JULIAN NAGEL

 

 

Production Design and Art Direction for Film, Theatre, Television, Commercials, Music Videos and Events.
     
 

10 January 2012

GUCCI EDITORIAL

Primarly shot as a moving image showcase of Gucci's latest fashion designs this shoot was a highly conceptual and technical one as the entire set consisted only of mirrors!

 

12 December 2011

CARDINAL BURNS

Finished principal photography on the the first series of the brilliant 6-part C4 Sketch Show Cardinal Burns. To be aired in March 2012.

 

12 September 2011

BOVIKALC

Exhibition stand design for Boehringer at the NEC Birmingham.

 

August 2011

CARLSBERG SKY SPORT

A series of idents for Sky Sport in conjuction with Carlsberg as the sponsor.

 

August 2011

HYUNDAI i40

Finished photography on a commercial for the South Korean market for the new Hyundai i40. Marrying the i40 and the love of the Koreans for the Beatles together in one commercial was indeed an interesting exercise..

 

July 2011

KNORR

A commercial for the European market for Knorr. I had the pleasure to build one of their star chefs a new kitchen in Halliford Studios.

 

2 June 2011

AGENCY OFFICE INTERIOR DESIGN

The agency Wizzard approached me to design their new premises in Heddon Street, Mayfair in London. The staff moved in on the 4 June and is settling in nicely.

Because of the fluent progress of moving in, there are, for the moment, just the conceptual renders for the office design showing how it will look like in the very near future. A strong Art Deco influence was developed within the design process and was successfully carried through to the final result.

 

28 May 2011

FUN POLICE - Sitom Pilot for Channel 4

Channel 4 have commissioned a sitcom pilot called The Fun Police for their forthcoming Comedy Showcase season. The 30 minute sitcom has been written by Matt Morgan. The show is being billed as "a hilarious new sitcom for Channel 4, brought to you by the same creative team behind The IT Crowd." The Fun Police will centre on the trials and tribulations of a small town Health & Safety team.

 

6 February 2011

A NICE TOUCH - short film with Dougray Scott and Paloma Faith

Based on a short story written by Amercian author Mann Rubin in the 1950's in which all action takes place in one room to create an intensity and claustrophobia within an unmistakeable noir atmosphere.

 

18 November 2010

NIKE - DESTROY TO CREATE

Nike Sportswear launch their latest Destroyer jacket with an all new campaign titled, "Destroy to Create". Created at Nike 1948 in London.

 

17 November 2010

FOOTBALL'S CHANGED - The commercials feature Victor Chandler himself together with Paddy McGuinness.

The first of two commercials for online sports betting website ‘Victor Chandler’ has aired on ITV, just before the England v  France football international.

 

October 2010

ALBATROSS - short film

Very poetically directed short film by Kim Albright from Thomas & Thomas. Congratulations to Kim and Trent (Producer) for making it into the 54th London Film Festival and being selected for the Encounters Short Film Festiva 2010l.

 

8 September 2010

THE ONLY WAY IS ESSEX - Promo commercial for new ITV 2 show

Set in an oversized interior of a Hummer stretch limo. I particularily enjoyed to design a club-like lounge environment within the boundaries of a vehicle.

 

16 August 2010

OUR NATURAL WORLD - presented by Sir David Attenborough

I had the honour to design a study for Sir David Attenborough who presented a new DVD collection and magazines of the BBC's "Our Natural World" series.

 

16 July 2010

UNILEVER - Webcast event at Unilever HQ London

Instead of holding their webcasts in a non-descript auditorium the Hair Section of Unilever decided that their presentation should also have some connection with what they are producing and presenting. The idea of a set looking like a hair dressing salon was born and put into reality.

 

June 2010

D'HASK - Kamu, Adalah Mimpi Buruk Ku

Featuring Pamela Anderson the Bruneian band D'HASK shot a video in the UK which main focus (apart from Pamela) was a semi-circle made of all-round reflective columns. Using the various reflections and inter-reflections of the columns proved to be a very effective tool throughout.

 

20 May 2010

KATE NASH - Kiss That Grrrl, Music Video

Kate Nash's new video featurig a tiger, loads of glitter, trapezes and tight rope dancers.

 

28 January 2010

N-DUBZ - Say it's Over, Music Video

Stylised sets build at Three Mills Studios, London. A mixture of references ranging all the way back to Michael Jackson's Scream made this a very interesting and enjoyable project.

 

10 January 2010

Finished principal photography of SERGEANT SLAUGHTER, a short film directed by Greg Williams who's work is up to know more known as a stills photographer for Vanity Fair, Esquire and advertising campaigns with Jude Law, Daniel Craig, Sean Pen, Rachel Weisz.

Tom Hardy plays a military obsessed early twen from a priviledged family background who secretly joins the French Foreign Legion.

 

4 January 2010

ONE NIGHT IN EMERGENCY, a 60 minute television drama, produced by Silverriver for BBC Scotland and directed by Michael Offer get its television premiere.
Acclaimed Scots actor Kevin McKidd leads an all-star cast including Michelle Ryan, Igal Naor and James Cosmo in One Night In Emergency, a unique and distinctive drama written by awardwinning Black Watch playwright Gregory Burke.

One Night In Emergency is a modern interpretation of Homer’s The Odyssey set within a hospital environment with surreal twists and turns.

 

26 October 2009

INFIDEL, part of the ‘Sins of London’ short film series, directed by George Milton, won “Best UK Short” at Raindance festival!

The official site for the project has also recently been launched, where you can see clips of Infidel amongst the other two shorts, THE CONNOISSEURS and STREET. To go to the Sins of London website please click on the image.

 
August/ Sept 2009 JETSAM, a thriller directed by Simon Welsford is getting its first theatrical release in the ICA London from the 28th August - 10th September.  

9th August 2009

Finished shooting three ANTI TALIBAN COMMERCIALS in Lebanon for Saatchi&Saatchi Beirut, produced by Intaj and directed by Marcus Nispel.

Shooting this three TVC's included setting up a complete marketplace representing a Pakistani small town centre, having large SUV's with heavy armed Talibanis (Extras!) racing through the sets and loads and loads of smoke and wind!

 

20th July 2009

PIDO PERDON - a short Film shot in February in Luxemburgh had its world premiere at the PIFAN Film Festival in South Korea.

Set in the atmospheric old mining town of Rumelange in South Luxemburgh we shot this drama about friendship, loss and betrayal spanning over four decades in the life of the town and its inhabitants.

 

27th May 2009

TORMENTED, a teen comedy horror directed by Jon Wright premiered with an impressive number eight in the UK cinema chart in the first week is destined to do even better on the DVD front.

Congratulations to Forward Films and Slingshot who managed to bring this film that started as a small low-budget production this far!

 

January 2009

Nationwide screening started of new B&Q IDENTS to be shown mainly in between breaks of Channel 4's Grand Designs. Four continious shoot days and two film stages filled with set were necessary to finish the approx. 48 idents prduced by Addiction.