WHAT’s NEW - Spring 2024

What a year, so far—two features I created posters for had their theatrical releases! In February, Big World Pictures released Giacomo Abbruzzese’s DISCO BOY, and last month, Cartilage Films gave us Ryan Martin Brown’s FREE TIME. Both of these films are *excellent* and it’s been so cool to see them embraced by critics and public alike, and given robust theatrical runs to boot!

In my design work, I usually limit the number of characters on a given poster to one or two. This comes from my day job in the key art mill—for people scrolling through what to watch on Amazon or Tubi, simplified designs are the name of the game. So it was refreshing to work on these two pieces, for Scott Roberts’ feature LETTERS HOME and Liam Klinkenberg & Eytan Boclin’s short HOOP DREAMS 3D. It was a fun challenge figuring out how to balance all the tiny heads.

It’s not often I get to make an illustrated poster and non-illustrated poster for the same film, but that’s what happened with the Benyamini Brothers’ new feature WIDOWBIRD. There was also the rare chance to work in pastels for David Gauvey Herbert’s SXSW award-winning short documentary FRANK.

Finally, a drawing for myself, a study of Marcus Reichert's underrated 1980 feature UNION CITY. I’ve been experimenting more and more with negative drawing—drawing in pen and colored pencil, and inverting it in Photoshop to give it a scratchboard effect. Maybe I should just get back into scratchboard proper, but I like how the colors mix with the pen here.