Don Simpson

For over forty-five years Don Simpson has been doing science-fiction and fantasy art in several methods and media, including metals, wood, glass, stone, plastics, and various combinations; and his drawings and sculptures have gone into collections across the United States, as well as appearing on books, magazines, and cassette tapes. He has had one-man shows at Dream Masters Gallery in Los Angeles and at Earthlight Gallery in Boston, built an alien space-probe for the National Air and Space Museum (“Certainly the best part of the exhibit, and the one requiring the greatest imagination to develop” -— Spaceflight magazine), and designed the base for the year 2002 Hugo Awards.

Don’s other main interest is technology, and for most of thirty years he was helping design various mechanical and electronic devices, including the first digital-output computer mice and an experimental “virtual reality” computer interface, and helping produce the Star Trek - The Next Generation computer game "A Final Unity". Currently, he is doing computer graphics and high-tech sculpture, and doing jewelry in many styles and techniques.

Don has started to display his art on-line at the deviantART gallery site: donsimpson.deviantart.com and has a tiny, seldom-updated, personal web site at members.aol.com/DonSimpson/index.html.

Don has also written dozens of filk songs, and the first parts of hundreds more; and is hoping to someday have a songbook and a filk website.