Greg Simmons

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Group Creative & Design Director, Strategist, Identity Consultant @ Digital Room
van nuys, california, united states
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About Greg Simmons

I am a diversely experienced and awarded Group Creative & Design Director dedicated to helping brands and enterprises transform by creatively solving difficult design, communication and identity challenges. Working closely with client leadership, I collaboratively lead multi-faceted Design, Creative and Strategy teams to forge impactful, authentic and memorable visual & product design systems, cohesive marketing & communication strategies, transformative brand & digital design strategies and simple-to-highly-complex eCommerce experiences that harmoniously fuse business goals with user/customer pursuits.

Greg Simmons's Current Company Details
Digital Room

Digital Room

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Group Creative & Design Director, Strategist, Identity Consultant
van nuys, california, united states
Website:
digitalroominc.com
Employees:
226
Greg Simmons Work Experience Details
  • Digital Room
    Group Creative Director
    Digital Room Mar 2021 - Present
    Van Nuys, Ca
    I lead Visual Design, Creative, User Experience, Brand & Content across nine primary digital/ecommerce brands within the Digital Room portfolio.
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  • Consultant
    Creative & Design Director, Identity Consultant
    Consultant Sep 2018 - Present
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  • Sapientrazorfish
    Creative Director, Gcd
    Sapientrazorfish Jan 2017 - Sep 2018
    Greater Los Angeles Area
    As a Creative and Group Creative Director at Rosetta and SapientRazorfish, I worked with clients in a variety of capacities and verticals from both the Cleveland and Los Angeles offices. From a Creative perspective, I led teams to solve complex brand, communication and messaging quandaries with solutions that were both appropriate and authentic. From a Design perspective, the drive was to create outstanding visual design systems with clean, cohesive and contemporary aesthetics. From a client perspective, I fostered and maintained great working relationships with my counterpart client Creative Directors and UX directors as well as working directly with client CMOs. From persona and journey work culminating in the redesign of KitchedAid.com to AOR/360-type relationships with Hickory Farms and Zales, beautiful app design executions for AT&T Digital Life and R & Co to massive b2b ecommerce solutions for Entegris, Parker and School Specialty, my background, experience, talent and abilities consistently allow me to successfully meet and exceed all these, and other, challenges. Along with co-leading the design discipline, I was a mentor and career advisor to designers of all levels, ux-ers and copywriters offering guidance and insight. Clients : KitchenAid, AT&T, Zales, Hickory Farms, Entegris, Marriott, Whirlpool, Ingersol Rand: Trane & American Standard Air, School Specialty, Parker, Cetera & Brown Bothers Herriman.
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  • Rosetta
    Creative Director
    Rosetta Jan 2014 - Jan 2017
    Cleveland Ohio
    Rosetta was rolled into SapientRazorfish. Description is the same as above.
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  • Arena Interactive
    Principle & Creative Director
    Arena Interactive Jan 2002 - Feb 2013
    Phoenix, Arizona
    Arena Interactive was a multi-disciplined visual & information design shop entrenched in online & interactive media design, print & environment design and corporate identity. Arena was a company I owned and operated for 11 years. The projects and the executions were as varied as the client list: strategy, digital, interactive, corporate identity, branding, print, video, social, vehicle wraps, convention/trade show booths... You name it, we did it.Clients : Time Warner, AOL Europe, Smithsonian Store, Smithsonian magazine, Sanofi Pasteur, The University of the Arts, plus dozens of small businesses from environmental companies to photographers.
  • A Basic Studio
    Cofounder
    A Basic Studio Feb 2008 - Apr 2009
    Simply put, Basic was an art and design co-op. It was about getting back to what really matters—great design by talented, smart designers. We created a thriving collaborative environment where all had equally vested interests, motivations and passions. There’s no fluff, no fast-talking marketing jargon, no over-promising...no hassles. We founded this design co-op because we feel it’s time we went back to our fundamental roots...back to basics as it were.
  • Netplus
    Creative Director
    Netplus Apr 2007 - Feb 2008
    Greater Philadelphia Area
    As the Creative Director and leader of the Design and UX disciplines, I was tasked with elevating the base-standard and overall execution of visual design and helped to define and refine all processes involved in creating and executing viable and appropriate interactive solutions. Clients : Conagra (Wesson, Parkay, Fleischmann’s, Act II, Orville Reddenbacher, Beenee Weenee), David Cutler, Lloyd Pans, Niki by Niki Livas, Alfred Angelo
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  • The University Of The Arts
    Instructor
    The University Of The Arts Sep 2005 - Dec 2005
    Philadelphia, Pa
    Co-instructed Advanced Digital Media with Associate Professor Joe Rapone. The course focused on expanding visual design and usability principles for web and interactive projects. The emphasis, however, was in constructing abstract and experimental UI’s atop fundamentally sound information architecture driven to push boundaries.
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  • R/Ga
    Art Director
    R/Ga Sep 1999 - Feb 2002
    New York
    My primary responsibility at R/GA was to lead the 9-24 person IBM design team. Along with multiple redesigns of the global ibm.com were approximately 35 sections within it—ThinkPad, NetVista, ShopIBM, eServer, Pervasive Computing, Home/Home Office, Small Business, NetGen, Next Generation Internet and a host of others. Along with an internet style guide larger than most companies websites, two comprehensive theoretical visual investigations into what IBM could be and design and redesign of multiple intranets, I wrote the global web and interactive standards as well as IBM’s global co-branding guidelines. Beyond IBM, I led multiple design teams primarily focused on website redesign for other Fortune 100, global clients. Clients : IBM, Time Warner, Ericsson, Ian Schrager Hotels, Zenith, Boeing, SharperImage, HotTopic, Citi Bank, Activision, O2Simplify, Bed Bath & Beyond, Rockefeller Center-East, About.com and Disney.
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  • Mayer & Myers Design
    Senior Designer
    Mayer & Myers Design Sep 1996 - Oct 1999
    Mayer & Myers concentrated on corporate identity and print material -- full identity systems, catelogs, brochures, folders, posters and signage. Clients included The University of Pennsylvania Law School, ILE (Institute for Law and Economics -- a thinktank comprised of UPenn Law + Wharton, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Bard [and others] professors and professional alumni), University of the Arts, Drexel University, Hahnemann University, Jamie Rothstein and others.
  • Electronic Ink
    Designer
    Electronic Ink Feb 1996 - Sep 1996
    Electronic Ink concentrated on designing Windows applications, interactive media and web development. Clients included Merck, Meryl Lynch, PACE Health Systems, IBM UK, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and others.
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  • William Longhauser Design
    Designer
    William Longhauser Design Jun 1995 - Feb 1996
    William Longhauser Design concentrated on corporate identity and print material -- signage, catelogs, brochures and identity systems.

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