Jeremy Reed
Jeremy Reed was born in England and raised in Zimbabwe. He attended the prestigious Harrow School in London, and after graduation did his national service in the Zimbabwean military as a paratrooper. Afterwards, whilst attending university at Yale, he discovered a love for architecture, an education he has been following informally ever since.
His career has spanned iconic music videos ('Dark horse' for Katy Perry), award winning highly stylised commercials (Gucci and Meta), and sumptuous looking films (Gretel and Hansel). Jeremy's latest feature films to look forward to with their release this year, will be ‘Breathe’, a futuristic action adventure, and the timeless horror of ‘Dust Bunny’.
He has proudly received numerous Art Directors Guild Awards Awards, and earlier this year was the grateful recipient of a British film Designers Guild Award for Excellence. Given the choice he would opt for the company of NASA scientists and medieval historians over Hollywood types. He loves nothing more than a conversation regarding the architecture of future societies, ethics of artificial life or the mechanics of a trebuchet, and the tactics of medieval warfare.
He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Stephanie, and son Tristan.
He also holds a UK citizenship, a US citizenship and an Irish citizenship.
Jeremy’s awards for film and commercials can be viewed on his resume.
Education:
ST.JOHN'S PREP. HARARE
CLAYESMORE PREP. BLANDFORD FORUM
HARROW SCHOOL LONDON
YALE UNIVERSITY NEW HAVEN
Inspiration
ALVAR AALTO. KEN ADAM. AI WEIWEI. DOUG AITKEN. LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA. ROBERT ALTMAN. MARTIN AMIS. MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI.DIANE ARBUS . AUNTIE MAME.
ADAM BARTOS.SAUL BASS. FRANCIS BACON. BILLY BALDWIN. MATTHEW BARNEY. BAUHAUS. AUBREY BEARDSLEY. CECIL BEATON. NORMAN BEL GEDDES.WILLIAM BLAKE.RICARDO BOFILL. HIERONYMOUS BOSCH.ETIENNE LOUIS BOULLEE. GUY BOURDIN. DAVID BOWIE. ROBERT.F. BOYLE. JOHN BOX . ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL.HENRY BUMSTEAD.ANTHONY BURGESS. EDWARD BURTYNSKY .
JOHN LE CARRE.FRANCOIS CATROUX.NICK CAVE.DAVID CHIPPERFIELD. LYNNE COHEN. JOHN CONSTABLE.BENJAMIN CONSTANT.GREGORY CREWDSON.
JACQUES LOUIS-DAVID.EUGENE DELACROIX .THOMAS DEMAND .GUSTAVE DORE .EDMUND DULAC.TONY DUQUETTE.
WILLIAM EGGLESTON.OLAFUR ELIASSON.
DANTE FERRETTI. IAN FLEMING . FLUX.LUCIEN FREUD.FUTURE SYSTEMS.
THEODORE GERICAULT .ALEXANDER GIRARD .NAN GOLDIN.ERNO GOLDFINGER . ANDY GOLDSWORTHY . PETER GREENAWAY. NICHOLAS GRIMSHAW.WALTER GROPIUS .ANDREAS GURSKY.
FRANS HALS.ROBERT PARKER HARRISON.HAROLD AND MAUDE.THOMAS HEATHERWICK.DAVID HICKS.TODD HIDO.ALFRED HITCHCOCK . CANDIDA HOFER. WILLIAM HOGARTH. HUNDERTWASSER . AXEL HUTTE.
IRATA ISOZAKI. TOYO ITO.
ALEJANDRO JADOROWSKY. JEAN –PIERRE JEUNET and MARC CARO. A.QUINCY JONES.
LOUIS KHAN.REM KOOLHAAS . STANLEY KUBRICK.KENGO KUMA.
HENRI LABROUSTE. MORRIS LAPIDUS .DENYS LASDUN. CLAUDE NICOLAS LEDOUX. MING CHO LEE.SERGIO LEONE. IVAN LEONIDOV .RICHARD LESTER .JEAN –JACQUES LEQUEU .EDWIN LONGSDON LONG.BERTHOLD LUBETKIN..EDWIN LUTYENS.DAVID LYNCH.
KAZIMIR MALEVICH .ROB MALLET-STEVENS. THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH.ANTHONY MASTERS.SYD MEAD.WILLIAM CAMERON MENZIES.RICHARD MISRACH. DON McCULLIN . MORPHOSIS.
VLADEMIR NABAKOV.ODD NERDRUM.PIER LUIGI NERVI.OSCAR NIEMEYER.ANDRE LE NOTRE. MIKE NICHOLS.
IRWIN OLAF. ONE FROM THE HEART.GABRIEL OROZCO.BILL OWENS.
MARTIN PARR.JOHN PAWSON.CHRISTOPHER PAYNE .PIRANESI.ROBERT POLIDORI.GIO PONTI . JEAN PROUVE.
QUO VADIS.
ARTHUR RACKHAM.DIETER RAMS.PAUL RAND.RAPHAEL.NEO RAUCH. RED DESERT. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. MORDECAI RICHLER . ALEKSANDR RODCHENKO.PAUL RUDOLPH.
EERO SAARINEN. CARLO SCARPA. RM SCHINDLER.KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL . STEPHEN SHORE.SANDY SKOGLUND.JOEL STERNFELD. THOMAS STRUTH .LARRY SULTAN.
ANDREI TARKOVSKY.JACQUES TATI . JULIE TAYMOR .TITIAN . JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER . JAMES TURRELL.
JOSEPH URBAN.
VAUBAN . VELASQUEZ . MASSIMO VIGNELLI . VIOLLET -LE –DUC.
JEFF WALL . ANDY WARHOL .WONG KAR –WAI . LEBBEUS WOODS . JOACHIM WTEWAEL .
DUSTIN YELLIN.
ZABRISKIE POINT.FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI . ZULU.
MANY OF YOU WILL KNOW MANY OF THE NAMES MENTIONED ABOVE ,AND WILL FEEL THE SAME WAY AS I DO,WHEN I SAY THEY ALL HAD A STYLE OUTSIDE THE IMAGINATION.THEY RECOGNISED THE WAY THE WORLD CAN LOOK AND BE.
“WE LIKE DESIGN TO BE VISUALLY POWERFUL ,INTELLECTUALLY ELEGANT,AND ABOVE ALL TIMELESS” ......MASSIMO VIGNELLI LESSON 02
“IF YOU DO IT RIGHT ,IT WILL LAST FOREVER” ..........MASSIMO VIGNELLI LESSON 04
“THE LIFE OFA DESIGNER IS A LIFE OF FIGHT AGAINT THE UGLINESS ”......MASSIMO VIGNELLI LESSON 05