorbonne before obtaining two M.A. degrees from the University of New Mexico. From 1966 to 1972 she was Curator at the University Art Museum at UNM and Acting Director in 1972. She came to CSUN in the fall of 1972. Lewis has written numerous reviews and exhibition catalog essays and served as the Southern California Editor of Artweek in 1978. An active participant in faculty governance during the 1980s and ‘90s, Lewis was CSUN faculty president from 1992-94. She founded and directed the Arts Council Docent program at CSUN, volunteered as art instructor to elementary school students, led mural projects on and off campus, and conducted regional and international art tours. She
has served on numerous panels and juries for public art programs
in Los Angeles.

Graham Moore

Promotional Design And Advertising

Graham Moore holds a bachelor’s degree from Wimbledon College of Art in London.  He has worked for independent record companies producing packaging and related promotional material, and in design studios and advertising agencies in London, Dallas, and Los Angeles as an art director/senior designer. Freelance clients have included Neiman Marcus, JC Penney, USC, Samsung Music, Teleflora, and Pier 1 Imports. He has been awarded a Certificate of Excellence from Print Design Annual and Outstanding Achievement from How Design Annual.

Doug Oliver

Branding, Corporate Communications

Douglas J. Oliver is a graduate of the University of Kansas and Art Center College of Design. Doug is currently the Chief Creative Officer of Douglas Oliver Design Office, located in Bell Canyon, California. His work has been recognized by all of the major design institutions, garnering awards from the Communication Arts Design Annual, Graphis Annual Reports, The AR 100, Critique Magazine’s “The Big Crit,” the AIGA, New York Art Directors Club, The Los Angeles Art Directors Club, and The Society of Typographic Arts. His work is also part of the Permanent Design Collection of the Library of Congress. In 2004, Doug was one of a handful of graphic designers included in Art Center’s “Design Impact,” a book which detailed the design contributions of Art Center alumni over the past 75 years.

He began his professional career in Los Angeles in 1978, working with James Cross Design and then the late Robert Miles Runyan, who is
often called the “father of the modern annual report.” At Runyan, he worked on the branding of the 1984 Olympic Games and Mitsubishi.
In 1983, Doug opened his own studio to design for Fortune 500 companies, major universities, institutions, and foundations across
the US, Europe and Japan.

Donald Schwartz

Entertainment Design

Donald Schwartz works in the Entertainment Advertising industry, creating key art for major motion pictures. He is an Art Director at BLT & Associates working on projects for entertainment studios including Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, Universal Studios, Sony Pictures, Fox, and Warner Bros. Nominated for two Key Art Awards, Donald has worked on major movie campaigns such as Transformers, Iron Man, GI Joe, Star Trek, Avatar, Thor, Captain America, Super 8, Mission: Impossible, and Harry Potter.

Carol Bishop

Visual Art, Painting, Photography

Carol Bishop, artist and educator, is a Senior Lecturer in Design and
Fine Arts at Woodbury University. She has taught courses in Painting, Drawing, Design, Color Theory, and Art History. Carol’s photos, paintings, and installations reflect ideas on systems and agendas of design and architecture. Her work is in the collections of several museums and has been exhibited internationally, including the Carrousel du Louvre, the Huntington, Taliesin East and West. She has received a Sony Corporation Per Cent for Art and was chosen by Pomona for
“Envisioning the Future.” She has won a City of Los Angeles
competition for public installation.

Her images and texts have been profiled by periodicals such as Wright Plus, LA Architect and Issues & Ideas. Her book, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Romantic Spirit, is published by Balcony Press. She holds a master’s degree in Studio Art (N.I.U.) concentrating on color and a Ph.D. in Art History (Union U.) focusing on light in Modern and Contemporary Art. She speaks to educational groups on these subjects as well as issues of design and architecture. Dr. Bishop has escorted students and groups to numerous countries for Art and Design tours. She is a member of Women in Photography, SAH/SCC (Society of Architecture Historians), and CAA. She is a board member of Archifest, Les Amis de Synagogue (France) and Barnsdall Arts. She consults through her design studio, Projectile Visions.

Olivia Booth

Visual Art, Painting

Olivia Booth is an adjunct instructor in the Design Foundation program, where she teaches drawing, color theory, and design elements. She has also taught contemporary history and theory in the Interior Architecture department. Olivia is a visual artist who works mostly with paint and glass, and is represented by Mandarin Gallery in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Olivia received her BFA in painting and her BA in comparative literature from Cornell University; and, after moving from the east to west coast, received her MFA at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Nate Page

Visual Art

Nate received his B.F.A. from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and his M.F.A. from California Institute of the Art. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Solo projects have been produced at More Funner Projects, Miami, FL; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH; Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA; St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN; Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI. Recent Group Exhibitions include Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA; Woodbury University, Burbank, CA; Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA; Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY; Greater Los Angeles MFA Exhibition, CSU Long Beach; O’Artoteca, Milan, Italy; No Name Exhibitions @ The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN; Cooper Union, New York, NY. Awards include California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship, 2011; The Durfee Foundation ARC Grant, 2010; CalArts Alumni Fund, 2008.

Michelle Wiener

Visual Art, Painting

Michelle Wiener is an adjunct instructor in the Design Foundation program, where she teaches beginning drawing. Michelle is a visual artist who works mainly with paint and graphite. Her work focuses on topics of feminist theory and popular culture. Michelle received her BA in Creative Studies with an emphasis in Painting from the College of Creative Studies within the University of California, Santa Barbara. After attaining her MFA at Otis College of Art and Design, Michelle became the artist in residence for two months at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited at Samuel Freeman and Lora Schlesinger in Santa Monica, Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale, Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, and Davidson Galleries in Seattle, Washington.

Jaime Scholnick

Drawing, Sculpture

Jaime is an adjunct instructor of Design and Color Elements in the Design Foundation program. She has taught courses in 3-D Design, Freehand Drawing, Figure Drawing, Basic Principles of Design, Color Theory, Foundation Studio, Experimental Design in Fashion, Sculpture and Ceramics. Jaime specializes in figure and freehand drawing (beginning to advanced), sculpture, installation, multimedia, color theory (for design and fashion), 2-D and 3-D design, experimental design, art appreciation, beginning graphic design. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Ceramics and a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture. Jaime’s work has been displayed in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Japan.

Doug Post

Design Foundation Chair,

Illustration, Painting, Sculpture

Doug Post is an Assistant Professor amd Chair of the Design Foundation program and also teaches in the Animation Department. Doug brings diverse experience to teaching. During ten years as a graphic designer, he worked in Colorado, New Zealand, and San Francisco designing for clients such as Aspen Ski Corporation, Breckenridge Ski Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Golden Gate Park, and Tele-Communications, Inc. As an animation artist, he has worked for The Walt Disney Company, DreamWorks SKG, and Warner Bros. on films including Pocahontas, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan, Tarzan, Fantasia 2000, Atlantis, Home on the Range, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Looney Tunes Back in Action, The Three Musketeers, Tarzan 2, and The Heffalump Movie. Doug has taught courses in drawing, figure drawing, character design, animation layout, color theory, design, graphic design, perspective, visual development, and illustration. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in graphic design from Colorado State University and a Master of Fine Arts in illustration from The Academy of Art University. In addition to teaching, Doug is a painter, sculptor, and pastel artist and continues to freelance.

Keith Walsh

Drawing, Sculpture

Keith Walsh teaches drawing courses in the Design Foundation program. His practice as an artist includes drawing, sculpture, performance, and music. Keith’s work has been exhibited and included in collections in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Europe. He has also taught art at California State University, Long Beach, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Endicott College, and the Hartford Art School.

Patrick Nickell

Associate Professor, Design Foundation

Phone:

(818) 394-3352

Email:

patrick.nickell@woodbury.edu

Patrick Nickell is Associate Professor in the Design Foundation Department. He received a BA in Art from Linfield College in 1983 and his MFA in Sculpture from Claremont Graduate University 1985. Patrick’s exhibition record includes numerous solo and group exhibitions and his bibliography contains reviews and articles in local, national and international publications. In 2003, a traveling mid career survey titled ‘Patrick Nickell, Built For Speed, A Sculpture Survey” was organized by Julie Joyce for the Luckman Fine Arts Gallery at California State University Los Angeles. This exhibition traveled to the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Utah State University, Utah, and The University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Art and Art History Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas. Patrick’s work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in addition to others. He is represented by the Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Santa Monica, California.

Patrick taught at Otis College of Art and Design for 14 years and had been adjunct    since 2004 at Woodbury prior to his full time appointment in 2012.