The Art Directors Club in New York was recently the venue for an evening of genteel design discussion and civilized refreshment with British illustrator, graphic designer, comics artist and typographer Rian Hughes. Client Veer needed a video for their website as a way of featuring the typography work of Hughes (which Veer licenses) and reached out to BCP to do this multicam shoot.

We shot the cast of Gossip Girl in character in order to send a wink to already crazed fans, but more importantly to let newer viewers know that it wasn’t too late to leap feet first into the show and to get intimate with the personalities inhabiting the show’s world.

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We shot a ton of material during the question and answer portion of Core77’s Offsite event, Design, Wit, and the Creative Act, but we’ve put together a tasty sampler of some of the best.
We produced, shot and post-produced this series of standard-definition videos for Core77.com, the premiere [...]

Business and design leaders are increasingly aware that some of the most successful goods and services are those that elicit emotion. Trading in this spectrum poses some unique challenges to the designer, however, since the creative process of generating this kind of work presumes a shared set of cultural experiences and some deft leaps of [...]

Steven heller is a senior art director of the New York Times and the co-chair (with Lita Talarico) of the MFA Designer as Author Program at the School of Visual Arts. He recently co-founded (with Alice Twemlow) the MFA in Design Criticism at SVA. He is the editor of VOICE: The AIGA Journal of Design [...]

Paul Budnitz, has always had one foot in art and the other in technology. The son of a nuclear physicist and a social worker, Budnitz grew up in Berkeley, California, and began programming computers at an early age. By the age of 17 he was writing code for both safety analysis programs for nuclear power [...]

Kelly Dobson grew up in a junkyard. From the age of four she was doing odd jobs such as smashing windows and hauling machine parts from one area of the yard to another. Later, studying medicine and art, Dobson became focused on alternative approaches to machines ­ approaching them as relational and reflective objects. Working [...]

Originally from Canada, Tobias Wong studied art at Cooper Union in New York City, where he graduated in sculpture. Veering across disciplines and materials, Wong has created an oeuvre that is immediately accessible, yet contentious. He pursues his own brand of conceptualism, the self-coined “Paraconceptual,” and “Post-interesting,” and uses design as a medium, as he [...]

We put together this new business reel for Berenter Greenhouse & Webster to display the ad agency’s strength in marketing to kids to potential client TRU, better known as Toys R Us.

When Sundance Channel asked Big City to come up with a few example videos for their first annual “Big Ideas Contest,” TH Radio’s Jacob Gordon suggested that we get in touch with Kenny Luna the man behind Mr. Luna’s Bright Idea.

Sundance Channel asked Big City to come up with a few example videos for their first annual “Big Ideas Contest.” This video shows off the simple yet amazing patented idea some NYC high school students had for a new kind of compost box. The spot was shot by George Spyros in 24p standard definition to mini DV tape using the Panasonic DVX camcorder.

Sundance Channel invited folks to upload vids with their “big idea” for improving the state of the environment — and with $10k on the line for the winner. So, Sundance CHannel invited Big City Pictures in partnership with the gang at TreeHugger to produce three sample videos for the contest.

Sundance Channel asked Big City to come up with a few example videos for their first annual “Big Ideas Contest.” This video features the kids of the Lafayette Street School in Newark, New Jersey who were taught using curricula found on the Rainforest Alliance Learning Site. This spot was shot by George Spyros in 720p HD to P2 cards using the Panasonic HVX camera with b-roll overcranked for slow-motion at 48-frames-per-second coupled with Century Pro Fisheye Lens and lit entirely with 2 ft. 4 bank Kino Flo units articulated on c-stands.

We put together this new business reel for Berenter Greenhouse & Webster to display the ad agency’s strength in marketing to kids to potential client TRU, better known as Toys R Us. Edited on Apple’s Final Cut Pro platform.

We put together a reel for Berenter Greenhouse & Webster to display the ad agency’s strength in marketing to kids.

BCP will be doing a multicam shoot for Corbis-owned client Veer later this month. Titled An evening with Rian Hughes: Design, Tea, and Biscuits the live event will be held at the Art Director’s Club in New York City, a location with which we are intimately familiar having shot an offsite event for Core77.

BCP produced, shot and edited the winner of America’s Next Top Model Cycle 7 for The CW and Reitz Lange. DP Marcus Burnett shot winning fashion model CariDEE English in 24p using the Panasonic DVX100 in The CW Lounge (aka a room in the W Hotel in mid-town Manhattan). The judicious use of china balls did the trick to provide some soft, beauty lighting.

Montages conceived, designed and edited in-house paying tribute to Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Pierre Leaud. Both pieces screened at the NYC opening gala of Wellspring’s major Truffaut retrospective.

Montages conceived, designed and edited in-house paying tribute to Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Pierre Leaud. Both pieces screened at the NYC opening gala of Wellspring’s major Truffaut retrospective.