Pro Social

It all started when…

As part of the partnership between UNITED NATIONS, WHO (World Health Organisation) & MTV I Directed this International “World AIDS Day” awareness campaign. I had the honour to attend and speak at the annual World HIV & AIDS awareness conference at the United Nations in Geneva.

The same year I had the pleasure of working with director Niall MacCormick on the award winning HIV documentary “Staying Alive”. The documentary won an Emmy Award and triggered the creation of the MTV Staying Alive Foundation. Niall MacCormick directed the award winning HIV documentary (see below). I created the Graphic packaging throughout the film including title sequence and info graphics.

The documentary won an Emmy Award and triggered the creation of the MTV Staying Alive Foundation.

I won “Best Motion Graphic designer in Europe award” at Promax Europe in Prague 1998.

Channeling his passion and energy to make a difference, George Michael fronted this documentary about HIV to coincide with World Aids Day in 1998, the year he publicly came out on CNN. The film, MTV Staying Alive, focused on the experiences of six young people from different countries who were either infected with or affected by the HIV virus.

When Michael passed away in 2016, MTV Staying Alive Foundation cited his contribution to efforts against HIV and how instrumental he was in the creation of the Foundation:

Niall MacCormick is a Scottish film and television director. His credits include the feature-length comedy-drama The Long Walk to Finchley, Firewall (the second feature-length episode of Wallander), and The Song of Lunch (starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson). All of these were created for BBC Television. He directed The Game in 2013 and won a BAFTA in 2014 for the Channel 4 film "Complicit".[1] In 2019 he directed the acclaimed BBC mini-series “The Victim”.