30 September 2010
By Sarah McClure
“Graphic designer” doesn’t typically conjure up visions of a person who modeled for Dolce & Gabbana, Levi’s and Playboy—not to mention was personally fitted by Gianni Versace—or starred in Target and IKEA commercials. But that’s the sort of artistic acumen Howard Nourmand brings as founder/creative director of L.A.-based production company, Grand Jeté (grahn zhuh-tay). His latest undertaking, designing the title sequence for Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, is out this week. Flaunt chatted with Howard about the film, his experimental techniques depicting the history of the economic bubble (he used a lot of tulips), doing Cannes, and why working around the clock for six months with Oliver was the best thing that ever happend to him.
