Continuing to work freelance for the next five years, he completed projects for a wide variety of clients, including Columbia Records.

Brownjohn's effusive personality and fondness for jazz music allowed his friendships with Parker and Miles Davis, among others, to blossom as he became a part of the bohemian social scene in the city.

In addition to designing the company magazine, it also created the widely hailed Christmas decorations for Pepsi's New York headquarters.

As one of the most fêted and socially connected designers from New York, Brownjohn fitted into the Swinging London scene effortlessly.

He initially worked at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency before leaving the firm to join McCann Erickson in 1962.

[4] Harry Saltzman asked Brownjohn to design the title sequence for the second James Bond film, From Russia with Love.

[5] Robert Brownjohn's work on two James Bond title sequences, From Russia with Love and Goldfinger, is probably his most widely known achievement.

The use of wit and risqué humour, for example the deliberate lining up of a projected shot of a golf putt so that the ball appears to roll down gold painted model Margaret Nolan's cleavage, are also classic Brownjohn devices.

Brownjohn also designed the British posters for the film featuring Sean Connery and Honor Blackman over a gold painted Margaret Nolan.

His final piece of graphic design was a poster for the New York Peace Campaign in 1969: an ace of spades playing card is laid on a plain white background with the letters "PE" hastily scribbled to the left of it and a question mark to the right.