![]() After all, I had watched my mother succumb to the effects of smoking, and it affected me deeply. I also did numerous sketches for a rebrand of Miller Beer and designed cigarette packages for Philip Morris.Įven though it was a great opportunity to work for one of the world’s best branding agencies at Landor, and I enjoyed the craft and creativity of designing cigarette packages, I couldn’t put aside my concerns about smoking. All of the designers, and there were about 100 of us, were tasked to develop a new logo for the auto company Datsun. Some of the work you may be familiar with occurred, just as I joined the company. To tell the truth, I really DID need Dramamine, because I get motion sickness easily. The work was great, but what a combination-tobacco, beverages, spirits, and, to top it all off, Dramamine. I worked in the tobacco, beverages, and spirits group. It was located on a refurbished ferry boat docked in the water at Pier 5. Landor was a top tier international brand and design agency with their home office in San Francisco. I was quite fortunate that I was recruited right out of art school by the design firm Landor Associates. I graduated with a BA with honors in Graphic Design and Packaging. It wan’t until one of my professors suggested that I check out the graphic design program at the The Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena CA, that I got on the right path. When I wasn’t waitressing I was hand lettering large signs for the restaurant in old fashioned turn of the century style typefaces, to go along with the theme and design of an old time Ice Cream Parlour. My first job during that time was as a waitress at Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour. For the first 2 years of college I majored in Fine Arts, learning Art History and to draw and paint. ![]() I always wanted to be an artist but I didn’t know what kind. What did you want to do when you were at school for a career and what was your first job? When at home, I use it with my awesome 27” Apple Thunderbolt Display. My favorite computer is the one I use now, which is my trusty MacbookPro Laptop. The price for the computer, along with a monitor and keyboard, was a around $4,000 - more than most computers today! The year was 1990, I bought it through an employee discount program when I worked as a graphic designer/art director for the Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) located in Santa Cruz, CA. The first computer I owned was a Apple Mac IIci. What was your first computer you owned and is that your favourite computer or do you have a different favourite? Lives in San Jose, CA with her husband Jerry and American Eskimo dog Rosie.Won 2nd prize at the 1983 San Francisco Ad Club Point-of-Purchase show in the mobile and counter card categories for Ms.Her work has received awards from Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club of New York, Creativity Magazine and POPAI. She has consulted for Apple Computer, Borland International, Brocade, Hewlett-Packard, and VMWare. Her previous employers include Landor Associates, Maxtor Corporation and Medtronic Inc. Pamela has worked as a graphic designer for over 30 years. She worked with the team that designed and produced the 1983 sales catalogs, including the 26 video game consoles and the entire line up of games. She designed the holiday packaging for the 5200 game console, and the retail point-of-purchase and sales support materials for the Ms. Pac-Man was never released in any arcade form in Japan, and would not receive a Japanese home console release until 1990 on the Atari Lynx.ĬLICK ON THE VIDEO LINK on the back story of General Computer Corporation and where I got the idea of using the Weird Science movie poster HERE.Pamela Smith worked for Atari in the Promotion Design department for Consumer Electronics from 1982 – 1984. Pac-Man (in its Crazy Otto form) was initially developed without Namco's permission, Bally Midway later turned the intellectual property rights to the game over to Namco. Midway then changed a quantity of details from Crazy Otto (some of which were at Namco founder Masaya Nakamura's request), and renamed it Ms. Midway, impatient for Namco to release the then-upcoming Super Pac-Man, purchased Crazy Otto for their own release. presented the game to Bally Midway for approval of release. To avoid another lawsuit with Atari (which they had previously received for creating a Missile Command hack), G.C.C. Pac-Man started as an unauthorized hack of Pac-Man called Crazy Otto by General Computer Corporation, featuring a Pac-Man-like character with a blue eye and legs. Ms.Pac-Man: HONEY DON’T YOU KNOW I’M MORE THAN PAC-MAN WITH A BOW !Ītari 2600 Commercial - Ms.
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