Stardust + Gravity
stardust+gravity
Palm Springs, California

Design that has to work at sixteen pixels and sixty feet.

A brand and motion studio for companies in television, technology and the places between. We draw the mark, write the standards that keep it alive, cut the film, and art-direct the room it plays in.

Colour bumpers  ·  with Christopher Wargin ↗  ·  forty in the showcase ↗

Document
Selected work
Practice
Identity, film, live events
Principal
Geoff Katz, Creative Director
Enquiries
geoff@stardustgravity.com
Stardust + Gravity  ·  Selected work01  ·  Practice
01 · Practice

Four things, done all the way through.

Most studios hand off at the logo. We stay through the thread colours, the vinyl spec, the minimum size on a favicon, the edit, the grade and the run of show. The reason is simple: a mark that has never been tested at sixteen pixels or on a sixty-foot LED wall is not finished.

I.

Identity & standards

Logos, wordmarks and the design system behind them — colour in Pantone, CMYK, RGB, thread and vinyl; clear space; minimum size; embroidery digitising; the misuse page nobody else writes.

II.

Film & post

Opening films, sizzles, product stories and stage transitions. Concept, direction, edit, motion graphics and grade in house. Real-time and virtual production when the shot calls for it.

III.

Experience & product

Interface and product design for television, streaming and advertising systems — drawn from inside TiVo, DIRECTV, Fox and Disney rather than read about second-hand.

IV.

Live events

Creative direction for upfronts and NewFronts: stage and screen design, content packages, printed programme, signage and the visual logic that holds a two-hour show together.

Stardust + Gravity  ·  Selected work02  ·  Selected marks
02 · Marks

Nine marks, drawn to outlast their briefs.

One ink, one weight, so they read against each other rather than their own brand colours. Made with the people named beneath them.

Yahoo!

The logotype, drawn in the run-up to the IPO. All caps, the letters lifting as they go, one exclamation point doing the work of a symbol. Still legible at favicon size three decades on.

At Organic Online, with Kevin Farnham ↗
Spinner

Drawn as TheDJ.com became Spinner — the first internet music service, and a wordmark sitting inside its own broadcast. Acquired by AOL the following year.

Watchwith

Seven bars — a frame’s worth of television pixels, one moment sampled and tagged. The company’s whole product in a mark. Acquired by Comcast.

FN Genius

Title identity for a live trivia format, built to hold up on a phone held one-handed and on an ad-sales stage the same week. One word, two weights, no second element to lose.

In-house at Fox Networks Group
Game Loop

The startup’s founding wordmark. LOOP knocked out of a stadium shape, so the second half of the name draws the idea. Built to animate from the outset.

For Zane Vella, Game Loop ↗  ·  with Mackenzie Katz ↗
MX8 Labs

Monogram, lockup and chart style guide for the human-centric research platform — a system built to survive being pasted into a client’s deck.

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TVREV

A television that is also a frame, drawn with one corner rounded away so the set reads at banner size and at avatar size without redrawing.

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The Measure

A monogram that is also a waveform: the M drawn as a signal crossing a frame, set against a slab serif heavy enough to hold a masthead.

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F.
Fabric.Media

The publication’s mark, stamped on every title card. Not an asset — it is drawn in type and sized to its container, so one mark serves a thumbnail and a share image without a swap.

Stardust + Gravity  ·  Selected work03  ·  Motion
03 · Motion

Eight videos, not the whole reel.

Each plays a silent loop. Click one to open it on Vimeo; the rest of the archive lives there.

Still from Aya: an animated bear cub standing in a snowy forestPaused3:26

Aya

Animated short  ·  Character & world design With Tippett Studio ↗ and Alex Hessler ↗  ·  Based on story and art by Hanna Ostroff  ·  Co-produced by Greg Ostroff
Still from the FN Genius film showing the game on a phonePaused1:17

FN Genius

Fox Networks Group  ·  Live format
Stardust + Gravity  ·  Selected work04  ·  Live
04 · Live

Walmart × VIZIO NewFront, March 2026.

Creative direction across the whole surface of the show: the title system on a wall wide enough to seat the audience under it, the screen content between segments, and the printed programme in the hand. One identity, three very different reproductions — which is the entire argument for standards.

The NewFront 26 title wall behind two speakers seated on stage, audience silhouetted in front
A speaker on a dark stage in front of a large blue screen of in-store campaign results
An attendee holding the printed Walmart VIZIO NewFront 26 programme
Creative direction with Fabric Media ↗ and Julian Sarimento ↗ and Casey Stockdon ↗  ·  Event photography, Guy Piaquadio
Stardust + Gravity  ·  Selected work05  ·  The studio
05 · The studio

Fewer people, further through.

A small studio: one principal, and a short list of people it works with. What sits behind it is a career spent inside the networks and platforms — TiVo, DIRECTV, Fox, Disney — running the organisations that commission work like this.

I.

We have been the client

We ran the product and advertising organisations inside networks and platforms. We know what a brief costs to execute, because we used to be the one paying for it.

II.

One principal, no handoff

The person in the pitch is the person doing the work. Sessions are on Zoom and recorded; every draft gets a written review between sessions.

III.

Proposals show the destination

Ours include a worked example of every deliverable — the colour page, the embroidery version, the misuse page — so you can see where it lands before choosing a firm.

IV.

Receipts

Marks still in service, an Emmy peer-group governorship, and an ad business taken from launch to scale. Full background and credits →

Stardust + Gravity  ·  Selected work06  ·  Contact
06 · Contact

Tell us what has to hold up, and where.

Most engagements start with a short call and a written brief read back to you. Two-week sprints are normal; so are design systems that outlast the people who commissioned them.

Email
geoff@stardustgravity.com
Telephone
310.770.8312
Archive
vimeo.com/stardustgravity ↗
Studio
Palm Springs, California