Bill Womack Email and Phone Number

Helios (Bill Womack Design, Incorporated) is a small strategic design, branding and advertising firm. We've done projects over the years for A&M Records, L.A. Weekly, WET Magazine, Zero, and Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles. Have worked directly with Herbie Hancock, John Cage, Leonard Cohen, and Issey Miyake.We have produced internationally-distributed collateral pieces and advertising for Virgin, Jaguar, Canon, Ricoh, IBM, Issey Miyake, NHK, Charles Jourdan, Japan Railway (East), Mauna Loa, etc.We've done major projects for the University of Virginia School of Law, UVA Press, Rotunda, Live Arts, the Virginia Film Festival, Core Knowledge Foundation, Interpretive Software, Bushman Dreyfus Architects, Piedmont Housing Alliance, William McDonough and Partners, James Agee Films: Appalachia Film/PBS.Web site UX design for SAH (Society of Architectural Historians) Archipedia, People of the Founding Era (Rotunda/UVA Press), Presidential Recordings, Digital Edition (Rotunda/UVA Press)In-kind charitable work has been performed for schools, cultural organizations and other non-profit groups including the Paramount Theater, Live Arts/Lighthouse, Charlottesville Waldorf School, Wintergreen Performing Arts, Free Union School.We design for editorial, commercial and academic (print and web) and strategic brand and identity development for large and small organizations. Corporate identity, logos, catalogs, posters, books, CD packages, display advertising, corporate profiles, direct mail, academic publications, university admissions catalogs, consumer publication design, etc.Helios/Bill Womack has produced work for markets in the US, Asia/Pacific and Europe.

Worked with large publishing companies and advertising agencies for multinational corporations to produce international versions of their Japanese-domestic-market materials. I produced major camera catalogs for Canon and Ricoh, posters and catalogs for Issey Miyake and Charles Jourdan, and Japanese-market ads and packaging for Mauna Loa macadamia nuts. Did Asia-Pacific focused industrial brochures for IBM, and ads for Virgin Airways. Too much other work to list here.

Tokyo Journal was the largest English-language arts and entertainment magazine for a market of over 200,000 English-speaking expatriates. I began by working on ads for advertisers, then editorial design, and soon became art director. I also completely and successfully redesigned the magazine with a new format and logo.

Was designer, art director, and art editor of the critically-acclaimed and NEA-award-winning literary journal, Zero. Other editors were Leonard Cohen, Richard Cohen, and Eric Lerner. We published work from contributors such as Allen Ginsburg, Gary Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth, Gregory Bateson, John Ashbery, Joni Mitchell, Burton Watson, etc.I curated the photography, sculpture, and paintings featured in Zero. Published Ralph Gibson, Lewis Baltz, Robert Glen Ketchum and other prominent photographers. Also published portfolios of painter Gregory Gillespie, and sculptors Michael Singer and Mario Merz.I interviewed John Cage, who went on to lend support to Zero.

First-ever production manager for the LA Weekly. Managed a staff of 20 in the editorial and ad design department.

Designed ads and art directed editorial spreads for "WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing," a punk-culture, architecture, music, and art magazine produced in Venice Beach.