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Poster Design for Cab Calloway

A jazz poster design for Cab Calloway performing at the Glasgow International Jazz Festival. Photograph below with his daughter, holding our poster. This poster was a team effort with two of my classmates, Thomas and Clare.

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Day (7) – We are here for you!

40 Days and 40 Nights of COVID19

Day minus seven – Miami, where my client is based, is already in lock down. My task is to come up with an engaging and differentiated way to use a Zoom meeting image. I asked the client to take a screen shot of their weekly meeting and ask everyone to hold up a piece of paper. Anyone who has tried to control the order people appear on screen knows how hard it is to achieve this image and for those who don’t it still conveys the message. It conveys that despite being in separated and locked down at home, Mark Migdal can still work cohesively as a team.

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Day 8 – Youtube Channel Stories for Jadyn: Slop!

40 Days and 40 Nights of COVID19

Day 8  A story read for Madison’s old nursery school class in New York city. Merricat’s Castle School, Sunshine Room.

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Day (4) – Youtube Channel Stories for Jadyn: Milastory

40 Days and 40 Nights of COVID19

Day minus four… New York was already in lock down for some time. Greensboro we had four more days before we began. Mila is an amazingly talented young actor growing up in New York. Her parents both super talented too. Toni Menage, a dear friend of mine going a way back. Madison and Mila met at Birdland, during our last visit to New York.

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Fridge, a film by Peter Mullan, film poster

Fridge Film Poster Design for Peter Mullan

A film poster design for Peter Mullan.

What can I say. This was an honor. I’m such a fan of Peter Mullan’s work. The film starred Gary Lewis and Frances Higson was the producer.

The short film won many awards: Best Short Film 1995 – also winner of 12 international awards, including BAFTA Scotland, Best Short Film Award 1995; Cork International Film Festival Best European Short Film (joint award) 1995; Atlantic Film Festival Best Short Film Award 1995; Grand Prize of the Bilbao International Film Festival 1995.

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Pascal Lacroix – Brand Voice

Personality and voice. I knew from the first moment I spoke with Pascal that I had to have his voice on the website. He has a french accent and when he speaks his voice relaxes you.

The outcome was this very personal, brand-building  narrative video. It immediately deepens the connection with visitors. It helps visitors relate to his work in a more meaningful way than just browsing through still images.

The audio was directed remotely. The video content was captured by Pascal himself and a friend of his. I edited the final piece to tell the story about how he works and designs at his studio in the mountains.

Below is another short video, this time speaking about a specific piece created for the Flight theme of the American Design Council, Living Collection.

Design, direction, editing and production, by Katja Maas

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Pinterest functionality for a Squarespace website

2020 Tips, Hacks and Workarounds #1

In creating a portfolio website on Squarespace we found that there was no option for users to gather their favorite works (like a wish list function on an e-commerce website). We decided to utilize the popular social media platform Pinterest to provide this feature. The bonus for the artist is that their work gets additional visibility on a social platform.

We created our first How to tutorial video for this purpose. Below is the initial draft for the video which is being beta tested.

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