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Daniel Gil

Back in Spain, Gil entered as graphic designer in the Hispavox recording house, becoming shortly its Art director.


Art-O-Graf

Board of Directors: Alden Van Epps Wessels (Owner of the Steamboat Springs Orphium Theatre), Clay Henry Monson, M. Jay Casey, Otis B. Thayer, Gretchen Wood, Lucius Alfred Dick (son of Ohio Senator Charles William Frederick Dick), and David Townsend.

Burslem School of Art

Reginald George Haggar, who was Minton's art director in the 1930s, was the Master-in-Charge of the Burslem School of Art from 1941 to 1945.

Carl Burgos

Burgos and others, including Centaur Publications writer-artist Bill Everett, then followed Centaur art director Lloyd Jacquet to Jacquet's own newly formed packager, Funnies, Inc..

Francheska Yarbusova

Yarbusova received a degree in film animation from VGIK in 1967, after which she began working for Soyuzmultfilm in the roles of art director or artist.

Jefferies tube

The term "Jefferies tube" was originally an inside joke among the original Star Trek production staff, a reference to Original Series art director Matt Jefferies, the man who designed the original starship Enterprise.

Konstfack

Carl Johan De Geer (artist and designer), Lasse Åberg (filmmaker), Lotta Kühlhorn, Lars Hall (advertising), Oskar Korsár (artist and illustrator), Tuulikki Pietilä (artist), RBG6 (motion graphics), REALA, Stina Wirsén (illustrator),

Opera in Focus

In order to support the puppet opera, Fosser made a living as a set designer and art director in the motion picture industry, working on such films as Ordinary People, Home Alone, Backdraft, Weird Science, Music Box, Damien: Omen II, The Breakfast Club, A League of Their Own and Groundhog Day.

Patrice Vermette

Patrice Vermette (Born 1970) is a Canadian production designer/art director who has won three awards for his work on C.R.A.Z.Y., the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design and a Jutra Award for Best Art Direction.

Romolo Bacchini

In 1936 – as art director for CAIR (Cartoni Animati Italiani Roma) – he directed The Adventures of Pinocchio, which is believed to be the first cartoon movie dedicated to the novel by Carlo Collodi.

Run with the Pack

The album was the only original Bad Company album not to feature artwork from Hipgnosis as it featured artwork from Kosh instead.

That Touch of Mink

Nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Art Direction (Alexander Golitzen, Robert Clatworthy, George Milo), Best Sound (Waldon O. Watson) & Best Writing, Story and Screenplay — Written Directly for the Screen (Stanley Shapiro, Nate Monaster).


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1991 in animation

May 22 – Joy Batchelor, English director, producer, writer, art director and animator

AK Comics

The company was founded by Dr. Ayman Kandeel, (hence the initials); Dærick Gröss, Sr. is the editor-in-chief; Waleed Al-Telbany is the art director; Mohie El-Dein Sideiq is the Arabic-language editor and Sara Kareem is the English-language editor.

Akihiko Yoshida

Final Fantasy Tactics (1997) (PS1): Background art director, character design

Alicia Leeke

Leeke worked for six years at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control as the Art Director.

American Rifleman

Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist James T. Berryman was brought in as art director.

Anthony Sperduti

Trained as an art director, he has worked as creative director at advertising agencies Wieden & Kennedy (Portland, New York, and London offices), TBWA\Chiat\Day, Modernista and with brands like Nike, The Gap, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, ESPN, MTV, Volvo, and Heineken.

Aziz Dogdu

Aziz Dogdu (Aziz Dogdu Turuskan) (b. December 24, 1976 Dortmund, Germany) is a Turkish poet, lyricist, treatment writer, producer, art director and director.

B. K. S. Varma

He has worked as a staff artist for a Kannada language weekly and at age 15, he entered the movie industry as an assistant art director for a Hindi film.

Bec Stupak

She was named Art Director of New Media at Atlantic Records in 2000 and remained there until 2003, creating online content and overseeing websites for all Atlantic artists including Lil' Kim, T.I., Trick Daddy, Jewel, Brandy and many others.

Bloodhound Mystery

British artist Denis McLoughlin served as art director for Boardman Books and provided many of the dust jacket illustrations.

Boris Leven

As an art director, Leven contributed to The Flying Deuces (1939), Hello Frisco, Hello (1943), Invaders from Mars (1953), The Silver Chalice (1954), and Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973), among others.

Christian Bradley

While at The Dreamer's Guild, he worked under the tutelage of Bradley W. Schenck, the Art Director of the studio.

Clyde Klotz

On January 1, 1994, Klotz married actress Gillian Anderson, who played Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files, and whom he had met on the set of the programme for which he was an art director.

Colletta

Vince Colletta (1923-1991), highly prolific American comic book artist and art director

Dang Ngoc Long

Today he lives in Berlin and is the art director of the International Guitar Competition & Festival Berlin end director of the music school Berlin

Definition of a Band

The first single "What Kind of Man Would I Be" (charted at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 2 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks) was directed by art director Frank Kozik.

Dick Kelsey

Translating the screen arts to real buildings, Kelsey was hired by the Marco Engineering firm of Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood to be a lead art director to design Magic Mountain theme park at Golden, Colorado in 1957.

Dorothy Cumming

He was a British artist and designer who became the art director of Life, worked as design director for Norman Bel Geddes, and became the director of administration of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Filmfare Award for Best Art Director – South

The Filmfare Best South Art Director Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for South Indian films.

Helmut Krone

He was the art director for the popular 1960s campaign for the Volkswagen Beetle, which featured a large unadorned photo of the car with the tiny word "Lemon" underneath it; the series of "When you're only No. 2, you try harder" advertisements for Avis, and the creation of Juan Valdez, who personified Colombian coffee.

Hoelscher

Walter Holscher American cinematographer and film art director, perhaps best known for his work on The Wild One.

Independent Group

Key members at this stage included Paolozzi, the artist Richard Hamilton, surrealist and magazine art director Toni del Renzio, sculptor William Turnbull, the photographer Nigel Henderson and fine artist John McHale, along with the art critic Lawrence Alloway.

Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery

Franklin Gritts, Cherokee artist and art director of the Sporting News.

Jerry O'Flaherty

In 2003, O'Flaherty was named Studio Art Director of Epic Games, handling the direction of Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3.

John Dallaire

He has also done art for Lasers Dragons and Lies with John Zakour and Intergalactic Law: Grey Squad with Lisa Fary on Zuda as well as Intergalactic Law on Pink Raygun where he is the art director.

Joseph Newton

Joe Newton (musician), drummer for Gas Huffer, now deputy art director for Rolling Stone magazine

Kanto Wanderer

Two days before filming was scheduled to begin, art director Takeo Kimura suggested Hiroko Itō to Suzuki and she was selected.

Kasia Nosowska

In 2012 and 2013, she was the art director of concert tour Męskie Granie.

Ken Mora

After receiving a layoff from Hughes Spacecraft, in El Segundo, CA, he work freelance with his graphic designer with MacTemps (now Aquent) and was ultimately hired away to the post of Art Director at The Verity Group, a management consulting firm in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.

Leonard Boyarsky

After some freelance work for Interplay (Rags to Riches: The Financial Market Simulation and Castles II: Siege and Conquest) he was hired as art director, lead artist and designer/writer.

Matt Haley

Currently he is the art-director of Morgan Spurlock's "Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope" feature documentary, which recently debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Matthew Finlason

Matthew Finlason (born on March 29, 1975 in Mandeville, Jamaica) is a designer, art director, and producer of film and television projects.

Matthias Lechner

He worked as an art director and designer on the animated films Help! I'm a Fish and Space Chimps, as well as Laura's Star, among other films.

Meulman

Niels Shoe Meulman (b. 1967), Dutch visual artist, graffiti writer, graphic designer and art director

MTV Animation

In an interview for the Beavis and Butt-head Do America DVD, Mike Judge described MTV Animation as being very ad hoc: Beavis and Butt-head didn't have an art director until the film was made, so until the film they'd never considered colour palettes from scene to scene.

New York Press

In the tradition of earlier NY underground papers like East Village Other, New York Press also regularly published cutting-edge comic art, including early work by founding art director Michael Gentile, Kaz, Ben Katchor, Charles Burns, Mark Beyer, Mark Newgarden, Ward Sutton, M. Wartella, Gary Panter, Danny Hellman, Tony Millionaire and others.

Patrick Brantseg

Patrick Brantseg was the Art Director and puppeteer for "Gypsy" on Mystery Science Theater 3000, taking over the character from Jim Mallon, the show's producer, mid-way through the show's ninth season.

Pozner

Neal Pozner (1955–1994), sometimes credited as Neil Pozner, art director, editor, and writer known for his work in the comic book industry

Production of Caminho das Índias

Using the cities of Jaipur, Jodhpur and Mumbai as references, the art director built 42 shops and a complete temple in honor of the Hindu god Shiva, in addition to the façades and entries of a movie theater and the terracota-colored households of the four main Indian families of the story.

Raymond Persinger

In 1986, Persinger began working with for Dinamation, where he created life-sized sculptures of dinosaurs and sea creatures for use in museum exhibits and worked as project director and manager/art director of the sculpture department.

Renee Mallett

Renee Mallett is also the owner and art director of Nolia Gallery, a fine art gallery located in Amherst, New Hampshire.

Samwise

Samwise Didier, an artist and Art Director at Blizzard Entertainment

Solli Adippen

Solli Adippen is a Tamil film, directed by art director turned debutant director SAC Ramki and was to be the debut of Tamil film comedian Vivek, which also starred Chaya Singh and Tejashree.

Stefan G. Bucher

Starting his career in the United States as an art director at Portland, Oregon advertising agency Wieden & Kennedy, Bucher went on to design numerous CD packages including Brand New Day: The Remixes for Sting, the soundtrack for the motion picture The Matrix with Keanu Reeves.

The Revenge of Blind Joe Death: The John Fahey Tribute Album

This John Fahey tribute album was produced by Jon Monday, former art director and later Vice President and General Manager of Fahey's label, Takoma Records.

Thomas Romain

Basquash! (Original Concept, Art Director, Mechanical Concept Design, Key Animation)

Victor Reinganum

In 1928 he joined Elstree Studios and was an art director there until 1929 when he became a freelance illustrator.