As promised on Friday I’m trying to catch up on posting all my new work. My latest web (and more) project was for Park Playhouse in Albany, NY which produces free plays and musicals in Washington Park in the summer. This was especially fun for me since I grew up outside of Albany and went to these shows a lot as a kid and more as a teenager when a lot of the my theatre friends would be in the shows. Park Playhouse recently went through a rather large shift in its administrative staff and came to me to try and update their website a bit. Or, rather, a lot as it turned out.

The one design element they wanted me to incorporate is a “night sky” theme (since this is outdoor theater after all) and after hearing some of their horror stories about webmasters, I wanted their website to be something THEY could maintain without having to learn anything. This ended up being a great learning experience for me working a little more deeply with WordPress (editing .php files!) and I really love the result.

As you can see once, we started with the website, their original logos needed a little love too.  And then while I was at it, I had a go at their current show logos as well. 

The original Park Playhouse logo was dominated by the large hand drawn lakehouse (which is the stage for the productions) which left “Park Playhouse Inc.” to be squished underneath. I simplified the lakehouse drawing and chose a more clean, modern font to compliment it.

The long narrow logos seem to have been working for most purposes but, again, I’d hate for them to be high and dry later so I also created a secondary set of square/vertical logos in case they need them.

And lastly (for now) I updated the show logos for their current shows, Annie Get Your Gun and The Wiz.