Mike Salisbury Accomplishments

There are so many different types of movies, clothes, magazines, styles now that we have technology there are no limits. We may love or hate the designs we see, but we never really think about the person, the brain behind all the madness. Where did these ideas come from? Who could possibly think and imagine the images we see for all this work? Mike Salisbury might be the answer to these questions. Mike Salisbury started the first five years of his career as an art director for West, the Sunday supplement of the Los Angeles Times, in 1967. Because of production costs and failed revenue the magazine was terminated. Before that loss Salisbury had it full of vital visual delights of vernacular artifacts, ranging from orange-crate labels to blue jean advertising (Meggs 402). Editorial spreads of fancy customized cars and other were created with vibrant colors and a disordered chaos that worked and got recognized. In 1974, Salisbury redesigned the entire format of the famous rock and roll
magazine Rolling stone. His elements of surprise became his primary tool for design to give the magazine its visual energy (Meggs 402). He also did work for Surfer and Playboy magazines. Mike Salisbury has put his mark on a variety of known products in advertising and entertainment.
Mike has created marketing campaigns for over 300 movies including Aliens, Jurassic Park, Rocky, Romancing the Stone, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Moulin Rouge (Typo). In the film The People vs Larry Flynt, Flynt defends the First Amendment based on a concept Mike Salisbury created. Also, the exploding boxing gloves that interpreted Rocky IV to the world- a Salisbury image so hot it became the visual symbol for the film that didn’t need the title for identification. It became his most copied graphic. Even George Lucas is a collector of Salisbury’s work (Salisbury). He even has touched based in the music industry. Salisbury has created album covers for George Hamilton, James Taylor, Randy Newman, Rickie Lee Jones, Ry Cooder, and Ike and Tina. He developed branding identities for Blue Note, RCA, United Artists Records, and Polycam. He has a Grammy nomination for album design
(Typo).
Salisbury was an art director, creative director, Vice President and Senior Vice President at legendary advertising agencies including Wells Rich Green and Foote Cone Belding. He taught design, advertising, illustration and photography at UCLA, Otis Art Institute and Art Center. Mike Salisbury is a contributing editor and writer for Forbes, Men’s Journal and other magazines. He has taken many photos for Vogue, Esquire, Newsweek and more (Salisbury).
Mike Salisbury has had his hand in just about everything. He created awesome art work and is famous for everything he has done. Many people may have never heard his name. When you read everything that he has created, you can really see how talented he is. Salisbury established freewheeling design approach that influenced the layout of many popular, specialized, and regional periodicals for a decade (Meggs 402-03).