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Executive Directors

Alan Colvin

Executive Director Minneapolis, USA http://designcue.com Alan Colvin has worked within branding and design companies, on the client-side, as an independent consultant, and as a business owner. Working with some of the best creative talents in… Read More »Alan Colvin

Ryan Russell

Executive Director Pennsylvania, USA http://ryanrussell.design Ryan Russell is an Associate Professor of graphic design at Penn State University. He received a BA in Graphic Design from Saint Norbert College in 2004. After working briefly in… Read More »Ryan Russell

Daniela Marx

Executive Director New Orleans, USA http://www.desigNERDmarx.com Daniela Marx is a Full Professor of Graphic Design at Loyola University New Orleans.  She looks to Loyola’s Jesuit mission of social justice to shape Loyola’s design students. In the… Read More »Daniela Marx

Lisa Graham

Executive Director Dallas, Texas, USA http://www.coroflot.com/lisagraham Lisa M. Graham, MFA, is an award-winning visual communicator, artist, author, and a Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has exhibited her digital art prints in… Read More »Lisa Graham

SooYun Im

Executive Director Los Angeles, USA http://sooyunin.info Sooyun Im is an Associate Professor at California State Polytechnic University Pomona. She teaches a wide range of graphic design courses including Web design, Motion graphics, Environmental Graphic Design,… Read More »SooYun Im

Donald Tarallo

Executive Director Boston, USA http://www.tarallodesign.com Donald Tarallo (BA Studio Arts, Clark University; MFA Graphic Design, RISD; Postgraduate studies at Basel School of Art and Design, Switzerland) has taught at Clark University, RISD, the Fraunhofer Institute’s Digital… Read More »Donald Tarallo

Robert Hower

President Executive Director Dallas, Texas, USA https://mentis.uta.edu/explore/profile/robert-hower UDA Vice President of Design Education (2016-present) The personal insight through careful consideration of the essence of a design problem to be solved is critical to developing meaningful… Read More »Robert Hower