- Steven Heller
Steven Heller, (b. 1950), American art director, journalist, critic, author and editor who specializes on graphic design. Steven Heller is author and co-author of many works on the history of illustration, typography and many subjects related to graphic design. Over 80 titles and a vast number of magazine articles attest to his productive and thoughtful output. He has written articles for "Affiche, Baseline, Creation, Design, Design Issues, Eye, Graphis, How, I.D., … - Lee Clow
Lee Clow is currently the Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of TBWAWorldwide. "Advertising Age" referred to him as "advertising's art director guru." Clow is best known for creating Apple Computer's "1984" commercial which launched the Apple Macintosh and the "Think Different" slogan.. He's also known for his work on the Energizer Bunny, Taco Bell chihuahua, and California Coolers campaigns. - Cedric Gibbons
Austin Cedric Gibbons, known as Cedric Gibbons, was an American art director. Gibbons was one of the most important and influential art directors in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater architecture. He is credited as the designer of the Oscar statuette. - Samwise Didier
Samwise Didier is the art director at Blizzard Entertainment. He is responsible for creating much of the artwork for computer games in the Warcraft, StarCraft, and the Diablo series. Among the veteran Blizzard employees, Samwise has been a consistent artist for many years, his unique style greatly influencing the game art. For reasons unknown, Samwise has a healthy fixation on pandas, and was responsible for the Pandaren, … - Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier (August 21, 1885 - October 24, 1966) was a film art director. Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood. He made contributions to nearly 500 films during his lengthy career and was nominated for Academy Awards for his art direction, on 23 occasions. He won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction (Color) for "Frenchman's Creek" (1944) and "Samson and Delilah" (1950). - Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld is widely recognized as one of the more influential fashion designers of the late 20th century. He has collaborated with a variety of different fashion labels, with Chloé, Fendi and Chanel the most notable. But with contracts with companies internationally, throughout his career, he has probably built the most complicated resume of any designer. Furthermore, he has his own labels, which he launched in the early 1980s, including perfume and clothing. - Hayao Miyazaki
Born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan, Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most famous and well-respected creators of anime. He has three brothers, he being the second oldest. His older brother, Arata Miyazaki , was born in July 1939. His first younger brother is Shirou Miyazaki. His youngest is brother is named Yutaka Miyazaki and was born in January 1944. In 1947, Miyazaki enrolled at a school in... More A - Hal Pereira
Hal Pereira (April 29, 1905, Chicago, Illinois - December 17, 1983, Los Angeles, California) was an American art director and production designer. In the 1940s through the 1960s he worked on more than 200 films as an art director and production designer. He was nominated for 23 Oscars, having won only one for his work on The Rose Tattoo. Pereira was educated at the University of Illinois and is brother of architect (and occasional film art director) William L. Pereira. - Alexander Golitzen
Alexander Golitzen, (Moscow, February 28, 1908 - San Diego, July 26, 2005) oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies. Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school. He then attended the University of Washington, where he achieved a degree in architecture. He started his art direction career in Los Angeles, … - Neville Brody
Neville Brody is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director. Neville Brody is an alumnus of the London College of Communication and studied at Hammersmith College of Art under Ruskin Spear (alumni include Glenn Tutsell, Michael Peters and Howard Milton) and is known for his work on "The Face" magazine (1981–1986) and "Arena" magazine (1987–1990), as well as for designing record covers for artists such as Cabaret Voltaire and Nine Inch Nails. - Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola (born in Berkeley, California on September 16, 1960) is a American comic book artist and writer. He has also worked for animation projects such as "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" and the adaptation of his one shot comic book, "The Amazing Screw-On Head". - Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the "Koker trilogy", "A Taste of Cherry", and "The Wind Will Carry Us". Kiarostami has worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, … - Henry Bumstead
Lloyd Henry Bumstead (March 17 1915 - May 24 2006) was an American cinematic art director and production designer. In a career that spanned over fifty-five years he won two Academy Awards: the first for "To Kill a Mockingbird", and the second for "The Sting". In addition, he was nominated for Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven". - William Cameron Menzies
William Cameron Menzies (July 29, 1896 - March 5, 1957) was an American Academy Award-winning and versatile art director. He earned acclaim on silent films and later pioneered the use of color in film for dramatic effect. In his long career spanning five decades from 1918 to 1956, he pioneered the role of production designer but also worked as a director, producer, and screenwriter. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut before moving to Los Angeles, California. - Peter Saville
Peter Saville (born 1955 in Manchester) is an English graphic designer based in London. Saville attended St Ambrose College. He studied graphic design at Manchester Polytechnic (later Manchester Metropolitan University) from 1975 to 1978. - Alexey Brodovitch
Alexey Brodovitch (also Brodovich) was a Russian-born photographer, designer and instructor who is most famous for his art direction of "Harper's Bazaar" from 1938 to 1958. Brodovitch was born in 1898. He fled Russia in 1920 and settled in Paris. He came to the United States in 1930 and began his career at Harper's Bazaar in 1934. After a remarkable career but an unhappy personal life, Brodovitch died in 1971 in a small village in southern France. - Peter Lamont
Dr. Peter Lamont (November 12, 1929, England, UK) is a noted set decorator, script editor, art director, and production designer most famous for working on eighteen James Bond films. The only three Bonds that he didn't work on are Dr No, From Russia With Love and Tomorrow Never Dies. Throughout his near 60-year career, Lamont has been nominated for three Academy Awards for his work on "Fiddler on the Roof" (1971), "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977), … - Dante Ferretti
Dante Ferretti is an Italian art director and costume designer for films. He won his first, and so far only Academy Award for "The Aviator" (2004) for Art Direction, despite seven previous nominations. His nominations were for "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", "Hamlet" (1990), "The Age of Innocence", "Interview with a Vampire", "Kundun", and "Gangs of New York". He was nominated for Best Costume Design for "Kundun". - Hal Riney
Hal Riney (born 1932) is an American advertising executive and founder of Publicis & Hal Riney. Riney was named number 30 on the "Advertising Age" 100 people of the 20th century. He was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame in 2001. Riney grew up in Longview, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1954. After serving two years in the United States Army doing public relations in Italy, he joined BBDO San Francisco, … - Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker regarded as one of the greatest film directors of the twentieth century. Born in the city of Kolkata (then Calcutta) into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College and at the Visva-Bharati University, at the poet Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan. - Leonard Boyarsky
Leonard Boyarsky is an American computer game designer and visual artist. He is well known as one of the three major creators of Interplay's classic computer role-playing game "Fallout", on which he worked as art director, lead artist, designer and writer. He also contributed to its sequel, "Fallout 2", until leaving Interplay with Tim Cain and Jason D. Anderson, "Fallout's" other major creators, to start the aptly-named company Troika Games. - Jack Martin Smith
Jack Martin Smith (1911 - 1993) was a highly successful Hollywood art director with over 130 films to his credit and nine Academy Award nominations which ultimately yielded three Oscars. He made his debut in 1937 and two years later found himself working as a production designer on "The Wizard of Oz". Smith spent most of his working life at MGM where he worked on such films as "Easter Parade" (1948),"On the Town" (1949), … - Gregg Toland
Gregg Toland was a highly influential American cinematographer, noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus, an example of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane". During the 1930s Toland was one of the most sought after cinematographers after becoming the youngest cameraman in Hollywood. Over a seven-year span (1936–1942), he was nominated five times for the "Best Cinematography" Oscar, … - Jack Fisk
Jack Fisk (born 19 December 1945 in Canton, Illinois) is an American movie industry professional, frequently working as either a production designer or art director on Hollywood movies. Fisk was art director on Brian De Palma's "Carrie" (1976), starring his wife Sissy Spacek. He frequently collaborates with directors David Lynch (who he has known since childhood) and Terrence Malick. - Lionel Banks
With over 200 films to his credit, Lionel Banks was a hard-working art director from 1935 to 1949. In that time he worked on such films as Leo McCarey’s “The Awful Truth” (1937), Howard Hawks’ South American set “Only Angels Have Wings” (1939) and his rapid fire comedy classic the following year “His Girl Friday”, most of the Blondie B-movies, … - Rick Carter
Rick Carter, born in 1952, is an American production designer and art director. He is known for his work in the film "Forrest Gump", which earned him an oscar nomination, as well as numerous nominations of other awards for his work in "Amistad" and "Artificial Intelligence: A.I.." Other films include "Cast Away", "War of the Worlds (2005 film)", "What Lies Beneath", "Jurassic Park", … - Mitchell Leisen
Mitchell Leisen (b. October 6 1898, Menominee, Michigan - d. October 28 1972, Los Angeles) was an American director, art director, and costume designer. He entered the film industry in the 1920s, beginning in the art and costume departments. He garnered his sole Academy Award nomination in 1930, for Art Direction, for Cecil B. DeMille's "Dynamite". - Peter Howitt
Peter Howitt (born May 5, 1957 in Manchester) is an English actor and film director. He first found success playing Joey Boswell in the British TV series "Bread". In 1998 he wrote and directed his first film, "Sliding Doors" (1998). Since then he has directed several films, including "AntiTrust" (2001), "Johnny English" (2003) and "Laws of Attraction" (2004). - Dean Tavoularis
Dean Tavoularis (born January 1, 1932) is an American motion picture production designer whose work appeared in numerous box office hits such as "The Godfather" movies, "Apocalypse Now", "The Brink's Job", "One from the Heart" and "Bonnie and Clyde". - Sabu Cyril
Sabu Cyril is an Indian film art director. He graduated from the Madras School of Arts and Crafts. From 1982 to 1988, he was a freelance graphics designer for companies such as Welcomgroup Hotels, the Taj Group of Hotels, and Madura Coats. In 1988, he began his art director career, and has directed more than 480 advertisements, 3 teleserials and 50 feature films in Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kanada to date. - Donato Giancola
Donato Giancola (born 1967) is a multiple award winning American artist specializing in science fiction and fantasy illustration. - Yusuke Naora
Yusuke Naora (born January 9, 1971) is a Japanese video game art director, art supervisor, field graphic designer, game producer and character designer working for Square Enix (formerly Square. He served as the art director for "Final Fantasy VII", "Final Fantasy VIII", "Final Fantasy X" and "Final Fantasy VII Advent Children" as well as "Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII" as Art Supervisor. - Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor (born December 15 1952) is an American director of Broadway theatre and film. Taymor's work has been received many accolades from critics, and she has won several Tony Awards for her work, noted for its visual flair and colorful costuming choices. - Elke Kramer
Elke Kramer is a jewelery designer, illustrator, graphic designer and art director based in Sydney, Australia.. Her jewelery made from acrylic and is abstract in form and shape. Past collections have included inspiration from orchids, sea urchins, spirographs and ice-creams. - George Davis
George Davis (April 17, 1914 - October 3, 1998) was a celebrated art director who began his career at 20th Century Fox and won Oscars for his work on "The Robe" (1953) and "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959). He was nominated an additional 15 times. His first film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's fantasy "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" in 1947, a director for whom he frequently worked, notably on "House of Strangers" (1949), … - Peter Ellenshaw
William "Peter" Ellenshaw (May 24 1913 - February 12 2007) was an Anglo-American award-winning matte designer and special effects creator who worked on many Disney features. His first major project was the 1936 film "Things to Come". After World War II, he worked on films like "Quo Vadis" until he was recruited by Walt Disney Studios to work on their first live action film, "Treasure Island". - Doug Chiang
Doug Chiang is an American movie designer and artist. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1962 and grew up in the United States. Chiang studied film at UCLA and industrial design at the College for Creative Studies. During the late 1980's he worked at various production studios including Rhythm and Hues. Chiang eventually joined Industrial Light and Magic as a creative director where he worked on films such as "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Forrest Gump". - James Basevi
James Basevi (1890 - 1962) was a British born art director and special effects expert. He began his career in 1924 with MGM, designing sets for silent films. After the advent of talkies, Basevi became the head of MGM's special effects department, helping to create the earthquake scene in "San Francisco" (1936). He also worked on the storm sequence in John Ford's "The Hurricane" for 20th Century Fox. - Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is a two-time Emmy-winning American animator, screenwriter, producer, director, and voice actor. He is best known as the creator of the animated series "Family Guy" and "American Dad!". He was also the executive producer of the short-lived series, "The Winner". - Alan Fletcher
Alan Gerard Fletcher was a British graphic designer. In his obituary, he was described by "The Daily Telegraph" as "the most highly regarded graphic designer of his generation, and probably one of the most prolific".
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