Andrew Shalat has been teaching at Sessions since 2007. He is an author, designer/illustrator, educator, and Mac expert. For a short time, he was an actor in in film and television. Since 1985 he has been designing and writing articles about Graphic Design, Macintosh, Mac software, and publishing technologies that have appeared in Macworld, maccentral.com and macweek.com (for which he was a columnist writing "Shalat's Web"). He holds both a Master’s Degree in English Literature and a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Experience and Graphic Design. To date, he has written three books: How to Do Everything with Online Video (McGraw-Hill, Osborne), Do It Yourself Mac Projects (McGraw-Hill), and MacDesign Out of the Box (Peachpit). His design work has covered a large range of media from print, web, identity campaigns to sometimes just plain old layout. He is currently writing a collection of essays on Design (with a big D).