Meet Your Lecturers

Jessica Walsh is a designer and art director living in NYC. Her impressive client list includes Jay-Z, Barneys, The New York Times, Levi’s and The Museum of Modern Art—just to name a few. Named by Forbes Magazine, one of the “30 under 30 top creatives designing the future,” her work has won most major design awards and has been featured in books, galleries, museums and magazines worldwide. Her wildly successful website and book “40 Days of Dating” is being turned into a movie.

Debbie Millman is a designer, author, curator and host of the popular podcast, Design Matters. She’s been named “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA and “one of the most creative people working in the business” by Fast Company. Her written and visual essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Print Magazine, Design Observer and Fast Company.

Adam J. Kurtz (aka @adamjk) is an artist and author whose illustrative work is rooted in honesty, humor and a little darkness. His books have been translated into over a dozen languages and his “very personal” work for clients like Strand Bookstore and Urban Outfitters has been featured in the New Yorker, VICE, Adweek and more. His latest book, Things Are What You Make of Them is a handwritten essay collection that tackles the creative process and realities of entrepreneurship. He’s previously held creative positions at Barton F. Graf, BuzzFeed, Houpla and others.

Alexandra Zsigmond is an award-winning art director and visual thinker working at the intersection of fine art, illustration and editorial design. From 2010-17, she was an art director for the New York Times’ Opinion section, commissioning original illustration for articles, curating art-driven features, and designing for both print and digital. She’s art directed over 4000 editorial illustrations and collaborated with over 1000 artists worldwide. As an art director, she strives to push artists toward the creation of their best, most original work, and toward visual solutions that are at once striking, incisive and experimental.

Frankie Ratford is a full time adventurer obsessed with design, travel and business. She is the Founder and Creative Directive of the Design Kids and spends her spare time coaching her favorite Graphic Design businesses around the globe.

Nicole Ginelli is a Brooklyn-based Art Director, Animator and Illustrator. Her clientbase includes MTV, Warner Music, Vice, Giphy, Bloomberg, and Medium. Currently she teaches Graphic and Web Design courses at Pratt. Previously she was the Editorial Art Director at Bandcamp and an Interactive Designer at Pitchfork.

Based in Barcelona and London, Javier has been working as a graphic designer for over 10 years. He’s designed illustrations, editorials and concepts for the world’s largest companies including, Lacoste, Gillette, Coca-Cola, Google, American Express and Converse. What’s inspired him to become a graphic designer? Shopping in the supermarket with his mom, where he realized the importance cereal box packaging in choosing his morning breakfast.

Yotam Kellner is the Lead Mentor for the Wix Design Playground. Over the past 4 years, he’s worked as a web designer in the Wix Studio. He’s presented at design talks in the US, Brazil, Lithuania and Israel where he teaching Wix Editor basics. Previously, he was co-owner of Soul-Royale.com, a motion design studio in Tel Aviv. 

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The Workshop: Photography

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This workshop will give you an overview of photograph equipment including cameras and lenses. You’ll learn the anatomy of a camera and how to capture successful and interesting images. We’ll focus on core photographic concepts as well as some more advanced techniques.

Yatir is a seasoned designer whose career has led him from building teams in small edgy startups to  heading design at a Eurotech unicorn to building the Product Design Guild at Wix. The guild, constructed of 30+ versatile designers, are in charge of the Wix user of user experience. Yatir believes that a team can always develop through training, tools and work frames.

Born in Australia and based in Los Angeles, Justin Maller is the Chief Creative Officer for DeviantArt—the largest online art community in the world. Previously he worked as a freelance illustrator and art director for 15 years, producing illustrations and art concepts for the industries top brands and publications worldwide. He’s also known for his year-long project, Facets, and his international modern art collective, The Depthcore Collective.

Eyal is the team leader in Wix's in house Motion Studio. He manages and directs animation and video projects for Wix’s online campaigns, social channel, product packaging and branding. Before Wix, he worked as a motion graphic designer for TV branding and packaging. In 2012, Eyal graduated HIT with a degree in Graphic Design.

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​Guy is a senior animator and motion designer for the Wix Broadcast team. He specializes in 2D character animation and telling stories through movement. Over the last 3 years, he’s been creating animations for marketing, acquisition and product videos. In 2012, Guy graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

You may know Vuong as the Head of the Wix Design Playground, where he develops the course curriculum, recruits students and promotes the program. Before Wix, Vuong worked for a design firm that produced annual reports, developed branding, and created interactive visual experiences. His passion for solving complex business challenges inspired him to pursue Innovation Management at Central Saint Martins in London. When he returned to the US, he focused on supporting creatives at Fahrenheit 212.

As a graduate of the Fashion Merchandise Marketing program from FIT, Hadas Getter has always been interested in the science of  trend forecasting and taste making. Before she joined Wix in 2016 as a visual expert, she worked at Keshet International where she bought and sold TV formats, and at Screenz, the company that developed the app for the popular show Rising Star. Today, Hadas leads the Visual Experts team, which forecasts and predicts the future needs of Wix users.

Nitzan is a team leader in the Wix Editor Platform team. The team’s everyday challenge is to unify the flows of the many different Wix products, providing Wix users with one streamlined experience of using the Wix Editor, throughout the lifecycle of building their site. Currently, her team are creating a platform for building Web Applications, expanding Wix and opening it up to brand new markets.

Asaf Shevach is the Product Marketing Manager for Corvid by Wix. Responsible for onboarding new users and making sure they come back. He has a decade of experience in the digital realm of Product, UX design and Marketing.

Shoshanna Silberman is a UX Writer at Wix. She creates engaging, user-friendly content for several products, including Wix Arena, SEO Wiz, Email Marketing and Social Posts. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, going to the beach and chasing her 2 kids around the house (though maybe 'enjoy' isn't the right word).

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Yotam Kellner has been a web designer in the Wix Studio for the past 4 years. He’s presented dozens of Editor demos and design talks in the US, Brazil, Lithuania and Israel. Previously, he co-founded Soul-Royale.com, a motion design studio in Tel Aviv. 

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Amit Drenger is a Product Manager at Wix.com. For the past 3 years, he’s focused on the needs of small businesses, developing automated marketing solutions for SEO, social media, email marketing and more. Previously, he was Head of Marketing at the Israel Tennis Centers Foundation.

Ben Benhorin is a designer, educator and digital artist based in Tel Aviv. Currently heading the Design System team at Wix.com, a team in charge of defining and building design & code infrastructure for multiple products. He is an alumnus of the Bezalel Academy's Visual Communication Department in Jerusalem, and now serves as senior faculty member and head of the Digital Product Design at Shenkar College of Engineering & Design in Tel Aviv. He served as a consultant to major start-up companies in Israel, and has worked internationally on a number of successful web projects and products, among which he won the prestigious TechCrunch Disrupt award. He specializes in meaningful interaction design solutions, systems thinking and generative art installations.

Bat-El Sebbag has worked as part of Wix’s UX guild for the past 7 years, as a designer and team leader. Today she manages a multi-disciplinary core UX team that contains UX designers, illustrators, a prototyper and animator. This team is a valuable ‘commando’ style team that allows Wix products agility and velocity by contributing its talents wherever in Wix they’re needed. Bat-El graduated from Bezalel Art & Design academy with a visual Communications degree.