Robert Burns

Senior Designer & Design Director

Lafayette, CA, USA
To me, great design is defined as more than the sum of its parts. In my professional life, I work towards that goal on a daily basis. I believe all designers hold within them the power to make this world a better place & at the very least, a better-looking place.

Work Experience

Astro Gaming

Lead Designer

November 2012 - November 2013 San Francisco, California, United States

Plumbline Creative

Design Director

2007 - 2012 Napa, California, United States

Stapley Hildebrand

Designer

2006 - 2007 San Francisco, California, United States

Brand Engine

Designer

2003 - 2006 Sausalito, California, United States

Nicole Watson Design

Designer

2001 - 2002 Berkeley, California, United States

Education

Fashion Institute Of Design & Merchandising (FIDM)

AA in Graphic Design

1996 - 1999 San Francisco, California, United States

Some Talking Points (in case we ever meet)

On a photoshoot, I once stood in a room with $150 million dollars worth of irreplaceable furniture, and promptly bumped a table. Shh, don't tell Ann Getty.

I once had Metallica poster artwork grudgingly-but-still-approved by Lars on his Blackberry from Europe. Got paid with VIP tickets. Worth it.

I once *didn't travel to the Windy City and missed a chance to accept an AdAge award on stage, like at the Grammy's. D'oh.

On a trackfield, I once had to spray "fake sweat" glycerine on athletes-in-poses at the crack of dawn, coffee-in-hand, for a photoshoot. Worth it.

Once, in Hawaii, I had worked on a last-minute file that had also been worked on in all the previous American time zones as it traveled west from New York to Japan in order to be delivered on-time. It was.

Epic! I once worked 27 days straight when I was 27. Please don't ask me to work 36 days straight, I might do it.

I once met a client in the basement of a Chinatown bakery… and lived to tell about it.