This is definitely one of my more peculiar constructions. It’s not a color palette that I would have initiated but with enough finessing I grew to love it like one of my own. Original wallpaper design with gold gun/robot motif and vintage enamel picture frame. ROBOTS!
Poster (11×17):
This lengthy-named production of a modern play was inspired by an actual event from 17th century England. There was live-action acting, puppetry, and video projections. I combined an 19th century engraving of a rabbit with close crops of photographs of English Victorian paper dioramas that I shot on a vacation at a London toy museum and layered them atop some video scan-line textures for that certain je ne sais quoi.
Poster (11×17):
House Pizzeria is a fantastic independent restaurant that my good friends Scott and Sarah opened in the spring of 2009. It was in 2008 when they were still early in the planning stages and they asked me to design their logo. We went through a few rounds and came up with some good ones and some…crazy ones. For this final candidate we created a simple one-color version like you can see on the pint glass below and a more rich multi-color version that is used in places like on their website, signage, and t-shirts.
Go there and eat the logo.
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This play incorporated a lot of video projections and rave/club-style lighting which I wanted to express in the visuals. The type and SVT logo was composed in Illustrator and exported as individual images. There are overlapping color swirls (long exposure photos of xmas lights) that were also exported as images. These were assembled on a DVD slideshow which was played on my CRT television. Each image was paused for a macro photograph to get all that scan-liney, bitmapped goodness. The resulting photos were then layered in Photoshop with just a bit of opacity and color adjustments. And that’s my secret sauce for creating a high-resolution low-resolution image. You’re welcome!
Poster (11×17); Postcard (5.5×8.5):
This performance was a series of improv monologues inspired by professional football. Now, I don’t know much about football but one thing I do know is that I like the look of my own handwriting. My other favorite element on this project was creating the little logo in the bottom-right corner for the fictional Professional Football League (the PFL!). And I was extremely fortunate to have received the assistance of Mr. Saville in creating that mean looking logo for the Omaha Oxen (also fictional, by the way). Grrrr.
The rejected design (on the right) is included here because it’s cool and I’m really fond of it. So there.
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I felt like I was really on a roll from Hamilton Township to Mud, to this one and right up through to the (ahem) rejected Unbeaten deisgn. They have rich texture, original photography (except for the couch–that’s stock), expressive typography (or hand lettering) and accurately represent SVT. I am really proud of this series of posters.
I’ve always loved the little line-drawings in dictionaries. For Mud I did my take on one of those illustrations. The background photo is actual mud from my very own backyard. This design also features some of my famous handwriting and letter drawing.
Poster (11×17):
Poster (11×17):
Every holiday season Jason Neulander would come up with a word and his arsenal of performers would come up with 5-minute plays based on that word. This particular year’s word was “fire”. I think this was one of my favorite holiday designs.
