Nineteen Nineties

by Phillip Collier

April 22, 2026

I started my own business, Phillip Collier Designs, in 1990.

For the first two years, all the design and production work  was done by hand at drafting tables using t-squares, triangles, ink pens and rubber cement. It would only be a couple of years before everything would be crafted and produced on computers.

Billboards and ads for 1993 NCAA Final Four Championship
Ad for Louisiana Children Museum expansion.
Posters for Degas exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art
Ad series for the New Orleans Museum of Art
Ads and guidebooks for New Orleans Tourism
Ad for Convention & Visitors’ Bureau
Ads for New Orleans Tourism
New Orleans Tourism ad for Spanish-language publications
Travel insert included with the Washington Post
Cover design for New Orleans Tourism travel planner
Various covers for New Orleans Tourism guidebooks
Tourism brochure targeting affluent and upscale visitors to New Orleans
Magazine design for the Contemporary Arts Center
Invitation design and collage for a 1994 Contemporary Arts Center event
Full page ad for Freeport-McMoRan in the Wall Street Journal
New York Times Ad for the Waldorf Astoria Hotel promoting business meeting meeting space

During this decade, clients included the New Orleans Museum of Art, the National D-Day Museum, New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Chicago’s Palmer House Hotel, International Paper Corporation, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Delta Queen Steamboat Company, CBS Sports Radio, New Orleans Opera Association, Contemporary Arts Center, House of Blues, Louisiana Children’s Museum, Lockheed Corporation, LSU Medical Center, New Orleans Tourism and Marketing Corporation, New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau, Tabasco, Tulane University and Arthur Roger Gallery.