Gareth Smith

Design Producer

Gareth Smith joins This Machine with more than 20 years experience in design for film, television, and Broadway musical theater.

While at UCLA, Gareth co-directed a hybrid live-action/animated short film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Gareth was then tapped by Jason Reitman to create the title sequence for his first feature, Thank You for Smoking. While designing title sequences for Reitman’s subsequent films, including Thank You For Smoking, Juno and Up in the Air, Gareth created video projections for Broadway shows such as Wicked, Man of La Mancha, Into the Woods, and Spamalot.

From 2010 to 2022, Gareth and his wife designed, animated, and produced animations, montage sequences, and main titles for directors such as Ivan Reitman, John Carpenter, Zach Braff, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, Karyn Kusama, and  Bong Joon Ho. Their body of work expanded into documentary graphics, animations, and special sequences. Documentaries include Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, Dear…, Tiny Shoulders, Rethinking Barbie, and The September Issue.

Gareth Smith’s work has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and the Walker Art Center. He has juried title design competitions at SXSW and Motionographer. Gareth has also given talks on design and title sequences across the country and taught design at UCLA Design Media Arts.