Guthrie Theater Season

KEY ART: Title treatments for the 2011-2012 season at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN. The Guthrie asked for a unified season look this year and Nicky Lindeman devised a grid system using black and white title treatemnts and pairing them with inexpensive stock photography. Together Nicky and I designed the whole season's key art in one fell swoop. Here is the whole season's art.

Designed at SpotCo; Creative Direction: Vinny Sainato

Round House Theatre Season

KEY ART: In reinventing their brand and welcoming a new Artistic Director, Round House Theatre wanted a bold, eye-catching look for their 2013-14 season. The last one was rejected. Ah well.

Round House Theatre Season

KEY ART: Alternate (i.e. rejected) designs for the Roundhouse Theatre season.

Love Wins

KEY ART: Poster and New York Times ad announcing the coming of Rocky, a new musical, set to open in 2014. Poster was on Funny Or Die!

Designed at SpotCo; Copy by Sharyn Rothstein; Creative Direction: Vinny Sainato; Photography by Nigel Parry

All the lonely people

KEY ART and TV SPOT: The Broadway revival of the classic Inge play. Collaborated with Craig Shaloiko and Darren Cox on this tv spot based on the chosen key art (left).

Designed at SpotCo; Creative Direction: Vinny Sainato; Photography by Jason Bell

Trunchbull v. Wormwood

KEY ART: Proposed key art for Matilda, a new musical based on Roald Dahl's book.

Designed at SpotCo (comp on right designed with Paul Jeffrey); copy by Jimmy McNicholas; Creative Direction: Vinny Sainato

Look Up

KEY ART: Proposed key art for the 2011 Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden, featuring the the lovely vertical gardens by Patrick Blanc.

Designed at SpotCo; Creative Direction: Vinny Sainato

Manhattan Murder Mystery

KEY ART: for a new musical at the Union Square Theater

Designed at SpotCo with Nicky Lindeman; Photography by Zach Stertz; Creative Direction: Vinny Sainato

I may not get there with you...

KEY ART: A play by Katori Hall imagining a conversation between a Lorraine Motel chambermaid and Martin Luther King, Jr. on the night before he is to be assissinated. Marquee of the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.

Designed at SpotCo; Creative Direction: Drew Hodges and Vinny Sainato
Photography by Mary Ellen Mark

A house divided

KEY ART: Proposed art for the new MTC production of Ibsen's political classic about about truth and popular opinion.

Designed at SpotCo; Creative Direction: Vinny Sainato; copy by Sharyn Rothstein; Photography by Henry Leutwyler

Peer Gynt

KEY ART: Peer Gynt by Ibsen, performed at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN and starring Mary Rylance.

Designed at SpotCo with Gail Anderson
Featured in STEP Inside Design, June, 2008 and 365: AIGA Year in Design 29; one the works Ms. Anderson chose to feature in her AIGA profile.

I've had a few...

KEY ART: for a new play by Matt Charman for MTC at New York City Center.

Designed at SpotCo with Nicky Lindeman; Creative Direction: Vinny Sainato; Retouching by Rob Kolb; copy by Sharyn Rothstein

Then brunch at Cartier

TITLE TREATMENT: Proposed title treatment for the upcoming revival of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Designed at SpotCo; Creative Direction: Vinny Sainato

Wolverine returns to Broadway

TYPE: Proposed title treatment for Hugh Jackman's Broadway return.

Designed at SpotCo; Creative Direction: Vinny Sainato

Love Will Steer the Stars

SOUVENIR PROGRAM: Spreads from the program for the Tony-winning Broadway revival of Hair.

Designed at Rogers Eckersley Design (RED) for Creative Goods; Art Direction: Sam Eckersley; Photography by Joan Marcus, Chase Newhart, and Robert J. Saferstein

Ponies!

LOGO: Made as part of a logo exploration for PoNY, a non-profit benefitting up-and-coming New York playwrights.

Hiya : )

LOGO: Logo, stationery, and other collateral designed for a new street promotions company, emphasizing engaging and friendly marketing street teams.

Peep Show

LOGO: This logo was pitched as part of a series of windowcard designs for Peep Show, a burlesque show in Las Vegas.

Designed at SpotCo; Art Direction: Darren Cox

A Fine Romance

LOGO: A Fine Romance is an annual benefit show for the Motion Picture & Television Fund.

Designed at SpotCo with Greg Coleman; Art Direction: Gail Anderson

Adventureland

LOGO: Proposed logo design.

Something Blue

WEDDING INVITATION: Invitation, envelopes, RSVP card, information card, matchbooks, menus, and a logo on the ringbearer's pillow, all for a stylish Manhattan wedding. See more at StyleMePretty.com.

Letterpress printing by Greener Graphics. Photography by Khaki Bedford Weddings

Everything in the world

DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD: This double truck in The New York Times was the basis for a series of season ads for the 92Y, a New York cultural institution featuring an eclectic line-up of lectures, concerts, classes, talks, camps, festivals, holidays, etc. etc.

Take That, Mayans!

HOLIDAY CARD: A card to celebrate our miraculous survival of the Mayan apocalypse.

Designed as a personal project. Foil stamped on Poptone cardstock by For Your Party.