Art Director and designer, Bill Womack,
received his undergraduate training at Virginia Commonwealth University as a double major (Communication Art & Design, and Mass Communications-Advertising), where he received training in copywriting, marketing, and account management, as well as strategic graphic design and art direction.
He began his professional career in Los Angeles, co-founding, designing, and co-editing a critically-acclaimed literary journal, Zero (a National Endowment of the Arts grant recipient that also received financial and editorial support from John Cage, Leonard Cohen, Ralph Gibson, Allen Ginsberg, and others).
His interviews with composer John Cage and author/publisher Leonard Koren were published in the U.S. and Japan.
He freelanced for several Los Angeles-area magazines ranging from punk (Wet, the "Magazine for Gourmet Bathing") to mainstream (California Magazine), and was the first-ever production manager at the L.A. Weekly where he oversaw a staff of 14. He became art director for Beyond Baroque, an independent producer of theatre in Venice, California, where he produced the publicity materials for Steven Berkoff''s long-running hit play, "Greek." He also illustrated and designed a New Year’s card (!) for A&M records’ Herb Alpert, and had illustration work published in Dutch design magazine, “Hard Werken.”
He worked with editors Eric Lerner, Richard Cohen, and Leonard Koren. He also collaborated with designers Henk Elenga and Eric van Dyke (a lead designer for Euro-Disneyland).
received his undergraduate training at Virginia Commonwealth University as a double major (Communication Art & Design, and Mass Communications-Advertising), where he received training in copywriting, marketing, and account management, as well as strategic graphic design and art direction.
He began his professional career in Los Angeles, co-founding, designing, and co-editing a critically-acclaimed literary journal, Zero (a National Endowment of the Arts grant recipient that also received financial and editorial support from John Cage, Leonard Cohen, Ralph Gibson, Allen Ginsberg, and others).
His interviews with composer John Cage and author/publisher Leonard Koren were published in the U.S. and Japan.
He freelanced for several Los Angeles-area magazines ranging from punk (Wet, the "Magazine for Gourmet Bathing") to mainstream (California Magazine), and was the first-ever production manager at the L.A. Weekly where he oversaw a staff of 14. He became art director for Beyond Baroque, an independent producer of theatre in Venice, California, where he produced the publicity materials for Steven Berkoff''s long-running hit play, "Greek." He also illustrated and designed a New Year’s card (!) for A&M records’ Herb Alpert, and had illustration work published in Dutch design magazine, “Hard Werken.”
He worked with editors Eric Lerner, Richard Cohen, and Leonard Koren. He also collaborated with designers Henk Elenga and Eric van Dyke (a lead designer for Euro-Disneyland).
In 1983 he traveled to Tokyo, Japan and became art
director of the leading English-language style magazine
for foreigners in Japan, Tokyo Journal, and was
responsible for redesigning and overseeing production
of the monthly, glossy publication devoted to
entertainment, culture, and the arts.
This lead to the founding of Bill Womack Studio, a small, limited-corporation with an office in Tsukiji, a downtown Tokyo neighborhood known for it’s concentration of advertising agencies. He was privileged to work directly with fashion designers, Issey Miyake, and Kansai Yamamoto, painter Tadanori Yokoo, manga artist and illustrator Terry Yumura, and art-directors Koichi Hama and Taki Ono, and to have had dinner once (!) with legendary Italian designer and founder of the design collective, Memphis, Ettore Sottsass.
Moving back to Virginia in 1994, he and his wife, Yumiko, began Helios, Inc. in Free Union, just west of Charlottesville.
Completed the Stanford University Best Practices in Web Design, in Washington, D.C. in spring of 2002, and the Stanford University Professional Publishing Course, in Palo Alto, California in summer of 2003.
He has also attended the workshop on information design with Yale professor Edward Tufte.
This lead to the founding of Bill Womack Studio, a small, limited-corporation with an office in Tsukiji, a downtown Tokyo neighborhood known for it’s concentration of advertising agencies. He was privileged to work directly with fashion designers, Issey Miyake, and Kansai Yamamoto, painter Tadanori Yokoo, manga artist and illustrator Terry Yumura, and art-directors Koichi Hama and Taki Ono, and to have had dinner once (!) with legendary Italian designer and founder of the design collective, Memphis, Ettore Sottsass.
Moving back to Virginia in 1994, he and his wife, Yumiko, began Helios, Inc. in Free Union, just west of Charlottesville.
Completed the Stanford University Best Practices in Web Design, in Washington, D.C. in spring of 2002, and the Stanford University Professional Publishing Course, in Palo Alto, California in summer of 2003.
He has also attended the workshop on information design with Yale professor Edward Tufte.