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Vinz Feller
Director, editor
educAtion: BFA, with honors, School of Visual Arts
film projects include: Eventually There, Jasmine & Daffodil,
Royally Mad, I Do Over, Fix My Family, Night Life Exchange
Project
AwArds include: Stellar Award, Black Maria Film Festival; Special
Jury Award, USA Film Festival; National Board of Review of Motion
Pictures; Quality Award, Swiss Department of Cultural Affairs; Rhodes
Family Award, School of Visual Arts
weBsite: www.vinzfeller.com
Nicholas Felton
Co-founder, daytum.com
educAtion: BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
clients include: CNN, Fast Company, FontShop, Metropolis,
The New York Times, Print, Wired, Time, Penguin, WNYC
puBlicAtions include: IdN, Print, Wall Street Journal, Wired,
The New York Times
Books include: Contributor, Fully Booked: Cover Art and Design
for Books; Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the
Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design Data Flow:
Visualizing Information in Graphic Design 1 & 2; Typography 26
AwArds include: Best in Show, South by Southwest; Art Directors
Club Young Guns; Excellence in Type Design, Type Directors Club
weBsites: www.feltron.com, www.daytum.com
archie Ferguson
Art director, HarperCollins. Formerly, art director, Pantheon
Books, Schocken Books
educAtion: BFA, School of Visual Arts
clients include: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Alfred A. Knopf;
Harcourt; Simon & Schuster, Inc.; W.W. Norton & Company;
Houghton Mifflin; Viking Penguin; Hyperion
puBlicAtions include: Graphis, New York magazine, I.D., Print
AwArds include: AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers, Print Regional
Design Annual, New York Book Show Awards
Michael Filan
Art educator; painter; printmaker; student teaching supervisor,
MAT Art Education Department, School of Visual Arts
educAtion: BFA, MPS, Pratt Institute
exhiBitions include: Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers,
NJ; TAI Gallery; Bronx Museum of the Arts; Mary Anthony Gallery;
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; Food Stamp
Gallery; Lehman College Art Gallery; SUNY Fredonia; Triangle Arts
collections include: Pfizer, H.J. Heinz Corporation, Colgate-
Palmolive
AwArds include: Bronx Council on the Arts, Virginia Center
Fellowship, Studio in a School Association
louise Fili
President, Louise Fili Ltd.
educAtion: BS, Skidmore College
collections include: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Library of
Congress; Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; Musée des
Art Decoratifs
Books include: The Civilized Shopper’s Guide to Florence.
Co-author, Typology: Type Design from the Victorian Era to the
Digital Age; Euro Deco: Graphic Design Between the Wars;
Streamline: American Art Deco Graphic Design; Stylepedia: A
Guide to Graphic Design Mannerisms, Quirks, and Conceits;
Design Connoisseur: An Eclectic Collection of Imagery and Type;
Italianissimo
AwArds And honors include: Hall of Fame Laureate, Art
Directors Club; gold and silver awards, Art Directors Club; Society
of Illustrators; Premio Grafico, Bologna Book Fair
Victor Fina
Computer graphic technical director
educAtion: BFA, School of Visual Arts
clients include: Syfy, CBS News, Bear Stearns, Golf Channel,
Johnson & Johnson, Disney, Ford, New York Stock Exchange,
Nickelodeon, MSG Network, VH1, New York University Medical
Center
Micah Fink
Director, producer, journalist
educAtion: BA, magna cum laude, Cornell University; MS, with
honors, Columbia University
film And television projects include: Mann v. Ford; Blue
Collar Dogs; The Glass Closet: Sex, Stigma and HIV/AIDS in
Jamaica; Hard Time, Breaking Point; H5N1–Killer Flu; AIDS
Warriors; Frontier House; Hopkins 24/7; Jefferson’s Blood; Japan’s
About Face; Marijuana in America; The Lost Children of Rockdale
County; Inside Scientology
puBlicAtions include: Atlantic, Newsday, Washington City
Paper, Cornell Alumni Magazine, New Arts Examiner
AwArds And honors include: Cine Golden Eagle; Gold Medal,
Council for Advancement and Support of Education; Japan Society
Media Fellowship; Kaiser Family Foundation; Project Censored;
Nona Balakian Award, Columbia University
Peter Fiore
Fine artist, illustrator
educAtion: Pratt Institute
one-person exhiBitions include: Miller Gallery, Cincinnati;
Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, CT; Scottsdale Fine Art, AZ; Travis
Gallery, New Hope, PA; Churchill Gallery, Newburyport, MA;
Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
clients include: American Express; Simon & Schuster, Inc.; Ralph
Lauren; Texaco; Nikon; CBS; Exxon; AT&T; National Geographic;
Young & Rubicam; McGraw-Hill; Canon; 3M; Hertz; Philip Morris;
Bill Blass; J. Walter Thompson; Pepsi; Eastman Kodak; Macmillan;
Reader’s Digest; Time Inc.; TV Guide; McCall’s; Izod
collections include: Eddie Bauer Corporation, U.S. Olympic
Committee, Imperial Bank of Canada, Kodak, NBC, Society of
Illustrators, IBM, U.S. Army, ABC, Citibank
puBlicAtions include: Fine Art Connoisseur; American Artist;
The Illustrator in America, 1860–2000; Artist’s Magazine;
American Art Collector
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