Concert Poster/3-Sheet at Lincoln Center

Client: DCINY (Distinguished Concert Artists International New York)

Project: Concert Poster / template design

Earlier this year I was commissioned by DCINY to design a poster template which could be adapted for various performances, yet present a consistent identity for their entire concert season. The design appears in the display cases at Lincoln Center announcing a concert of Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and songs of Franck and Holst.

3-Sheet poster design displayed outside Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

"DAS BARBECÜ" Theatrical Logo and Ad

Client: Musical Theatre Guild

Project: Theatrical logo / cover illustration / quarter page ad

On June 14, the Musical Theatre Guild will present "DAS BARBECÜ," in partnership with LA Opera's Ring Festival LA at the Alex Theatre in Glendale. Inspired by Wagner's epic Ring Cycle, this off-Broadway hit sets the gods' twilight in present day Texas to a rollicking Country & Western score.

Below: the cover art and quarter-page ad (Footlights magazine) that I designed for MTG's "DAS BARBECÜ."

Musical Theatre Guild presents
DAS BARBECÜ
Book and lyrics by Jim Luigs
Music by Scott Warrender
Starring:
Stuart Ambrose, Melissa Fahn, Gordon Goodman, Pamela Hamill and Shauna Markey.

Monday, June 14 @ 7:30 PM

Alex Theatre
216 North Brand Boulevard
Glendale, CA 91203
Email: events@alextheatre.org
Phone: 818-243-ALEX (2539)


Tickets $30/$40, available at alextheatre.org.

"Airhead," an intimate evening of song with Hila Plitmann

Client: Hila Plitmann, "Airhead" at the Boston Court Theatre, Pasadena, CA

Project: Logo Design/Program Cover

Grammy Award-winning soprano Hila Plitmann presents "Airhead," an intimate evening of song. Ms. Plitmann's winning spirit and soaring voice are showcased in this existential mix of songs exploring naivete, skepticism, victimhood and lost youth.

Big City Broadway: Postcard

Client: Big City Broadway

Project: Postcard Flyer design

Clients Gina Deluca and Eric Kunze of Big City Broadway productions recently asked me to design a 5" x 7" template/card to announce their various workshops and events. One side features the logo I created for them in 2008—a noirish depiction of Times Square inspired by mid-century travel posters—the other, a template/frame in a sunnier palate to the promote their upcoming summer workshops.

LA Theatre Actors and Others for Animals

Client: Actors and Others for Animals

Project: Special Event Logo adaptation

When Los Angeles-based actor Scott Dreier isn't acting, singing, directing or producing, he devotes time to Actors and Others for Animals, a non-profit organization dedicated to the humane treatment of animals. For almost 40 years, actors and celebrities have donated their efforts to this group in service of animal welfare in the greater Los Angeles area, including Doris Day, current president JoAnne Worley and board members Betty White and Loretta Switt.

When Scott asked me about donating my skills and adapting the organization's logo for a special event "LA Theatre Actors and Others for Animals" in May 2011, he wasn't sure if I was "an animal person"--little did he know our dog Clio was adopted through Actors and Others ten years ago and we're indebted to the organization for our beloved family member.

Here's the original logo for the organization:

And here's my adaptation for the May 2011 special event.

Poster: Musical Theatre Guild 15th Anniversary Season

Client: Musical Theatre Guild

Project: Logo and poster design

The proofs have been approved and the presses are rolling. Non-Stop Printing in Hollywood is currently processing the posters and brochures for Musical Theatre Guild's 2010-2011 Season, featuring my logo designs for: 70, GIRLS, 70, HELLO AGAIN, ONE TOUCH OF VENUS, LITTLE ME, and BAT BOY THE MUSICAL. Visit the Pixotic Arts portfolio to see each logo.

ONE TOUCH OF VENUS: Theatrical Logo

Client: Musical Theatre Guild

Project: Logo design

Here's another in the series of logos I'm creating for the Musical Theatre Guild's 15th season: ONE TOUCH OF VENUS. Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash and S.J. Perelman's 1943 adaptation of Thomas Anstey Guthrie's novella "The Tinted Venus", in which a statue of the Goddess of Love is brought to life and must choose between her divinity and a mortal, suburban existence. 

Mary Martin originally starred as Venus and a 1948 film version starred Ava Gardner. My design was inspired by a production still of Gardner posing beside her effigy.