The Author
Christopher Simmons is a Canadian-born graphic designer, writer and educator, and principal of the noted San Francisco design office, MINE™.
The author of three previous books on graphic design, Simmons has written for HOW magazine, Monster.com, Madison Square Press and Speakup, among others. He also wrote the regular column My First Time for STEP magazine.
Simmons is a frequent speaker on design issues at schools, design organizations and other insitutions across the United States. His has work been exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Hiroshima, Japan, the Smithsonian Institution, the AIGA National Design Gallery in New York City, and is part of the permanent design Archives at the Denver Art Museum. Simmons was recently honored as one of just 12 designers included in the exhibition San Francisco Graphic Design at the Museum of Craft & Design, San Francisco.
He has judged design competitions for STEP, Applied Arts and Graphic Design USA magazines, numerous AIGA chapters, the National AIGA Design Competition 365 and Art Directors clubs in both Canada and the United States.
Simmons is an Adjuct Professor of design at the California College of the Arts (CCA) and is a past president of the San Francisco AIGA. On completion of Simmons’ presidency, mayor Gavin Newsom issued an official proclamation declaring San Francisco to be a city where “design makes a difference.”