Principal / Mine™
Christopher Simmons is a designer, writer, educator, design advocate and principal of the noted San Francisco design office, MINE™. MINE™ designs identities, books, products, packaging and print and interactive campaigns for some of the worlds leading influencers and foremost thinkers in both the commercial and nonprofit sectors. Christopher is the author of four books, (most recently Just Design) and has written for AIGA, HOW, STEP and numbers blogs, including his own. His design work has been included in exhibitions at the HIroshima Museum of Contemporary art in Japan, The Pasadena Museum of California Art, The Museum of Craft and Design and the Smithsonian Institution. He lectures on design issues for colleges, universities and professional associations and frequently participates as a judge for major national and international competitions. Christopher is an Advisor to Project M and an adjunct professor of design at the California College of the Arts (CCA), where he also sits on the the Senior Thesis Committee. He is a past president of AIGA San Francisco. On completion of his tenure in that role, then Mayor Gavin Newsom issued an official proclamation declaring San Francisco to be a city “where design makes a difference.”
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