It pains us to see New Jersey lose one of the few teams that bears its name to New York. (As if the Giants and Jets who actually make their home in New Jersey and are called New York’s isn’t enough.) But what pains us even more, here at desantis creative, is to see the branding of our former team put in the hands of a hip-hop artist and not a designer. While we can… Read more »
1/1: ONE OF ONE
CategoriesIn This House Show Artwork
“Musical, love and relationships, personal, ephemeral, spiritual, warm, disconnection, loneliness, poignant. In this musical, a young couple dealing with their very different hopes and dreams and visions for the future, crash their car into the wall surrounding an old farm house. There they meet a couple who’ve been married for over 50 years, and have some skeletons of their own, which are revealed through conversations between the two couples.” This is what we had to work with in order… Read more »
Design in the News: Controversial Cigarette Labels
Have you heard about the controversy erupting over the new warning labels that the government has mandated for cigarette packs? According to an article on Time.com, a federal law took effect in 2009 that mandated a new and graphic warning label be placed on all cigarette packs. These labels would cover 50% of both the front and back of the cigarette carton. Tobacco companies are also banned from using branded merchandise, sponsoring social events, or… Read more »
UPDATE: Promotional Calendar Scores ANOTHER ADDY!
UPDATE 3/28/12: We were just notified that out calendar won ANOTHER GOLD ADDY and will be moving on to the NATIONAL LEVEL! 2/27/12: We’re excited to announce that our 12 Things to Do Before the World Ends Calendar has won a GOLD ADDY from the Canton Ad Federation. As we brainstormed for a Holiday self-promotional, we recalled that according to the Mayan calendar, we’ll be toast come December 21, 2012. So we began compiling a… Read more »
Jitney Show Artwork
This month, the Two River Theater is featuring August Wilson’s Jitney. We thought it would be fun to share how we arrived at the artwork you see around town. We started with the title treatment which was featured by itself in the season announcement brochure released last fall. We did some type explorations which played up the timeframe in which the play takes place: 1977. Then we came up with the idea of using a… Read more »
Field Station: Dinosaurs – Branding
For Field Station: Dinosaurs, we had the unique opportunity to brand a new theme park to open this summer featuring full scale animatronic dinosaurs. The client had a specific idea in mind, in which these dinosaurs were found at the site, and a fleet of scientists descended on the area and set up a camp. Following that approach, the whole look and feel for the park and for the park’s materials would be a little… Read more »