(2015) I was approached to create a ticket sales banner for SME's production of "A Christmas Story: The Musical" on a short deadline. Given the size constraints, I decided to do something that was iconically "Christmas" rather than iconically "A Christmas Story." Most of the iconic elements of the movie and the plays based on it become Rorschach tests when reduced to a size of 90 pixels tall. This initial design played with the Christmas ornament.
After the first design with its Christmas ornament, I decided to focus more on the idea of a show as a "gift." I used the traditional red and green scheme, placing the title of the play on the green ribbon. Then I added in the gift tag, filling it out with the logo for Summer Musical Enterprise. This is the design selected.
After completing the banner, I was asked if I could expand the design into an appropriate poster and/or flyer for the show. Here, I expanded the size of the design to a Legal paper size, which is fairly standard for community theatre posters. With the extra space, I added in "The Musical" (ticket purchasers on the website are likely to already know that they are buying ro "A Christmas Story: The Musical") and attached the authorship credits. A large, red bow and a perpendicular ribbon completed the gift wrap theme.
The gift box design above was ultimately rejected for not featuring the iconic elements of the story that would be familiar to the audience. I was asked to produce two more designs -- one based around the "Fragile" crate in which the Major Award arrives. Note the very large blocks of text including a catalog of all of the original Broadway producers. These are all required by the licensing agreement for the show.
For the second requested poster, I used the idea of the pink bunny suit from A Christmas Story. I wanted to keep the graphic simple, so I focused on the silhouette rendered in pink with the horn-rimmed glasses overlaid. I liked this design enough that I pulled my pink bunny off of the poster and into its own file for later use as an icon.
(2015) A poster design for a children's theater production of "The Three Sisters of Neverland," an original play by Gabrielle A. Laskey. Design followed the creation of the logo for the show. This mock-up was created to test the general idea. The finished version includes time and location information for the show, as well as the logo for New River Stage.
(2014) A spec design for a proposed production of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio.
(2014) A spec design for a proposed production of Marc Camoletti's Boeing Boeing.
