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...

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All's fair in the war of love.

Or so goes the copy line I wrote for this THREE TO TANGO movie poster. Actually I preferred another line I wrote:

A love triangle with too many sides.

For this Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, and Dylan McDermott sandwich, I employed a time honored (at least in 1999) technique of "half-tone dots" as a design treatment. This was in response to the...

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Todd Solondz offers a dark satire in the form of the film STORYTELLING. Divided into two parts: "Fiction" revolves around a college writing class, while "Non-Fiction" is about a documentary filmmaker studying a suburban family. The film was difficult to capture within the confines of poster art. With it's wide ranging attacks on suburban repression and an array of taboo subjects, conventional poster ideas were not...

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The standard for dark comedies on television, SIX FEET UNDER takes a look at a dysfunctional family who operate a funeral home. For this HBO series, we explored a creative direction melding death, drama, and dark comedy. Since we were working on the launch of a (then) new series, we generally explored more abstract and stylized print ad concepts rather than focusing on the cast. For this...

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Stop me if you've seen this before: For the teen thriller GOSSIP, arrange a group of hot young stars faces in a "V" shaped formation, against a black background. This is sometimes referred to as a "SCREAM head lineup" or "Miramax lineup", in reference to the group cast shot layout in film posters for the Miramax SCREAM films. Cynicism aside, there are reasons this layout is common....

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AMERICAN HISTORY X chronicles the life of two brothers, Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) a powerful and influential neo-Nazi skinhead, and Danny (Edward Furlong), his younger and impressionable brother. For the home video cover art (which at the time included VHS and DVD), the studio wanted to emphasize both brothers, rather than just Norton (as seen in the theatrical one-sheet). Working on video is interesting, because you...

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