Jennifer Bernstein

Visiting Associate Professor

M.F.A., Yale University
B.A., Brown University

Founding Principal / Creative Director and Design Educator with over 19 years experience. Her firm, Level Design Group, is a full-service creative agency that specializes in design across multiple media platforms. Since 1998, Level has collaborated with clients to shape work ranging from branding programs to interactive experiences and websites, magazines, annual reports, exhibitions and title sequences. As Principal, Jennifer collaborates with corporations, organizations, filmmakers and artists to help them reach their goals through strategy, technology, and design.

Prior to founding the firm, Jennifer was a Senior Designer at Wechsler & Partners and Balsmeyer & Everett Inc. in NYC where she designed campaigns for the financial sector and title sequences for feature films respectively, including for the films Fargo, Girl 6, The First Wives Club, and Waiting To Exhale.

Clients include: Deutsche Bank, The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, P.S. 1/ MoMA, The New York City Department of Education, Merck, DARPA, The New York Foundation for the Arts, MetLife and OPERA America. Her film work has been featured at The Sundance Film Festival, "New Directors, New Films" at MoMA, The New York International Documentary Film Festival and on PBS. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Type In Motion (Rizzoli Books), I.D. Magazine, and in Zed, The Virginia Commonwealth University Design Journal. Her work has won Best of Category in the ID Magazine Design Annual, and a 2008 Create Award.

Jennifer began teaching in 1999 and has been on the faculty at UArts in Philadelphia since 2000, and has also taught at NYU, SVA, and M.I.C.A.

Jennifer teaches in the MFA Communications Design program.