Artist & Owner, Lucky Bunny Visual Communications
Providence, Rhode Island Area
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- Head Honcho at Lucky Bunny
- Past
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- art director at Hunt Adkins
- art director at Holland Mark
- art director at Arnold Worldwide
- Education
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- Massachusetts College of Art
- Portfolio Center
- The Art Insitute of Boston
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Rich DeSimone’s Summary
After not quite graduating from the Art Institute of Boston, Rich took a spin through the advertising world, where he created icons to assist a religion of a very different kind. Turns in Atlanta and Minneapolis, and always back to Boston in between, gave him insight into the ad world. From huge, stifling agencies to smaller, edgier ones. Wherever he was, the ad business was full of egotism and limitation, though, and Rich wanted to realize his ideas without having them diluted. Today, he’s shaken free of the ad race and runs his own art and screen printing business, Lucky Bunny Visual Communications, out of Providence, Rhode Island. In his workspace he gets complete control over the process, and the satisfaction of a hands-on craft. His work is often simple and purely graphic, with a tongue-in-cheek slyness that belies a deeper conceptual background. The idea of duplicity and expendability—of printing multiples that end up scattered and potentially thrown away—is key. It’s branding, only with cleaner goals.
There’s no smoke and mirrors, no smug secret, to what Rich does: it’s just a million ideas, combined, altered, thrown out, and executed with a little humor and cunning.
The Lucky Bunny name, by the way, comes from his pet rabbit, who coincidentally is adorable yet destructive, smart and sensitive.
Abbreviated Bio by Vikki Warner.
Rich DeSimone’s Specialties:
Melody arranger, poet, etcetera....
Rich DeSimone’s Experience
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Head Honcho
Lucky Bunny
(Arts and Crafts industry)
September 2001 — Present (7 years 11 months)
Artist.
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art director
Hunt Adkins
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 1999 — December 1999 (6 months)
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art director
Holland Mark
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 1997 — June 1999 (2 years 6 months)
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art director
Arnold Worldwide
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 1996 — October 1996 (6 months)
Rich DeSimone’s Education
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Massachusetts College of Art
screen printing 1997 — 1998
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Portfolio Center
art direction 1995 — 1996
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The Art Insitute of Boston
grahpic design 1990 — 1994
Additional Information
Rich DeSimone’s Websites:
Rich DeSimone’s Interests:
bunnies (duh), art, science, music, psychology, movies, technology, meditating, kuntao jiu-jitsu, consulting, art direction, design, buddhism, cooking, reading, relaxing, sleeping, dreaming, eating, etc.
Rich DeSimone’s Groups:
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AIGA | the professional association for design
Rich DeSimone’s Honors:
bunches of advertising and design awards, but who hasn't won 'em at this point?
Rich DeSimone’s Contact Settings
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- career opportunities
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