Pizzerizzo in-park billboaRd and pizza box models (Hollywood Studios, Walt Disney world)
After honeymooning in Walt Disney World in 2024, I became obsessed with the signage seen around the resorts and parks. The detail and depth that can be seen in the signs, decorations, paintings, markings, and advertisements in Disney World blow me away whenever I'm lucky enough to be there. I wanted to recreate my favorites via my favorite creation method: 3D printing. In 2025, it was announced that the PizzeRizzo restaurant in Disney's Hollywood Studios would be closing its doors that summer. This restaurant, a kitschy oasis tucked in a corner, stood as one of the last bastions of Muppet presence in Disney parks. I think making these models allows my wife and I to keep a piece of that at home. The billboard this model is based on features a hidden message only visible when the neon comes to life at night, emphasizing the message of "IT'S RAT PIZZA," which I had to capture in my model. I also modeled a small pizza box with the PizzeRizzo logo on top, completely 3D printed. This is not based on any real products or displays from the parks, but something I wanted to experience in real life that I kept thinking about.
Tomorrowland Transit Authority Peoplemover Desk Sign (Magic kingdom, walt disney world)
As a part of my efforts to recreate signage found in Disney World on a desktop scale, I set my sights on a now-removed sign pointing guests to the Tomorrowland Transit Authority Peoplemover. The Peoplemover is a slow-moving informative and sight-seeing attraction located in Tomorrowland, the section of the park dedicated to science fiction and future. This sign was my first venture into creating a scale-model of something using only photos for reference, and I'm thrilled with how it turned out. The art deco style of the sign evokes such a specific time period and I think that really comes through in this scale model.
Multicolor print by Printables user ChrisPirillo
3D render of model in Fusion 360
Reference photo from the series
Star Wars Tracker Prop (Disney's Obi-Wan)
When Disney's Obi-Wan series began, I noticed a couple of props that looked like they could be fun to model and 3D print. The first of these is a tracker device seen in episode 2 of the series. I uploaded the model to popular 3D file share website Printables.com, where someone actually printed it in 3 colors! Which was awesome to see.
Star Wars Holo-Projector Prop (Disney's Obi-Wan)
The other prop I wanted to make from Obi-Wan was a holo-projector that can actually be found in many installments of the Star Wars franchise. This little disk can be seen projecting a hologram above it for communication in the series, and I modeled it as 4 separate parts that fit together snugly.
Reference frame from the series
My model in Fusion360
"Take Heed!" Design
Inspiration from the ride
take Heed!
After a wonderful trip to Disneyland in August of 2019, I felt inspired not only to start getting serious about graphic design but to apply it to something I loved: Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye. This attraction in Disneyland has been my favorite since I first went there in 2007, and its peppy yet cautious spokesman, Sallah, has always been my favorite part of the pre-ride experience. While waiting in the queue for the ride, a safety video plays which is narrated by Sallah. Done in the style of an old 1930's -style newsreel, the short film features Sallah holding up text cards to aid his description of the ride ahead. One of these cards reads "Take Heed!" and is held by a cautious-looking Sallah. It is this still image that inspired my first serious design project.
mount mystery
After running my Imagineering-centric Instagram account, Dear Imagineer, for a little over a year, I discovered a graphic designer called Rob Yeo. Rob started a design challenge on his Instagram called "Armchair Imagineering" in which he created a prompt focused on theme park design and anyone who wanted to enter could enter. For his third challenge, the prompt was to design the entrance to an area called "Mount Mystery." My entry's description read as:
Come one, come all, and experience the deeply rooted past of Mount Mystery. Once a bright and beautiful estate filled with beautifully-trimmed hedge mazes, exotic plants, and fantastical architecture, this long-abandoned land holds much more than meets the eye. The manor was owned by Madame Sarafi Elenqueld, an eccentric collector of trinkets and curios.
Every year she would create elaborate scavenger hunts for her many relatives and would give the winner a beautiful prize! She would write elaborate clues and weave them in and out of the manor, the hedge mazes, and the rainbow eucalyptus groves that surrounded the house.
But one year, 1962 to be exact, she left a scavenger hunt that would lead them to the ultimate prize, the keys to her manor! Her family went mad searching for the clues and tore the land apart in the process, but there are still clues to be found! Will you solve the mystery of Madame Serafi’s final hunt?
At the entrance you will see the Elenqueld Manor in the distance beyond a thick fog. The sounds of rustling trees and crunching leaves counteract the high-energy jazz you can hear leaking out of the manor, still playing to this day. There’s an air of curiosity and excitement; but you won’t see anyone sprinting around the grounds, only hushed scavenger hunters looking around every corner and under every rock for the next clue.
Every year she would create elaborate scavenger hunts for her many relatives and would give the winner a beautiful prize! She would write elaborate clues and weave them in and out of the manor, the hedge mazes, and the rainbow eucalyptus groves that surrounded the house.
But one year, 1962 to be exact, she left a scavenger hunt that would lead them to the ultimate prize, the keys to her manor! Her family went mad searching for the clues and tore the land apart in the process, but there are still clues to be found! Will you solve the mystery of Madame Serafi’s final hunt?
At the entrance you will see the Elenqueld Manor in the distance beyond a thick fog. The sounds of rustling trees and crunching leaves counteract the high-energy jazz you can hear leaking out of the manor, still playing to this day. There’s an air of curiosity and excitement; but you won’t see anyone sprinting around the grounds, only hushed scavenger hunters looking around every corner and under every rock for the next clue.
Knives Out Poster
My fiancée (then girlfriend) Molly and I are huge movie buffs, and we love a good whodunnit (anything a la Clue). So when Rian Johnson's murder mystery Knives Out was released in the fall of 2019, I knew I had to make something about this movie for her birthday, and that's exactly what I did. I created a flow map of the intricate relationships among the film's characters in the style of an old family tree. This film gets its intrigue from the multi-layered relationships between all of the family members as they vie for their father's inheritance. This poster was a joy to make and all the more rewarding to see the look on my girlfriend's face when she saw it. It's still hanging on the wall in our bedroom to this day.
Smuggler's Pin Collection
On the trip to Disneyland I mentioned before, I got to experience Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge for the first time, and with it, Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run. One of the newest attractions in the US Disney Parks, Smuggler's Run is a simulator-based attraction which puts guests right in the center of a high-speed galactic heist as they pilot the renowned spacecraft themselves. Each guest receives a credentials card before they board they ride and this card tells the guests what role they'll be filling on the mission. The three options are:
Pilot: In charge of moving the craft up and down or left and right
Gunner: In charge of taking out enemy craft
Engineer: In charge of grabbing and securing coaxium, the fictional material of interest
The credentials cards are designed in such an interesting and beautiful style that I wanted to recreate the symbols for each role as enamel pins. I ended up doing this through the popular crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter. This was my first experience in crowdfunding something I made, and it was extremely informational. I created a budget, spoke with manufacturers, created mockups and advertising, and finally launched the project. After a 30 day funding period, the project was successfully funded. I learned a lot about design, management, manufacturing, and communications through the process, and would love to do it again someday.
Engineer Credential Card
Gunner Credential Card
Mockup of two of my original designs
Mockup of Gunner and Pilot pins
Mockup of Imagineer and Engineer pins
My Design
Inspiration
DCA/HS Entrance
Going along with my theme of Disney park-inspired designs, I've recently taken an interest in minimalism and line art. The art-deco style has always been one that interested me, and it meets beautifully with Disney theme parks at the entrances to Disney California Adventure in Anaheim and Hollywood Studios in Orlando. The simple design of these flag holders always caught my eye whenever I saw them in photos or in person, and I thought recreated them would be a great exercise as a developing graphic designer. These designs are currently for sale in my RedBubble store along with some others I've created.
Mara
My most recent design endeavor brought me back to where it all began: Indiana Jones. The attractions in Disneyland takes place in a remote Indian temple dedicated to an ancient deity named Mara. As long as guests do not look into the eyes of Mara while inside the temple, they will be granted one of three gifts: eternal youth, endless wealth, or the ability to see the future. These three options are represented at the start of the ride in the Chamber of Destiny, a room with three doors, each leading to one of the three treasures. It was this trichotomy that inspired my poster of Mara. The text along the borders is in the language created by Disney to be featured in the attraction, and from left to right they say "fortune, wealth, youth."
GOES WRONG SHOW POSTERS
As a long-time theatergoer and comedy-lover I was in awe the first time I watched an episode of The Goes Wrong Show. Created by the lovely people of Mischief Comedy, this show features a fictional drama troupe putting on their own plays that somehow never seem to go right. I wanted to create a few posters inspired by some episodes from the first season as a gift for a friend and that's exactly what I did. Both designs feature minimalist icons representing each character in the skit, as well as parts of the set from that episode. In "The Lodge," the cast are trapped in an old mansion with its eccentric owner, however the skit was running a bit too short for its time slot so the characters employ the use of extraneous adjectives to fill time. These adjectives line the background of the poster. In "90 Degrees", an American Southern drama plays out among family members, however the crew misinterpreted the title of the play and built different parts of the set sideways or even upside down. These posters were a joy to make and I plan on making a poster for every episode.