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Zippy Thumim is a graphic designer with over 25 years’ experience in the graphic design field. She trained in a London Design School for 3 years of full-time study and has continued her education gaining a Bachelors Degree. She runs a successful freelance Graphic Design business and is well known for her book jacket designs and layout work for publishers such as Feldheim, Targum, Hamodia, Oz Vehodor and Israel Bookshop. She has been teaching Graphic Design for over 20 years in different schools on a variety of courses. She is now directing Design Alive to provide the best possible internet-based courses for tomorrow’s designers. Well-known in the field, clients constantly are in touch with her to recommend students for potential jobs.

Alyse has been teaching graphic design for 12 years at the mid-Manhattan college of Wood Tobe-Coburn. Having headed the department for the past 10 years, she works closely with the students throughout their two years at the college, instructing classes in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Design Principles, Design History, Traditional Drawing, Layout Techniques, Typography and Web Development. Alyse also guides each student individually through his or her portfolio curriculum, each resulting in a complete design and print portfolio.
Alyse studied art history and fine art at Princeton University, where she obtained her BA in Art and Design. After working in the field of graphic design for a short while and beginning her teaching career as a graphic design seminar instructor, she continued her studies in the Masters’ program in graphic design at Savannah College of Art and Design. Alyse currently enjoys freelancing as a graphic designer, teaching graphic design, painting and caring for her own four children.