Nine hours of documentary audio. Five 90-second films. One cohesive visual language.
Carnegie Hall's Migrations concert series traced how successive waves of immigration and migration shaped the sound of American music: Russian and Eastern European Jewish Immigration during World War II, the Great Migration of African Americans, The Scots-Irish, and an overarching festival overview. Each deserved its own film, but all five needed to feel like one.
I designed and animated the full series, building a visual language that mixed archival footage and photography with hand-drawn and digital animation, plus the occasional dramatic ink spill, inspired by and leading up to Carnegie Hall's existing title design.
Migrations is one chapter in a collaboration with Carnegie Hall that stretches back to 2015. Across that time I've also led the Fall of the Weimar Republic festival promos, an animated holiday card featuring the National Youth Orchestra, the Lullaby Project's 10th Anniversary recap video, the graphics package for All Together: A Global Ode to Joy, and animated songs for the LinkUp Listening Maps educational program.
