David Mamet’s Oleanna Poster for Black Bird Theater

Blackbird commissioned me to produce the marquee poster for their upcoming show of David Mamet’s Oleanna. Inspired by poster designs of the 1960s, specifically Saul Bass, the central theme of the show is the power struggle and miscommunication between men and women. The apple core speaks to the educational setting that the play takes place within, the yelling male and female faces show the power struggle, and the caption spells it out -The Original Power Play.

Read an an article on the upcoming show.

David Mamet’s Oleanna poster for Black Bird Theater

Mozart in Music City

I am designed the logo for a campaign celebrating the arts in Nashville called “Mozart in Music City“. This is a partnership between BlackBird Theater, Nashville Symphony, Nashville Opera, and Lipscomb University.

The logo is based on varying handwriting of Amadeus Mozart on a music scale. See if you can spot the guitar which is usually mandatory when you use the term Music City.

MOZART IN MUSIC CITY

World Outreach Church Kid’s Choir Christmas

This year was a blast! My wife and I had the great opportunity to use our individual talents together again this year. I as theater director and stage background artist and her as dance choreographer. The show we produced with the World Outreach Children’s ministry was “The Secret of Snowflake County”. The entire production used both theater, song, dance, acting and choreography with 300+ children.

Here is a sampling of the backgrounds we projected on a giant theater screen the church had already in place for it’s New Years Series.

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Minecraft Vector HUD elements and Diamond!

I recreated the Minecraft HUD (heads up display) and diamond icon. I have made them available in high resolution vector versions in PDF format! If you do use them please post a comment here and share what you did

• Vector Minecraft HUD PDF
• Vector Minecraft Heart in PDF
• Vector Minecraft Food in PDF
• Vector Minecraft Diamond in PDF

Minecraft vector HUD

Minecraft vector diamond

Minecraft vector food

Minecraft vector heart

Minecraft vector HUD

Simultaneous Chess Exhibition

There has been a lot of charity activity going on at work, which of course is a good thing. The next one up is a simultaneous chess match. A renowned chess champion, CHALLENGES all HCA Nashville-based employees in a SIMULTANEOUS chess exhibition versus 100 people. Pretty cool concept, and so the poster was born. I designed it as a companion piece to the golf poster collateral I did recently.

Simultaneous Chess Match Poster 1 vs. 100

Minecraft Vector Blocks and Creeper

I recreated a few of the blocks from Minecraft and the creeper. If you want them come and get them in these high resolution vector versions in easy to use PDF formats! I just ask if you do use them to post a comment here and let me know what you used them for

• Vector Minecraft Blocks in PDF
• Vector Creeper in PDF

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The Shaft 100th Podcast Episode about Minecraft

The guys at the top Minecraft podcast – The Shaft – will be releasing a 100th episode. The episode is complete with an interview with Minecraft creator Markus Persson aka Notch.

Here is the poster I illustrated to help celebrate the show. I recreated the Minecraft blocks as vector high resolution quality, the Minecraft HUD into vector, and of course the characters.

Poster fot “The Shaft ” 100th Podcast about Minecraft

Oleanna by David Mamet Teaser Poster

I was contacted by Wes and Greg at the BlackBird Theater company to do a teaser illustration for a 2 person show they will be adding to their 2013 season. It will be Oleanna by David Mamet – whuch opens Jun 6 at Lipscomb University here in Nashville.

The idea was to portray the complex themes in Oleanna written lightly on a blackboard. The title is scratched across after the middle area was suddenly wiped away, to show the intensity of the writing of Mamet. It promises to be a very interesting show.

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HCA IT&S All Hands 2012

This year’s theme was 1964 kitschy world’s fair. This was also the first All Hands for our new CIO, Marty Paslick. We transformed the Belmont arena into a trade show floor with bistro seating, tall bannered booths, a chalk board walk of history, a large flagged grand entrance, 1964 era training video, stylized stage design, and even featured local coffee brewers tastes of Nashville. The video from the event can be seen here on YouTube.

Creative director and vendor consultant for stage production, internal designers, sign vendor, and stage layout designer

Co-produced the event for 1500+ field and corporate employees through presentations, collateral, webcast, and video.

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IT&S All Hands Meeting 2012 Pre-Show

We did so many pieces of collateral for the 2012 All Hands Meeting for HCA IT&S. The theme was 1960′s worlds fair and the kitschy style that goes along with it. This is one of the many I did, the pre-show presentation. Enjoy!

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Golf Outing Poster

This is a teaser poster and other collateral I did for our company’s golf outing. The idea is to maximize the impact the imagery can have on an already busy and crowded cork board. Hopefully the simplicity and clear imagery will be more readable. The idea is to use typography and simple imagery. I had fun experimenting with the font typefaces and mezzotint coloring solution.

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Chalkboard Retro Art

For our company’s All Hands meeting we are doing retro 1960′s world’s fair theme. Part of the design projects for the venue are  6 large chalkboard WALLS of PROGRESS celebrating the history of technology. These will stand 8 feet tall and are being illustrated in actual chalk. This is the one  of the series I did.

All Hands Retro Chalkboard of History