New Yorker Festival 2020

The greatest challenge was to create a design and illustration language that would be flexible and adaptable to future needs. In order to achieve this we focused on the reduction of detail in the film to a shape and animation language that can easily support text, communication, and imagery.

Roles: Illustration, Stop Motion Design

The 2020 New Yorker Festival was virtual for the first time this year and we were given the honor of whipping up a design system worthy of this storied institution. This included an anthem film to kickoff the event as well as a graphics package used during the livestream.

As we continued to explore and work collaboratively with the New Yorker, we all rallied behind illustrations that employed a big, bold, and minimalist use of color. Once we were striking the right tone, we pushed to abstract and reduce the visual language even more.