Meet the designer behind NYC’s charming World Cup campaign (opens in new tab)

How do you build excitement among 8.5 million New Yorkers (and 1.2 million tourists) for the World Cup? You start with deep research on the city’s beloved colors and symbols and then turn that into something like the joyful, nostalgic, and vividly hued bus shelter posters, subway signs, , and designed for the citywide tourism campaign that the Mayor’s Office launched this week. “There’s an energy that we wanted to capture and I think it’s matching New York as of right now in a way that feels ...