Alumni

Since graduation in June of 04 I have been working as a Designer and Artist in Huntington Beach, Ca for Roxy (Quiksilver). I was just recently hired to work with the Merchandising and Design department as a Teeshirt and Sportwear Designer. I continue to do freelance work for the marketing, footwear, and creative departments.

Peter Ayer
Personal website: peterayer.com
Business website: ayerclothing.com
Email: pete@wearayer.com

Sabiha Basrai
Email: sbasrai@gmail.com

After graduating in June 2004, I moved to Philadelphia to be a design associate at Public Interest GRFX. Public Interest GRFX is the in house design team for a national network of non profit organizations under the Fund for Public Interest Research. I make materials (brochures, posters, Web sites) for social/environmental justice groups all over the country such as CALPIRG, Environment Maine, Environmenatal Action, etc. It is a great opportunity to combine my love of art and design with my passions for social justice activism.

Kristin Crawford
Email: kristincrawford@hotmail.com

Currently a slave to the restaurant business of San Francisco, I've been meeting quite a few colorful characters. Also in the process of getting a show together for sometime in May.

Juliana de Freitas-Draper
Email: design_jdfd@yahoo.com

Hi everyone! Tons of changes... I'm a MOM now! A MOM!!! I can't believe it either... But there is still time for design... Life is good!

Brooke Finan
Business website: www.ahwmagazine.com/
Email: brooklyn_1044@hotmail.com

I work at Horse & Hound magazine.

Adrian Foster
Personal website: adrianfoster.com
Email: adrianfoster@verizon.net

Trina Gallagher
Email: trinagallagher@hotmail.com

I am currently a high school art teacher, teaching drawing and black and white photography. This gives me a good deal of time to continue working on my own drawings and paintings.

Christopher Harris
Email: christopher.harris2501@gmail.com

Melinda Huntoon
Business website: www.zanheadgear.com
Email: melinda.huntoon@gmail.com

I'm still living in San Diego and loving it! After designing for my company for about two and a half years, I moved on to the position of Brand Manager for ZANheadgear & RAM. Now, not only do I get to design some of the products and packaging, but I get to develop our marketing strategies and I have full control over the product line. In November, I traveled to Japan, China & Hong Kong to meet with vendors and source new opportunities. This position also involves a lot of traveling in the U.S. too, which is awesome.

Gregg Jabs
Email: gnclmbn@yahoo.com

Howdy! I'm in grad school down in San Diego. Ceramic arts is my concentration and I am enjoying it. My work has progressed nicely and will continue to in the future. I'm very glad I decided to continue but at the same time I would really like to be done with school and settle in somewhere. Hope you're all doing well.

Calvin Ku
Business website: www.bazaaradvertising.com
Email: asnckone@yahoo.com

Currently working at Bazaar Advertising in South San Francisco as Lead Designer.

Jeffrey Martin
Business website: http://ww51.et.tiki.ne.jp/~straighttalk/
Email: jeffmjp@gmail.com

After graduation (June 04), I took a needed break, visited Japan and completed a graphic design internship in Amsterdam. Great people, very cool job and very, very cool city. My connection there will continue. I am joining Chiaki, my fiancé, and will be living indefinitely in Japan, teaching English at first. Design is on the horizon and I am very excited about my options. Demo, nihongowa muzukashi desu ne.

Shannon Menzel
Email: shannonlm12@hotmail.com

Shizuka Reid
Business website: www.click-sf.com/
Email: shizuka@click-sf.com

Started web design company CLICK in San Francisco Bay Area with my friend. Please let me know if anybody needs a good affordable website!

Ryan Rosen
Personal website: www.designry.com
Business website: www.reywire.com
Email: ryan@designry.com

Since graduation, I took a job with Square Peg Design, an Environmental Graphics firm located in Emeryville, just outside of San Francisco. It is a blend of Architecture and Graphic Design, and I couldn't be happier. Besides Square Peg, along with fellow Cal Poly students Christopher Harris and Ryan LaBarre, we have started Reywire Design. Usability is the key at Reywire, and this Art & Design website is a testament to that. Finally the Department can maintain their own website, without the need for someone with a coding background. We have completed projects in Logo Design, Business papers, promotional pieces, Flash-based web design, ecommerce websites, database backends, custom PHP online apps... and many more projects are still in the works!

Andrew Salituri
Personal website: salituridesign.com
Email: andrew@salituridesign.com

I'm currently living in San Diego and splitting my time between freelance design work and teaching at San Diego State University, where I coordinate the Graphic Design Internship program and teach Typography, Brand Identity, etc. I'm also on the board with AIGA San Diego, which has been great. I've got a few side projects in the works and hope to build those with time. Good to hear what everyone is up to.

Nitza Salomon
Business website: www.sasaki.com
Email: nitzadesign@gmail.com

I am currently living in the Boston area working as an environmental graphic designer.

April Syrek
Personal website: aprilsyrek.com
Business website: frogdesign.com
Email: april@aprilsyrek.com

I started my career as a digital media designer for Frog Design in San Francisco. At Frog, I engaged primarily in UI and interactive design for a number of well known clients. I recently took a design position at the House of Blues corporate office in Hollywood. Here I am heavily involved in design work for the music industry including poster design, package/cd design, billboard design, signage/product/merchandise/tshirt design, and motion graphics. HOB offers an array of other exciting design opportunities, including casino design and even guitar design! In my spare time I'm involved in freelance projects including real estate investment and a short film I'm collaborating on with other industry professionals. Recent work is coming to my site soon!

Sarah Uratsu
Business website: www.gbmi.net
Email: suratsu@gbmi.net

What up y'all! After graduating last year I started working as a graphic designer for a small Santa Barbara design studio called Buffalo Brothers Studios. I worked there on various things; t-shirt designs, brochures, logos/identity, etc. After six months I decided to move on and am currently working as a graphic designer at Global Brand Marketing, Inc. (GBMI) in Santa Barbara. They design, develop and market brands like Diesel, Pony, XOXO, Nautica and so forth. A lot of the work is print/marketing driven. Perks are good... Good hearing about all you!

Rob Villanueva
Business website: www.weymouthdesign.com
Email: rvillanueva@weymouthdesign.com

I found it interesting that after moving up to San Francisco, where the major art centers are the Academy and CCA, I slowly began to realize that Cal Poly holds an 'underground reputation' (for lack of better words) for producing quality thinkers in the art/design related fields. After moving to the Bay Area I began freelancing for Skaggs Design and Hunt-Weber-Clark Associates, as well as kept my own clients under RedSpike Design. In mid-October I began contracting for Weymouth Design and I am now on staff as both a graphic designer and photographer. If I learned anything, it's to be active in the professinal clubs and keep the friends you graduated with--they will save your life when you least expect it.

Photography and Digital Imagery

Kevin Barden
Personal website: www.kevinbarden.com
Business website: www.pcworld.com
Email: kevinbarden@yahoo.com

I am currently living in San Francisco and working as the advertising coordinator for pcworld.com. I really enjoy living in SF and my job at PC World is the perfect balance of creativity and business. I don’t think I could be much happier. Still playing rugby and trying to travel as much as possible. Glad to see that everyone is doing so well.

Alison Chadwick
Personal website: www.alisonchadwick.com
Email: alison@alisonchadwick.com

I am in graduate school at Cal State Fullerton and working on my MFA in Creative Photography. I am teaching undergraduate photography classes and making work of my own.

Tracey Clark
Email: traceyc@apple.com

After graduation I hadn't planned on leaving SLO anytime soon until I was brought to the attention of a job at Apple, assisting the art buyers and doing in house photo. But really I just make binders, and binder libraries. They say I'm the best they've seen.

Ruben Diaz
Email: longprocess@softhome.net

Life is full of random art jobs that keep one creative and in the thick of things. I have had my first experience with catalog photography and sad to say ended sooner than expected. As of now I am doing installer/prep work for Ace Gallery in Los Angeles and studying the work I see. While in the gallery I was an artist assistant for Tara Donovan for a month and gained much inspiration. with time that I have off I am exploring "division" two contrasting bodies and what makes them, and what is in between them. Studying Tara's work I have been bringing in different materials to experiment with. I am in the process of getting together a new body of work and exhibiting.

Anya Everett
Email: Anya09@excite.com

I'm living in San Francisco and working at a non-profit publishing company in China Basin. I love the city, and have had a ton of fun for the past year. I've been really bad at keeping in touch, but I'd love to hear from anyone that lives in the area!

Betsy Filson
Personal website: www.impellocreative.com
Business website: www.jimerickson.com
Email: impellocreative@gmail.com

After graduation in 2004, I began working in Santa Babara with photographers Macduff Everton and Richard Ross as Creative/Studio Director while freelancing in design and art direction. Currently, I live in the north Bay and work for Erickson Productions as Creative Director doing marketing and web design, art direction and editing. I continue to freelance design.

Austin Goldin
Personal website: smashpoopy.com
Business website: f13photo.com
Email: austingoldin@mac.com

I've been cooking Indian food.

Austin Goldin
Personal website: f13photo.com
Email: arvinleroux@hotmail.com

Now I'm cooking Mediteranean Cuisine.

Silas King
Business website: www.silasking.com
Email: silasking@silasking.com

Anastasia Kontaxaki
Email: anastkonta@yahoo.com

In July 2004 I started working for the stock website of Macduff Everton, a very talented travel photographer located in Santa Barbara (www.macduffeverton.com/stock). I have been learning a lot about travel photography and what images clients ask for editorial and advertising uses.

Crystal Myers
Email: Crystalhotsaucy@hotmail.com

just two-buck chuck'in it in slo-town

Renee Rupcich
Personal website: www.reneerupcich.com
Email: chitchat@reneerupcich.com

Heidi Schawel
Personal website: www.heidischawel.com
Business website: www.heidiophoto.com
Email: heidi@heidiophoto.com

After graduation my focus initially was on editorial and commercial work, as seen on my site www.heidischawel.com. However, I soon switched my focus over to photographing weddings and portraits- as on my site www.heidiophoto.com. I enjoy working from home, photographing at beautiful local sites, and meeting a variety of people. I'm also getting married in August '09 to my college sweetheart- Albert- so life's pretty exciting lately.