Alumni

I am living in Southern California and working as the Art Director for Surfer Magazine. We share work space with Skateboarder, Snowboarder, Powder, and Bike Magazines as part of Primedia's Action Sports Group. For Surfer, I design and lay out the magazine, design clothing and draw spot illustrations. On nights and weekends I am art director and co-owner of The Ryde, which is an art based clothing outfit. In the wee hours of the morning I do freelance design for clients in the music industry.

Ilsa Brink
Personal website: www.ilsabrink.com/art
Business website: www.ilsabrink.com
Email: ilsahan@yahoo.com

In 2005 I moved to my ideal Royal Tennenbaums style house in Berkeley, and found my dream job as the graphic designer/webmaster for The California Shakespeare Theater. It is a passionate and imaginative organization that has never had an in-house designer before, so I have exactly the kind of pressure, challenges, and adventures that I love! I would love to talk to anyone else who also wants to work in the public service sector - I'd help you however I can!

Patrick Concepcion
Personal website: www.patrickconcepcion.com
Business website: www.bravado.com
Email: contact@patrickconcepcion.com

Living in Los Angeles and serving as Art Director of Bravado International Group. Bravado develops, designs, and markets merch for the music industry. Clients I’ve designed and illustrated for: Evanescence, Norah Jones, Morrissey, Christina Aguillera, Bon Jovi, Tesla, Courtney Love, Live, Scorpions, Whitesnake, Badly Drawn Boy and yes Hilary Duff, and many other musicians from rap to rock. We’ve also redesigned merch for musicians such as The Who, Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin and Kurt Cobain. Our product is sold on Tour and Retail such as Hot Topic. The experience has been a perfect blend of design, illustration, and fashion. Feel free to e-mail me for questions and links to my recent work. I hope all is well and good luck to everyone!

Frankie Garcia
Personal website: www.frankiegarcia.com
Business website: www.sonystyle.com
Email: frankie@frankiegarcia.com

Still down in Carlsbad, CA but after 2 years and the launch of my project at Upper Deck, I decided to move on. (http://sports.upperdeck.com) I had a brief stay at Directed Electronics designing print collateral for their many mobile/home audio lines like Orion, PPI, ADS, SIRIUS radio and Viper/Clifford Alarms. As of recent I have taken a huge step in my career and I am now Project Manager/ Flash Designer of online marketing for Sony here at the San Diego headquarters. Still teaching graphic design at a local college part-time and working on occasional freelance projects. Glad to see everyone is doing well! Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Tim Heraldo
Personal website: www.brownplay.com
Business website: www.yvodesign.com
Email: tim@brownplay.com

I moved back up to the Bay Area after graduating and had some brief contractual design work before I became a Lead Art Instructor for Camp Galileo, a children's summer program. After that, I landed a position at Century 21 Champion as a Marketing Coordinator. I spent a year there and decided to move on and chase a dream of mine. A couple of friends and myself wrote, produced, and directed our own independent film titled "Leave it to Chance" (www.leaveittochance.info). We actually held the world premiere at the Performing Arts Center at Cal Poly in April 2005. We spent the next year touring the film across the country with stops in Atlanta, Chicago, Columbus, and at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Following the tour, I got back into art instruction for children with Kid's Creative Adventures for about six months. Presently, I'm a graphic designer for Yvo Riezebos Design based in San Francisco. We create mainly book covers and interiors with occasional packaging and web projects for reputable publishing companies. I've been busy, but it's a good busy.

Robert Hill
Personal website: www.compasssite.com
Email: robert@compasssite.com

Working with a small design company in Fort Collins, Colorado. I am married with two kids. I getting my teaching credential to teach at the high school level. I am also going back school to get my masters in Art and Design. Since I have graduated from Cal Poly I have work for three companies Five S Capital, Wagner Creative and Rob Advertising.

Erik Marinovich
Personal website: www.erikmarinovich.com
Business website: www.landor.com
Email: erik@erikmarinovich.com

Living in New York City and working at Landor Associates.

Kenny McGavin
Business website: www.justlookinggallery.com
Email: kennymcgavin@hotmail.com

SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER...SCHOOL'S OUT FOR EVER... A few lyrics which I awaited so long to sing. After graduation I received a full time offer as the gallery director of Just Looking Gallery in down town San Luis Obispo. We are the oldest gallery of 21 years in our county. We offer cutting edge fine art and represent local, national, international and historical artists. Please feel free to contact me regarding any information about what it is like to get paid for the work you do. I am very thankful for my education but even more thankful for my compensation.

Julia Pedroza
Personal website: www.juliapedroza.com
Email: julia@juliapedroza.com

Holly Peterson
Email: hollysell@hotmail.com

I am still living in San Luis Obispo, working with two other Cal Poly alumnus at Dioptics Medical Products as an in-house designer and having a great time. I am married to Todd Peterson who owns Red Canary Productions, a video and web production studio.

Gwen Pool
Email: hooveryeltsin@hotmail.com

I am currently attending Claremont Graduate University and will graduate in 2006. This summer,I will be in a group show at Carl Berg on Wilshire. I have been working on sculpture, digital photography, and 2-dimensional media.

Melanie Usas
Personal website: www.melanieusas.com
Email: mcusas@hotmail.com

Just moved to the East Coast from LA, where I was a Sr. Designer at Evenson Design Group - quite a big change! (no more flip flops year round...) Now living with my fiancé, Gavin Crabb (IE '02) in Hoboken, NJ and looking for a job in Manhattan. My focus in design has been mostly identity, branding, print. It's great to see what everyone is up to!

Flora Wong
Business website: www.creative-i.com
Email: flow.inhim@gmail.com

i'm working as a designer in small advertising agency in Palo Alto. i love taking walks through Palo Alto downtown on my breaks and what's best is my work is close to home. i couldn't ask for a better working enviroment as well.

Photography and Digital Imagery

Jennifer Buscher (formerly Thomas)
Personal website: www.jbuscherphotography.com
Email: jbuscherphoto@sbcglobal.net

I still live on the central coast with my husband and daughter. I am a free lance photographer working on various projects. I hope to work for various magazines once I am able to devote to photography full time.

Ryan Gibson
Email: ryangibson@gmail.com

Currently I am working for Google Inc. since December '03, in their online advertising department which is known as Google AdWords. I manage multiple advertising accounts and am the direct point of contact for various agencies that are managing other online advertising accounts.

Jann La Pointe
Personal website: www.jannlapointe.com
Business website: www.f13photo.com
Email: jann_lapointe@hotmail.com

Mike Larson
Business website: www.mikelarsonphoto.com
Email: mike@mikelarsonphoto.com

Its been 10 years since my 1st check, & business is going very strong. This year i have expanded with new commercial clients such as Al-style apparel, Jamba Juice, and many others. I work for 5 diff. magazines including, surfer, alliance wakeboard, Family Digest (3 covers last year). I have been traveling around the country doing work and marketing myself with new promotional stuff and doing work internationally. I am constantly working on new projects with new people and growing, being blessed and stoked. Currently Kent Eimers and I are collaborating with Curtis Handley here in the central coast. I am a member of CCWP, booking a many growing # of weddings. I am always in need of good asst's. Let me know if i can help you at all, ciao..

Emily Nelson
Email: nelsonemily@mac.com

I am in Los Angeles working. Let me know if anyone else is in this area.

Robert Voorheis
Email: rob.shel@juno.com

I'm a loser. I'm not doing anything really cool for any big organizations. But here's an update anyway: My wife and I had our son, Isaac, on 3-18-04. He's awesome and super handsome (he looks just like me). I have my own photography and fine art business that's not real successful, but it pays for itself. My day job is designing custom cycling clothing at Voler Team Apparel in Grover Beach. It's one of the top custom cycling clothing manufacturers in the country. I'm leading worship for the high school youth group at my church.

Studio Arts

tOny mUrphy
Personal website: www.tikitony.com
Business website: www.adriftclothing.com
Email: tikitony@tikitony.com

I've been showing paintings in the Low Brow art scene in L.A., S.F., Chicago, Florida, and an exhibit in Paris. Just finished an installation for "Tiki Art 2" at www.shootinggallerysf.com in SF, which has published a nice book with all the work in it. I'm also finishing up my single subject teaching credential and Masters at CSUN. Adrift, my clothing line, just got some backing, and a clothing rep, ready to hit the east and west coast surf shops for national distribution. I've also got a Tiki mug coming out in Spring produced by Tiki Farm and limited edition serigraphs published by Falling Cocos. And still trying to figure out how to move back to SLO!

Justin Tripp
Personal website: web.mac.com/justinleetripp
Email: justinleetripp@gmail.com

Oi, I got married and ran away to New Zealand.