Instructor

Nol Honig

Nol Honig is a director, designer, and animator in New York City. In his spare time, he can often be found wearing neckties.
Over the years he has worked with an impressive array of clients, including Coca-Cola, CBS, MTV, YouTube and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 2012 he was one of the lead motion designers for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. 
Aside from his client work, Nol is also a passionate educator. In 2017 he received a Distinguished Teaching Award for his work teaching motion graphics at Parsons School of Design. He also is the creator of the popular online class After Effects Kickstart at School of Motion.
In addition to work with The Drawing Room, Nol is a regular contributor to the industry blog Motionographer where he has profiled some of the most innovative and interesting people working in motion graphics today. In 2017 he was an advisory board member and short-list judge for the Motion Awards, the first award show exclusively for the field of motion design.

Troy Leinster

Troy Leinster is an Australian typeface designer at Hoefler & Co in New York City. He holds a Masters Degree in Typeface Design from Type & Media program at The Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, and is a graduate of the first Type@Cooper Condensed Program in New York. At Hoefler & Co his projects have included retail typefaces such as the Ringside superfamily, Peristyle, Isotope, Operator Mono and Decimal.

Rina Goldfield is a painter, drawer, and bookmaker based in the Northeast. She received her BFA from the Cooper Union and her MFA from Yale University. She is passionate about teaching art to kids, teens, college students, and adults alike. Her practice foregrounds material exploration, and she loves sharing her knowledge, based on wide-ranging personal investigation, with her students. You can see her work at www.rinagoldfield.com.

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