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Michael Curtis Gross "Grossie" - Class of 1963
Submitted by Bill Norvell 65 <w.norvell@att.net> on 18/Nov/2015
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 Michael
Curtis Gross "Grossie" - Graphic designer (b.1945) died on November 16. Gross is best known for his design of the logo for Ghostbusters. He also designed the National Lampoon cover which featured the caption “If You Don’t Buy This Magazine, We’ll Kill This Dog.” Gross also produced both Ghostbusters films as well as Heavy Metal. He received Emmy nominations for his work on SCTV Network, Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas, and The Real Ghostbusters.
Michael Gross "Grossie" was raised in Newburgh, N.Y. attended
N.F.A. and majored in fine art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. His career
has taken him from New York to Los Angeles, London, Montreal, Mexico, Italy, and
currently North San Diego County. Award winning print art director, editor,
illustrator, photographer, major film producer, director, museum curator,
painter and on a good day, an OK fella. He was a senior designer for the 1968
Olympics held in Mexico City. He art directed such diverse publications as
Esquire, EYE magazine, Family Health, NY Scenes, and National Lampoon. As a
partner in the graphic design firm, Pellegrini Kaestle and Gross his clients
included Merrill Lynch, The Muppets, Simon and Schuster, Random House, Columbia
Records, ABC television, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and The Smithsonian in
Washington, DC. He was also Design Director for Mobil Oil Corp. while in New
York. After moving to Los Angeles in 1980, he produced films and television. His
feature film producing credits include Heavy Metal (art director and associate
producer), Ghostbusters (assoc. prod.), Ghostbusters II, Twins, Beethoven,
Beethoven's Second, Legal Eagles, Kindergarten Cop, and Dave, (all as producer
or executive producer, as well as second unit director in many cases). His
television credits as a producer include The Real Ghostbusters (ABC), Beethoven
(CBS), and the prime time pilot, The First Gentleman (CBS). He also designed
much of the advertising for those projects and designed the famous “no ghost”
logo for Ghostbusters. Michael has sat on the board of Pratt Institute, taught
at The School of Visual Arts NY, and lectured at dozens of universities and
professional organizations. He is currently living and working in Oceanside, Ca.
where he has been with the exhibition department and curating for the Oceanside
Museum of Art (OMA).
 
His awards range from National Magazine Award from Columbia University to the
Peoples Choice award. He has been nominated for Four Emmys (SCTV, The Real
Ghostbusters, and other animated specials). He has one Golden Globe nomination
and over 125 design awards throughout the world for his art direction. One of
his Mexican Olympics posters is in a collection at MOMA, NY.as well as The
Olympics Museum in Zurich. He has a politcal cartoon in The Smithsonian and a
painting exhibited at The San Diego Museum of Natural History.
 
Glenis Sonia (Wootton) Gross,
beloved wife of 40 years passed away on Nov.22nd 2006.
She is SO loved and missed.
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