New Media Faculty
Bob Rigel | Department Director
After graduating from the University of Northern Colorado with a BA in Education, English and Fine Arts, Mr. Rigel began his career first as a teacher and then as a fine artist selling drawings, lithographs and serigraphs to Colorado galleries. An early adopter of the Macintosh computer, Bob worked as a graphic designer, illustrator, digital imaging artist and prepress color-correction specialist for over 20 years. Bob is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in Adobe InDesign CS2. His fine art and graphic designs have received regional and national awards. Bob joined the Academy of Art in 1998 and is currently the Director of Computer Arts New Media.
Bob is a member of the AIGA and Art Director's Club.
Gino Nave | Associate Director
Mr. Nave started his professional career in 1994 as a sound designer and musician, working with such companies as Alesis, Korg, and InVision Interactive. He has designed music and sound for Red Bull, Nike, Wrigley's Gum, Hitachi, Pioneer, BMW, and Apple Computer. Gino operates his own freelance business producing motion graphics and video projects, writing songs, and occasionally designing websites.
Gino is a member of the AIGA and Art Director's Club.
Emilie Drumm | Instructor
Emilie Drumm began her career with a Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Communication from the prestigious California Polytechnic Sate University, San Luis Obispo. During her education, Emilie worked various highly skilled positions including: Printing Shop Prepress Assistant, Computer Lab Troubleshooter, and Vice President of the Universities TAGA (Technical Association of Graphic Arts) Chapter. Her reputation for diligence led her into a position with Downstairs Design. At the small design firm, Emilie was pivotal in expanding Downstairs Design into the web design market.
Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, Emilie was hired by the dynamic company of Powis where she was heavily involved in product development, prepress & print design, book building, and on-demand binding systems. Presently, Emilie is a freelance print and web designer with an international a client base at ImageMavenDesign.com.
Dan Eriksson | Instructor
Mr. Eriksson worked for over 10 years as an Art Director for several top advertising agencies in his native country of Sweden. At these agencies he received several awards for excellence in advertising design. Mr. Eriksson moved to the Bay Area in 1981 where he began his freelance advertising and graphic design company. After 20 years of using traditional media and techniques, Mr. Eriksson was a pioneer in using the computer for design and production, working with Adobe Illustrator as early as 1988.
Mitch Hudson | Instructor
Mr. Hudson has a BFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has developed a formidable list of software skills including Director, Lingo, Flash, ActionScripting, PHP and MySQL. Mr. Hudson also produces high-quality freelance graphics and animation for film, TV and web design.
Greg Mar | Instructor
A graduate of the Academy of Art University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Advertising Design, Mr. Mar went on to work as Artistic Director/Choreographer for several performing arts programs, as well as Adjudicator for high school performing arts programs, which he still does to this day. Mr. Mar owns and operates his own commercial design firm. He has won at least 5 National and West Coast Region CASE Awards for Excellence in Visual Design.
Eric Stampfli | Instructor
Mr. Stampfli, a Bay Area native, has run a professional advertising photography studio for the past 20 years. Since 1993 he has offered his clients in-studio digital services, from high resolution retouching to film and transparency output. When time permits, he fills in as a retoucher for a New York based service bureau. Some of his clients include Nestle, Coca Cola, Otis Spunkmeyer, Hewlett Packard, Roster-Ops and Specialty Brands.
Johanna Rogers | Instructor
Johanna Rogers' art and design career has taken her into many fields including Visual Design, Digital Art, Web Tracking and Usability Consulting, and Web Production. She is an award winning designer and book artist with many exhibitions and press coverage to her credit. Her fine art cyanotype photography and Book Arts projects are collected by universities and individuals all around the country.
Johanna has taught at the Academy for several years in the Schools of Fine Art, Photography and Web Design & New Media. Her skills in fine art printmaking and in teaching letterpress have made her an invaluable member of our school's print and typography design courses. Her skills, experience and teaching have made her one of the most popular instructors in Web Design & New Media.
Johanna is an alum of undergrad AAU New Media, magna cum laude, an alum of graduate AAU Photography, cum laude, and a Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from Colombia
Frank Pietronigro | Instructor
Frank Pietronigro graduated from SF Art Institute with a BFA and then studied in the Multimedia program at SFSU, receiving a certificate in Digital Design and Production. Frank worked as the Director of SF Arts Commission Festival, and directed the 39th Annual San Francisco Arts Festival. Frank also worked at Landor Associates, The Discovery Channel, Turner Broadcasting Services and Masterworks Multimedia. Frank is an accomplished fine artist with extensive exhibition history in painting, installation and public art.
David Scarpelli | Instructor
David (DC) Scarpelli is a Senior Designer with Diablo Custom Publishing in Walnut Creek, California. He is also a sometime book artist with pieces in the Artists' Book collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Mr. Scarpelli's background is in the theater. He studied playwrighting and acting at Yale University, his first alma mater. For the last 10 years, he has been an impresario of Doctor Emile's Theatre Tremendo, a Bay Area theater company for which he writes, produces, directs, designs and acts. David is a graduate of the Academy of Art University, obtaining a 2nd BFA in Computer Arts New Media.
Haydn Adams | Instructor
Haydn Adams is an Academy of Art University alumn, holding a BFA degree in Computer Arts New Media. He has been in the industry of new media & graphic design for nearly 15 years and currently operates his own design business, Nautilus Designs, in Marin County. Haydn has also served on the National Executive Committee of the Graphic Artists Guild for 4 years. In addition to his design background, Haydn is a wine expert and a published author of the book, Wineries Beyond Napa Valley: Dry Creek & Alexander Valley.
Michael Squibb | Instructor
Mr. Squibb is a graduate of the Academy of Art University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Arts New Media. He is a freelance Art Director and Designer, living and working in San Francisco for boutique ad agencies. He has worked on campaigns for Disney, Miramax, Dockers, Electronic Arts, Reebok, WaMu, ABC, ABC.com, ABC Family, Hilton and Samsung. Focused on "giving through creativity," Mr. Squibb brings his agency insight and mantra of giving back into the classroom, preparing his students for the unique challenges they will face in their lives and careers as New Media Designers.
Marc Simon | Instructor
Mr. Simon has been a professional photographer for the last 30 years, specializing in studio work, and for nearly the last 20 years has been doing digital photo-illustration work for editorial and advertising clients, working with Adobe Photoshop. He started his career in Chicago working for catalog studios, moving to San Francisco in 1980. Since 1989 he has operated his own commercial studio, doing both assignment and stock work. Marc is a member of Advertising Photographers of America and Stock Artists Alliance.
Andrea Pimentel| Instructor
Andrea started her design career with a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts at Brigham Young University. Her experiences include Web and interactive design projects for Lymabean, Tonik's launch and Sandisk's Sansa teaser campaign. She is currently freelancing as a New Media designer in San Francisco. Her list of clients include Razorfish, Sephora, Swirl, and Organic. As an Art Director, Andy has worked with Washington Mutual, eBay, PG&E and Bank of America. Andy has taught several classes at the Academy including Web Design 2 and Concept, Design & Process and the AE99 CANM Motion Graphic Worksop. Flash and motion graphics is one of her special interests.
Alexander Tarrant | Instructor
Alexander graduated from the Academy of Art in 2002, winning "Best in Show" at the New Media Spring Show, and an Adobe Design Achievement Award. He has since gained experience in the diverse fields of motion graphics, broadcast design, toy design and prototyping, documentary filmmaking, and animated performance visuals for musicians such as Aesop Rock.
He was most recently Director of Creative Services at Upper Playground Enterprises in San Francisco, creating short films, live art / music events, and original art installations.
Dana Steffe | Instructor
Dana Steffe is a graduate of the Academy of Art University with a BFA in Computer Arts New Media. She participated in John Bielenberg's Project M in 2007 where she and seven other designers designed a newsprint piece addressing water rights in America. The project has raised more than $40,000 connecting numerous people in Hale County, Alabama to clean water. While attending school, Dana interned atthe San Francisco Museum of Modern Art where she worked on the Olafur Eliasson interactive education web site and at Language in Common, a communications design studio where she helped design "Written on the City," a book about message graffiti. Dana is currently working at Cuban Council, the award winning design firm in San Francisco and New York City.
Joel Fuller | Instructor
Joel Fuller is a Media Developer with over 18 years experience producing content for print, screen, video, and the internet. He manages projects from concept and design through completion and is an intuitive problem-solver who works with a results-driven style. Joel has designed web sites for UC Berkeley's International Relations, the Town of Los Gatos, California, the City of Palo Alto, California, and the City of Seaside, California. Joel works in a variety of programming languages including XHTML, CMS, PHP, MySQL, Drupal and Joomla.
Adam Glickfield | Instructor
Adam Glickfield is a graduate of the Academy of Art University with a BFA in Computer Arts New Media. Presently he is New Media Director for 1/29 Films working on numerous video and interactive projects in San Francisco. 1/29 Films has supported WNM students with internships. This Fall, Adam has been asked to be one of the Advisors for Project M in Chicago. Adam has been teaching at the Academy for several years and will be teaching Concept, Design & Process beginning Fall 2009.
