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This page:
+ Down With Love (20th Century Fox)
+ Anchorman (Dreamworks)
+ The Italian Job (Paramount)
+ Dark Shadows pilot (WB Television)
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+ Picking Up the Pieces (Kushner-Locke / Cinemax)
+ Snoop Dogg's Doggy Fizzle Televizzle (MTV)
+ The Andy Dick Show (MTV) |
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Client: "Down With Love" (20th Century Fox)
• Featured and incidental book covers for the 1963-era period picture. "Down With Love" and "Up With Love" were the "hero" books for this sendup of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson romantic comedies. Work includes type design and the arrow-and-heart graphic devices, which were repurposed for large storefront displays. The pink cover was included in the recent exhibit The Secret Life of Sets: Set Decorators at Work, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. |
  
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Client: "Down With Love" (20th Century Fox)
• Featured and incidental magazine covers for the 1963-era period picture. Tomorrow Today International Design Magazine was created around the provided title; includes nameplate / type design, cover story concept, illustration and supplemental copy. • KNOW magazine was the movie's Esquire. "Mach Schnell to the Moon" was a magazine article about the use of Nazi scientists in the U.S. space program. This page mock-up includes type design, V-2 blueprints and a Hitler caricature created in Illustrator and Photoshop. • Provided with the KNOW nameplate and cover story titles, Thought Nozzle created the visual concepts and type design, and art directed photography for these covers, which were used as both props and posters in the magazine publisher's offices. The Egyptian tomb painting illustration for "Will Cleopatra Bankrupt 20th Century Fox?" was great fun. Created in Illustrator and Photoshop, the image shows Liz Taylor and the 1963 production's financial troubles; Cleo-Liz takes bags of money from the Fox-god, and in turn, the dough flies away on Ra-wings. There are also "Easter egg" heiroglyphics, like "In Liz We Trust." One top Fox executive is reported to have seen a poster print of this cover on the set and ordered a framed copy for his office. The detail in this one has to seen in closeup, so give it a click. • By the way, the "switchblade" cover was included in the recent exhibit The Secret Life of Sets: Set Decorators at Work, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. |
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Client: "Anchorman" (Dreamworks)
• Signage for the San Diego Zoo. The client needed three zoo habitat signs from the 1970's, so the carved-and-painted-wood style (with Cooper Black type) was a natural choice. Includes illustration, and research for those long Latin names.
• Thought Nozzle also designed the logo for World News Center and its onset applications. |
  
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Client: "Dark Shadows" Pilot (WB Television)
• Signage for the "Blue Whale Tavern". "Dark Shadows" is well known for switching between eras, so signage for the Maine town of Collinsport needed to be appropriate for both the present day and the mid-to-late 1700's. Research on New England signage led us to create a fatalistic folk-art illustration, mounted in a period frame with accurate wrought-iron hanging hardware. The second version is an alternate/additional sign for contemporary scenes. Includes type design and illustration in Adobe Illustrator.
• "Stauffer Landscaping" (named for the art department coordinator") needed an upscale modern/colonial look, so we spun out a moody Maine lighthouse scene, incorporating the production's thematic blood red, and applied appropriate type.
• Hallowell University logo: a nod to the WB classic "Charmed", Hallowell University is used for a student's sweatshirt and ID card in the Dark Shadows pilot. For the school's seal, we realized that the Charmed "Power of Three" triquetra symbol was a natural, and we added the words "Earth/Wind/Fire" and "Honor/Power/Glory", associated with the symbol.
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Client: "The Italian Job" (Paramount)
Vault plans.
• For the safe and lock shop owned by Charlize Theron's character in this heist picture, the production needed highly-detailed drawings of bank vault doors and mechanisms. But most vault manufacturers won't allow their plans to go public, for obvious reasons. So... we designed our own in Adobe Illustrator. |
 
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Client: "The Italian Job" (Paramount)
Certificates and permits.
• Bridger Lock and Safe, Inc., like any place of business, needed various business forms and permits in order to work properly. Thought Nozzle researched, designed and printed these pieces and more. A high level of detail can help an actor to immerse themselves in their surroundings, and allow the audience to forget that they're watching a movie. Suspending your disbelief shouldn't be work; being there is always more fun. |
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Next pages:
+ Picking Up the Pieces (Kushner-Locke / Cinemax)
+ Snoop Dogg's Doggy Fizzle Televizzle (MTV)
+ The Andy Dick Show (MTV) |
