Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips started his career as a production artist in 1975, working for Brill and Waldstein, in New York City. Returning to the California Bay Area, in 1976, he spent the next three years creating promotional designs for tv and radio stations (KNTV-TV, KSJO-FM, KOME-FM), amusement parks ("Frontier Village"), entertainment newspapers ("BAM-Bay Area Musician", "The Paper Musican"), as well as posters and tee-shirt designs ("Bill Graham Presents", "Winterland Productions").

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After a decade of "stepping back from graphic design work to write," he returned to the field in early 90s', winning back-to-back "Editorial Cartoonist (Daily and Weekly Publications) Award" from the California Newspaper Publishers Association.

At the same time, the ability of a writer to distribute the written word directly to the reader, and bypass the entire print publishing industry, pulled him away from commercial visual arts. He spent most of the next decade understanding, exploring and creating work for the internet; from the general public view of it's 'birth' (as a beta tester for Steve Case's "America Online" and a designer for Sky Dalton's "Earthlink") through it's "...'Chicken Little' phase of the 'the sky is falling' false fear of 'Y2K' to it's real, financial 'dot-com melt."

With the internet having mutated from it's platform as an educational medium to a commercial medium, following many of the footsteps of television medium, he constantly found himself being asked to return to his visual art skills.

His first attempt has been a series of menu designs he has created for Art Luna and this Luna's Cafe, in Sacramento, California. You can view comps of this work here.