Graphic Design Faculty

Douglas Kisor is the chair of the Graphic Design Department at CCS. He has extensive experience as a guest speaker and has a long list of published works.

Alex Braidwood has shown print, motion, and interactive work locally and nationally in gallery shows as well as juried exhibitions.

David Buffington has over 30 years experience in print media design and has won numerous awards for advertising, merchandising, publishing and direct marketing work.

Brian Castle was an associate and senior designer at nationally and internationally recognized design firms Herman Design Group and Ford & Earl Associates before co-founding CastleNason Design.

Dustin Davis is a Senior Multimedia Art Director at Campbell-Ewald with a range of experience in interactive media. A graduate of CCS, he has worked on an array of project types including alternate reality games, video games, e-Learning, integrated launch campaigns, community building, and new business, as well as websites and CDs. His client list includes Chevy, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, GM, Pfizer, the U.S. Navy, the University of Michigan and Alltel. His work has won a variety of industry awards

Bonnie Detloff Zielinski has more than 20 years of experience in the field of Graphic Design.

Nelson Greer has over 40 years of experience as a professional designer.

James Houff is currently affiliated with WDIV/TV, a Post-Newsweek Station in Detroit, where he serves as the Design Director.

Susan LaPorte received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1991 and her BFA from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1989. Her clients include University Musical Society, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Wayne State University; English Language Institute; University of Michigan Botanical Gardens; General Motors Design Center; College for Creative Studies; and ArtServe Michigan.

Matthew Raupp has been a partner at Defrost Design for six years. Defrost creates print and interactive communications for a variety of educational and corporate clients.

Since 1997, Chad Reichert has been the proprietor of spirit3design, a studio specializing in visual communications and typographic endeavors.

Susan Thornton Rogers has worked for several design offices around the country that have national and international design accounts.

A founding partner of Elevator, Lisa Salonen has designed in a variety of applications and has directed projects for entertainment, culture, fashion, teen, architecture, education, technology, pharmaceutical and sport markets.

Craig Steen has been partner at Defrost Design for seven years, adjunct faculty at the College for Creative Studies for sears years and is the current co- president of the Detroit AIGA chapter.

Elizabeth Youngblood has worked with architects Albert Kahn Associates and Smith Hinchman & Grylls, Burroughs (now Unisys) Corporation, The New York Times, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Rodale Press, and McGraw-Hill in staff positions as designer, art director and/or creative director.