Kyle Cooper

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Kyle Cooper (born July 13, 1962 in Salem , Massachusetts ) is an American graphic designer who achieved international fame primarily for his title sequences in films such as The Mummy and Spider-Man .

Career

Cooper studied graphic design at the Yale School of Art, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts (MFA). Already known as a commercial director, he began his career with R / Greenberg Associates in New York and Los Angeles. Cooper celebrated his first success in 1995 with his work on the opening credits for the thriller Seven . Together with his colleagues Chip Houghton and Peter Frankfurt, he founded the company Imaginary Forces in Hollywood , but later with Prologue Films he explicitly specialized in working on graphic sequences for films and computer games.

Cooper made his debut as a director with the film New Port South in 2001. The high school drama flopped at the box office. As an editor , he was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the Academy Awards in 2002, 2005 and 2007 . In 2009 he won the Emmy in the Outstanding Short Form Picture Editing category for his work at the 2009 Academy Awards. He was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award in 1999 for the designer of the nightmare sequence in the Shakespeare adaptation of Titus . The title design for the American Horror Story series earned Cooper 2012, 2013, and 2015 Emmy nominations.

Cooper is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and the Royal Society of Arts honored him as Royal Designers for Industry in 2001 .

Awards

Act

Films (selection)

TV series (selection)

Video games

literature

  • Jeff Bellantoni, Matt Woolman: Type In Motion. Innovations in digital graphics. Rizzoli, New York 1999, ISBN 0-8478-2184-6 , pp. 38-43.
  • Alexander Böhnke: Handcraft. Figures of the script in SE7EN . In: montage / av. Journal for Theory and History of Audiovisual Communication 12.2 (2003), pp. 9–18.
  • Andreas Codrington: Kyle Cooper. Laurence King, London 2003, ISBN 1-85669-329-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the Current Honorary Royal Designers for Industry ( Memento of the original dated December 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 15, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rsa.org.uk
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Kyle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American designer of title sequences
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Salem , Massachusetts