Eric Richard Simms
370 Monterey Blvd., #209
San Francisco, CA 94131
Phone: (415) 334-7418
Email: simchild@yahoo.com
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Summary:
artist specializing in Adobe Illustrator 8.0, Adobe Photoshop 5.5, and highly detailed ink illustrations (traditional media), although can work with many media.


Work History:
Illustrator and Graphic Designer for Robot6, San Francisco, CA.

Quality and usability testing for Robot6, as well as button design, San Francisco, CA.

Designed Robot6's corporate Christmas card.

Facilitated set design for student performance "The Excavation of the Midnight Shaft," Spring Semester, Oberlin College.

Worked in Harkness student cooperative at Oberlin College. Duties included arts events coordination.

Summer internship at MHW Advertising Agency, Cleveland, Ohio.

Elected to Hall Secretary for Talcott Hall Student Assembly. Duties included decision making for dorm events and activities; and recording, writing, illustrating, reproducing and distributing the Hall Minutes.


Exhibitions:
94,95,96 Scholastic Art Show (Gold and Silver Key Awards showing), Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.

1993 Governor's Art Show and Exhibition, Cleveland, Ohio.

1992 Individual Art Exhibition in Bolton Hall. Hawken School, Lyndhurst campus.


Publications:
1999 Designed CD cover for "Everyday People", Oberlin, Ohio.

1998 Designed concert flier for "Emerge", Protocol Productions, Phoenix, Arizona.

1997 Sole artist for Oberlin Philosophical Journal Paradigms and Frameworks, two publications.

96-98 Designed numerous concert and event fliers, including for "Harvest", "The One", and "Everyday People" concerts, and BIG-5 parties and events.

96-97 Designed fliers for all of Harkness student cooperative's events, Oberlin, Ohio

1994 Logo design for What's Next arts and entertainment newsletter.

91-95 Sole artist for the Affirmative No school newspaper, Hawken School, Gates Mills campus.


Selected Awards:
1995 Award of Excellence for Artwork in the Affirmative No school newspaper.

1995 Hawken Player's Society award for program design.

1995 Gold Key Award winner, Cleveland, Ohio.

1994 Silver Key Award winner, Cleveland, Ohio.

1994 Inducted into National Quill and Scroll Society for contributions to art in journalism, Cleveland, Ohio.

1993 Gold Key Award winner, Cleveland, Ohio.

1992 Award of Excellence, Arts and Infographics department of Ball State Journalism Workshops.


Education:
95-99 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Religion major, politics minor. Graduated with 3.5 GPA.

1995 Outdoor Leadership program. Gates Mills, Ohio and Allegheny Mtns., PA.

1993 Columbus Journalism Workshop, focus in art and infographics. Columbus, Ohio.

1992 "Something New in '92" Ball State Journalism Workshop, focus in art and infographics. Ball State University, IN.