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Thought Nozzle principal Bob West has been providing creative services to the advertising, television and film production industries, and to independent businesses and professionals since just after the earth’s crust cooled.

Earning a Bachelor’s in Art, Bob graduated with honors from Trinity University in San Antonio. His first gig (not counting the singing telegram work) was serving as art director and camera operator for a commercial production company. Simultaneously launching a parallel career in voice over, Bob became the go-to guy in the market for sharp comedy dialog and chameleon-like character work. Adding experience in copy writing and producing/direction for radio and television commercial production, Bob rounded out his repertoire with a stint in community relations, and continued his work in freelance creative direction, graphic design, and copy writing.

In 1995, Bob began providing web design services, building sites for clients in a variety of industries, including film and entertainment professionals and artists.

Over the last 15 years, Bob has increased his work in web design, and in graphic design for feature film and network television. Feature film clients include Jurassic Park III for Universal, Desperate Measures starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser; The Proposal for Touchstone/Disney, with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds; cult hit Black Dynamite for Sony Pictures; Fox’s Down With Love; MGM’s Be Cool, the sequel to Get Shorty, Paramount’s The Italian Job, and Jon Favreau’s critically-acclaimed audience favorite, Chef.

Television work includes production graphics for shows including Castle, Lie to Me, Chuck, Brothers & Sisters, 90210, Angel, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, and many others. Bob completed a stint on The Muppets, for which Production Designer Denise Pizzini and the Art Department team won the Art Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Production Design; and on the series Single Parents and the ground-breaking hit comedy Speechless. Most recently, Bob contributed graphics to The Rookie; Swimming with Sharks; and the new series, The Muppets Mayhem.

By popular demand, Bob’s particular creative skills have increasingly been put to work in company, product and service naming, in branding and positioning strategies, and in social media marketing. At the same time, infographic-style collateral design and book cover design have become a growing segment of the Thought Nozzle creative bailiwick.

Honors and accomplishments include acceptance to The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; a number of voice over awards; being asked by Congress to testify on the issue of email spam and the unauthorized sharing of personal information; selection for archiving by the Library of Congress of a self-produced, 9-11-related website; and setting an unofficial world altitude record for bungy jumping from a helicopter.

For evidence of Thought Nozzle’s latest capers, take a look at the Portfolio page, link over to Bob’s page on IMDb, or scroll down for Bob’s résumé.