2003 Video Music Awards poster series
2003 Video Music Awards poster series
2003 Video Music Awards poster series
2003 Video Music Awards poster series
2003 Video Music Awards poster series

2003 Video Music Awards poster series

MTV Networks, New York, New York, 2003

Description

How do you promote the unpredictability and irreverence of the Video Music Awards after all these years? Turn celebrity portraiture on its head. (Pun intended.)

We decided to put a twist on celebrity portraiture we had never seen before. With iconic celebrities holding huge replicas of their own heads, we showed just how fun portraiture could be, on so many different levels: ego, image and popularity.

Complete with an anti-awards show logo that defied every logo we’ve ever done in the past, and a life-sized carousel displaying the heads at a sideshow outside the venue, the entire VMA campaign created the perfect amount of synergy and buzz that the event demanded.

Juror Notes

These are so funny and clever, you can’t help but laugh.

Collections: AIGA 365: 25 (2004)
Discipline: Promotional design and advertising
Format: Posters

Credits

Design firm
MTV Networks
Creative director
Jeffrey Keyton
Art directors
Thomas Berger, Jim DeBarros
Illustrator
Kevin O’Callahan
Photographer
Dewey Nicks
Sculptor
Bayard Slade Baudoin
Typography
Lance Rusoff
Client
MTV Networks
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