Brendan Griffiths
Chair, Graphic Design & Illustration
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Griffiths is a multidisciplinary designer, programmer, and educator with 11 years of experience shaping interaction design and digital product curricula at top art schools. Currently Chair of Graphic Design & Illustration at Otis College and co-founder of the studio ZUT ALORS!, he balances academic leadership—building programs, hiring faculty, and guiding student work—with hands-on studio practice for clients like Bloomberg, The New York Times, and Condé Nast. He founded and directed Parsons’ accelerated MPS in Communication Design, teaching courses from Typography and Interaction to Creative Computing and advanced JavaScript. Based in Los Angeles and holding an MFA from Yale, Brendan blends rigorous craft with technical fluency, often translating research-driven pedagogy into public exhibitions and commissioned work. An understated through-line of his career is the ability to scale intimate creative processes into sustainable programs and studios that launch both careers and cultural projects.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Multimedia Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Multimedia Design at University of OregonMaster of Fine Arts - MFA, Graphic Design, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Graphic Design at Yale University
Github Skills (18)
trellis8
wordpress7
wp-cli7
orientation6
nginx6
tilt6
ansible5
parallax5
heroku4
lemp4
php4
custom-post-type4
lima-vm4
react4
composer4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
griffiths/web2
Jan 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:139 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
parsons/parsons.github.io
May 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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