- Philip A. Hoffman began his career designing product shots for consumer print advertising and soon began working on commercials and music videos. Some of his more notable works include spots for Pepsi and Budweiser and Madonna's Vogue video as well as spots for Scooby Doo character toys, kid's clothes and home fashions. He designed greens and exteriors on the film Tremors and the ABC-TV drama Equal Justice. He has coordinated set decoration on the films The Great White Hype, Deuces Wild and The One. He designs and produces on the press junkets for major studio features, including Terminator 3, Catch Me If You Can, America's Sweetheart, Gods And Generals, The Affair Of The Necklace, Collateral Damage, The Divine Secrets Of The Yaya Sisterhood, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets and The Last Samurai. His 1998 design on the spec reel for 'Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone' began a relationship with the Warner Brothers franchise. That ongoing relationship still continues beyond the press release of the latest 'HP' installment of 'Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets' in October of 2002.
Philip earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Cal Poly University in Landscape Design and Contracting. His graduate film studies at UCLA were supplemented with production design studies at "The AFI" and three dimensional design and marketing communications at California State University at Long beach. He is an active member of the UCLA Alumni Theatre, Film & TV Assn. and The Set Decorators Society Of America. And he is a voting member of the Video Premieres Academy and an Art Advocate of the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Desert Light Productions
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