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Doug Grimmett

URL: www.primalscreen.com

Grimmett is the creative force behind Primal Screen projects including: refacing Cartoon Network (used for six years), creating a launch package for Boomerang, launching Animania (the world's first high definition animation network), collaborating with Addams/Morioka on a new look for Nick Jr. (which debuted last fall), launching Sprout (the first 24-hour pre-school channel) and designing a new on-air look for Spike TV (currently airing).

He graduated from Florida State University with a BFA in graphic design in 1978. Two years later, he moved to New York City and worked at CBS for a year before taking a job with M&Co working for Tibor Kalman. He later worked for Workman Publishing designing books, calendars and stationery products. He created covers for book publishers including Random House, St. Martins Press, Knopf, Vintage, Penguin, Harper & Row, Simon & Schuster, Atlantic Monthly Books, MacMillan and Houghton Mifflin. Grimmett  also created album covers for Island, RCA and Hannibal Records.

Before founding Primal Screen, Grimmett got his feet wet in film and animation in 1987 when he worked as an art director for Peter Wallach Productions designing stop-motion animated commercials and music videos. He then became Creative Director and Principal of the integrated marketing agency FGI in Chapel Hill, North Carolina from 1989 to 1994 where he led a department of 20 creatives.

Garnering over 200 national and international awards in advertising, design and broadcast, his work has appeared in Communication Arts, Print, Graphis, How, The New York Art Directors Club, Creativity, BDA Awards, The AIGA Annual, and the Library of Congress Permanent Collection.