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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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CREDITS

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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CREDITS

Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell

 

Album Artwork Photography: Julian Burgueño

Project Photography: Eddie Mandell

Photo Assistants: Christopher Burgueño & Maddie Spanier

 

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

 

‘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, Nicholas D’Apolito & Leo Horton

 

Live Tour Creative Direction: Eddie Mandell & UMI

Stage Design: Wesley Goodrich

 

Manifesto Visual Narrative

Director: Danica Kleinknecht

Director of Photography: Jay Swuen

 

Creative Representation: IAMSOUND

 

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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

 

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

Choreographer: Michelle Dawley

Stylist: Mecca Cox

Colorist: Clinton Homuth

 

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

First Assistant Director: Darrell Faria

Lighting Programmer/Gaffer: Gideon Ayesu

Choreographer: Michelle Dawley

Stylist: Mecca Cox

Edit: Tristan CM

Colorist: Kevin Wu

 

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/Programmer: Gideon Ayesu

Stylist: Kaitlyn Vitug

Choreographer: Michelle Dawley

Colorist: Clinton Homuth

 

Stills Photography: Gennelle Cruz

Creative Representation: IAMSOUND

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

Interscope Records

Mom+Pop Music

IAMSOUND

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
VISUAL ARTIST SPECIALIZING IN
Creative Direction, Design, Video Direction and Photography