PRESS RELEASE from Jack Morton Worldwide  see also RNC Committee on Arrangements August 20 press release
August 31, 2012

2012 RNC Set Created By Jack Morton Team Raised The Bar For Political Stage Design

Jack Morton Worldwide, the global brand experience agency, was the designer of the set for the 2012 Republican National Convention—responsible for creating a scenic design that has already been hailed as setting new standards for staging at political conventions.

Led by award-winning designer Jim Fenhagen and Eddie Knasiak, the Jack Morton design team worked with the RNC for over a year to develop the set, which stood out not only for the quality of its design and warm wood materials but also for the ambition of the 13 massive LED screens that anchored the set and debuted new video technology.

“We approached this just as we would with a brand,” said Fenhagen, SVP of Design in Jack Morton’s New York office. “We listened to the client’s needs and we built the experience design around that.”

Fenhagen points to three areas of focus for the experience design team at Jack Morton:

Fenhagen has won 17 Emmy awards for broadcast set design. He has created sets for Piers Morgan, Jon Stewart and Martha Stewart, among many others. His co-designer for the RNC set, Eddie Knasiak, is a veteran broadcast designer.