Great Stories By Design
Our Work
Women's basketball is having a breakout year, and this season the WNBA found a new home on USA Network. BGSTR designed the promo package that introduced the partnership.
From broadcast packages to promotional spots to title sequences, our work is built from concept to completion, always in service of Telling The Bigger Story. This reel is a look at the full scope of what BGSTR brings to every project and every partnership.
FOX Sports brought us in to design a full broadcast brand system for their upcoming season of NASCAR coverage, including a studio package, driver capture, and insert graphics. We came in with the goal to set a new bar for on-air sports design and make sure FOX’s coverage stood apart from the other sports graphics we’ve been seeing on screen.
HBO's House of the Dragon returned for its third season, and after a two-year wait, the Targaryen civil war is finally reaching its boiling point. BGSTR has been in the fire alongside our partners at HBO from the very beginning of this campaign and we were excited to see how the network would climb Season 3 to new heights.
Academy Award winning filmmaker Ron Howard takes us into the mind of the singular creative visionary in ‘Jim Henson Idea Man’, the Disney+ feature-length documentary that premiered at Cannes. BGSTR designed the film’s graphics and title sequence for the film, touching on moments of Henson’s legacy spanning his entire life from his early years puppeteering to the worldwide success of Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and beyond.
From the big screen to real life, Universal Theme Parks are known for taking an on-screen fantasy and transforming it into a fantastical physical manifestation for their audience.
Over 100 years ago, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton kept his 27-man crew alive for over a year after they lost their ship to treacherous conditions where it lay untouched at the bottom of the Weddell Sea for over a century until a team of modern-day explorers set out to find the sunken ship.
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon take us inside the mind of a genius in 'Leonardo da Vinci', a two-part documentary from PBS featuring the visionary creator and his unique contributions to both art and science. BGSTR designed the film using da Vinci’s own art and illustrations to explore the polymath’s intellectual and artistic processes through a unique lens.
You’ve heard the story—four siblings, stranded in the Colombian rainforest for forty days, the eldest aged 13 and the youngest only 11 months. How did they survive? What did they see?
CNN is the go-to source for coverage of the midterm elections and we designed a versatile package of graphics to support the programming's dynamic narrative in addition to real-time results.
It's the summer of sport and BGSTR designed the newest Ralph Lauren 'World of Sports' promos to coincide with the many athletics-related campaigns the brand is producing this season.
BGSTR partnered with FOX Sports to design a trio of upbeat spots to promote the network’s 29th season of full MLB coverage.
World-renowned magician and performance artist David Blaine takes viewers on the most jaw-dropping journey yet in his latest reality venture with National Geographic, the documentary series 'David Blaine: Do Not Attempt'.
“The best stories are in the most dangerous places," says Lynsey Addario, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, in 'Love+War'—the full-length documentary about her life from filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin.
HBO's new Harry Potter series is bringing the classic books to the screen for a new generation, and ahead of the series debut this December, HBO built a behind-the-scenes special around how it was made.
You’ve heard the story—four siblings, stranded in the Colombian rainforest for forty days, the eldest aged 13 and the youngest only 11 months. How did they survive? What did they see?
'Game 7' brings the two greatest words in sports to life in a new five-part anthology series from Prime Video.
More cowbell! ‘SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night’ is a four-part documentary offering a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process of legendary sketch comedy "Saturday Night Live,” with fresh insights into the show's history.
Academy Award winning filmmaker Ron Howard takes us into the mind of the singular creative visionary in ‘Jim Henson Idea Man’, the Disney+ feature-length documentary that premiered at Cannes. BGSTR designed the film’s graphics and title sequence for the film, touching on moments of Henson’s legacy spanning his entire life from his early years puppeteering to the worldwide success of Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and beyond.
'Celtics City' is a new 9-part documentary from HBO Sports Documentaries chronicling the remarkable saga of the Boston Celtics, the NBA's winningest franchise. BGSTR designed the Bill Simmons-produced series to follow the team's founding as one of the league's original members to its triumphant 2024 championship.
After the smash success of the first installment, Disney, Lucasfilm, and Imagine Documentaries linked up again to continue telling the story of Industrial Light & Magic, the company behind all visual effects for Star Wars and other legendary films.
Was it all rainbows and unicorns or were those neon hues concealing something darker? 'Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story' takes a deeper look at the storied brand and its secrets in the four-part documentary from Prime Video and Maxine.
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon take us inside the mind of a genius in 'Leonardo da Vinci', a two-part documentary from PBS featuring the visionary creator and his unique contributions to both art and science. BGSTR designed the film using da Vinci’s own art and illustrations to explore the polymath’s intellectual and artistic processes through a unique lens.
“Searching for Soul Food” is a Hulu original series that follows rock star celebrity chef Alisa Reynolds as she discovers what soul food looks like around the world. We partnered with the series’ producers, Brightroad and All3media for Onyx Collective on Hulu, to produce GFX that graphically underscores the series’ narrative as Reynolds seeks out the food, explores the stories, the people, and the traditions of each place she visits.
Over 100 years ago, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton kept his 27-man crew alive for over a year after they lost their ship to treacherous conditions where it lay untouched at the bottom of the Weddell Sea for over a century until a team of modern-day explorers set out to find the sunken ship.
In 2008, BGSTR worked on the Oscar-nominated documentary Food Inc. and fifteen years later we got back together with the film’s creators to revisit the food system in the film’s sequel.
How did two repeating notes, escalating in succession, become one of the most recognizable film intros of all time? Would the most famous space-based trilogy of all time been as iconic without its genre-defining soundtrack? These questions and more are answered in 'Music by John Williams', the new Disney+ documentary that takes a look at the life and career of the legendary composer.
‘Evolution of the Black Quarterback’ is a three-part Prime Video docuseries that follows retired NFL Pro Bowl quarterback Michael Vick as he travels across America to explore the history and impact of Black quarterbacks on and off the field.
ICONIC AMERICA: OUR SYMBOLS AND STORIES is an 8-episode nonfiction series from PBS that examines the history of America through some of its most iconic symbols, objects and places, diving deep into each symbol’s history and how its meaning has changed over time. BigStar partnered with the series’ creators to design the series and graphically assist the storytelling around these iconic symbols and how they can be used as a gateway to understanding America’s past and present.
Behind his perfect profile pic, they found a digital trail of deception. In ABC News' docuseries, 'Hey Beautiful: Anatomy of a Romance Scam,' women from around the world fall in love with the same handsome man, only to discover they have been swindled out of their money in an elaborate romance scam.
In the Apple TV Plus original series, Super League: The War for Football, the high stakes battle initiated by the attempt to set up a new European super-league is documented from start to its explosive finish. We designed the four-part series to graphically tell the story of the breakaway league and the drama that threatened to upend the future of European football.
'Churchill at War' is a captivating 4-part docuseries examining Winston Churchill's pivotal role in World War II and the formative events that made him an ideal leader for the era. Brought to life with his own words, the series from Imagine and Netflix explores Churchill's wartime strategy and the legacy that follows.
The COVID-19 virus has dominated conversations over the past year and a half, so when our friends at The Documentary Group approached us with an opportunity to collaborate on the film they were created in partnership with Pfizer and National Geographic, we dove in to provide 3D graphics to visualize the research, development, and process of this crucial vaccine.
The Andy Warhol Diaries chronicles the remarkable life of Andy Warhol from the vantage offered by the artist’s own posthumously-published diaries. Through photographs, documents, and archival footage we delivered a series design for the pop-art icon.
The boys are back in town in FX’s Welcome to Wrexham— a docuseries following actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney as they navigate running the third oldest football club in the world.
We climbed to new heights with a graphics package, main title, and a 3D rendered mountain for Free Solo. The documentary won the 2019 Academy Award for "Best Documentary" and hit the top of the indie box office for 2018, becoming the best theater average ever for a documentary.
Light & Magic is a Disney+ created docuseries that pulls back the curtain on legendary special effects studio Industrial Light & Magic and their work on some of the most iconic movie moments in history.
BGSTR partnered with longtime clients at Left/Right for the 8th season of The Circus. We always have a great time developing the show open for this political series.
The 2026 NHL Stadium Series took the outdoor franchise game down south for an epic matchup where the Boston Bruins were hosted by the Tampa Bay Lightning at Raymond James Stadium. BGSTR designed a promotional spot for ESPN ahead of the event with a creative, 3D approach to set the stage for one of the NHL’s most popular annual events.
For the second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympics from Disney, we tagged on to the existing promotional campaign by designing an immersive, digital out of home experience to bring the screen into real life.
Women's basketball is having a breakout year, and this season the WNBA found a new home on USA Network. BGSTR designed the promo package that introduced the partnership.
HBO's House of the Dragon returned for its third season, and after a two-year wait, the Targaryen civil war is finally reaching its boiling point. BGSTR has been in the fire alongside our partners at HBO from the very beginning of this campaign and we were excited to see how the network would climb Season 3 to new heights.
We returned to Westeros with promo design work for the newest entry in the Game of Thrones universe— 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms'.
It's the summer of sport and BGSTR designed the newest Ralph Lauren 'World of Sports' promos to coincide with the many athletics-related campaigns the brand is producing this season.
BGSTR partnered with FOX Sports to design a trio of upbeat spots to promote the network’s 29th season of full MLB coverage.
After twenty long months of anticipation, the second season of HBO's 'House of The Dragon' premiered this summer with an action-packed episode filled with grief, fire and fury. The BGSTR team has been diligently working with our clients at HBO to launch a far-reaching campaign to reintroduce the dueling houses to audiences along with the real stars of the show— the dragons.
The 51st year of baseball on TBS culminates with exclusive coverage of the 2024 American League Division Series and American League Championship Series in October and BGSTR designed the graphics for an electric postseason package.
For the tenth season of the hit Fox network series ‘The Masked Singer’, the creators wanted to go all out to celebrate the milestone, starting with a fresh design for its promotional package.
BGSTR takes on House of the Dragon.
AEW's back in the ring, battling it out for gold and glory Wednesdays on TBS.
We collaborated with iconic American lifestyle brand Ralph Lauren to highlight their long-standing involvement across three major tennis tournaments: Wimbledon, the Australian Open, and the US Open.
BGSTR designed and animated the wayward vampires of What We Do In the Shadows for the promotion of season five of the FX Networks hit series. We played with the design for bats, dolls, evil eyes and other show iconography until we hit the perfect note to promote the newest season of the vampire mockumentary.
Mondays are for The Bachelorette! Here's a look at the promo package we designed for Charity's journey from design concepts to delivery.
The boys are back in town in FX’s Welcome to Wrexham— a docuseries following actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney as they navigate running the third oldest football club in the world.
The fourth season of HBO’s critically acclaimed original series, True Detective, takes the detective procedural to a far remote location in Alaska and BGSTR designed an icy promo package for the network’s marketing efforts ahead of the season premiere.
In this latest contribution to The Walking Dead universe, we collaborated with AMC to create dramatic eye-catching promos for season 10 in order to build excitement for the characters and their stories ahead of the season’s premiere.
FXX has assembled a formidable lineup of animated titles produced by FX Productions or sibling 20th Television, including Archer, Cleveland, King of the Hill, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama as well as Bob Burgers. With all of these epic shows under one roof, it was time to brand the programming block and cement it as the tentpole for FXX.
For the 2022 NASCAR season, we teamed up with our friends at Fox Sports to create a set of exhilarating and versatile promos along with a robust toolkit to rev up the engine for this Cup Series.
BGSTR designed a promo package for the newest season of ‘Hoarders’, the Emmy-nominated and Critics Choice Television Award-winning series from A&E, graphically tackling some of the most extreme and challenging hoards to set the tone for the season.
We designed, shot and animated this promo for the HBO Max official augmented reality app "House of the Dragon: DracARys"--promoting the app ahead of the series premiere as part of the promotional campaign for House of the Dragon.
Our show open and promo package approach for What We Do in the Shadows, an FX Original series adapted from the popular mockumentary, took us back in time to the dark ages when vampires may (or may not) have roamed the earth.
With countless blockbuster films airing over 8-weeks, TNT 'Christmas Maximus' takes holiday movies to the next level, serving as a hub for endless seasonal offerings and high-energy classics. BGSTR had a blast designing a series of high-energy promos for our partners all while seeking to answer the storied question once and for all— Is 'Die Hard' a Christmas movie?? Watch TNT and celebrate the season with your favorite holiday film traditions.
We put in our all for two promotional spots for AMC’s Preacher, combining flash/2D, cel animation, and live-action film in a uniquely stylized image spot for Preacher’s third season.
BGSTR partnered with ESPN Creative Studio on the 2026 ESPYs
BGSTR helped shape the on-air design for Disney Celebrates America, the company's Fourth of July broadcast marking the nation's 250th anniversary, a 24-hour, coast-to-coast special anchored by ABC News.
FOX Sports brought us in to design a full broadcast brand system for their upcoming season of NASCAR coverage, including a studio package, driver capture, and insert graphics. We came in with the goal to set a new bar for on-air sports design and make sure FOX’s coverage stood apart from the other sports graphics we’ve been seeing on screen.
BGSTR leapt at the chance to design a dynamic and adaptable package to showcase Turner Sports’ newest seasons of football and basketball broadcast programming.
BGSTR designed the graphics package for AMC's annual Upfront presentation for the third consecutive year, and the stakes were higher than ever. AMC arrived at the 2026 event with a new name, AMC Global Media, signaling a broader ambition and a more expansive vision for where the company is headed. Our design had to meet that moment.
AMC helms an array of services and partnered with BGSTR to design a refresh of the brand for the network to showcase its premium variety of scripted and unscripted fare.
Politics at CNN is the network’s hub for news, opinion and analysis of American and global politics. BigStar partnered with CNN Politics ahead of the 2024 presidential election to design a new package for the news and video about elections, the White House, the U.N and much more.
AMC makes great shows—and their commitment to quality remained center stage at the Upfront presentation the network hosted for ad buyers, CMOs, distribution partners, and tech vendors in an expanded event this spring.
BGSTR designed the graphics for AMC’s 2024 Upfront presentation, hosted by the network this April in New York.
For their 2023 Upfront presentation, AMC hosted an in-person event with between 200 to 250 attendees at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Tuesday, April 18. We designed the Upfronts for AMC to align with the brand’s vision for the most innovative and future-facing upfront in industry history and showcase a presentation that reflects the premium quality of their programming.
Sundance TV is home to the network’s original programming, film favorites and must-watch series and was ready for a brand update to showcase its prestige storytelling. BigStar had previously partnered with the network’s sister brand, BBC America, for a successful rebrand and we were excited to bring that same collaborative spirit to Sundance.
What do you get when you take an iconic legacy brand ready for an update and a desire to infuse a healthy dose of levity? A BBC America brand refresh that is eye-catching, versatile, and just the right amount cheeky, or you might say, Brit-ish.
We created a fresh new system for the TNT brand, designing a flexible and bold system with graphics that would translate through for all the network's programming.
We helped brand the 2019 annual TCM Classic Film Festival event with our key art and promotional film, following their theme of “love in all its forms”.
The TCM Classic Film Festival showcases films that have been revered over decades. For this year’s festival, we were asked to join the celebration by putting together a graphics package for the three-day event in Hollywood combining key art, illustration, and photo treatment in this brand image campaign.
When Cooking Channel came to us looking for a brand refresh, we jumped at the opportunity to help cook something up with farm-fresh colors, shiny new cooking toolkits, and expressive flavors of language while retaining their original logo.
History Channel came to us looking for an image campaign for their first ever Car Week, where collectors, buyers and traders come together to talk hot rods. The “H” animated into 5 muscle cars, putting a 3D spin on the spots that made them stand out and appeal to audiences.
