Membership Chair

Earl Gee is Partner and Creative Director, with Fani Chung, of Gee + Chung Design, an award-winning multidisciplinary design firm based in San Francisco. The firm develops successful branding, print, packaging, environmental and interactive programs for leading clients including Apple, Adobe, National Semiconductor, Oracle, Lucasfilm Ltd., Chronicle Books and Stanford University.

Earl was named as one of Graphic Design USA’s “People to Watch in 2010” and one of only 50 U.S. graphic designers selected for the international edition of “Who’s Who in Graphic Design.” He has served on a United Nations-sponsored Delegation on Package Design touring the People’s Republic of China, gives lectures at leading universities and design organizations, and is a frequent juror for major design competitions. He received his BFA in Graphic Design with Distinction from Art Center College of Design and was included in “Design Impact: A History of Art Center College of Design.” Earl began his career as a designer at Landor Associates, San Francisco, creating identity programs for Fortune 500 companies. As a senior designer at Mark Anderson Design, Palo Alto, he designed award-winning branding programs for Herman Miller, PG&E and the Oakland Museum.

Under his creative leadership, Gee + Chung Design has been honored by virtually every major design competition, including AIGA, Communication Arts, Graphis, Print, I.D., the Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, Society of Publication Designers and Society for Environmental Graphic Design. The firm’s work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the permanent collections of the U.S. Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, AIGA Archives and SFMOMA.

As Membership Chair, he looks forward to enabling creative professionals to network and grow both personally and professionally through the Chapter. As a member since 1983, he views AIGA as the one organization that connects our diverse profession, inspiring its members through professional leadership and creative fellowship.