BBDG, Los Angeles

Big Block Design Group is a studio located in Santa Monica, Ca. Spearheaded by creative directors Shaun Collings and Curtis Doss. They are focused on design-oriented storytelling and creative ideation for commercials, interactive, branded content and broadcast design. Shaun Collings served as creative director and art director at production and design companies Prologue, Elastic, Blind and Shilo, where he led a variety of projects from commercials, main titles and graphics for brands like HP, Honda, Sony, Nike, HBO, Pepsi and Lexus. Curtis Doss was also art director at production company Shilo on commercials for Nike, EA, Sony and Lexus and broadcast design projects for A&E, Bio, HBO, TNT and the Travel Channel.

The 1st video below is the Show Open for "Cosmos, a Spacetime Odyssey" Series that is a recreation of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" from the Seventies. They pulled from every talent in the shop to bring “Cosmos” to life, shooting live action, creating custom CGI and building from photographic elements to tell the story of our interconnected universe.




The 2nd video below is a film open for "Last Call at the Oasis", by Jessica Yu. Here at ABC, we are always figuring out different ways to integrate water footage into many of the designs and animations that come out of our studio. I felt this was a great look into different ways to use 2D typography with live action water footage.