About Richard Homa...

Rich is a graphic designer, web designer, educator, trainer, instructional designer and painter. He developed and taught both online and on-ground Graphic Design, Web Design and Computer Science courses at Warren County Community College (Washington NJ). He retired as an Associate Professor in 2024 after relocating to Knoxville, Tennessee.

In addition to his many roles at the college, he also developed project-based Graphic Design curriculum for Technical Schools throughout New Jersey as a consultant for the Office of Career & Technical Education (CTE) division of the NJ DOE. He also served as the chair of the CTE Graphic Design Advisory Committee for the state of New Jersey. See original Graphic Design CTE Web Site created in 2015 for NJ participating schools.

Rich began his design career as a comp/paste-up artist and transitioned to digital pre-press and desktop publishing for a Lehigh Valley printing company. He later began teaching training classes on desktop publishing and web design software and provided Mac software support, before going on to teach at the college level as an adjunct instructor and then a full-time tenured professor.

As a painter, Rich paints portraits that incorporate subjects in natural settings that often create a narrative scene. He utilizes his photos and creates compositions in Adobe Photoshop before committing oil on canvas. His painting and photography work have been shown at a number of public exhibitions over the years in the Lehigh Valley and New Jersey. See artwork samples in external Behance Online Portfolio

For his online students, Rich developed a YouTube channel to make his lessons more accessible. His homawccc channel has over 1K subscribers and his homastudio YouTube channel, which offers tutorials for the general public, has also gained a steady following.

In his free time, he created a craft lager beer review YouTube channel (and #tnlagers Instagram profile) as an influencer to promote TN (formerly PA) locally-brewed craft lagers.

Rich received his Bachelor's degree in Graphic & Advertising Design from Moravian College and a Master of Science in Instructional Design and Development from Lehigh University.

Rich recently earned his Online Teaching Certificate through Quality Matters in preparation for an Instructional Design role where he hopes to utilize his past experience to help institutions offer quality and engaging online instruction.