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Natalie F. Smith is a book designer at Duke University Press. Previously, she was an in-house book designer at the University of Chicago Press. Natalie grew up in Louisiana and began her career in book design with an internship at Louisiana State University Press. Her cover designs have been recognized by AIGA, Print, The Society of Typographic Arts, Communication Arts, and the American Association of University Presses.

Natalie’s Portfolio

Brock Barlow is a post production coordinator at Leftfield Entertainment, one of the largest leading production companies in New York City’s booming television industry. Brock has worked on many shows that have aired on multiple networks such as Food Network, History Channel, FYI, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, HGTV, and Travel Channel. His recent projects include Travel Channel’s Breaking Borders and History Channel’s Counting Cars.

Brock graduated from the LSU School of Art in 2013 with a BFA in digital art.

Cody Arnall received his Master of Fine Art in sculpture from the LSU School of Art in 2010. He is an artist-in-residence and instructor at the Paducah School of Art and Design in Kentucky. Cody’s recent exhibitions include:

Here and Not Here, a three-person show with Edward Kelley and Megan Stroech, DEMO Project and Springfield Art Association, M.G. Nelson Gallery, Springfield, Illinois, 2015;

Heading Towards Midnight, a solo exhibition at Myers North Gallery, Living Arts, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2015;

An Island is Unreliable, two-person show with Sarah Smith, curated by Megan Whittaker Nesbit, Janice Mason Art Museum, Cadiz, Kentucky, 2014; and

Readymade@100, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C., 2014.

View more of Cody’s work at codyarnall.com.

Cody’s Portfolio

Image 1 and 2: It’s Lonely out Here, 2015; coyote pelt, door, doorknob, salvaged wood, plywood, zip ties, grommets, polyurethane adhesive, pigment, steel, hardware, lamp parts, wood glue, window screen, sawdust, studio debris, metal flake, cd player and receiver playing recorded sounds of artist’s mother’s pug; dimensions variable

Image 3: The Universe is Against You, 2015; small typewriter desk hit with a sledgehammer four times, hardware, plywood, DVD player, digital projector projecting mapped video of the artist’s dog running in front of a corn field; dimensions variable

Image 4: The Elevated Section of the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway, 2014; parking Cones, tar, carpet padding, cheerleader megaphone with speaker playing audio of seagulls, car cd deck, computer power supply, boat rope, wood, zip ties, hardware, tin, blue sand, speaker wire, steel; dimensions variable

Image 5: Laid to Rest, 2012; steel, caster, tarp, window screen, wood glue, sawdust, red art, wood, screws, wire; 6’6″ x 2′ x 4’6″

Nominated by the Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she is a resident artist, Roberta Massuch received an Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts in the amount of $10,000 from the Independence Foundation in Philadelphia. The award will fund her participation in an eight-week residency at the Arquetopia Foundation for Development in Puebla, Mexico, next summer (2016) and subsequent solo exhibition at the Clay Studio in fall 2016 (TBD). Roberta earned her MFA in ceramics at LSU in 2013. Visit robertamassuch.com for more information about Roberta and to view her work.

As vice president of marketing communications and media at Nissan North America, Jeremy Tucker is responsible for marketing communications for the Nissan brand in the United States. Jeremy joined Nissan from Disney Consumer Products where he led a franchise-focused strategic marketing organization across product business units and collaborated across the Walt Disney Company to ensure consistency with content creators. Jeremy holds a BFA and BS in marketing from LSU and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.

Bradley Furnish is an editor at Pixar Animation Studios. His film credits include Toy Story 3, Brave, and the television special Toy Story That Time Forgot. In addition to his work at Pixar, Bradley continues to work on independent projects ranging in content and style. He is particularly proud to have edited Pixar’s It Gets Better PSA, the short film Cologne, and, most recently, the hand-painted animated film The Dam Keeper—which was screened at the LSU Digital Media Center on April 16, 2015. Bradley graduated from the LSU School of Art with a BFA in graphic design in 2004.

The Dam Keeper

After graduating from LSU with a BFA in graphic design in 2012, Ashley Stewart worked at LSU University Relations for a year before deciding to invest her talents and time into a start-up, The Patent Pump, cofounded with a close friend and fellow alumna.

David Craig Mastrianni graduated from Satellite High School in Satellite Beach, Florida, in 1976 and went into the Marine Corps. By 1982, he had also served in the U.S. Army and was stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. He spent most of his life surfing from Cocoa Beach to Sebastian Inlet Florida before deciding to attend the LSU School of Art. He spend part of his final year at LSU in Florence, Italy, where he fell in love with Renaissance art. He graduated with a BFA in Studio Art with a focus in printmaking in 1995. He is an artist at Webman Studios in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

David’s Portfolio

What do Adidas, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bon Appétit, Entertainment Weekly, Good Housekeeping, GQ, Paramount Pictures, Target Corporation, The Hollywood Reporter, Tiffany & Co., and Time Inc. have in common? At one time or another, each has hired Tal Leming, a type designer and letterer who founded his own type foundry, Type Supply, in 2005—less than 10 years after graduating from the LSU School of Art with a BFA in graphic design.

Tal has come a long way since he designed his first font as a freshman at LSU. After graduation, he worked as a graphic designer at a local firm in Baton Rouge, until a “miscommunication” led to his first official assignment to design a typeface for House Industries. In 2001, Tal moved to Delaware to join House as a type designer and graphic designer, but said he ended up obsessing too much over the graphic design. “I couldn’t just let the graphic design be a day job, and I wasn’t doing as much type design as I wanted.” In 2005, Tal left House Industries and started his own type foundry, where he focuses on designing typefaces for himself and others. “It’s a lot of fun, and I’m lucky to be able to work with so many interesting, smart, awesome clients and colleagues.”

When he’s not designing type faces and lettering, Tal teaches a type design class at MICA. He is also known for pushing the boundaries of type technology. Tal has written OpenType feature code for his friends at House Industries, Commercial Type, and Typotheque, making fonts do things they have never done before. He and a couple of his Dutch colleagues created a universal file format for fonts, Unified Font Objects (UFO), and he coauthored the Web Open Font Format and was part of the working group that moved WOFF through the World Wide Web Consortium’s recommendation process. Their file format was combined with a proposal by Jonathan Kew of Mozilla and the result became the standard for W3C. In his almost 20-year career, Tal has played a significant, often leading, role in the current and future use and creation of type. But it hasn’t gone to his head, and he is proud of where his career started. In 2014, Tal generously donated several typefaces—Balto, Marigny, Ohm, Timonium, and Torque—to LSU’s Graphic Design Student Office.

To Tal, this generosity is quantifiable. “It’s LSU. It’s where I went to school. I’ll give them anything they need.” Read more about Tal in the February 2015 Alumni Spotlight.

Tal’s Portfolio