Riding off into the Sunset Strip

Meant to post this a few months back... Last year I worked on designing a poster and what's called key art for the seventh season of Showtime's political thriller Homeland. The ad campaign consisted of a series of pieces, and I provided one of them. The brief called for a very simple, graphic image and needed to hit on some themes of the show: namely referencing Claire Danes' character (Carrie)'s exile from the White House, due to events from the previous season. The campaign included billboards, and subway two-sheets. If you happened to be driving down the sunset strip in Hollywood earlier this year, you may have come across this one:

If you were able to get close enough to one of the posters, here's a detail of what it would look like:

Of the sketches I turned in for the project, this inverted Washington Monument idea won out, as it hit on some of the themes they wanted to highlight, such as the fact that D.C. is the setting for this season, as opposed to NYC in previous seasons, as well as the perilous position Carrie finds herself in, being on the outs with the government. It sort of works as a Sword of Damocles, dangling overhead- or maybe that's Sword of Dainesocles, or Damoclaires... sorry, I'll stop now.

Photos of these billboards come courtesy of Jason Morgan, at Daily Billboard. I also received word  that my poster is on Indie Wire's "Best TV Posters of 2018, So Far."

Thank you to Bob, my AD on this project! 

Pool Party!

I received an email a little while back from Ben Jones at Image Brew, a production company here in Denver, to do a poster for a party they were hosting. The bash was a Kegs with Legs event, a monthly or so party in the design/advertising/marketing community. The cool part is that there's a pool on the facility of their office, at the Taxi Campus north of Downtown. Most people hosting the parties make a poster for the event, but being a production company, they felt it would make sense to also make some videos. They filmed comedian Nathan Lund preparing the pool for the festivities, and invited me to come along and watch.

 I had free creative reign designing the poster, granted it reference the pool party. I had only the next day to work on the poster, and spent most of it working on something I ended up scrapping in the afternoon. I decided to instead reference a comment Ben made jokingly during the filming, about a pool party full of pale creative/designer folks. I had a little fun with the stereotype of the average "creative hipster," just to amuse myself:

The party was last night, and I stopped by for a bit. It was a lot of fun, and I'm glad I was able to work on the poster and watch the filming of the videos. Be sure to check those out here.
Also be sure to look at some more of Image Brew's work on their site here. They're the guys responsible (along with Eric Hines at Honest Bros) for the "Rainbow Chasers" video (also featuring Nathan Lund), as well as the Amazon original series "Those Who Can't."
Thanks again Ben and Evan!