Hey there!

I’m Matt Cram, a designer with over 25 years of experience in graphic design and education. For over two decades, I’ve been shaping future design stars as a professor at Shawnee State University. As the owner of Cram Design, I’ve partnered with big names like Epic Games and Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, delivering top-notch design solutions. I also had the good fortune of being a founding member of the Figma Educational Advisory Board, dedicated to closing the design divide.

Ready to create something interesting? Let’s go!

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Curriculum Vitae

Contents

1. Basic Information
   
2. Education
   
3. Work History
   
4. Notable Accomplishments
   
5. Professional Memberships

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Basic Information

Design leader with 25+ years of experience in graphic design and design education; 11+ years of leadership. Skilled at Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign) as well as sketching and hand drawing. Tacos when and where I can find them.

Personal

Matt Cram
Design: mcram(at)me.com
Academics: mcram(at)shawnee.edu

https://cramdesign.com
https://mattcram.com
https://x.com/cramdesign
https://instagram.com/cram.design/

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Education

Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Art
Vermont College, 2002

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Graphic Design
Morehead State University, 1995

Competencies

• Graphic design, typography, and layout
  
• Brand and identity design
  
• Project assessment, planning, and management
  
• Client/student communication
  
• Mentorship and teaching
  
• Curriculum development
  
• Team leadership
  
• Critical thinking
  
• Critique facilitation, design iteration
  
• HTML/CSS

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Work History

Leadership

Department Chair
Fine, Digital, and Performing Arts Department
2005 - 2009; 2015 - 2022

Responsibilities:

• 8 full-time and 30 part-time faculty
  
• roughly 300 majors
  
• represent and promote the department
  
• assess needs and plan goals
  
• first point of contact for new students and faculty
  
• teaching assignments and schedule
  
• faculty hiring
  
• budgeting and purchasing
  
• new program development
  
• student advisor

Instruction

Professor, Graphic Design, Tenure
Shawnee State University
9/9/99 - Present

Responsibilities:

• develop curriculum
  
• instructional delivery, online and in person
  
• improve existing programs
  
• suggest and develop new programs
  
• student advising
  
• serve on department and university committees

Design

• Brand and identity
  
• Graphic design
  
• Web design
  
• Social media graphics
  
• Pitch decks
  
• Conference graphics
  
• Art direction

Cram Design, Sole Proprietor, 1999 - present

Epic Games, Guest Art Director, Summer 2022

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, 2017 - 2024

Southern Ohio Performing Arts Association, 1998 - 2017

Group 94, Summer 2006, Gent, Belgium

Southern Ohio Medical Center, 1996 - 1999

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Notable Accomplishments

• Founding member of Figma Educational Advisory Board
  
• Co-founded Footer.design with Benten Woodring and Devin Fountain
  
• 25+ years of brand and marketing design experience
  
• Core contributor to WordPress 3.9
  
• Created the Graphic Design curriculum at SSU, 1999 (wow! long ago)
  
• Awarded an FWA for my personal site (no longer online)
  
• Presenter at Figma Commons, an education conference, 2022

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Professional Memberships

Educational Advisory Board for Figma, Founding member
Selected as 1 of 10 educators nationally
Fall 2021 - present

American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
http://www.aiga.org

Columbus Society of Communicating Arts
http://www.cscarts.org