If you don’t hear “wow” y’ain’t done.

Art director, graphic designer, and writer with a drive for smithing big ideas from concept to execution.

I've designed collateral across all forms of media internationally — tiny gigs to corporate — from marquees in Dubai and on Broadway ( former in-house senior designer/art director at Serino Coyne, freelance art director at AKA,NYC, current in-house art director The Pekoe Group), restaurant identities in Paris and the Hamptons, and currency exchanges in Panama (TravelEx).

I’ve written for Jezebel, Sant Ambroeus, TheaterMania, Show Business Weekly, Talkin’ Broadway, and more. (I was also recently interviewed, along with Zharia Shinn, for Broadway News about the key art and title treatment for A Wonderful World, The Louis Armstrong Musical )

I live in New York with my husband and our beloved son Jimmy Carter (a grey tabby) and his worthless sister, Brenda, (a Fiddle-Leaf Fig “tree”) who’s totally comin’ for me.

Are you a glutton for punishment? Please “enjoy” my cameo on the amazing podcast: Cocktails at Table 7.

FAVORITE THINGS

ART MUSEUMS and HISTORICAL HOUSE MUSEUMS; all kinds of FILM: (Bergman, Kiarostami, Truffaut, Tati, De Sica, Almodovar, Yimou, Waters Linklater — also, I have a mild obsession with Schepisi’s Plenty); THEATER: Ibsen, Sondheim, Williams, McDonagh, Walsh, laChiusa, J. Robert Brown); TRAVEL: 50+ countries. (Favorites: France, India, Netherlands, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Lebanon, Turkey, Uzbekistan); NEWS RAGS: (Fast Company magazine, The New York Times, and there’s nothing better than The Financial Times on a Saturday with a bacon, egg, and cheese sammie ); also obsessed with Mallomars and fiery larb (Thai Market and Land Thai).

*Unless otherwise noted, the work I’ve chosen to showcase in this portfolio are mainly my concepts or the result of very hands-on collaborations. (hover over the image to see credits)

Contact: christinasworld at gmail.com — or Christina at thepekoegroup.com — or just click the icons below