Arem duplessis portfolio manager

Duplessis then studied graphic design at Hampton University, where his father, Errol Duplessis, was a professor and aquatics director. In the second semester of his freshman year, the school purchased an Apple Macintosh IIsi for the art department.

This month marks my 10th year at Apple!

This month marks my 10th year at Apple!

Arem is currently a Group CD within Apple's Marketing Department.

Photo shared by Arem Duplessis on November 14,

Arem is currently a Creative Director within Apple's Worldwide Marketing Department.

AIGA Medalist and Emmy Award-winning creative director Arem Duplessis, left his storied job at The New York Times Magazine to go to work at Apple.

“I fell in love immediately but I had to compete with 10 other students for computer time,” he recalls. “I’d always sign up for the last time slot, which was generally around 9 p.m.” Duplessis worked throughout the night to learn how to use the technology.

Inspired by a speaker from Time-Life Books and her book designs, which “inspired the hell out of him,” he went on to graduate school at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for communication design.

There, he experienced a new level of access—from various design disciplines to faculty like lettering master Tony DiSpigna, the trappings of a major city, and, to his delight, a computer lab boasting rows of Macs.

It was at Pratt’s employment office where he found his first job, advertise