February 1, 2021 8:54 am
In the space of ten years, Dan Perri went from painting signs for ground beef and potatoes for local LA market stalls, to a career that would eventually see him designing movie title sequences for some of the world’s best-known and best-loved films.
If you’ve seen a few movies made in the last 50 years, chances are you’ll be familiar with his work. Perri is the brain behind iconic sci-fi classics like Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind; seminal horror films like The Exorcist and A Nightmare on Elm Street; and all manner of cult hits from The Warriors to Taxi Driver. His filmography is a list of some 300 films, and crosses just about every genre Hollywood has to offer.
2021 AZ Awards: Meet the Jury
In 2021, the
AZ Awards will be juried by 10 design world luminaries rather than five. As we venture into this new decade, embracing an awards season that will play out digitally and IRL, we decided to bring together a larger jury of professionals from around the world to select the finalists and winners. (To enter, visit awards.azuremagazine.com.)
Without further ado, here are the members of our 2021 AZ Awards jury:
One of the world’s pre-eminent designers, Patricia Urquiola works with a variety of leading Italian and international design companies, including Kvadrat, Driade, Moroso, Flos, GAN, Andreu World, Glas Italia, Kettal, and global groups such as Haworth, BMW, Louis Vuitton, Missoni, Mandarin Oriental Hotels, Four Seasons, Ferrari and Swarovski; she has also been the creative director of Cassina since 2015. Creating links between craftsmanship and industrial research and between heritage and technology, Urquiola drives the companie
Experienced car designer Frank Stephenson understands how difficult it is to break into the highly competitive world of car design, and he’s here to help.
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People like snacks. And, most of the time, snacks are just as satisfying as a meal. Admit it, you ate an entire bag of Tapatio Doritos once and skipped dinner. And it was ok because the snacks were delightful.
We are aware that this is a weird analogy, but it serves as what we believe is an apt entree into a little roundup of some of the moves coming from around the industry.
So without ado being furthered (credit:
Richard Ayoade), enjoy this look at some talented people moving around and other agency news of note.