Garson Yu

Who is he??

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Born I Hong Kong 1961, Garson Yu is the founder/creative director of yU+co in Hollywood, California. He was educated at the Yale School of Art on the Norman Ives Scholarship in 1985. He graduated with the Alexei Brodovitch Prize in 1987 and proceeded to kick off his career as a freelance designer at R/Greenberg Associates in New York. After his winning entry for the international AIDS design competition, he was commissioned by the New York Public Art Fund in 1992 to design and produce a 30 second television Public Service Announcement on AIDS.

In 1993, he moved to Los Angeles and joined Imaginary Forces as co-creative director alongside partner Kyle Cooper, who also is now a title designer famous for se7en.

In 1998 Yu founded yU+co, a design company specializing in motion graphics for film and TV.“There’s more creative freedom in doing main-on-end titles, because they need to be more entertaining,” Yu said

Since the company’s inception, Garson has collaborated with many filmmakers for his title design work including Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, John Woo, Sydney Pollack, and Ridley and Tony Scott.

Garson has won numerous awards and honors for his title design and motion graphics work including two Emmy nominations. Garson is also a visiting Lecturer for film title design at several universities

In 2006, Yu+co broke new ground with the animated main on end title sequence for 300. Earlier this year, the company stunned and surprised audiences everywhere with the slow-paced 6-minute long opening title sequence for Watchmen.

WHATS

HIs

WORK?

His well known work

What inspires Garson Yu

”My inspiration usually comes from everyday life observation. I think I’m like other artists. Everything around us affects our thinking: our life experience, our memories of the past, our dreams for our future, our imagination at any moment in time. I guess everything from music, literature, art, films, TV, internet, pop culture, dancing, architecture, my kids, my dogs… everything around me inspires me.”

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