Rose DiSanto

Rose DiSanto is principal of DiSanto Design, a Philadelphia-based design firm experienced in developing everything from full branding and strategy systems to complex websites, advertising campaigns, and print collateral. Her work has been recognized for its excellence by peer organizations such as The Advertising Club of Greater Boston, Communication Arts, The One Club New York, Graphis, Print, and The Philadelphia Ad Club, among others.

Rose is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Graphic Design Program in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University. She has also held teaching positions at Philadelphia University (now Jefferson), University of Delaware and Massachusetts College of Art—and is a frequent guest lecturer and reviewer at many area universities.

Rose is a former member of the board of AIGA Philadelphia where she created and founded the city’s first mentorship program for graphic designers. That program is now a model for other AIGA chapters in cities across the country.

In addition to her career in design, she also teaches weekly yoga classes at Yoga Home, a studio whose mission belief is that ‘yoga is for EVERY body’.

Rose has a long history of volunteer work: in public schools both in Boston and Philadelphia (here in Philly, she brought bookmaking workshops to 8th-graders at the Alexander Adaire School and co-led a semester-long workshop in creative advertising at the Russell H. Conwell Middle Magnet School), with many community organizations (including Roots2Rise, a grassroots nonprofit that brings accessible yoga and mindfulness classes to all communities throughout Philadelphia)—and, since 1989, she has been a devoted volunteer (and summer counselor) at Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford, Connecticut.

Rose holds a Bachelor of Science in Visual Communications from the University of Delaware and a Masters in the Arts in Education from Harvard University. She has her 200-hour yoga teacher certification and will complete her 75-hour yin certification in April 2023. She currently resides in Philadelphia with her husband, Stephen—except for a week each July, where she can be found doing arts and crafts with children at The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.

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