Funny Or Die
A playground for fun.
I was lucky to find Funny Or Die just a few months after it launched. I was the first full-time designer, moving to Art Director and opening the NYC office. I lead design teams in LA/SF/NYC working across video, TV, film, web UI, digital publishing, apps, social, and branded content.
I absolutely loved my time with this company. I laughed harder and more often than I will ever again while getting to tackle huge creative challenges and building/managing an incredible cross-country team.
Below is a smattering of work from this 10 year stretch.
2008-2018
Art DirectoR
☑️ In-house
⬛️ Agency
⬛️ Freelance
⬛️ Self-Initiated
Branding
Marketing
Design
UI/Web Design
Photography
Video production
Motion graphics
Digital publishing
iOS Development
AppleTV Dev
Social strat
Community building
Live events
Sub brands
The Occasional is a custom iPad (and iPhone) high-end comedy magazine
Spin-off brand for the 2016 election, like The Onion
A “science” podcast parody of Radiolab & Invisibilia
Imprint for all the comics made, especially Pigeon Man
Curated internet series and later AppleTV app
Collegiate comedian program
Label for all toys, clothes, and general merch
Wildly popular weekly newsletter with 1 million+ readers
Late night talk show series
Home for long-form/art house type comedy sketches
Two years of Halloween takeover branding
The Occasional digital magazine
This project also has it’s own damn page! Yowza! Check it out over here!
Art Of the Deal movie
What if the dumb racist asshole D****d T***p starred in his own made-for-tv-movie apatation of his dumb racist book The Art Of the Deal in 80s? This movie is that. This project was made to try and derail him during the primaries— obviously that didn’t work out.
The film flooded social media upon launching. It was a widespread Facebook trending topic, Twitter trending topic throughout the US, and the number 1 overall story on Reddit.
STATS: 22 Million TV Impressions / 500+ million Online Media Impressions
Even the parody is hard to look at.
SELECT PRESS from the PROJECT
Vanity Fair: All the incredible effort and production value that have gone into this film…
Entertainment Weekly: It's utterly demented, slightly terrifying, and most of all hilarious.
NY Post: Depp’s mix of bluster, cluelessness and anger is spot-on.
Paste Magazine: If you combine timeliness with quality, this may be the best parody film ever made.
THE A.V. CLUB: Who knew Donald Trump was the comeback role Johnny Depp needed?
A sprinkling of miscellaneous content
Working at FOD for 10 years churning out daily content for in the internet/tv/film means we made a lot of stuff. Here are some projects I remembered to keep or just happen to like for sentimental reasons:
Best Of The Web AppleTV App
A lean back experience utilizing our full library of GIFs. Perfect for parties, play your own music and have this loop for hours.
Loading screen? Deal with it.
What Is The Best Sport Bracket
A month long March Madness style bracket to find out which sport America loves most. Every few days the fans voted on their favorite sport and read previous week's detailed analysis. Baseball won and I couldn't be happier about that.
It featured a completely custom coded page, SVG animations for the icons, Google Sheets as a storage database, and my favorite: a custom cursor.
The finale: giving MLB the winning novelty check.
Swimsuit Issue: Climate Change Edition
A video and print campaign to bring awareness to climate change. We teamed up with Sports Illustrated and Victoria Secret models Erin Heatherton, Hannah Ferguson, & Caroline Lowe to pose for our swimsuit magazine in a way that is safe with a depleting ozone layer.
Check out my cameo as 'Sweaty Photographer Man'
Even more miscellaneous content! Just some things!
How Much Pizza Will You Eat In Your Lifetime?
Rejected Before And After Puzzles
A custom Russian-made nesting doll themed to the film Boyhood. An app for all those horny mall Santas out there.
The Flaming Lips Album Cover
Funny Or Die took April Fools very seriously. We teamed up with Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips for a complete site takeover including a few videos and a new album that pairs with Dark Side Of The Moon. I made the album artwork to fit in with their psychedelic album art discography.
The FINAL FACT
Pearl from The Landlord sketch is old enough to drive now. Wild, right? Time!