
LUCAS XAVIER SIMES
Art Director
WORK RESUME LUCAS
Lucas X Simes is a senior art director who lives in Chicago, Illinois. He is also a grad of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Chicago Portfolio School. He is also a Wikipedia editor, and a contributor to The Pub, Chicago's premiere print-only newspaper. He speaks English, Spanish, conversational Japanese, scattered Lebanese Arabic and Mandarin Chinese, and HTML & CSS (with which he wrote this website from scratch).
Some of the brands I have worked on:
Coca-Cola, Minute Maid, Sprite, Windex, Ziploc, OFF!, Raid, Google, Solo Cup, LALA Dairy, Modelo, Glade, Atturo Tires, Scrubbing Bubbles, Culligan Water, Jimmy Dean, Pledge, EXPO Chicago
Awards: Cindependent Film Festival: Best Comedy
Minnesota Film Festival: Best Short Film
Shortcut100 Festival: Best Chicago Short
Big Teeth Small Shorts: Best Micro-Comedy
Side Show Awards: Best in Category for Student Competition
Officially selected and exhibited in dozens of other film festivals.
Education:+ Chicago Portfolio School (2019-2021)
+ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015-2019)
+ Universidad de Navarra en Pamplona (2018)
📧 [lucas@lucasxsimes.com]
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