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Garson Yu

Garson Yu

Photograph © Marla Aufmuth. Used with permission.

Garson Yu is an award-winning creative director and founder of yU+Co in Hollywood.

Garson attended the Yale School of Art and upon graduating, he started his career as a freelance designer with R/GA. He taught graphic design at the School of Visual Arts and exhibited as an artist at Artist Space, PS1/Clock Tower Gallery, and The Dia Art Foundation. In 1993, Garson moved to LA and joined Imaginary Forces as co-creative director alongside Kyle Cooper.

In 1998, Garson founded yU+co, a design company specializing in motion graphics for film and television and since then, he has collaborated with filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, John Woo, Sydney Pollack, and Ridley Scott.

Garson has won numerous awards and honors including a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Title Design for Dora the Explorer as well as five other Emmy nominations, the New York Art Directors Club Award, AIGA Design Award, and many others.

Articles

  • Crazy Rich Asians

    Crazy Rich Asians

    summary

  • The Jungle Book

    The Jungle Book

    summary

  • The Walking Dead (Season 5)

    The Walking Dead (Season 5)

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  • Key and Peele (Season 4)

    Key and Peele (Season 4)

    title only

  • Olive Kitteridge

    Olive Kitteridge

    interview

  • The Leftovers

    The Leftovers

    title only

  • Yogi Bear

    Yogi Bear

    title only

  • Hot Tub Time Machine

    Hot Tub Time Machine

    summary

  • Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant

    Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant

    summary

  • Race to Witch Mountain

    Race to Witch Mountain

    summary

  • Watchmen

    Watchmen

    title only

  • Bernard and Doris

    Bernard and Doris

    summary

  • Enchanted

    Enchanted

    title only

  • Dead Silence

    Dead Silence

    summary

  • 300

    300

    title only

  • An Inconvenient Truth

    An Inconvenient Truth

    title only

  • Hulk

    Hulk

    interview

  • The Mothman Prophecies

    The Mothman Prophecies

    title only

  • Mission: Impossible II

    Mission: Impossible II

    summary

  • Enemy of the State

    Enemy of the State

    summary

  • Twister

    Twister

    interview

  • Production Studio

    yU+co
  • Link

    yuco.com
  • Previous Studios

    R/Greenberg Associates (R/GA)
    Imaginary Forces
  • Complete filmography
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