David "Dave" Blass is an American

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and

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Work

For his work on the '' Justified'' television series Blass was nominated for the 2012 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series for the '' Justified'' television series, and also received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) for ''Justified'' in 2014 and again in 2015 for the ''

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'' television series. In 2015 he was also nominated for the Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a One Hour Contemporary Television Series for ''Justified'', He has twice been published with cover stories in ''Perspective Magazine'', with a Oct/Nov 2009 article on his pre-visualization of the final shot for the '' ER'' television series, and February/March 2012 featuring an article on his production design of the ''Justified'' series. For his work accurately portraying the State of Kentucky on the Television program ''Justified'' he was awarded the honor of "

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in 2011 by Governor Steven Beshear. He is a member of the

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and the

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Personal life

Blass grew up in

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and graduated from the Ashland High School, where he wrote and directed his first film, ''A SADD Story'', for "Students Against Drunk Driving" – which won a ''

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'' contest. He also played

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and

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while at Ashland High. His film achievement in high school led to him receiving a scholarship to attend the

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, where he

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in film production. He then moved to

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and began working in the film and television industry – initially working under

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. He is married to Michelle Blass (Usling).

Filmography

Production design and art direction for television series

Production design for films includes

Writer/director credits

Director for music videos

* ''Teutonic Terror'' and ''Pandemic'' & Producer ''Stampede'' (for the German heavy metal band

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)

Executive producer for television series

References

External links

''Architectural Digest'': "Go Behind the Scenes of Pitch- Production designer Dave Blass gives AD a tour of the new Fox series"

''Architectural Digest'': "Secrets and Lies Season Two Has a New Case and New Sets"

''Perspective Magazine'' July-Aug 2020

''Perspective Magazine'' July–August 2017

''Variety Magazine'': Dave Blass on Mark Worthington

''Variety Magazine'': Dave Blass on Derek Hill

''Variety Magazine'': Dave Blass on Ray Yamagata

Set Decorators Society of America: ''Justified''

Red Giant Software: "Rocking out with Toonit and Accept"

Blabbermouth: "Behind the Scenes with Accept's Pandemic"

AMC's "The Phantom Eye" Review

World Building Institute Member
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Dave Blass official website
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