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Christopher Simmons (born April 10, 1973) is a Canadian-born, San Francisco-based graphic designer, writer and educator. He served on the board of directors of the San Francisco chapter of the AIGA from 1996—1999, and again as president (2004—2006). Among his enduring accomplishments in that position was the creation of San Francisco Design Week. On completion of Simmons' tenure, mayor Gavin Newsom issued an official proclamation declaring San Francisco to be a city where "design makes a difference." Simmons is the principal creative director of the noted San Francisco design office, MINE and the creator of Everything is OK.

The author of three books on graphic design, Simmons is also a frequent speaker on graphic design at schools and design organizations across the United States. His column My First Time appears regularly in "STEP inside design" magazine [1]. He has contributed to works in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution. He has developed and taught courses in Identity Design at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and is currently an adjunct professor of design at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco (his alma mater).

Simmons' work has been exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Hiroshima, Japan, The Museum of Craft & Design, San Francisco, The Smithsonian Institution, and is part of the permanent design archives of the Denver Art Museum.

Although he has worked for numerous notable clients (including The Nature Conservancy, Star Trek Producer Herbert F. Solow, Scientist Aubrey de Grey, bestselling author Tony Schwartz, The California Academy of Sciences, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence among many others, Simmons' most famous and often-cited work remains his enduring Paradox logo (shown below).

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