When you hire a production designer or art director, you’re hiring the person who makes the project look impeccable- on camera and on schedule. The Shop provides production design and art direction for commercial photo/video shoots, branded content, music videos, film production, animation production, and agency productions, based in Columbus, OH and serving the Midwest.
We’re comfortable at both ends of the job: high-end taste and technical execution. Whether your production needs a single creative lead with a wide skill set or a full art department crew built to fit the scope, we plug in cleanly and deliver under real-world timelines.
(And yes- this is the part where you can ask for a field full of NFL training equipment… or a yacht in a landlocked state. We’ve done both.)
Production design is more than a look—it’s a plan your team can execute. We support productions with:
Look development + visual direction (style, palette, materials, references)
Production design books / design bibles to align teams and approvals
Set design planning and schematics for builds and layouts
Who this is for
Why productions hire us
Art direction is where the plan becomes reality—fast, accurate, and camera-ready. We provide:
Some shoots need one person who can run point and execute. Others need a full department with clear roles and a clean chain of command. We staff art teams appropriately for each job and can supply:
Whether you’re coming into Columbus with a traveling team or building locally from the ground up, we’ll assemble the right crew and keep the work aligned. Available as a solo production designer/art director or with a full art department crew.
Send your brief, shoot dates, and references to info@theshop.design, and we’ll ensure your production looks exactly how it should.