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Jeff is a designer, an educator, and ceramicist, who enjoys creating visual narratives that offer pleasure, humor, and cutlural criticism.

Jeff holds a BSID Industrial Design from the University of Cincinnati’s College of DAAP and an MFA 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. It was while attending Cranbrook that Jeff first fell in love ceramics.

Before 2004, Jeff worked as a professional product designer at Eleven Llc, and Essential Inc, both product development consultancies in the Boston, Ma. As a designer, he worked on a wide range products for brands such as, Burton Snowboards, OXO International, Polaroid, Shure Microphones, and Corningware.

Since then, Jeff has made the switch from design professional to design professor, teaching at Wentworth Institute of Technology, (Boston, MA), where he is currently an Associate Professor of Industrial Design — shaping young mind, as well as, his ceramics.