Derek Gabryszak

Designer & Art Director

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

The film opens later this month in New York at @QuadCinema and other cities after that. Keep an eye on @OscopeLabs for more info. I really really really hope you get to see this awesome film in a theater and the poster Hannah (and I) made hanging outside it.

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

Here’s the poster for The Universal Theory, a stunning film released by @OscopeLabs later this month! It’s a gorgeous exploration of classical cinema, evenly mixed with weird, artistic and surreal modern sci-fi. Every layer of this film has something to sink your teeth into.

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

I’m so proud of this one. I worked with my partner Hannah Christ.

We created lots because it’s an inspiring film and project, but this is Hannah’s image…we revised and polished it together but the main visual is all her. I think it’s so cool and so perfect for the film.

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

@SamsMyth Imagine fully independent key art, trailer and marketing for this too… Would be an insane undertaking but so exciting haha

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

Was a pleasure to work on this! Indigo Girls have such incredible songs, a great, complex story, and do important work outside of music. They’re powerful in all the ways you could ask an artist to be.

Hannah and I had so much fun working on it. Hope you get to see the film!

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

Here’s new work for Alexandria Bombach’s It’s Only Life After All, a documentary about @Indigo_Girls!

It’ll be released as a one-night-only event on April 10th by @OscopeLabs. Hope you can catch it in a theater!

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

@colebrax Amazing! Thanks for sharing. Such great stuff.

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

I’ll never understand why more people don’t operate like in that video, it’s such an obvious way to work!

One of the tricky things about working in a creative industry is that middle people complicate the process, waste tons of time and effort, and the quality of work suffers.

[James Hancock @colebrax]

Fascinating behind-the-scenes look at #GodzillaMinusOne and how they achieved maximum emotional impact with their limited resources. Discussed on today's livestream with @MovieKessler: https://t.co/tAcOr6yuha

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

It was the Barbenheimer Super Bowl.

[IndieWire @IndieWire]

Sunday’s Super Bowl drew 123.4 million viewers across CBS and Paramount+. That’s the most for any broadcast since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the Moon on July 20, 1969, and the most-watched non-news telecast of all time. https://t.co/8mxFwyZC3X

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

Desperate for there to be a modern day Don Draper out there pitching and making stuff like this…

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

“Did you guys shoot that whisky ad with Sammy Davis Jr. yet?”

“Yeah.”

“How did it go?”

“It was the weirdest fucking day of my entire life.”

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

@jlalibs Wild guess at their notes…

- Original type looks old. Try a modern font and in 3D.

- Confusing they aren’t real bills. And add bigger ones somewhere so we know it’s money.

- No framing device. Go full frame image & have them on Wall St. Retouch actors so they look realistic.

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

@jlalibs Hahaha man, where to start… I expect each choice here was made by a marketing/sales dept. wanting to “modernize” the package thinking it’d make people more interested in it...

[Print magazine @printmag]

Here’s Some Feedback On Your #Feedback 🗒️

The feedback that I don’t like (and never liked) was when a Creative Director would say to me something like, “Keep going,” or “Have more fun with it.”

#Vague is a #plague.

Read the full story on PRINT: https://t.co/sfsXH7hv82

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

Also, I think dumb shit like this is all Twitter is good for now, which may also mean it’s become it’s original form again…maybe that’s a good thing. 🤷‍♂️

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

Dear Metrograph, I gotta say, that email sure did disappoint.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1934, Hollywood photographer A.L. "Whitey" Schafer took this staged photo which mocked the Motion Picture Production Code (aka Hays Code), a set of moral guidelines that were applied to American films that were released from 1934 to 1968. The photo attempted to violate as many rules as possible in one image.

The Motion Picture Production Code stipulated the following:

"No picture shall be produced which will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience shall never be thrown to the side of crime, wrong-doing, evil or sin. Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented. Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation.

Prohibitions on:
1. Nudity
2. Suggestive dances
3. Discussions of sexual perversity
4. Superfluous use of liquor
5. Ridicule of religion
6. Miscegenation
7. Lustful kissing
8. Scenes of passion"

The Hays Code stipulated that a kiss can only last 3 seconds. If you watch Hitchcock's movie, Notorious (1946), there's a kiss scene that lasts two and a half minutes. The actors just break off every 3 seconds.

[natasha lyonne @nlyonne]

Love you so much, Paul. One in all time. Thank you for my career & your forever friendship all these years & for teaching us what a true original is. ♥️♥️💔 #PaulReubens #PeeWeeHerman ♥️

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

Rest in silliness. ♥️

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

Stephen Soderbergh is the film industry’s Rick Rubin.

[Derek Gabryszak @derekprints]

The toast bit.

[psychotronica @psychotronica_]

1988 Writers Strike
Late Night with David Letterman

Dave navigates a five week period without his prized team of writers
✊sound on✊