Derek Lerner

Current

Cofounder & Creative Director at GHAVA
Artist (Self-employed)

Past

Cofounder at GHava{Press}
Cofounder & Director at Art Center (in Second Life)
Graphic Designer and Animator at The Interactive Media Technology Center (IMTC)

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Education

The Atlanta College of Art

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Design

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Derek Lerner’s Summary

Entrepreneur, Artist and Creative Director interested in innovation, imagination, creativity, and ingenuity.

Derek Lerner’s Specialties:

Fine Art, Commercial Art, Creative Services, Creative Direction, Art Direction, Identity Development, Marketing & Advertising strategy development, Graphic Design, Animation, Interactive Multimedia Development, Illustration, Logo Development, Video/Film Direction, Art, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Variable Media

Derek Lerner’s Experience

Cofounder & Creative Director

GHAVA

(Privately Held; Design industry)

January 1994 — Present (16 years )

Established in 1994, GHAVA is a direction and design studio. Our approach is highly collaborative and focused on innovation. GHAVA executes tailored solutions in any medium to meet the communication needs of our clients.
Artist

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Fine Art industry)

March 1988 — Present (21 years 10 months)

Derek Lerner is a New York City-based artist with a BFA degree from the Atlanta College of Art. His work explores systems: the creation, control, and use of them. architectonic. power, media, information, misinformation, semantics, sociology, culture: counter-culture/over the counter culture, chaos, order, law, code, organized crime, databases, marketing, consumerism, transportation, etc.

please view www.derek-lerner.com
Cofounder

GHava{Press}

(Publishing industry)

January 2006 — 2009 (3 years )

Founded in 2006, GHava{Press} is an independent publishing platform developed as an outlet for both emerging and established artists.

http://www.ghavapress.com
Cofounder & Director

Art Center (in Second Life)

(Fine Art industry)

2006 — 2009 (3 years )

Art Center is a virtual exhibition space showing the work of selective contemporary artists, based in the metaverse Second Life.

CoFounder, Director, Curator & collaborative Creative Direction, Graphic Design, Marketing Strategy Development, Second Life Building, Environmental Design, and minimal LSL scripting.
Graphic Designer and Animator

The Interactive Media Technology Center (IMTC)

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

June 1996 — December 1997 (1 year 7 months)

The Interactive Media Technology Center (IMTC) is a research, design, and education center focusing on technology, education, culture, and medicine. While employed at IMTC I worked on UI Design for kiosks and multimedia CD ROMs along with After Effects animation for the Atlanta Ballet's 1997 Dance Technology project.

Derek Lerner’s Education

The Atlanta College of Art

BFA , Fine Art , 1992 — 1996

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Derek Lerner’s Interests:

Architectonics, Conceptual Art, innovation, ingenuity, creativity, skateboarding, systems, semantics, sociology, culture, chaos, order, law, code, organized crime, databases, marketing, consumerism, transportation, metaverse, virtual worlds, Second Life, Web 2.0, music, linguistics, information architecture, drawing, hand style, sock puppets, astroturfing, fixies