“Rules of Play” Short Film by Merlin Flugel
April 16, 2021
HBO Asia Lunar New Year ID by JL Design and Mixcode
JL Design in Taipei, Taiwan: “This ident is for an HBO Asia channel that has both Chinese and Western audiences. We cooperated with Mixcode to use mahjong as the main visual element throughout the film. [Read more]
Buck Promos Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World & Me” for HBO
From Buck: “[We] proudly partnered with HBO to promote their recently aired, cleverly adapted rendition of the Apollo Theatre’s 2018 stage version of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ powerful 2015 novel, “Between the World & Me.” [Read more]
HBO “Between the World and Me” Titles by Hazel Baird and Elastic
Creative director Hazel Baird at Elastic: “[For this title sequence], director Kamilah Forbes wanted us to stay away from triggering and violent images that we constantly see in the media and on social platforms and instead, be a colorful celebration of black culture. [Read more]
HBO “Equal” Doc Titles by Blue Spill
HBO’s new “Equal” docuseries, covering the history of LGBTQ civil rights, opens with this brisk and fiery collage of imagery by design director Allison Brownmoore and the crew at London design and VFX house Blue Spill. [Read more]
Studio AKA Opens “Raised by Wolves” for Ridley Scott
Working in close collaboration with Ridley Scott, Studio AKA director Steve Small crafts a somber but somehow hopeful title sequence for “Raised by Wolves”, the new HBO Max series about androids raising human children on a distant planet. [Read more]
Jeff Han Drains “The Swamp” for HBO
Elastic creative director Jeff Han is on a roll. Following breakout title work earlier this year for the Amazon series “Hunters” and CNN’s “John Lewis: Good Trouble” doc, Han opens “The Swamp” on HBO with this eerie CG sequence. [Read more]
