A native of Hong Kong, Garson attended the Yale School of Art on the Norman Ives Scholarship in 1985. Upon graduating with the Alexei Brodovitch Prize in 1987, Garson started his career in New York as a freelance designer at R/Greenberg Associates. Garson taught graphic design at the School of Visual Arts and exhibited as an artist in New York.
In 1998 Garson founded yU+co, a design company specializing in motion graphics for film and television. Garson has won numerous awards and honors for his title design and motion graphics work including four Emmy nominations, the New York Art Directors Club Award, three BDA Awards, Monitor Award, ID Magazine International Design Award,HOW Magazine International Design Award, AIGA Design Award and the Eyes and Ears of Europe Award.
Garson is also a visiting Lecturer for film title design at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Cologne International Film School, Germany and Central Academy of Fine Arts School of Design, China. Garson has also been accepted as a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale, Switzerland. He also serves on the Title Design and Special Effects Peer Group Executive Committee for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
This topic will discuss the evolution of motion graphics as a medium of visual communication. Motion graphics incorporates imagery and typography, becoming a visual medium tied to linguistics via the written word. The development of motion graphics has evolved over the years to include more narrative storytelling. Some of the key influential figures in motion graphics will be discussed, such as John Whitney, a composer and animator who links music and abstract graphic animation in his work.
I am a motion graphic designer. I make image sequences guided by story and form in time and space. This presentation will illustrate how music and sound guide the narrative structure of the picture in film title design.
