When Design Ranch stepped away from creating Unicorn Theatre's annual season artwork, my brother, the theatre's marketing director, arranged a meeting with artistic director Cynthia Levin and associate artistic director Ian Crawford. We hit it off, and I was given considerable freedom to explore a new direction for the 2020–21 season.

The protests following George Floyd's murder had begun the week before, and the imagery of protest​ and agitprop was very much on my mind. I developed two concepts, one influenced by the classic album covers of Blue Note Records and the other drawing on the raw, provocative character of street art. I was particularly excited about the latter, which offered the challenge of giving seven very different plays a cohesive visual identity while allowing each its own personality.

I'd completed poster designs for all seven productions, with four taken through final, press-ready artwork, before the pandemic forced the Unicorn to rethink its season.​ They shifted to virtual performances, replacing some productions with others better suited to the format. The posters were never printed or displayed as intended. It was a disappointing end to a project I'd taken on pro bono and thoroughly enjoyed—but at least the work finally has a home in my portfolio.