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‘Western Skies’

Book design and album packaging for Austin singer-songwriter Darden Smith's 16th album.

The Western Skies project – part music, part prose and part photographic essay – is Smith’s homage to the mythologies of Texas and the American West.

The vinyl and CD packages feature four of Smith’s ethereal photographs, duly obscured by the design team with red, wall-to-wall typography inspired by vintage Buffalo Bill’s Wild West posters.

The collector’s edition features a leather/cloth cover, a signed lithograph print of one of the Polaroid images and a tipped-in signature page all contained within a handsome clothbound box.

Front and back cover of CD package.
Center-ring design for vinyl record.
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Retrospective: Shakespeare in the Park

In 1954, impresario Joe Papp began a summer tradition of staging free outdoor performances of Shakespeare, inaugurating the Public Theater’s beloved Shakespeare in the Park festival. Pentagram partner Paula Scher, whose relationship with the Public spans four decades, has designed a new identity for the series for thirty consecutive summers. Each campaign is customized to the season’s theme, creating a highly visible graphic vocabulary for outdoor advertising, social media, and on-site signage.
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Retrospective: Shakespeare in the Park

In 1954, impresario Joe Papp began a summer tradition of staging free outdoor performances of Shakespeare, inaugurating the Public Theater’s beloved Shakespeare in the Park festival. Pentagram partner Paula Scher, whose relationship with the Public spans four decades, has designed a new identity for the series for thirty consecutive summers. Each campaign is customized to the season’s theme, creating a highly visible graphic vocabulary for outdoor advertising, social media, and on-site signage.