DENNIS LARKINS DESIGN
CREATIVE DIRECTION, CONCEPT & SHOW DESIGN, ART DIRECTION

DESIGN RESUME:

2005 DESIGN CONSULTANT: Disney Virtual Magic Kingdom DLR Concept and Production, Art Direction; Disney Virtual Magic Kingdom WDW Concept and Production, Art Direction; Google Trade Show Concept Design; Victaulic China Exhibit; Dunkin Donuts Themed Signage Concepts; Kodak/Disney “Kodak Gallery Concept”; Victaulic Sales Event

2004 DESIGN CONSULTANT: Verizon Trade Show Concept Presentation; Kodak/NASCAR Atlanta Trade Tent Concept Design; Safeway Trade Show Concept Presentation; Victaulic Lobby Headquarters Trade Show Design; Victaulic Product Exhibit Tour Concept; Massport Playspace Concept; New Century Sales Tour Concept; Kodak/Disney Digital Photography Post-Show Upgrade

2003 DESIGN CONSULTANT: Project Designer for Kodak/Disney
“Toontown” Mall Tour; Designer/Art Director, interactive features for Kodak Exhibit, PMA Convention, Las Vegas; Graphic Design/Art Direction, Kodak “Picture Planet” tour truck graphic wrap; Art Director/Production Designer, “Honey I Shrunk the Audience” Pre-show, Disneyland, CA; Project Designer, Kodak “Grass Roots” Mall Tour; eBay Trade Show Concept Presentation; Kodak/Build-A-Bear Retail Photo Op Concept Design; Kodak/DLR “Picture Spots” Photo Op Concept.

2002 DESIGN CONSULTANT: Cisco Systems Corporate Event Concept Sketches; Project Designer for Kodak Digital Photography Post Show, Kodak Pavilion, Epcot Center, WDW, FL; Project Designer, Kodak/Disney Lion King Mall Tour; Exhibits Designer, Kodak Picture Planet Tour; Concept Design & Illustration; Decorative Designer/Art Director, Community Center Building, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, Highland, CA; Illustrations, Sega “Monkey Ball” Promotion, Foote, Cone & Belding, San Francisco.

2001 DESIGN CONSULTANT: Kodak EasyShare Road Tour Concept Design; Graphic Design & Illustration for X GAMES event poster – Foote, Cone & Belding, San Francisco; Illustrations for Taco Bell food tasting – FCB, S.F.; Art Direction, Scenic backdrop for AutoCad meetings-FCB; Decorative design for City of Refuge Meeting Hall, Los Angeles; Set Design, Los Angeles Forum; Invitation art “Simply Bluegrass Festival”, San Francisco, CA; Concept Design & Illustrations: Fisher-Price Tour, EXP, San Francisco; Dockers Ad Campaign, Foote, Cone & Belding, San Francisco.

2000 DESIGN CONSULTANT: Show Design for “The Secret Lab” Exhibit at Disneyland Innoventions; Illustrations for TIVO (Home Recording System) Touring Exhibit; “Legends from the Four Winds” Concept Design and Illustration, Last Scout Productions.

1998-99 DESIGN CONSULTANT: Sega Gameworks, Hollywood; Digital Domain, Venice, CA; Santeler Marketing Group, Redwood City, CA, for Walt Disney World. Lead Designer, “Bug’s Life” exhibit at Disneyland Innoventions (1998); Motorola Exhibit and TAPPI Exhibit at Epcot Innoventions (1999).

1997-98 CREATIVE PRODUCER: Sega Gameworks, Hollywood. Lead Designer, Gameworks Studio, Stage 35 by Sega Projects.

1996-97 RETAIL THEME DESIGNER: Hollywood & Grand, Emerald City
Stores; MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas.

1994-96 DIRECTOR – SHOW DESIGN; SENIOR ART DIRECTOR:
SpectraFX, Moorpark, CA. Highlights:
· Microsoft Product Launch: Lead Designer; Alameda Naval Air Station, CA.
· Don Quixote’s Magical Flight, Dark Ride; Lead Designer; Shima Spain Village Theme Park, Japan.
· Epic Buffet & Hollywood Casino Studio Store; Lead Designer; Sands Casino, Atlantic City, NJ.
· Casino Magic; Themed Entrance/Laser Light Show; Buloxi, MS.

1993 THEME DESIGN ART DIRECTOR: Warner Bros. Studio Stores, Worldwide Retail, Burbank, CA.

1992-93 SENIOR SHOW DESIGNER: Viking Stunt Show, Wakayama Entertainment District, MCA Recreational Services, Los Angeles, CA.

1991-92 DESIGN CONSULTANT / ART DIRECTOR: Kevin Biles Design, Marina Del Rey; Metavision, Burbank; Ciba-Gigey product launches, Los Angeles.

1991 SCENIC ARTIST: Feature Films “Batman Returns”, Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, CA; “Honey I Blew Up the Kids”, Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, CA; “The Craft”, ABC Movie of the Week, Los Angeles, CA.

1990-91 SHOW DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION: Supertek Productions, Los Angeles, CA; Barry Howard Limited, Malibu, CA.

1990 STAGE DESIGN & PRODUCTION: Outdoor Touring Set, Jimmy Buffet American Tour.

1990 ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: Feature Film “Young Guns II”, on location, Santa Fe, NM.

1989-90 SENIOR SHOW DESIGN CONSULTANT: Walt Disney Imagineering, Honey I Shrunk the Kids Playground, Disney/MGM Studio Tour, Orlando, FL.

1989-90 GRAPHIC DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION: Bill Graham Presents, Rolling Stones, The Who, New Kids on the Block.

1988-89 SENIOR SHOW DESIGNER / ART DIRECTOR: Walt Disney Imagineering, Lead Designer, “Mannequins”, Dance Palace, Pleasure Island Project, Walt Disney World, FL.

1987-88 SCENIC ARTIST (I.A.T.S.E. Local 816, Hollywood): Disneyland Entertainment Development (parade float fabrication shop), Burbank, CA; Feature Films “Coming to America” & “Big Top Pee Wee”, Paramount Pictures, Hollywood, CA.

1982-86 STAGE DESIGN & CONSULTATION / ART DIRECTION / SCENIC CONTRACTING: US Festival, San Bernardino, CA; Grateful Dead & Santana Tours; Camel Cigarettes Installation, Daytona Beach, FL; Festival Theatre, Santa Fe, NM; New Mexico Ballet Co., Albuquerque, NM.

1979-86 GRAPHIC DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION: Charlie Daniels Band; Bill Graham Presents; Rolling Stones; Bruce Springsteen; Wham; Scorpions; Grateful Dead; Simon & Garfunkel; Pablo Cruise; Police; David Bowie; Def Leppard; Represented in the Art of Rock, Abbeyville Press, 1987.

1974-82 STAGE DESIGN & CONSULTATION / ART DIRECTION / SCENIC ARTIST: FM Productions, San Francisco, CA.; Rolling Stones; Eagles; Fleetwood Mac; Grateful Dead; Led Zeppelin; Journey; Barry Manilow; Capitol Records; Coca Cola; Anheuser Busch; IBM; Bill Graham Presents; many others. San Francisco Opera; San Francisco Ballet; Western and Spring Operas & American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, CA.