Graphic & Interactive Design

JEREMY OSBORN - PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Jeremy Osborn has more than 15 years of experience in web and graphic design, filmmaking, writing and publication development for both print and digital media. Jeremy is a skilled public speaker, trainer, consultant and writer.

Jeremy has authored, co-authored and served as technical editor for several of the Adobe Classroom in a Book series. Titles he has contributed to include the Adobe Acrobat 6 & 7 Professional series, Adobe InDesign CS & CS2, Adobe GoLive CS2, Adobe Audition and Adobe Premiere Elements.

As a software trainer and technical writer at the American Graphics Institute in Woburn, MA, Jeremy developed curricula for many of its courses, including Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash and OS X. He provided in-depth training and and custom consulting for students and corporate clients, including Sony, Entertainment Weekly, Canon, Staples, Hasbro, Delmar Learning, Harvard Business Review and more. Jeremy has also consulted and taught at colleges and universities around the country including UC Berkeley, MassArt, Columbia University, Savannah College of the Arts, and more. Jeremy founded the web design firm Artmatter which specializes in the needs of New England artists.

Jeremy holds a MS from the Graduate Center of Marlboro College and a BFA in Film/TV from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

Claudia Baeza is a designer, educator and media rights specialist. Her expertise ranges from visualization to business and legal ramifications of intellectual property rights management.

As design instructor at Boston University College of Fine Art, Claudia has developed curricula ranging from Typography, Communication Design, Identity System Design, and Web design. Course instruction focuses on the command of the latest digital software programs enabling students' creativity.

Claudia honed her leadership skills as Education Co-Chair to the Boston chapter of The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). She hosted the annual student portfolio event which enabled students to show their work to leading design professionals in New England. In addition, she organized the AIGA educator's conference and promoted guest speakers, such as Gary Baseman to the New England visual community.

Claudia holds a MFA in Interactive Design from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; a Doctorate of Juris Prudence from The New England School of Law, Boston; as well as a BA in Art History from Boston College and a
Certificate in Management from Simmons College, Boston.

Marie-Anne Verougstraete is a graphic designer and illustrator whose
recent projects include most of the print graphic design work for the
2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival and a series of digital illustrations
for Houghton Mifflin Company. Before moving from France to Boston in
1998, she was primarily a colorist of graphic novels and a museum guide
and art workshop leader, but also made the backgrounds for an animated
commercial and taught art classes. In the United States, she has worked
as a designer and illustrator in publishing, advertising, and the arts,
and has taught courses in typography and computer graphics at Suffolk
University’s New England School of Art and Design and at Endicott
College. Her work emphasizes color and simplicity, and she often
introduces hand created elements into her designs.

Marie-Anne, who is fluent in English, Dutch and French, studied art and
design in Belgium, where she is from, in France, and in the United
States, where she earned an MFA in Graphic Design at Boston University.