Make Me Tremble is the commercial-commission moniker/arm of NYC-based artist Michael Hambouz's creative sleeve. Hambouz's award-winning illustration and design work is noted for tactile precision, thoughtfully informed composition, and fearlessness with material use and challenges—utilizing approaches that he is known best for in his fine-art practice.
Past clients include ArteEast, CBS, CUNY Central, Greenpoint Beer and Ale, Lifta Club, Matador Records, MacMillan/Flatiron Books, NBC Universal, a Rebel Life with Jen Esposito, Secret Projects, Showtime Networks, What Remains Books
F.O.D. Annual Collaborative Artist Memorial Drawing Project, 1997- 2025
P.4.P. Initiatives
Commissioned hand-painted canvas backdrops for Matador Records’ Press Release for Lucy Dacus’ 2021 album Home Video, photographed at Brooklyn Grain studio.Photographer: Ebru Yildiz
Light: Mike O’Shea
Make-up: Nana Hiramatsu
Hair: Akira Yamada
Hip Hop 50 | Showtime + Mass Appeal, 2021
Animation outtake featuring commissioned ink illustrations referencing the past 50 years of hip hop for 2021 Showtime + Mass Appeal collab series Hip Hop 50Shit & Champagne theatrical release poster, 2020
Commissioned hand-painted promotional poster for 2020 feature film release of Shit & Champagne, featuring the original cast members from two sold out runs of the stage production and Alaska 5000, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 2. (Art direction by Beff Leppard)Kidding Season 1, Showtime, 2018
Commissioned hand-drawn ink-on-paper promo concept outtakes for Showtime’s Kidding season 1, produced by Michel Gondry and starring Jim CarreyMark Frost’s The Secret History of Twin Peaks | Macmillan/Flatiron Books, 2016
I teamed up with Macmillan/Flatiron Books to create an alternate-cut-paper-Twin Peaks world to help promote the release of Twin Peaks' co-creator Mark Frost's incredible new book, The Secret History of Twin Peaks. 3 commercial variations were shot on location with a film crew in my studio in Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY in one afternoon.
Artist Series: Michael Hambouz- Logical Conclusion Pale Ale, Greenpoint Beer & Ale Co., 2016
I was honored to be invited by my longtime neighborhood of Greenpoint Brooklyn’s local brewer Greenpoint Beer & Ale to design a can for a new beer—Logical Conclusion Pale Ale. I think both the can and the beer turned out great!
Episodes Season 4, Showtime, 2014
Commissioned hand-drawn ink-on-paper animation cells for promotional ad campaign for Season 4 of Showtime's EpisodesDexter Season 8, Showtime, 2013
Commissioned hand-painted (painted with an eye-dropper, hovering approximately 24" above the canvas) promotional ad campaign for final season of Showtime's Dexter, 2013. Winner of 2 Gold and 1 Silver BDA awards. Episodes Season 3, Showtime, 2013
Commissioned hand-drawn ink-on-paper animation cells for promotional ad campaign for Season 3 of Showtime's EpisodesOliver Stone's Untold History of the United States, Showtime, 2012
Commissioned hand-painted promotional ad campaign titling sequences for Showtime's Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States. Winner of Silver BDA Award.WHAT REMAINS BOOKS | LOGO
KIDDING - SHOWTIME | ILLUSTRATIONS
SHIT & CHAMPAGNE | ILLUSTRATED DRAGSPLOITATION FILM RELEASE POSTERist
BELUSHI - SHOWTIME | ILLUSTRATIONS
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