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Luhrmann’s
Gilded Cage
Breaking free through storytelling in
the films of Baz Luhrmann.
TITLE
PROJECT
SOLUTION
The Gilded Cage
The goal for this project was to design
The chosen director for this project
a film festival for a chosen director.
was Baz Luhrmann and his iconic films
PROJECT
The design and visual system should
Strictly Ballroom, Romeo & Juliet,
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display the essence and common
Australia, Moulin Rouge, and The
thread linking the director’s films. An
Great Gatsby. The title for the film
identity system, DVD packaging set,
festival is The Gilded Cage and it
tickets and event design, as well as
tried to pull together the glamorous
COURSE
a website and catalog were required
storytelling of all of his films.
Integrated Systems
items for the project.
YEAR
Spring 2014
INSTRUCTOR
Hunter Wimmer
“Knowing yourself means knowing,
until they try, the only clue to what
first what it is to be a person; secondly,
man can do is what man has done.
knowing what it is to be the kind of
The value of history, then, is that it
person your are; and thirdly, knowing
teaches us what man has done and
what it is to be the person you are
thus what man is.”
and nobody else is. Knowing yourself
–R.G. Collingwood
means knowing what you can do; and
since nobody knows what they can do
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