About Phillip Simon

Phillip Simon has always been a photographer. He fulfilled his childhood fantasy of using fancy cameras when he got his first 35 mm film camera at the age of 13.

As a printmaking major at the University of the Arts, Phill learned and practiced the art of graphic arts, combining drawing and photography with traditional printmaking techniques. In 1980, during graduate school at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Simon began experimenting with multimage techniques to marry image and sound to express ideas.

In the early 80s Phill created sound design for dance and theater performances. He also expanded his media skills as a free-lance video producer. In the early nineties he collaborated with Joy Wulke contributing projections and sound design to installations.

In the mid eighties he worked producing computer graphics for presentations and video productions. It was at this time, in 1987, that Phill's tenure at Yale University started, where he was hired to establish a section of video production. His work doing video led to the creation of video disks for multimedia productions, and subsequently to the management of educational software production.

In 1992, with the advent of the Web, Phill started to apply his design approach to projects using the Internet. The nineties brought more graduate school and culminated with a fusion of print and photography using digital techniques.

Phill has won numerous awards and has presented papers at national professional conferences.

In 2000, Phillip completed a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree from Wesleyan University. His master's project was a suite of digital images exploring the relationship between photography and drawing.

Currently Phill works at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, as the Director of Interactive and Online Programs for the School of Communications.

Prior to starting at Quinnipiac in 2009, Phill spent 22 years at Yale University. He finished his tenure there as a program designer and on-line educational specialist. Phillip held positions at Yale as Director of Operations for Web Design and Development at the Yale University School of Medicine, Director of Operations for the Yale Center For Advanced Instructional Media, and Director of Biomedical Communications.

Phill is married and has three children. When he is not running Isabel around to soccer games, he builds things around the house, and slowly expands the garden. Phill switched over to telemark skiing in 2002, and will not switch back to heel trainers. In warmer months he tries to play as much tennis as possible.