Garson Yu
Art
Biography
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.
Filmography31 titles
The Others
Watchmen
August Rush
300
The Guardian
Enemy of the State
Creed II
She's the Man
Wicker Park
The Italian Job
The Thomas Crown Affair
Fifty Shades Freed
The Chronicles of Riddick
Mary Poppins Returns
Fifty Shades Darker
Dead Silence
What Women Want
Tomb Raider
Taking Lives
The Interpreter
Paycheck
Reign of Fire
Mission: Impossible II
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Glass House
Domestic Disturbance
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Æon Flux
Hanging Up
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Catwoman