I'm a native New Yorker relocated to Philadelphia, currently serving as Program Director of Graphic Design at the University of the Arts. Teaching and writing about typography, design, and visual culture have been an important part of my professional design practice for more than 20 years.

As an editorial art director, I created concepts and page layouts for everything from Harper's Magazine to iPad apps for O, the Oprah Magazine.

I’m excited to be writing a book, The Elements of Visual Grammar, for Princeton University Press, publication date 2024.

BFA: Rhode Island School of Design, Illustration. MFA: School of Visual Art’s Design Criticism (D-Crit) program.

Random Info: Always curious, frequently witty, occasionally curmudgeonly. Reading is like breathing. I have a dark sense of humor but I walk on the sunny side of the street. Morning self is saddened by evening self, who stays up way too late.