In conversation with Matt Rota, Javier Ameijeiras, associate designer for the Oscars and Art Director for Hamilton, provides a fresh take on what it means to be an illustrator and designer. He discusses taking the formal pen & paper tools he honed in college and adapting them to exist in 3-D. His creative forces have been applied to the physical worlds of Production Design, Art Direction, and Conceptual Development. Javier has contributed to Emmy winning TV shows, Oscar-nominated films, and Tony Award-winning productions such as the hit Broadway show Hamilton, Disney’s Beauty and Beast, HBO’s Bored to Death, Girls, Boardwalk Empire, and so many more.
Matt Rota sat down with Nathan Fox, Chair of the MFA Visual Narrative Department at the School of Visual Arts and award winning illustrator...
Félicie Haymoz, character designer known for her work on “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Isle of Dogs,” and Taili Wu, stop-motion “monster-shaper,” contrast their experiences working...
Steve Brodner, an award-winning illustrator, caricaturist and journalist, as he dives into how he “lets his art respond to the world”. Brodner investigates how...
