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Paris Texas

Live Tour

Creative Direction · Live · Photography · Fall 2021 · Live Performance Direction · Stage Design · 32 items ·
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Creative direction, stage design, and photography for Paris Texas’ debut live tour. The stage was transformed into a “kill room.” We worked with limited space at smaller venues, striving to create an immersive, narrative-driven experience. Semi-transparent tarp treated with a mix of mud and blood surrounded the stage on three sides, providing a means of lighting diffusion for an ethereal atmosphere. Scrap metal, chains and a variety of junk was strewn across the stage, carefully blocked out to interact with our lighting.

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Creative Direction & Stage Design: Eddie Mandell
Lighting Design: TJ Hoover
Production Design/Stage Build: Eddie Mandell, Kyla Rain, Shantanu Jhaveri & Alex Carmen
Graffiti: Alex Carmen
Creative Representation: IAMSOUND

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UMI

Forest in the City

Creative Direction · Design · Live · Photography · Video Direction · Album Artwork · Live Performance Direction · Logotype · Lyric Visualizers · Merch Design · Music Videos · Packaging Design · Posters · Single Artwork · Winter 2021 - Summer 2022 · 40 items ·
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Creative direction, album artwork, music videos, photography, logotype, posters, merch design, packaging design, lyric visualizers and live tour direction for UMI’s debut album “Forest in the City.” From a sonic and visual standpoint, the project is a journey towards inner equilibrium in the face of the mental and physical obstacles we’ve created for ourselves, both on an individual level as well as a societal scale. Each piece of the visual repertoire explores spiritual transition, nature as a means of healing, and a search for inner peace. (Winter 2021 – Summer 2022)

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Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell

Album Artwork Photography: Julian Burgueño
Project Photography: Eddie Mandell
Photo Assistants: Christopher Burgueño & Maddie Spanier

Art Direction/Design: Eddie Mandell

Styling: Lexi Kingery, Ian Whalley & UMI
Hair/Makeup: Arielle Park, Mitchell Cantrell, Kasha Lassien, Love Taije, Sophia Erickson & Elyse Thoms

Visualizers/Lyric Videos: Nik Arthur

‘Sorry’ Music Video
Director: Eddie Mandell
Executive Producers: McCray Sutherlin & Farah Idrees
Production Company: Muddy Water
Producer: Dain August
Associate Producer: Sahnah Dhrif
Director of Photography: Andrew Truong
1st Assistant Director: Lane Stroud
Production Designer: Clayton Beisner
Editors: Eddie Mandell & UMI
Colorist: Dante Pasquinelli

‘Whatever U Like’ Music Video
Director: Will Noyce
Producer: Jeremy Ivory-Chambers
Production Company: Fengari
Director of Photography: Shane Bagwell
1st Assistant Director: Langston Siebens
Production Designer: Roxy Sorkin
Additional Cinematography/Colorist: Emerson Duggan
Editor: Will Noyce

‘Wish That I Could’ Music Video
Director: Danica Kleinknecht
Producer: Jeff Kopchia
Director of Photography: Farhad Ghaderi
Editor: Alex Farah
Colorist: Sam Gilling

BTS: Elinor Kry, Jenna King & Domia Edwards

Merch Design: Eddie Mandell, Ema Gaspar, Nick D’Apolito & Leo Horton
Merch Production: Morgan Miller & Jenna Levine at The Merch Collective

Live Tour Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell & UMI
Stage Design: Wesley Goodrich
Lighting Design: Eddie Mandell

Manifesto Visual Narrative
Director: Danica Kleinknecht
Producer: Jeff Kopchia
Director of Photography: Jay Swuen

Creative Representation: IAMSOUND
Management: Bad Habit
Marketing: Jourdan Kelli
Digital Marketing: Natalie Ho

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Tate McRae

Live Performances

Creative Direction · Live · Video Direction · Live Performance Direction · Summer 2020 - Winter 2021 · 49 items ·
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Creative direction for Tate McRae’s “You Broke Me First” live on the MTV VMAs, MTV EMAs, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. (Summer 2020 – Winter 2021)

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MTV VMAs
Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell
Live Performance Direction: Lewis James
Director of Photography: Dennis Grishnin
Production Company: Mad Ruk
Executive Producer: Rey Mendoza
Producer: Stephanie Hooker
Video Commissioner: Sabrina Rivera
Lighting Design: Dan Norman & Lewis James
Choreographer: Michelle Dawley
Stylist: Mecca Cox
Editor: Nick Yumul
Colorist: Clinton Homuth at Artjail

MTV EMAs
Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell
Live Performance Direction & Stage Design: Lewis James
Director of Photography: Evan Ciniello
Executive Producer: Christian Tyler
Producer: Alex Dall’Orso
Production Company: Colossale
Video Commissioner: Sabrina Rivera
Lighting Programmer: Dan Norman
Choreography: Michelle Dawley
Stylist: Mecca Cox
Colorist: Clinton Homuth at Artjail

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Creative Direction & Live Performance Direction: Eddie Mandell & Lewis James
Stage & Lighting Design: Lewis James
Director of Photography: Derek Branscombe
Executive Producer: Christian Tyler
Producer: Alex Dall’Orso
Production Company: Colossale
Video Commissioner: Sabrina Rivera
Assistant Director: Darrell Faria
Gaffer: Gideon Ayesu
Choreographer: Michelle Dawley
Stylist: Mecca Cox
Edit: Tristan CM
Colorist: Kevin Wu at Artjail

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell
Director: Jonah Haber
Director of Photography: Dennis Grishnin
Executive Producer: Sebastien Galina
Producer: Sahil Mirchandani
Production Company: Boldly
Video Commissioner: Sabrina Rivera
Lighting Design: Gideon Ayesu
Stylist: Kaitlyn Vitug
Choreography: Michelle Dawley
Colorist: Clinton Homuth at Artjail

Stills Photography: Gennelle Cruz
Creative Representation: IAMSOUND

Janet Jackson

Metamorphosis Residency Visual Narratives

Live · Photography · Video Direction · Screen Visuals · Spring 2019 · Visual Narratives · 8 items ·
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Visual narratives/screen visuals for Janet Jackson’s Metamorphosis Las Vegas Residency. The videos were utilized as a narrative throughline to tie together each act of Jackson’s show. (Spring 2019)

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Directors: Eddie Mandell & Cade ML
Creative Directors: Gil Duldalao & Dean Lee
Producers: Eddie Mandell & Cade ML
Director of Photography: Jon Chou
Production Design: Jacob Fishman
Gaffer: Lej Talens
Kep Grip: Chris Purdy
1st Assistant Camera: Tevin Texiera
Assistant Producer: Nick Scully
Stills Photography: Eddie Mandell

BANKS

The III Experience New York

Live · Experiential Design · Live Performance Direction · Summer 2019 · 4 items ·
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Live performance direction for BANKS “III” New York pop-up show and dance performance. The show featured in an introductory dance performance by Emma Portner and Kenichi Kasamatsu inside of a translucent flower box followed by a live performance by BANKS. Additional elements in the space included three concrete pillars embellished with flowers. (Summer 2019)

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Creative Direction & Live Performance Direction: Eddie Mandell
Producer: Rawley Bornstein
Choreography/Dancers: Emma Portner & Kenichi Kasamatsu
Production Designer: Chelsea Finkel
Art Team: Pablo Tamarin, Audrey Melton & Jourdan Ferguson

Selected Clients & Collaborators

Louis Vuitton x Fenn O'Meally

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RCA Records

Def Jam Records

Fader Label

IAMSOUND

Interscope Records

Ourros

Smuggler

Top Dawg Entertainment

Warner Records

Capitol Records

Republic Records

88 Rising

Life is War

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EDDIE MANDELL
Los Angeles-Based
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Creative Direction, Design, Video Direction and Photography