For the 2024 Emmy’s celebration at Chateau Marmont, Jimmy brought his signature line work to life across an immersive series of custom artworks. He hand-painted large-scale backdrops, bar panels, and decor with bold, gestural illustrations that set a playful, cinematic tone for the event. Guests were greeted with bespoke matchbooks and live drawing, where Jimmy sketched portraits and scenes in real time, turning the piano into a living studio. This collaboration merged fine art and hospitality, capturing the glamour and spontaneity of Hollywood’s awards season.
For Crate & Barrel’s New York flagship, Jimmy created a series of expressive black‑and‑white illustrations that transform familiar cityscapes—its bridges, boulevards, and landmark architecture—into scenes alive with movement. Rendered in his fluid, playful line work, the drawings capture the pulse of New York, distilling its energy and character into a whimsical visual narrative.
Jimmy’s Evergreen Stationery collection for Crate & Barrel distills the essence of New York City into a series of fluid, hand-drawn illustrations. With a light, gestural line, these scenes—parks in bloom, iconic bridges, bustling plazas, and beloved landmarks—capture the city’s rhythm and timeless charm, turning everyday views into artful moments meant to be kept, shared, and revisited.
For Crate & Barrel’s holiday stationery collection, Jimmy infused his lively hand-drawn style with a touch of festive color. From city stoops draped in garlands to the iconic Rockefeller Center tree, these illustrations capture the magic of the season in New York—playful, warm, and brimming with the joy of winter in the city.
Jimmy partnered with National Geographic to create a visual series capturing the spirit of the Amazon through bold, modernist illustration. Each poster distills a different facet of the rainforest—its waterways, wildlife, waterfalls, and vast geological forms—into simplified shapes and vibrant, contemporary color palettes. The series transforms one of the world’s most complex ecosystems into a sequence of striking, graphic impressions.
Working in a style reminiscent of mid-century travel posters, Thompson reduces the Amazon’s overwhelming detail into clean vector forms, layered color fields, and atmospheric abstraction. • One composition reimagines river deltas and sediment patterns as a flowing map of organic shapes. • Another frames a winding river in deep jungle shadow, punctuated by a parrot silhouette and soft pink water that glows under the canopy. • A third spotlights a monumental waterfall rendered in cool blues, its mist and cascading planes suggested through overlapping gradients. • Others portray the region’s open waterways and horizons through bold contours and minimalist geometry.
Across the series, Thompson balances narrative clarity with artistic restraint. The work isn’t a literal documentary representation; instead, it evokes the feeling of the Amazon—humid air, dense foliage, shifting light, immense geological scale. Each piece carries the unmistakable National Geographic visual identity, enhanced by Thompson’s refined sense of color, composition, and visual storytelling.
The result is a cohesive collection of modern travel-inspired posters that invite viewers into the Amazon not through realism, but through atmosphere, mood, and design.
Jimmy created this vibrant poster series for National Geographic, illustrating distinct ecological regions across the globe with his bold, modernist visual style. Each piece functions as a stylized travel poster—merging graphic clarity, saturated color palettes, and simplified natural forms to celebrate the diversity of our planet’s landscapes.
Aceh, North Sumatra In this composition, a pair of gibbons moves across a sunlit branch, framed by tall coral-toned trees and layered jungle foliage. Thompson strips the rainforest down to expressive shapes and warm pastel hues, capturing the gentle motion and intimacy of life in the canopy. The piece evokes the humid, atmospheric quiet of Sumatra’s forests while keeping the imagery playful and approachable.
Tarma, Central Peru This poster transforms the Andean highlands into a dreamlike, color-blocked landscape. A magenta mountain rises dramatically against a soft blue sky, with rolling fields and stylized vegetation radiating outward in bold stripes and geometric contours. Thompson’s use of unexpected color—pink peaks, teal shadows, apricot sun—turns the region’s rugged terrain into a vivid, contemporary scene.
Beni River, Bolivia Depicting the lush river valley leading toward a towering sandstone cliff and cascading waterfall, this illustration highlights the dramatic contrast between Bolivia’s steep rock formations and its fertile river plains. Thompson uses sweeping lines and layered greenery to guide the eye through the composition, creating a sense of depth and motion. The palette—cool blues, warm ochres, and bright mint greens—invites viewers into a serene yet powerful landscape.
Across the series, Thompson balances editorial storytelling with graphic minimalism, resulting in illustrations that feel both iconic and emotionally resonant. Each piece honors National Geographic’s legacy of exploration while presenting the natural world through a fresh, design-forward perspective.
While leading Brainbow, the creative studio he founded, Jimmy designed and directed a suite of four animated wellness videos for GOOP, created to visually anchor and promote two of the brand’s flagship editorial series: “Why Am I So Effing Tired?” and “The Mother Load.”
GOOP’s content explores burnout, emotional load, stress cycles, and the science of exhaustion—topics that require both empathy and clarity. Jimmy translated these themes into a calming, modern visual system built from gentle motion, organic illustration, and atmospheric gradients. The animations serve as emotional entry points to the editorial material, distilling complex conversations into accessible, meditative visuals.
Each of the four videos highlights a different dimension of the wellness journey: • Fatigue & Recovery — slow-expanding forms mimic depleted energy gradually refilling. • Mental Load — layered textures and drifting shapes illustrate cognitive overwhelm and easing tension. • Stress Response — subtle pulses and linework reflect the physiology of burnout. • Rebalancing Rituals — soft color shifts and flowing animations evoke grounding and restoration.
Jimmy directed the full creative process through Brainbow—from concept development and illustration to animation oversight—ensuring the entire suite shared a cohesive tone that felt both scientifically informed and emotionally supportive.
The result is a set of films that expand GOOP’s storytelling beyond text, offering viewers a visual breath: accessible, empathetic, and unmistakably crafted with Jimmy’s illustrative sensibility.
Loved working on this Artist onboarding video for WAV where my frames lead the way to creating the overall look and feel. The inherent eclectic nature of the app needed to translate visually. The result is a frenetic smorgasbord of styles.
I wrote and directed this fashion film for Loup, a women’s clothing line based in NYC. This piece was set in the Hollywood Hills, as a girl who sneaks into a house.
