Rick Lewis

architectural, exhibit, interior, product, and graphic design

Responsibilities:
• Establish design department. Hired, mentored and led creative staff.
• Design development of exhibit programs to win new business
• Maintain various ongoing client design responsibilities
• Interface with clients, sales staff, creative support, vendors, estimating and production.
Clients included: Pepsi Cola, Mini Cooper, Motorola, Takeda, NEC, Zurich, BAE

Exhibit, interior, showroom, stage set, event, environment, and graphic design.
Hired, mentored and led creative staff.
Participated on various corporate and agency creative teams.
Clients included: Motorola (separate divisions), Siemens Cellular, GMC, Kellogg's, Caterpillar

Staff designer - 2 years
Responsibilities:
• Custom and rental exhibit design
• Collect client input, develop concepts, prepare presentations, present
• Interface with clients, sales staff, creative support, vendors, estimating and production.

Lead designer GMC account - 10 years
Responsibilities:
• Design and presentation of new exhibit programs per clients needs.
• Interface w/client; exhibit managers, product managers, marketing staff.
• Ongoing client interaction

Corporate Creative Director - 5 years
Responsibilities:
• Oversee development and continuity of corporate identity.
• Design and implement national facility interiors with focus on visual continuity, functional matrix and future growth projections.
• Participate on marketing team providing corporate visual continuity, aesthetic direction.
• Creator and team leader for the development of a proprietary lightweight panel system.

Responsibilities:
• commercial | residential building design
• land planning
• illustration
• presentation

6 years - 1971 t0 1977 (this site won't save the 1971 date?)
Independent jewelry designer | design studio
design, fabricate, and market one of a kind and various lines of custom jewelry.
clients included: Cartier, Georg Jensen / Danish Silversmiths, MOMA, MCA, Walker Art Center, and various retail customers