New Orleans | Case Study

Category

Documentary

Client

CNN Films

New Orleans is a city unlike any other - alive with music, food, sports, and tradition. This series traces its journey through trials and triumphs, revealing how 20 years after Katrina, the city is louder and stronger than ever.

Credits

Art Direction

Curtis Brown

Senior Motion Designers

Curtis Brown, Linda Shirar

Info.

New Orleans: Sould of the City is a 4-part CNN Original Series exploring the city's 20-year recovery post-Hurricane Katrina through food, music, sports, and culture.

Beyond creating the title sequence, I also created a graphic language and template for character cards, editable mogrt templates for editors, as well as art directed the style for collage explainer sections.

Here are some of those examples:


The series, which includes a special "Rebirth of the Superdome" episode, highlights resilience and features figures like Wendell Pierce and Emeril Lagasse.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/title-2549972