JOHN DECUIR JR.

  Production Designer

John DeCuir, Jr. has designed feature films, projects for television and themed attractions in Italy, Spain, France, England, Ireland, Japan, Canada, and throughout the United States. He has worked extensively throughout the themed attraction and exhibition industries. In 1974, John was asked by Disney to take up Master-planning work on World Showcase-EPCOT, specifically on the key attraction Space Ship Earth. Completing this assignment he returned to film art direction where he was art director on the film “Ghostbusters.” He became a film Production Designer in 1985 designing such films as “Top Gun” and “Sister Act II.” Intermingled with his film design efforts John continued to assist Disney in their film-attraction needs which included “Jim Henson’s 3-D Muppet Movie,” “Alien Encounter” & “Epcot’s Energy Pavilion.”

In the 90’s John’s master planning and architectural skills were called back into play by the Mitsubishi organization who commissioned him to head up a six million dollar conceptual development program to design a themed water park for implementation
in Japan. Another significant commission came from Sprint who asked him to provide interior design concepts for a leading edge communication center. John is currently a senior lecturer in film design at the American Film Institute. He is completing his book on the “Art of Film Design” and working on the design of a traveling exhibition, “The Architecture Of Illusion.” He has lectured in the UCLA Performing Arts Program, contributed to the Art Director’s Guild as board member and chair of the education committee. His film festival work includes; La Rochelle, Long Beach Wide Screen, Copenhagen, and Santa Barbara film festivals. John received his Bachelor of Architecture degree, cum laude, at the University of Southern California and completed two years of graduate work at the Institute of Building Research & Technology, also at the University of Southern California.