Earl Gee
Partner and Creative Director
Bio:
Earl Gee is Partner and Creative Director, with Fani Chung, of Gee + Chung Design, the award-winning multidisciplinary brand communications firm they founded in San... Francisco in 1990. The firm creates intelligent, innovative, and compelling design solutions which provide strategic value to clients. Earl has built an international reputation for creating successful branding, print, packaging, environmental, and interactive programs for many of Silicon Valley’s most influential companies including Apple, Applied Materials, IBM, Oracle, National Semiconductor, Sun, and Symantec, enjoying the conceptual challenge of making complex technology understandable, meaningful, and memorable to audiences. Notable projects included the Apple educational training brochure and software packaging, Applied Materials Technical Seminar Series at SEMICON West tradeshow graphics and collateral, National Semiconductor PowerWise and SolarMagic brands, Oracle Information Highway book, Sun Microsystems worldwide operations brand, and Symantec software packaging and annual report. He has also been responsible for the creative direction of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District branding program, Chronicle Books tradeshow and Star Wars Chronicles book, Greenleaf Medical poster and brochure, San Francisco Art Commission Market Street Art in Transit brand, and ArtCenter College of Design Alumni Council, DOT Launch, and Design Accelerator brands. Earl began his career in 1983 as a designer at Landor Associates in San Francisco, creating identity programs for Fortune 500 companies. Notable projects included the Axel Johnson Industries (Sweden) brand, RCA Columbia Pictures MusicVision brand, Atari packaging, City and County of San Francisco annual report, and Art Directors Club medal-winning Trauma Foundation poster series. In 1984 Earl became a senior designer at Mark Anderson Design in Palo Alto, where he created award-winning design programs for a wide range of clients. Notable projects included the Herman Miller corporate showroom and collateral, Oakland Museum “Graphic Art of Charles Schulz” exhibition catalog and collateral, PG&E “Dimensions” brand and collateral, Datacopy annual report and brochure, and Z Typography posters and delivery vehicle. Earl was named in Graphic Design USA’s 50th Anniversary Survey as one of the 50 “Most Influential Graphic Designers Working Today,” one of its “People to Watch in 2010,” and was one of only 50 U.S. graphic designers selected for the international edition of Who’s Who in Graphic Design. He has served on a U.N.-sponsored design delegation touring China, lectured at leading universities and design organizations across the country, and served as a frequent juror for major design competitions including Communication Arts, Creativity, Spark, Critique, STEP, Publish, and Exhibitor. He has served on the board of the San Francisco chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design, as membership chair and was honored as a prestigious AIGA San Francisco Fellow in 2015 for his significant contribution to raising the standards of excellence in practice and conduct within his design community and AIGA chapter. Under Earl’s creative direction, Gee + Chung Design has won multiple gold and silver awards from virtually every major design competition including Graphis, AIGA, Communication Arts, Print, I.D., HOW, STEP, the One Show, Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, Society of Typographic Arts, Society of Publication Designers, and Society for Environmental Graphic Design. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the U.S. Library of Congress, AIGA Archives, and ArtCenter College of Design Archives.Read More
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Design
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Gee + Chung Design
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AIGA Communication Graphics: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997 AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers: 1986 AIGA California Design 2: 1985 AIGA Greening of Design: 1997 AIGA SF cause/affect:... 2007 American Advertising Federation ADDY Awards: 1993, 1995, 1998 Applied Arts Design & Advertising Awards: 1998, 2003, 2010 Art Directors Club: 1985 (Silver), 1986, 1987 Art Directors Club of Los Angeles: 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987 Communication Arts Design Annual: 1991, 1992, 1994, 2000, 2009, 2011 Communication Arts Typography Annual: 2011, 2014 Creativity: 1986, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 (Gold), 2005, 2006, 2007 (Gold), 2008 (Silver), 2009 (Platinum, Gold, Silver), 2010 (Gold), 2011, 2012 (Platinum, Silver), 2013 (Platinum, Gold, Silver), 2014 (Silver) Critique Magazine The Big Crit: 1998, 2000 Exhibitor Magazine Exhibit Design Awards: 1989, 1993 (Gold) HOW International Design Awards: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2017 HOW Promotion Design Awards: 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2016 IDA International Design Awards: 2007 (First Prize), 2009, 2011 (Bronze), 2012 (Gold, Bronze) Identity Magazine (Russia) Best of the Best: 2010 (First Place) LogoLounge: 3/2006, 5/2009, 6/2011, 8/2013 Print Computer Art & Design Annual: 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998 Print Regional Design Annual: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2015, 2016 Print Typography & Lettering Awards (Best in Class): 2017 San Francisco Art Directors Club: 1986, 1992 (Silver), 1994, 1998 Society for Environmental Graphic Design: 1993 Society of Publication Designers: 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2004 Society of Typographic Arts 100 Show: 1986, 1987, 1991 Spark Design Awards: 2007 (Best of Category), 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 (Gold, Silver, Bronze) STEP Inside Design 100: 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 Stora Enso What Teams Can Do Competition: 2004 (First Place) The One Show: 2011 Type Directors Club: 1986, 1991 University and College Designers Association: 2000 (Gold), 2013Read More
