Instructors

Instructors

Jennifer Harder Instructor

Jennifer Harder has been working as a graphic designer in the Industry for over 15 years; she has worked as an instructor at Langara since 2011. She teaches courses on the Topics of Adobe Acrobat, Creative Cloud, and Web Design.  She is the author of four Adobe related books which she has published through Apress in New York and several Instructional videos through the owner of Apress, Springer Nature.
When not working at the computer or at the college assisting students, she enjoys her other hobbies of drawing, photography and sewing. 

Gerilee McBride Instructor

Gerilee McBride is a graphic designer specializing in book design. She has worked in the BC publishing industry for over a decade and has extensive experience in production management; designing and sending to print over 70 books. Having started her artistic career in fine arts as a painter (BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design), Gerilee has developed a digital design practice—advanced from earning a Baccalaureate in Communication and a Master of Publishing—that articulates similar concerns of colour, imagery and narrative. She has previous experience as a design software instructor and publication design sessional instructor for publishing and communication courses at SFU. Gerilee focuses on working with organizations that promote social change, engagement, and community connection.
 

Kevin Lanthier Instructor

Kevin Lanthier is a visual artist, commercial photographer, and digital retoucher.  With his company Cake Imagery, he works with top creative agencies and advertising photographers in Vancouver and around the world, for clients including Jameson Whiskey, Ronald McDonald House, Telus, Rogers, Esso, Aritzia, CP Rail, Coast Capital, BC Hydro, The City of Vancouver, and many others.  He brings this strong technical foundation from the commercial world to his fine art work, building his images from dozens, if not hundreds, of separate photographs to create scenes and convey ideas in ways not possible with traditional photography alone.  His current work focuses on distilling and amplifying narratives found in urban spaces via highly controlled, concept-driven compositions.  Kevin has been working with Photoshop since before he picked up a camera, and maintains a philosophy that he will use any tool or technique available to realize the images he wishes to create.  He likes to bring this openness of possibilities to his students, to encourage them to try to create the images from their imagination, regardless of the constraints of the physical world around them.

http://www.cakeimagery.com
http://www.kevinlanthier.com

Steve Pinter Instructor

After graduating from Langara College’s Photography Program, he spent 11 years with Graphex Advertising Production – Vancouver’s premier prepress and digital imaging company. Scanning and retouching film was where he started, well, proofing actually. CMYK and prepress, he’s got that figured out. Page assembly and typography, he can do that too. Retouching, that was the whole reason for getting into prepress, that’s where it was done. More recently retouching has found its way into the hands of the photographer and the studio artist. Steve enjoyed over four years with Rethink Communications working closely with Photographers and Art Directors on some of the most memorable advertising including BC Lions and Playland. Before starting Pinter Creative Studio he was partner and senior creative retoucher at Jack Griffin CPS Inc.

Over the past eighteen years Steve has executed some of the most award-winning, photo-based print advertising in Canada, appearing at: the Marketing Awards, the Extras, the Lotus Awards, Cannes, One Show, D&AD, the Clios, in Applied Arts, Communication Arts and Lürzer’s Archive, among others.