Current Faculty
Jonas Milder
Jonas Milder, Associate Professor, Director, MID program; BID, College for Design, Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany; Design Diploma (equivalent to MID), Universitaet der Kuenste, Berlin, Germany. Principal of Milder Office, a furniture design and production company that distributes its own furniture system and also consults on work place planning projects for office as well educational environments.
Anthony Guido
Associate Professor: BSID, The Ohio State University. Principal, Grow Design, where he provides industrial design for products, furniture, and indoor architecture systems.
Slavko Milekic
Associate Professor: MD, Belgrade School of Medicine, PhD in Experimental Psychology (Univ. of Connecticut). Research interests include digital design, the psychology of human/computer interaction and development of web-based tools for knowledge exchange and art education.
Benjamin B. Olshin
Assistant Professor B.A., Williams College, U.S.A.; M.A., Ph.D., Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada. Founder and director of S2R, a consulting firm specializing in global affairs, cross-cultural communication, and creativity and innovation for business, institutional, and government clients.
Patricia Beirne
Visiting Professor, Washington University in St. Louis; MID, The University of the Arts. Design strategist specializing in products systems for academic, institutional and corporate clients. Grand Prize, Japan Design Foundation’s International Design Competition Osaka 2003.
Beth Van Why, IDSA
Visiting Assistant Professor, BArch, Virginia Tech; MID, The University of the Arts. Project Manager for DesignPhiladelphia, a non-profit city-wide initiative that serves to advance the design disciplines, and founder of Why B Design, through which Van Why creates and consults in the fields of art, architecture, and design.
Past Faculty
Jamer Hunt
Associate Professor, Director MID program 2000 - 2007; BA Brown University; Ph.D. In cultural Anthropology, Rice University. Writer and design critic; Consultant for Smart Design and frogdesign where he helped to develop culturally engaged design processes. Jamer Hunt is currently on leave from UArts.
Rama Chorpash
Assistant Professor BFA, California College of the Arts. Chorpash develops design that explore contemporary social use. Projects range from consultancy, entrepreneurship to objects of provocation and art. Work has been exhibited in: MoMA, SFMOMA, NY Public Art Fund, Design Miami and Basel Art Fairs. He has been a senior project manager for ECCO Design and has designed for brands such as Herman Miller, CulinHome, Victorinox Swiss Army-Apparel and Swatch Watch.
Brett Snyder
Visiting Associate Professor; M.ARCH, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation; BFA Graphic Design, Carnegie Mellon University. Principal of Cheng+Snyder a New York based multi-disciplinary Design studio. Snyder designs at a wide range of scales integrating architecture and graphics. Brett Snyder is a 2008 fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a recipient of the 2008 Van Alen Fellowship.
David Comberg
Adjunct Associate Professor: BFA, Massachusetts College of Art; MFA, Yale School of Art. Graphic designer in Philadelphia, has written reviews and criticism for I.D. Magazine, Print Magazine, and Graphics International.
Amy Gendler
Adjunct Associate Professor. Principal Eye Design. Commutes between China and Philadelphia.
Douglas Fanning
Adjunct Associate Professor: BS, University of Maryland; March, Columbia University. Architect and designer. Founder of DYAD, a multidiscipline design studio for architectural and exhibit design, installations and furniture.
Barent Roth
Adjunct Visiting Professor; BFA, Industrial Design, University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana; MID, The University of the Arts. Principal and Co-Founder, Grow-Design, where he provides industrial design for products, furniture, and indoor architecture systems.
Marek Walczak
Adjunct Professor: RIBA I and II, Architecture Association, London and Cooper Union, New York. Distinguished digital artist whose practice merges architecture, interface design and performance.
Thomas Bley
Director, MID program 1999-2000, Associate Professor.
