THE NEW JERSEY TURNPIKES is a comedy about the waning days of the ABA (American Basketball Association) league in 1975. The manager of the team was played by Kelsey Grammer, who also narrated the film. The comedy, which I labeled a Jockumentary, was positioned as 1970s kitsch, especially thanks to lead character Kool Williams (played by Orlando Jones). In the film, Jones grabs a lot...

Toy action figures come to life and do battle in SMALL SOLDIERS, with a suburban neighborhood caught in the middle. When newspapers were the most popular way to find movies at local theaters, movie studios generated a large amount of new artwork for newspaper ads. These ads would change weekly to maintain interest weeks after a film's release. The highest number of people to see a...

Final Fantasy The Spirits Within is a computer animated science film from Sony and Square Pictures loosely based on the popular Final Fantasy video game series. The movie has the distinction of being the first photorealistic computer animated feature film and the most expensive video game based film ever made. Early in the production of the film (then titled Final Fantasy The Movie), Sony solicited movie...

The Ron Howard film EDtv stars Matthew McConaughey as the subject of a 24 hour a day reality show. When the film was released in the late 1990s, reality TV shows like Survivor and Big Brother had not even yet debuted. The only comparable reality series on air at the time was Cops. The client did not want the poster to look like an ad for...

THE FIFTH ELEMENT was a science fiction epic from French director Luc Besson and starring Bruce Willis. In the 23rd century, a mysterious evil force threatens humanity. The only way to stop this menace is the Fifth Element, which comes to Earth with stones representing four elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Working on teaser movie poster designs, we were given an existing logo created for...

Tales from the Hood was described by the client as a "hip-hop horror anthology" movie. The film features four short stories, bridged with a story of drug dealers buying drugs from an eccentric funeral director. Before any movie poster art or promotional material was created, the client was looking for a logo title design, intended to be used in the film's trailer and movie poster. (Both...

Crash & Burn is a television show pilot created by comedian and actor Lance Krall and produced by skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. The comedy centers around the "Crash & Burn stunt team", headed by Lee Majors. (Yes, that Lee Majors.) For this unaired TV pilot, I created the logo for the team and stunt school seen in the show, which appears throughout the pilot on various...

The Brothers McMullen is a comedy drama film directed, written, produced, and starring Edward Burns. After winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, the small indie film was picked up for distribution by 20th Century Fox, and was the first film released by it's "arthouse" film division, Fox Searchlight Pictures. As part of that Fox Searchlight Pictures campaign, the film advertising agency...

In The Patriot, Mel Gibson stars as farmer Benjamin Martin who is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution. For The Patriot soundtrack art, the client Hollywood Records wanted to emphasize the action of the open field battles that highlight the Columbia Pictures film. For the CD inset, I designed a fold-out of the Colonials lined up for battle -- opening the full...

In Mission Impossible 2 (aka M:I-2 aka MI2), Tom Cruise returns to his signature movie franchise, this time helmed by Hong Kong action director John Woo. For this movie project, I worked on the CD packaging design for the MI-2 film soundtrack release. This primarily consisted of designing the CD booklet, jewel case inlay, and back cover. (Like many film soundtracks and scores, the album cover...