Fred Murrell

Graphic Design + Interactive Media Chair

• MFA, College of Design, Basel, Switzerland
• BFA, University of Washington

Fred has been a design consultant, design manager, creative director and educator for over 20 years, providing design/strategy solutions that have helped shape many leading companies with a new understanding for the value of design. He worked previously for Sapient, a global consultancy, as Vice President of Experience Design where he built design communities, design systems and experience design initiatives in Germany, Japan, Australia, India, and throughout the United States.

He has held the position of Director of Design Worldwide at Texas Instruments, Corning Incorporated and Tenet Healthcare, where he designed and implemented integrated communications programs, interactive web experiences, information design environments and product design initiatives.

• Cumulus Executive Board Member
• President of the AIGA Colorado Chapter
• Member of the AIGA Educators Steering Committee
• Board Member of the Design Council at the Denver Art Museum.

Bo Bickerstaff

• BFA, Graphic Design + Interactive Media, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design

Bo's professional design experience includes the West Colfax Revitalization Identity Project, brand development for L.P. Thebault, and Image Space Object 4 & 5 Identity – AIGA. His area of creative focus is brand development.

Kent Hollrah

• MPS, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University
• BS, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

Kent is an educator and freelance designer specializing in interactive media through his agency, Simple & Stout. Prior to joining the RMCAD faculty, he served as Creative Director at Wall Street on Demand in Boulder. Specializing in rapid prototyping, product simulation, and information visualization, he designed and implemented white-labeled websites and online applications for Merrill Lynch, CNBC and Goldman Sachs.

He has held the position of Mechanical Design Engineer for Walt Disney Imagineering's Ride Department, Visiting Researcher for British Telecom's Social Computing Group, and Design Intern at both IDEO San Francisco and Microsoft Research in Redmond.

Martin Mendelsberg

Mr. Mendelsberg can be reached at mmendelsberg@rmcad.edu or view his portfolio at rmcad.digication.com/mendelsberg.

Education:

• MFA, University of Denver
• BFA, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
• Ateliers 63, The Netherlands, Foreign Study

Mr. Mendelsberg has exhibited internationally in:

• Australia
• New Zealand
• The Netherlands
• Russia
• Germany
• Israel
• US

Permanent collections include:

• The Queen Elizabeth Arts Council of New Zealand
• The Museum of New Zealand
• Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
• Victoria University School of Architecture
• University of Canterbury
• Yale University
• The Center for the Study of Political Graphics
• The Florida Holocaust Museum

Mr. Mendelsberg is a designer and typographer and serves as a Lead Creative Consultant for BrandED Consultant's Group in Denver. He specializes in strategic brand and identity development. Mr. Mendelsberg’s research encompasses ancient Hebrew scribal arts, his typeface designs are marketed in Israel by Masterfont Ltd.

Randy Fox

• BFA, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design
• Graduate of studio arts at Clark University, MA

Freelance graphic designer creating interpretive exhibits for visitor centers. Projects include:

• TecH2o Center, El Paso Water Utilities, El Paso, TX
• University of Wyoming, Archaeological and Anthropology Center, Laramie, WY
• The Breckenridge Welcome Center, Breckenridge, CO
• Golden Gate State Park Visitor Center, Golden CO
• Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita, KS
• Holy Cross Visitors Center, Minturn, CO
• Boulder Recycling, Boulder, CO

Shane Kendrick

• MFA , Virginia Commonwealth University
• BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University

Mr. Kendrick has created design solutions within the print, web, broadcast and exhibit disciplines. Formerly, he was the Creative director at Group360, a small advertising, graphic design and public relations firm in Washington DC.

Prior to this he was an art director at Diesel Design, a graphic design firm in San Francisco, where he specialized in identity system creation and implementation.

Mr. Kendrick has also instructed at the Corcoran School of Art + Design, in Washington, DC.