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Hillman Curtis speaks of his struggle to juggle film and digital design |
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Thursday, 07 June 2007 |
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Acclaimed New York designer, Hillman Curtis, was the guest speaker at the D&AD President’s lecture in Manchester on Tuesday night. Almost 300 guests attended his talk at the Printworks.
hillmancurtis, inc. was founded in 1998.
Curtis had previously spent 10 years in the music business but was ‘released’ by MCA Records and at 29 fell into digital work with an interim project at Macromedia and he “realised it was worth sticking around.”
The company was responsible for Yahoo’s first and only relaunch and has also worked on other major sites including Adobe, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. Associates have included Pentagram and Neville Brody.
In recent years though, the company has leant more towards short film and digital entertainment – including a web site for Bend it like Beckham.
He confided to the Manchester audience that despite his success with film, he “still has to create web sites to pay the bills to feed his family.
“It’s something I constantly struggle with” he said. “We write lucrative proposals for big web sites but my heart tells me I really want to be completely immersed in film. When I go into a corporate meeting these days, I sometimes wonder how am I going to get through?” But he added, he always gets on having picked up some excellent advice from a good friend to “engage every project with relish.”
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