Recently formed, New York-based live-action production house Nola Pictures has added director Juan Delcan to its roster. He last served in a creative director/director capacity at Spontaneous Combustion, New York.
Among Delcan’s clients have been AT&T, Coca-Cola, Ikea, Maybelline, PBS and Verizon. He has an extensive background in broadcast design with credits that include promos and station IDs for the likes of NBC, CBS and ESPN. Over the years, Delcan’s work has garnered such honors as a London International Advertising and Design Award, gold and silver at the Broadcast Designers’ Association (BDA) Awards, and a Telly Award.
U2 took notice of Delcan’s prowess in design and illustration, commissioning his work to be animated and to serve as a backdrop for the artists’ live performance of the hit song “Yahweh” on the 2005 Vertigo tour.
Educated in Madrid, Delcan studied architecture at Superior Architecture School there. After a year with a small architecture firm in Madrid, he branched out into drawing storyboards, one of which helped a commercial production house land a job. In 1987, he started freelancing regularly as a storyboard artist in Spain and later began directing, establishing himself in the market.
In ’95, Delcan came to Southern California for a creative director/director position at now defunct design house Pittard Sullivan. At the end of ’98, he moved to New York to take on the same dual role at Lee Hunt Associates (which later became Razorfish). Then in late ’99, Delcan returned to the West Coast as a creative director/director at production company V12, Santa Monica. In ’03, he went over to Spontaneous Combustion.
He now joins a directors’ lineup at Nola Pictures consisting of Kim Dempster, Rick Knief, Kenny Morrison and Jerry Simpson. Nola is headed by executive producer Charlie Curran, formerly of Crossroads, bicoastal and Chicago.
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