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Richard Morrison

Richard Morrison’s career in the film industry spans over thirty years with more than 150 feature film title sequences to his credit. Having studied graphics, photography and film Morrison initially worked for design companies and advertising agencies, creating openers for Franc Roddam, Sir Richard Attenborough and Sir David Lean.

Richard Morrison is a leading film titles’ designer. In a career spanning three decades, he has created over 150 feature film title sequences for many of the industry’s most respected film directors and producers. Richard began his career with Maurice Binder on the Bond series. Over the course of 30 years, he has become the most prolific British film titles’ designer.

His credits span Hollywood blockbusters such as Batman, Enemy at the Gates, A Fish called Wanda and A Passage to India to cult classics like Brazil, Sweeney Todd and Quadrophenia for directors as varied as Sir David Lean, Kenneth Branagh and Stephen Frears to Jean-Jacques Annaud, Ridley Scott and Tim Burton.

Morrison is a highly respected author, graphic designer and lecturer. In 2001, he published CUT to critical acclaim. Since 2002, he has been chairman of Europe’s leading film and animation conference “Pencil to Pixel” and in 2009 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Digital Film School of Media Arts and Imaging at the University of Dundee, Scotland. In recent years, Richard has branched into movie production. He is currently producing the big screen adaptation of The Dragon Conspiracy, based on a trilogy of books by P. R. Moredun. He is also in development with the writer/director Tania Hoser on her independent film Perfect Order.

In the late seventies under his creative direction his team went on to create award winning designs for major UK and European TV channels, countless feature film sequences – including Batman for Tim Burton, Brazil for Terry Gilliam and The Killing Fields for Roland Joffé.

Richard Morrison continues to produce major film title sequences, more recently The Dreamers for Bernado Bertolucci, Two Brothers for Jean-Jacques Annaud, and The Constant Gardener for Fernando Meirelles, together with teaching/lecturing both in the UK and Europe. It has been now seven consecutive years that he chaired Europe’s leading film and animation conference Pencil to Pixel. Recently he also featured on judging panels for creative awards including BAFTA, D&AD, Design Week and has been shortlisted for ID magazines Top 40 World Creatives. Since 2003 Morrison has completed more than 300 title sequence treatments for scripts in development.

In 2001 Morrison's first book “CUT” was launched in London and Dublin to great praise from fellow designers and the public at large. Comprising of a photographic collection of natural abstractions gathered throughout Richard Morrison's career “during the constant wanderings within mean streets”. Some of these images digitally printed onto canvas have been shown at a number of exhibitions in the UK.

In 2007, Morrison's passion for creating cinema’s most memorable title sequences prompted him to start exclusively directing out of th1ng, the London-based award-winning production studio. In this role he has worked on numerous blockbuster films. He created the elegant Golden Compass sequence for Chris Weitz and a trio of typographical titles for director Kenneth Branagh, including As You Like It, The Magic Flute and Sleuth. He also brought his skills to the fore on Peter Travis’s Vantage Point, which premiered in March 2008.

However it is the release of the unforgettable, narrative-led title sequence to DreamWorks' feature film, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, that put Richard Morrison’s name at the top of the title directors league table. This film reunited Morrison with Tim Burton (Batman) and the title sequence also functioned as a promotional trailer to the movie.

His recent work has been critically well received by trade and popular media and showcased in many of the world's leading graphics and culture publications, ranging from the UK’s Empire and US's Motiongrapher to Hong Kong’s IdN and the Dutch magazine Forget the Films Watch the Titles.

Without question the most prolific creator of title sequences in the UK at present, Richard Morrison’s talent is likened to that of the late Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro.

At present, Richard Morrison is creating motion picture and graphic design for the big screen adaptation of The Dragon Conspiracy, based on a trilogy of books by P. R. Moredun. The blockbuster film, currently in the funding stages, is co-produced by Morrison and his friend Alistair Mitchell. The story, following the spirit of Narnia and the Golden Compass, is a clever historical fantasy about a young boy’s fight against evil forces and unexplained mysteries in two parallel worlds.

Richard Morrison is also in collaboration with Indian film investors to develop a film treatment for a new Indian action movie.