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Happy birthday, Derek Simmons

Here’s wishing the happiest of VizEds birthdays to Derek Simmons, Deputy Design Director of The Los Angeles Times. Derek turns 35 today.

Derek and son
Derek and his son, Jackson, model their
Master’s hats. Photo by Sheri Smith Simmons,
from Derek’s Facebook page.
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Derek has been at the LAT not quite a year. He spent nine years as the assistant design director of The Star Tribune in Minneapolis. Before that, he spent two years as a designer at The Wichita Eagle in Kansas.

Derek is a 1996 graduate of Kansas State University.

A few samples of his old Stib work:

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See more, of course, in his NewsPageDesigner portfolio.

Derek shares a birthday with actors Ashton Kutchner and Chris Rock, musician Garth Brooks and writers Charles Dickens and Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Plus, not surprisingly today is Charles Dickens Day. Oddly enough, however, today is not Ashton Kutchner Day.

Best wishes for a happy birthday, Derek!

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 at 11:52 am and is filed under Happy birthday, News design, VizEds Blog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Happy birthday, Derek Simmons”

  1. MattE Says:
    February 8th, 2008 at 1:38 am

    I love Derek like a brother. And I have heard from reliable sources that Derek typically has crappy birthdays. I hope that’s not the case this time around. D-Rock, I hope ya had a great one.

  2. Ben Ramsden Says:
    February 9th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    Truly the Master! 35 is the new 23.

 

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