The graphic designer aka film director

After a few explorations of music and fashion in some decades, so I wonder graphic design's role in film industry? From what I research, I found out there is one example of a graphic designer who work in film industry. Mike Mills is a graphic designer, also a film director.

 Mike Mills

He came to movie making via a career as a graphic designer and artist. So he took this opportunity to put graphics into his movie called 'Beginners'. Beginners also offers a small but amusing insight into the life of a graphic designer, so roughly the movie is about the life of graphic designer which is include love, family and lifestyle (Williams, 2011). While Mills’ graphics output has lessened over the years, Mike Mills said "Beginners' has actually led to some new projects, the movie brought a lot of it back (Williams, 2011)." So his movie's posters were also in kind of graphic sense and also apply with his own style ,a line of posters and fabric prints (picture 1.0 and 1.1).

Picture 1.0

Picture 1.1

Not only in film industry, he also helped Beastie Boys' new album cover (picture 2.0). 

Picture 2.0

Besides, he also helped Carrie Brownstein’s new band to do their album cover, called Wild Flag (picture 3.0).

Picture 3.0

Mike Mills also mentioned that the music video market has fall off so radically since he was really making them, but he still doing it for his some favorite ones (Williams, 2011). So graphic designer can actually goes around the industry, even in the film industry or music industry, graphic designer still has a role in behind of the scene.

References

Williams,E. (2011) 'Mike Mills on Beginners, graphic design and music videos', creativereview, 19 July, [Online] Available at:
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/july/mike-mills-on-beginners-graphic-design-and-music-videos/ (Accessed: 24 June 2016)