ABOUT DAVID PENN
Award-winning Titles Designer / Director for film and TV
I’ve directed title sequences including ‘The Bush Years - Family. Duty. Power’, 'The Kennedys', 'Race For The White House', ‘Hitman: Agent 47’, 'The Widow-Maker' as well as contributing design and concept for many others ‘Agents of Chaos’, ‘The Commuter’, ‘Treadstone’. I have helped leading studios such as Prologue and Elastic to pitch.
I have worked on projects spanning feature film (‘Ready Player One’, ‘Hunter Killer’, ‘The Commuter’, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, ‘Ex Machina’, ‘Hitman: Agent 47’), broadcast (‘Agents of Chaos’, ‘Tell Me Who I Am’, ‘Treadstone’, Comic Relief, ‘How We Invented The World’, ‘Tails You Win’), live shows (Take That, One Direction, Pet Shop Boys, Tinchy Stryder, Steve Coogan) and computer games (‘Call of Duty’, ‘Battlefield’, ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Need For Speed’).
‘The Bush Years’ made finalist for Motion Plus Design and AEAF 2020. 'Race For The White House' sequence received a Gold Bass Award and in 2016 'The Editor' promo for Inside The Edit experienced 300,000 views in its first weeks online.
STUDIOS INCLUDE: Elastic, Prologue, MPC, Jellyfish, 1st Ave Machine, Passion Pictures, Territory Studio, Mainframe, Smoke and Mirrors, Studio Moross, onedotzero, Perception, Glassworks, This is Real Art, Tomato, Prodigal Pictures, Quayola, Salt Pictures, Treatment, Etio, Flock, Fold7, Zone.
CLIENTS INCLUDE: Asics, Baby Cow, BBC, BBC Radio 4, Big Issue, Columbia Pictures, British Museum, Coca Cola, Channel Four, Discovery Channel, EA, Inside The Edit, Milennium films, Miramax, MTV, New Pictures, Oxford Films, Paul Smith, Sky, Steve Coogan/Baby Cow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, ZeroDb.
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RECOGNITION
AEAF 2020 (finalist) for design direction on ”The Bush Years”
Motion Plus Design (finalist) for design on ”The Bush Years”
Bass Award 2016 (Gold) for titles design on ”Race for the White House”
AEAF 2016 (finalist) for ”Race for the White House” -
D&AD 2014 (nomination) for additional design and animation on BBC DNA Explainer video for Territory Studio
INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES
Stash Magazine feature on “The Kennedys”
Televisual Magazine (April 2016 and August 2016) “Race for the White House”
Motion Plus Design, Paris 2016
Art of the Title feature on “The Widowmaker”
Art of the Styleframe
Motionographer “Race For The White House”
Motionographer “The Editor”
Creative Babble “The Editor”