JUNK TV
Client: Mike Young Productions
Concept set design for television show, 2000
This was the interior set design of an apartment featured for a potential TV show,
with the lead character living as a couch potato in this weird, askewed dump.
The angle perspective was deliberately twisted.

 


IN THE SUMMER HOUSE

Concept set design for Vassar College, 1995


IN THE SUMMER HOUSE
Concept set design for Vassar College, 1995

 

  
THE BEAR
by Anton Chekov
Sample costume & set design for Vassar College, 1993
My very first set design. The intention here was to limit the basic color palette to
two contrasting colors (in this case, red and green) for the set and costumes.

 


OTHELLO:   Desdemona's Chamber
by William Shakespeare
Concept set design for Vassar College, 1993
The intention here was to be symmetricai and ornate, like moorish and Middle Eastern architecture.
The "skull" frame with windows for the eyes and teeth left an eeire, if not very subtle, impression.

 


KING LEAR: Initial Concept Design.
by William Shakespeare
For Vassar College, 1995

Here I was trying to go for minimalism. A reflective opaque backdrop was placed in the background, so the overall color scheme could change with the lights. Black "tarps" were dropped from above, implying a sense of architectural columns in a free space. The center piece, a constructed platform with stairs on one side and a stone-like boulder on the other, could be rotated during a scene to keep the movement going without breaks. My professor actually preferred this concept sketch more than my final paintings!


KING LEAR: Lear's Palace.
by William Shakespeare
For Vassar College, 1995


KING LEAR:
Gloucester's Castle.
by William Shakespeare
For Vassar College, 1995


KING LEAR:
Heath.
by William Shakespeare
For Vassar College, 1995

 


LIFE OF GALILEO
Galileo's Study
by B. Brecht
Concept design for Vassar College, 1995.
One of my favorite designs, this play entailed two backdrops: one with the sun at center,
and the dropout moons and planets slowly moving "around" it (as Galileo asserted),
and the "religious" view of the sun spinning around the earth.

 


ALL MY SONS
by Arthur Millerl
Performed at Vassar College, 1994.

 


Concept design for Vassar College, 1993-4.
(Too bad I can't remember what play this was for!)

 


ORESTIA, SECOND CYCLE: LIBATION BEARERS
by Asyculus
Concept design for Vassar College, 1994.

 


CRY FOR ME
by Rommen Cromwell
Performed at Vassar College, 1995.
Now THIS set was fun...and brought in on a budget of $97. (Leaving us $3 to spare.) The man saying "You're expelled" was none other than our college Dean, who I understand did not appreciate the gesture.


All original artwork and writing copyright (c) 2006 Adam McDaniel.