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 James
Graca is an award-winning creative director/designer/illustrator
with over 28 years of professional experience. He is a graduate
of ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN. He is an honored
member in the 1996-1998 NATIONAL DIRECTORY OF WHO'S WHO
of EXECUTIVES & PROFESSIONALS and has been listed in
WHO'S WHO IN CALIFORNIA since 1981. His work over
the years has encompassed advertising, graphic design for corporate
identity, product launches, book design, album covers, package design,
poster design, video, animation, audio-visual slide presentations,
motion picture main title design and work on over 30 motion picture
campaigns.
For several
years during the early 1990's, James Graca Design Group maintained
a satellite office in Paris, to better serve their international
design clients in France, Italy and Great Britain.
Mr. Graca's
work was requested and displayed in the "VISION WEST
COAST ARTISTS TODAY" show in Japan, and two of his
posters were requested and are on permanent display in the FEDIER'S
WERBEAGENTUR POSTER COLLECTION in Zurich, Switzerland.
His work has received numerous "BEST OF SHOWS", and over
two hundred local, district, national and international awards including:
"AWARDS OF DISTINCTION" from the New
York "Creativity" international competitions; "AWARDS
OF EXCELLENCE" from the New York American Corporate
Identity competition's "ZANDERS AWARD OF DISTINCTION"
for Toshiba collateral; distinguished "LULU"
statuettes from the Los Angeles Advertising Women; "AWARDS
OF MERIT" from the West Coast Illustrators Show; the
Simpson Paper Company "AWARD OF EXCELLENCE"
for his corporate design for Pernod; The Hollywood Reporter "KEY
ART AWARD"; and "AWARD OF EXCELLENCE"
from Communication Arts Magazine.
James Graca
Design Group has been featured in numerous prestigious graphic design
publications including issues of HOW MAGAZINE,
twice featured in the HOW BUSINESS ANNUAL and CONFETTI
MAGAZINE, on the "Digital Design Studio." Mr.Graca
and his work appear in the hardcover books, OUTSTANDING
AMERICAN ILLUSTRATORS TODAY, CREATIVITY, and AMERICAN
CORPORATE IDENTITY.
James Graca
is also a college lecturer and instructor, teaching a course in
high concept visual communication advertising / design, as well
as co-teaching a Study Abroad Design Class in Munich, Prague, Budapest,
and Vienna.
- ABC Motion Pictures
- ACTMEDIA, Inc. – NEW YORK
- Allen Edwards Salons – BEVERLY HILLS
- Allen Edwards Int'l – HAIR CARE
- Beatrice Wood
- Belding Sports – GOLF BAGS
- The Burbank Studios
- Catalina Island Visitor's Bureau
- Clairol – NEW YORK
- Concours d' Elegance
- Corporate Image Int'l, Ltd – U.K
- Embassy Suites
- Glo Marks
- The Greek Theatre
- GTE
- Harris Corporation
- HISK Commercial Productions
- The Government of Honduras
- Hooven Direct Mail
- IPAC Inc. – WASHINGTON D.C.
- Kinko's Corporate
- Knott's Berry Farm
- Le Cordon Bleu – PARIS
- Los Angeles County Fair
- Michael Jackson/Lisa Marie Presley
- Millennium Pro Golf Bags
- Motorola
- National Lampoon Films
- NBC-TV
- Option Safety
- Pernod
- Pierpont Inn
- Remo Inc.
- San Daniele Water – MILAN
- Sheraton Hotels
- St. Germain Eyewear – CALIFORNIA
/ PARIS
- David Steinberg Productions
- Time Warner Interactive
- Toshiba America, Inc.
- Twentieth Century Fox
- Universal Studios
- Ventura Visitor's Bureau
- Westrec Marinas International
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