FROM THE PUBLICITY TEAM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Michael Brown is an experienced and award-winning Creative Director, Motion Designer/Animator, and Creative Department Manager. His experience includes regional, national, and international work from bases in Washington, DC, New York City, and Los Angeles. Areas of interest include comedy, promotion, commercials, news, with specific expertise in typography, main titles, VFX, editing, and interactive design for screens and print.

Brown snagged a coveted seat in a two-year college-level Commercial Art course while still in high school. He attended The Art Institute of Atlanta as well as continuing education courses at Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. While in Washington, his cold calls to TV stations and the strength of his portfolio bore fruit in many ways with freelance jobs for (first BDA president) Bradford Nims of WJLA Channel 7, as well as a regular gig with Art Director Hank Zangara at WTTG Channel 5.

He had no sooner earned an Emmy nom for his Arch Campbell Show bumper graphics than film director and CD MJ Vilardi brought him aboard the new design division of post powerhouse Capitol Video. Projects included the first show package for America’s Most Wanted, PBS fall campaign title treatments, and several animations for “The Company”.

It would be winning one of four slots in a nationwide search for Harry artists at USA TODAY on TV that would change his life.

With the demise of that show, Brown packed his bag of new skills, headed for New York, and landed as a designer/animator with groundbreaking and influential animation atelier Charlex for a chance to work with visionary director/CD Alex Weil. With its impressive roster of Madison Avenue and television clients, Charlex would inspire a period of immense professional growth both technically and creatively. Michael Brown was a key member of the creative team on landmark work for TCM, National Geographic Explorer, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, NBC Late Night, Donahue, The Howard Stern TV Show, VH1, HBO, two Spike Lee videos for Michael Jackson, Russell Simmons’ late-night pilot, Kodak, Hershey’s, American Express, IBM, and many others.

Yes, Michael Brown has designed visual effects for Star Trek: TNG (including the very first Borg phaser), Deep Space Nine and The Outer Limits. He single-handedly fixed the chalkboard tracking on The Simpsons opening credits, and has removed many wires, rigs, and blemishes from the King of Pop along the way. His collaborations with fellow designers (Amanda Havey, Andy Hann, Jeff Boortz, Suzanne Kiley, David Carson at Charlex, Pittard Sullivan, 3RC, and others) on their motion design and animation earned a loyal following (and many awards). Brown has ridiculed social norms with funny and smart graphics for Last Call with Carson Daly and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and has told Jerry Seinfeld and Julia Louis-Dreyfus exactly where to stand. He’s delivered stunning and effective television promos for clients from the number one network (NBC with CD Brad Gensurowsky) to basic cable perennial juggernaut E! (as AD under CD/EP Ann Epstein-Cohen). He once redrew and reimagined the iconic The Price is Right logo and set pieces from scratch, which in turn fueled demand for more of his work with logos and branding.

Despite having no prior DVD or BD production experience, he co-built, managed and creative-directed DVD & Blu-ray Design+Authoring at CBS. He grew revenue in that department, by the way, fivefold by year four as his Star Trek: TNG Blu-ray menu designs and creative direction were instrumental in the two consecutive Saturn awards for that title. Win-win. Michael Brown has led teams large and small and inspires them to think critically and achieve individual acclaim. He believes this is essential to a healthy department.

He’s done all of this,
yet he still hasn’t worked for you.

Call or email today and we’ll get that fixed pronto.

– The Publicity Team