Joe Staluppi is an Associate Professor at FIT where he has updated the Advertising & Digital Design curriculum so that it prepares the students for creative excellence in the digital age. The new Advertising & Digital Design program teaches students to succeed in the new creative partnership, in which art director, copywriter, and technologist work together to communicate messages that make people react, respond, join in and do something.

Last year the students in the FIT Advertising & Digital Design Program won the One Show Young Ones Gold Pencil and the D&AD New Blood Yellow Pencil.

Before teaching at FIT, Joe had done many brand building campaigns for clients such as Crest, Norelco, Pampers, Black & Decker, Mass Mutual, New Jersey Tourism and Lottery while working at Y&R, DMB&B, Bozell and McCann. Those campaigns won over 50 creative awards including The One Show, The Clio, The ANDY, The ADDY, and The International Advertising Festival of NY Gold Medal, the CA Advertising Annual and Adweek’s Best Spots.