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Kyle has directed live action sequences for feature film titles, broadcast projects and commercials.

His directorial and design work on the Seven main title was called a "masterpiece of dementia" by Entertainment Weekly.

To date, Kyle''s work has received a Gold Medal and a Best of Show Award for graphic design at the New York Art Directors Club Awards, four Art Director''s Club Merit Awards, a Gold Medal at the International Film & Television Festival of New York, an Architectural Foundation of Los Angeles Award for design achievement, two I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review Awards including the Best of Category for graphics, a New York Festivals International, Non-Broadcast Media Competition WorldMedal, a British D&AD Gold Award and two Silver Awards, four Type Directors Club Awards, three International Monitor Awards for Best Opening Titles and Credits, an AICP Certificate of Excellence in Graphics, five AIGA Awards for Outstanding Examples of Communication Graphics, a Golden Marble Award, a commendation for Designer of the Year 1996 by the CSD (Chartered Society of Designers) in partnership with the Design Council in London and has received a 1998 Emmy nomination for the main title sequence for TNT''s The George Wallace Story. 

  His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, Res Magazine, Icon Magazine, Fangoria Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Film & Video Magazine, Wired Magazine, Design Week, Blueprint Magazine, Creative Review, I.D. Magazine, Graphics International, Cap Design, Weekly Variety, Details Magazine, Newsweek, Newsweek Japan, GQ Japan, French Premiere, Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, Graphis, Design Plex, USA Today, The New Yorker, Max Magazine, World Art, The Face, Philadelphia Weekly, Etapes Graphique, Idea Magazine, Creativity, Axis, Feed.com, SHIFT on-line magazine, and Brutus. Other on-air appearances include E! Entertainment, CBS This Morning, NBC News, Movieland, Canal Plus TNT Rough Cut and an interview with Leonard Maltin. Mr. Cooper has been featured in print and on television and radio internationally, in France, Japan and Sweden as a film title designer. He has appeared internationally on Movie Television, Toronto''s largest newspaper publication The Globe and Mail, Hollywood 26, the German TV show Metropolis, Creators Element for TV Tokyo as well as a Japanese Documentary by the Robin/Tani Media Factory.

 Kyle also has directed live action commercials for The National Black Arts Festival, Tudor Watches, and commercial campaigns for AT&T, Janus mutual funds, Target, Reebok, Charles Schwab, The Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Nissin Cup Noodle and Sweden''s Rocky Jeans. Kyle is well versed in all aspects of visual effects as well as interactive design and production. His team re-designed the animation for the Netscape browser and is currently working on content for computer generated gaming venues. Cooper & The Imaginary Forces team''s extensive feature film credits include main title designs for Seven, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Eraser, Mission Impossible, Twister, Dead Presidents, Quiz Show, Nixon, Braveheart, Immortal Beloved, The Joy Luck Club, Indecent Proposal, When a Man Loves a Woman, True Lies, Zebrahead, She-Devil, The Hardway, Life Lessons, Nightwatch, Sphere, The Wild Wild West, The Mummy, The Avengers, Gattaca, Dead Men on Campus, Lost in Space, Spawn, G.I. Jane, Donnie Brasco, Metro, Mimic, Fallen, The Fan, The Horse Whisperer, The Mask of Zorro, The Negotiator, Pushing Tin and Arlington Road.

 Kyle has worked with directors including Martin Scorsese, John Frankenheimer, Ole Bornedal, Beeban Kidron, John Hughes, Barry Levinson, Gregory Hoblitt, Emil Andolino, Robert Redford, David Fincher, Oliver Stone, Brian De Palma, Jan De Bont, Mike Newell, Barry Sonnenfeld, Jeremiah Chechik, Richard Greenberg and Julie Taymor.

 Kyle Cooper was Senior Art Director and Design department Manager at R/Greenberg Associates in New York City from 1988 to 1992. He was named RGA/LA Creative Director when he relocated to Los Angeles in 1992 and formed the design department which ultimately became Imaginary Forces. Cooper built the Los Angeles design department from the ground up, hiring thirteen designers and developing an extensive freelance pool of artists since his arrival in 1992. In addition to main title design under Kyle''s creative direction the group has designed print programs, signage systems corporate identities and entertainment branding packages. The group has created logos and animated treatments for Sweetland Films, Jim Henson Pictures, Chris Columbus'' 1492 Pictures, Mel Gibson''s Icon Productions, John Hughes'' Great Oaks Entertainment and Anne and Arnold Kopelson''s Kopelson Entertainment. Cooper has also worked on teaser/trailer graphics for The Hunt For Red October, Harlem Nights, Black Rain, Class Action, Wolf, The Client, 007 Goldeneye, And with partner Peter Frankfurt, Men In Black, The Fifth Element, G.I. Jane, Gattaca and The Mask Of Zorro.

 Kyle served as the art director and project manager for the multimedia design of the 1991 IBM Senior Management Meeting, and the opening for the TED 3 (Technology Entertainment & Design) 1992 conference, IBM''s multimedia presentation at TED. He served as the production company Art Director on the Masterpiece Theater opening with WGBH Creative Director Chris Pullman and Director Richard Greenberg.

 During his tenure at R/GA, Kyle served as principle designer on numerous high-profile motion graphics projects and corporate identity for Xerox, HBO, Visa Gold, Lincoln-Mercury, Diner''s Club International, IBM, Optima, The Comedy Channel, American Gas, Northern Telecom, Nynex, and Smith Barney. Prior to joining R/GA, Kyle served as a designer for Apple Computer''s Business Marketing Group in Cupertino California, the Wang Laboratories corporate communications department in North Chelmsford Massachusetts, and Frankfurt, Gips+ Balkind''s Entertainment Division in New York City.

 Kyle received an MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale University School of Art, where he studied independently with Paul Rand. While at Yale, he was awarded The Calhoun College Resident Graduate Fellowship, created to generate undergraduate interest in the arts, as well as the Mohawk Paper Company Traveling Fellowship which enabled him to do film research at the former Soviet Union''s Sergei Eisenstein Kabinet.

 He has taught motion design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, has been guest critic at Yale University School of Art and was the Gerald Phillips Lecturer at the Cooper Union School. As well, Mr. Cooper continues to regularly address students and professionals as the keynote speaker at events such as the Dynamic Typography Symposium at Art Center College of Design, The Chartered Society of Designers in Glasgow Scotland, and the Alliance Graphique International. Kyle was also the featured speaker at the Communications for a Converging World Symposium held in Toronto and the 1999 American Center for Design Student Conference in Chicago. Mr. Cooper has also spoken at organizations such as The Art Directors Club, the AIGA Design Camp Seattle, ResFest , Nike Corporate Communications Department in Portland Oregon, Siggraph, Broadcast Design Association Saul Bass memorial tribute. The Imaginary Forces main title compilation Forget the Film, Watch the Titles met great enthusiasm at the 28th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. More recently, Kyle was featured at the American Institute of Graphic Arts/ Design for Film and Television, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts "The Image of the Word" conference in London, England.

 from http://www.directorsnet.com/