PRESIDENT/CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER
Ron Lewis is the principal partner in the firm Lewis Design Group, a Charlotte, North Carolina graphic design firm that specializes in corporate communication assignments. Representative clients include Central Piedmont Community College, Emergent Technologies, Inc., Charlotte Enterprise Community, Ramos Associates and Tucker Publishing. Projects include advertisements, publication design and layout, newsletters, brochures, web development, logo design, and corporate identification projects.
Prior to founding Lewis Design Group in 2001, Mr. Lewis worked for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte as coordinator for the university’s Media Services department. Previously, Mr. Lewis owned Design Of The Times in Long Beach, California, a full service graphic design firm where he created design and marketing communications for area businesses and municipalities. Prior corporate experience includes five years as art director at Bertrand Advertising in Hollywood, California where he worked on a wide variety of recruitment accounts for clients in defense, hospitality, utilities and financial services. Additional experience included a stint at Nissan Motors Corporation of North America in Carson, California as a graphics illustrator where he worked for the Information Systems department interfacing with technical writers in the design and production of standards manuals.
Mr. Lewis’s marketing communications experience covers a wide range of products and services from government to the private sector with particularly strong expertise in small business and institutional communications. Mr. Lewis’s work has been cited in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Hartford Courant, and the Dallas Morning News, as well as various industry trade publications. He has been featured on the small business television show Making It, sponsored by Bank of America and published in Micro Publishing News. Mr. Lewis is a graduate of San Diego State University with a B.A. in Graphic Communications.
In addition to his strong corporate experience, he has also served as an adjunct professor of graphic design at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Professional affiliations include: The National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
He is married, and has two children, and resides in Charlotte, North Carolina.