Kindly hover over images for additional thoughts and important acknowledgments in the creative process.
Unless otherwise noted, I designed the key art, title treatments, and art directed these featured campaigns. (Note: Zharia Shinn is the terrific illustrator for Louis Armstrong and Mountain/Sea.) Also, all the these campaigns were chosen and actually used except for those images in the “creative development” category at the bottom of the page.
Someone spectacular (AGENCY: The Pekoe Group)
ECD Chris Lueck — Art Direction/Design Christina D'Angelo —Agency: The Pekoe Group
Golden Shield (MTC/ AGENCY: SERINO COYNE)
ECD: Jay Cooper — Photography: Ashton Worthington — Art Direction: Christina D’Angelo
The brief: It’s about two sisters (one is a lawyer and the other a translator) and it’s based on a real court case that travels from Texas to China. It’s about censorship and what gets lost in translation (on multiple levels).
Favorite part? The QR code I made (which felt like a Chinese chop with an all-knowing eye in the center: a reference to Chinese surveillance mentioned in the play) that was used throughout the campaign. I also loved tweaking that Helvetica-based title treatment so it had just a wee calligraphic feel to it.
ECD: Jay Cooper — ART DIRECTOR: Christina D’Angelo
A WONDERFUL WORLD, THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG MUSICAL (AGENCY: THE PEKOE GROUP)
Below is a shot of me and Zharia Shinn (the terrific collage artist who created Louis!) on the day we saw our poster come to life. To learn more about the process, check out our interviews at Broadway News. (for the record, the gold version of the title treatment was not used.)
Creative Director: Chris Lueck — Illustrator/Collage Artist :Zharia Shinn — Title Treatment/Art Direction Christina D'Angelo —Agency: The Pekoe Group
client: mx justin vivian bond at Joe’s Pub
Rock & Roll Man the musical (agency: SERINO COYNE)
ECD: Jay Cooper — ART DIRECTOR: Christina D’Angelo — PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Taylor Crews
ECD: Jay Cooper — ART DIRECTOR: Christina D’Angelo — PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Taylor Crews
A doll’s house — The glass menagerie — The Al-Hamlet Summit — WOMAN AND SCARECROW — THE LANDLADY —— The New Electric Ballroom — BURKE & HARE — Endgame — THE WALWORTH FARCE — (client: Danú THEATRE Dubai)
Click to see the full-size posters
Where the mountain meets the sea (MTC/agency: SERINO COYNE)
ECD: Jay Cooper ILLUSTRATOR : Zharia Shinn ART DIRECTOR/TITLE TREATMENT: Christina D’Angelo
This is a vibrant play with original music about a father and son and their separate/overlapping journeys. The best part? Hands down, art directing the terrific collage artist, Zharia Shinn, was the best part — easy and fun to work with and the results exceeded our expectations! To see a quick video of Zharia’s process click this link.
ECD: Jay Cooper ILLUSTRATOR : Zharia Shinn ART DIRECTOR: Christina D’Angelo
THE JO-LYNN BUTTERFLY COUNTRY HOUR OF SUNSHINE (Angela Di Carlo)—SONG & SASS (CLIENT: Angela Di Carlo)
Hand-drawn fun little tittle treatment because if you make something pretty on Procreate while watching Real Housewives you won't feel like a total looser.
King James (MTC/agency: serino coyne)
ECD: Jay Cooper — Art Director: Christina D’Angelo
Who says you have to know basketball to design a “logo” for a basketball play? Armand the taxidermied armadillo is an important reference in the play and the client used it in the beginning (he lived briefly!) and later we went with my second design to lock in all the billing.
ECD: Jay Cooper — Art Director: Christina D’Angelo
The Phillie Trilogy (doug devita) — FOUR OLD BROADS ON THE HIGH SEAS (LESLIE KIMBELL)
the mini moth ( KAREN GORMAN FOR MINI MOTH)
ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER CABARET (ANGELA DI CARLO)
ART DIRECTION AND/OR TITLE TREATMENTS ( agency: SERINO COYNE)
The below images are from campaigns I either designed the initial title treatments for (Some Like It Hot, Prayer for the French Republic, etc.) or art directed through to production with pre-existing artwork (The Little Prince, Cost of Living, etc.) that I may (in some cases) have zhuzhed up a wee bit. (Also, if you haven’t seen Some Like It Hot, check out this link)
creative developement
What in God’s name does that mean? Relax, I’ll tell you. These are all either unused concepts (or comps as we call ‘em), or in some cases, comps that lead us further down a path to more refined key art (like my initial title treatment exploration for Louis Armstrong was full-blown neon) Note: to see the images in full, please click. And another note: these are all rough works-in-progress comps. One more note and I swear I’m done: I inserted an actual photo of me and President Jacques Chirac in a comp here, and so help me God, don’t think I won’t do it again because I will.
