Christopher Simmons

Current

Founder/CEO at Neotrope

Past

Part time art director and contributing editor at Micro Publishing News / Press

Education

Compugraphic Typesetting School

Recommended

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Connections

42 connections

Industry

Entertainment

Websites

Christopher Simmons’s Summary

Graphic and web design, digital imaging, photography, public relations, SEO, ecommerce, social networking, web hosting, site architecture and deployment, author, journalist, musician, member PRSA, member ASCAP, former member DMA, former member GAG, founder Neotrope

Christopher Simmons’s Specialties:

Content development, entertainment content, multi-disciplined creative, e-business, photography, electronic music and MIDI, digital imaging, public relations, emedia, emarketing, advertising, print production

Christopher Simmons’s Experience

Founder/CEO

Neotrope

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)

January 1983 — Present (27 years )

Neotrope is the company formerly known as Mindset, established 1983 in Redondo Beach, California. NEOTROPE is a U.S. registered trademark and service mark in the advertising, publishing, PR, music, clothing and entertainment industries.
Part time art director and contributing editor

Micro Publishing News / Press

(Entertainment industry)

1996 — 2000 (4 years )

Art directed numerous titles including Digital Imaging, Digital Printer, and created numerous editorial illustrations and magazine covers; contributed numerous articles on tech, design, imaging, and had a monthly column "web works" covering web design issues. Spent three months full time, and years part time, and centuries in absentia. Oh, those were the days!

Christopher Simmons’s Education

Compugraphic Typesetting School

Certified , Typography, photo typesetting equipment , 1984 — 1984

Certification for operation on/of Compugraphic MCS typesetting equipment used in the graphic design, printing, advertising, and publishing industries in the mid 1980s, prior to the explosion of desktop publishing (DTP). School was located in Cerritos, Calif., and the educators did a marvelous job of explaining the historical precepts for terms like "leading," and "em space." Ironically, the laser printer, Aldus Pagemaker, and Macs (and even Atari 1040ST PCs), killed traditional typesetting and Letraset dry-transfer lettering, but the techniques used on the Compugraphic MCS actually made moving to HTML coding ten years later relatively easy due to similarities in coding of bold, italic, and so forth. Today with CSS used in XHTML/HTML5, it's funny to be again using terms like line-spacing = 1.5em. The best classes I ever took, period.

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Christopher Simmons’s Groups:

Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Graphic Artists Guild (GAG), former member Direct Marketing Association (DMA)