MFA 2D Design, 2013
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, USA
PGC Type Design, 2012
Cooper Union, New York, USA
MDes Graphic Design, 2011
York University, Toronto, Canada
BA English and Multimedia, 2009
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
EXPERIENCE
Department Assistant, 2012–2013
2D Design Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Adjunct Professor, 2012
ARTS 250 Graphic Design I, Eastern Michigan University
Instructor, 2011
YSDN 1010 Introduction to Design: Practice and Appreciation, York University
Ethnographer, 2011
Play:CES Lab, York University
Designer/Research Assistant, 2009-2011
Mobile Media Lab, York University
Marker, 2010
YSDN 2108 History of Typography, York University
GUEST CRITIC
Lawrence Technological University, 2012
CURATORIAL PRACTICE
Off the Wall IV, 2013
Studio Couture, Detroit, Michigan
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2013 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2013
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
-ANTI MATTER-, 2013
Cranbrook Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Types We Can Make, 2012
Cooper Union Gallery, New York, New York
Modular 22, 2012
Studio/22, Chicago, Illinois
Creative Type 4, 2012
Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Off the Wall III, 2012
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, USA
Marconi Ruins, 2011
Collaboration with Mobile Media Lab
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Ultralight, 2010
Collaboration with MDes students and Harmen Liemburg
York University, Toronto, Canada
It’s Like Warm Apple Pie: The Deconstruction of Youth Culture, Sexuality and
Identity in Mass Media, 2009
Collaboration with Adam Ferraro
The Factory, Hamilton, Canada
PUBLICATIONS
Various Work: Cranbrook Graduate Degree Catalogue. Visual Inquiries: A Practical Field Guide. Cranbrook Academy of Art. 2013
I'm Fine with Government Regulated Execution: Berahimi, Bijan. FISK 006: The Apocalypse Issue. California Institute of the Arts. 2013
Peak/Pique Inside & Nuclear Family: Tselentis, Jason, Allan Haley, Richard Poulin, Tony Seddon, Gerry Leonidas, and Ina Saltz. Typography, Referenced: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to the Language, History, and Practice of Typography. Rockport Publishers. 2012
SYMPOSIUMS
Amateur Vandals: Graphic Interventions in the City, 2010
Panel Member/Presenter
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
ACCOLADES
Cranbrook Purchase Award, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Recipient of Graduate Funding, York University, Toronto, Canada
Dean's List, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada