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Christopher Simmons
Christopher Simmons is a designer, writer and educator. In 2004 he stated his own consultancy, appropriately named MINE™. Christopher has developed, designed and managed a variety of design and identity projects for such clients as Kaiser Permanente, The Nature Conservancy, The California Academy of Sciences, UCLA, and numerous lesser-known enterprises. Christopher developed and taught a course entitled Identity Design at the Academy of Art University, and currently teaches Graphic Design 2 at the California College of the Arts (CCA). He has lectured on design issues at The Y Conference, Sonoma State University, University of California, Santa Cruz, ADAC, and on numerous occasions for the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and for the Western Art Directors Club. He has frequently participated as a judge for major design competitions including the San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati chapters of the AIGA, The Printing Industries of Northern California, Graphic design: USA, STEP inside design magazine, The Web Marketing Association, and Rockport Publishers.
Christopher is a past president of the San Francisco AIGA, the professional association for design. On completion of his tenure, Mayor Gavin Newsom officially proclaimed San Francisco to be a city where “design makes a difference.”
Christopher is a currently columnist for STEP magazine and is profiled in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders.
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Letterhead and Logo Design 9 (biannual international identity design competition for which he was also the sole judge).
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