Robert Gould (born ?1950s; USA)
For over 30 years, Imaginosis President Robert Gould has been involved with the development, creation, and production of art and story for all media. In 1974, Robert received a Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art, majoring in Art Education with a minor in Literature and Film. During his time at college, he and three other artists published "New Legends", the first commercially successful underground comic book published in Boston.

After receiving his degree, he continued the work in the comic book field, supplying work to Marvel Comics and numerous other comic publications. Seeking to explore the possibilities of combining picture and word in visual narrative, Robert and writer Eric Kimball formed the company, Two Man Horse. Together they created and published numerous works inspired by their love of Pre-Raphaelite art and philosophy. Two Man Horse was commissioned by StarReach Publications to create an original comic book story based on Michael Moorcock's widely popular Elric of Melnibone book series. "The Prisoner of Pan Tang" won numerous awards and firmly established Robert as the pre-eminent illustrator for Michael Moorcock's tragic hero.

In 1978, Robert began his career as a book cover designer and illustrator by designing the covers for the six book Elric of Melnibone saga, his sensitive watercolors and dramatic graphic design contrasting sharply with the style of fantasy illustration at the time and proved wildly popular. He continued to re-design Moorcock's entire fantasy publishing line of over 50 books, developing a distinct but interrelated style for each series. His work garnered him many awards, including the World Fantasy Award for Best Artist in 1991 and spawned a new style of fantasy illustration both in the US and Europe.

For over fifteen years, Robert continued his career as a book designer and illustrator for publishers in the US and Europe, completing well over 180 cover designs. He specialized in book series and exercised complete control over all design, illustration and typographic aspects of his projects. Robert created an individual, cohesive identity – a "theme" - for each series and worked closely with the authors and editors to maximize the impact of combining image and word.

At this time, Robert and fellow artists Eric Kimball, Barry Windsor-Smith and Jeffrey Jones formed the New Romantic Brotherhood. They promoted and published works based on an art philosophy they called New Romanticism: a blending of their common devotion to medieval and late nineteenth century Pre-Raphaelite and symbolist Art and philosophy expressed in their distinctly modern sensibilities.

Seeking to further push the boundaries of quality in image reproduction, Robert founded Cygnus in 1981 with partner Marc Halperin to support and publish works by contemporary fantasy artists that were of a fine art nature. Using archival materials and highly precise duotone reproduction methods, Cygnus produced "The Drawing Collection", a series of four boxed reproductions of pencil drawings by Gould, Barry Windsor-Smith, Jeffery Jones and Alan Lee. "The Drawing Collection" and the art prints that followed set a new standard for fantasy art reproduction. For it's innovative work in printing and fantasy publishing, Cygnus received many awards in the printing and fantasy fields and set the recognized standard for quality art reproduction in the fantasy genre.

In the late 1980s, Robert moved from Boston to Los Angeles and began spending more time in Devon, England with fellow artists Alan Lee and Brian Froud. Having always had a strong interest in the visual narrative aspects of film, Robert left the field of book design in 1991 to explore the possibilities of bringing fantasy and mythic fiction to the screen.

Robert served as Vice President of the Los Angeles based film production company, The Lynda Guber Organization (LGO), for six years. During his tenure under a production deal at Sony Pictures Entertainment, he was responsible for all administrative and development functions of the company, including selecting and attaching properties, writers and directors.

Robert's intimate experience with the studio development process challenged him to create a property development model that better served both the artist and the production company. Having worked with internationally recognized faery artist Brian Froud and contributed to the creation of Brian's international best seller, LADY COTTINGTON'S PRESSED FAIRY BOOK, Robert saw the exceptional cross media potential of the artist's work. He created an innovative business plan and subsequent agreement for LGO to exclusively represent Brian for three years in his publishing, licensing and entertainment concerns. To handle all publishing and licensing agreements, Robert attached The Beanstalk Group, the premiere independent licensing company in the US, with whom he had worked on DINOTOPIA.

In 1999 Robert formed Imaginosis, a media arts company that works with visual artists and writers to collaboratively create and strategically develop entertainment intellectual properties that have broad, transmedia applications while maintaining the integrity, quality, depth of imagination, vision, philosophy, locale, characters and paraphernalia unique to the property and the creator's original vision. In 2005, Robert formed Imaginosis Publishing, a division of Imaginosis.