Founders
Kyle Cooper
Co-Founder · Executive Creative Director
Kyle Cooper is one of the most original and innovative film title designers in the cinema industry. He has produced and directed hundreds of main title and visual effects sequences across a wide spectrum of film and broadcast mediums.
Details magazine credits Cooper with “almost single-handedly revitalizing the main title sequence as an art form.” Los Angeles magazine calls him the “Da Vinci of main titles.” He is “one of the top 50 biggest and best thinkers from the last 20 years of advertising and consumer culture,” according to Creativity magazine. “Not since Saul Bass’ legendary preludes...have credits attracted such attention,” proclaims Wired magazine. IFC ranks his title sequence for the film Se7en as one of the greatest of all time. The New York Times Magazine lauded it as “one of the most important design innovations of the 1990s.” His true talent is to be in the service of a film, adapting to it and anticipating its tone while also creating individual works that a perceptive mind will recognize as creations of the same artist. His work can be seen in hundreds of movies, including Argo, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, World War Z, Godzilla, and Braveheart.
Cooper received his MFA from Yale School of Art, where he studied independently with renowned American modernist designer Paul Rand. In his third year at Yale, Cooper was awarded the Mohawk Paper Traveling Fellowship to complete thesis research at the Sergei Eisenstein Kabinet in the then Soviet Union. Cooper served as Creative Director at R/GA Digital Studios in New York City and then Los Angeles from 1988 to 1996. He is the co-founder of two internationally recognized film design companies, Imaginary Forces and Prologue Films. Cooper founded and named Imaginary Forces in 1996 and went on to found Prologue Films in 2003. Along with Prologue, he also created Spatialand with wife and virtual reality visionary Kimber Cooper — a virtual and augmented reality company designed to allow consumers to experience VR and design content at a premium visual level, like Prologue’s holographic interface work featured in films such as Iron Man and Prometheus. Spatialand was acquired by Walmart in 2018.
Cooper is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and holds the title of Honorary Royal Designer for Industry from the Royal Society of Arts in London. In 2018 he won the Locarno Film Festival Visionary Award, dedicated to those who have used their talents to create new perspectives in the world of cinema. He has two Emmy wins, and was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, recognizing him for designing title sequences for film and television with a bold and unexpected style, conjuring emotional responses through his captivating use of narrative.
Education & Recognition
- MFA, Yale School of Art · Studied independently with American modernist Paul Rand
- Member, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Honorary Royal Designer for Industry · Royal Society of Arts, London
- 2× Emmy Award Winner
- 2009 Sports Emmy Award · Outstanding Graphic Design, “SportsNation,” ESPN22009
- Primetime Emmy Award · Outstanding Short Format Picture Editing, 81st Annual Academy Awards (Best Motion Picture Montage)2009
- 5 Emmy Nominations
- Locarno Film Festival Visionary Award2018
- AIGA Lifetime Achievement Medal
- Fast Company Most Creative People in Business2009
- Creativity Magazine Top 50 Creative Thinkers of the Last 20 Years
Kimber Cooper
Co-Founder · Executive Producer · Creative Technologist
Kimber Cooper builds systems that make invisible thinking visible, through film, immersive technology, and AI. At Prologue she has spent over two decades co-leading one of Hollywood’s most influential design studios, producing 600+ title sequences and visual narratives for Marvel, Disney, Paramount, Apple, and Amazon. An Emmy-nominated creator recognized for her work on the 77th Annual Academy Awards, and a Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award nominee, her work has been recognized for sustained creative excellence across film and emerging technology. In 2014 she launched Prologue Immersive, one of the first VR content studios, producing Memos From Hell, the world’s first 360° stop-motion 3D-printed film, selected for SXSW. In 2016 she founded Spatialand, a VR commerce platform acquired by Walmart in 2018, where as Chief Creative Officer she built the company’s first virtual commerce platform and filed a US patent for a VR interaction system inspired by the Iron Man interface. The work earned a Lumiere Award for Best VR Experience and a Producers Guild of America Innovation Award nomination. She serves as a Visiting Instructor at USC Viterbi, co-instructing Future Stories, where students use AI to create episodic narratives. KYK-IT is her current build, an AI-powered production intelligence system whose first deployment is Prologue Intelligence, an active creative intelligence platform that learns and evolves, replacing the static studio website with a living system that connects 25 years of work to new briefs, new talent, and new ideas. She is incoming at Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2026, where her research centers on designing AI systems that amplify human creativity rather than replace it.
Recognition
- US Patent · VR Tool Interaction System · US20180239515A12018
- Spatialand → Walmart2018
- Lumiere Award · Best VR Experience
- Producers Guild of America Innovation Award · Nomination
- Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award · Nomination
- Emmy Nomination · Outstanding Picture Editing · 77th Annual Academy Awards2005
- First 360° stop-motion 3D-printed film · Memos From Hell · SXSW
- USC Viterbi · Visiting Instructor2021
- Harvard GSE · Learning Design, Innovation & Technology · Incoming2026