Kenny Landes | Graphic Design | Web Development | San Francisco

I designed and produced this oversized event invitation for the largest annual blackjack invitational at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

The event invitation is a three-panel, c-fold, three-color job measuring 10” wide by 10” high. A matching full-bleed, oversized, non-standard envelope completed the effect for a dramatic impact when it was received by the select MGM MIRAGE Players Club members invited to the annual invitational.

I designed and produced the invitation for rock-and-roll legend Eric Clapton’s 2007 concert at the MGM Grand Garden Arena promoting his recent album “The Road to Escondido.”

MGM Grand requested a high-end piece with a teaser out front followed by a dramatic reveal on the inside. I worked with the provided admat supplemented with additional source art, including sheet music from one of Eric Clapton’s earlier compositions.

The invitation is a 2-color piece accented with foil and a dramatic die line used to reveal the guitar on the inside spread when viewed from the front. The full impact is impossible to appreciate on the screen, but the client was delighted by the subtle and sophisticated elegance of the related tones across a wide range of materials.

I designed and produced the invitation for the 2006 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena while working in-house as a Graphic Designer at Las Vegas gaming, hospitality, and entertainment giant MGM MIRAGE, the parent company of MGM Grand, Bellagio, the Mirage, and other famous international destinations.

This high-profile, much-sought-after invitation combined photography and line art to create an energetic, electric front-side presentation followed by a dramatic reveal across the inside spread. The complex mask complemented the Billboard web site at the time.

This is a non-sequential multimedia web documentary inspired by the annual project completed by all California sixth-graders studying California history.

Using cited research material, the project displays beautiful photographs and a brief history of each of California’s 21 missions. In order to fit the format, the coastline of California is turned 90 degrees on its side. Each of the missions is identified by a star button which loads the content and images into the center movie holders. El Camino Real, identified by the brown trail, is also a hidden button that loads information about California’s first highway when it is clicked.

Included throughout is information about the impact of the missions on the native peoples of California from San Diego, the birthplace of California, north to Solano.