Danika Underhill
- Producer
Producer & Creative Director of EmCo Entertainment
Danika Underhill is an award-winning interdisciplinary Art Director who specializes in photography, video and graphic design within the realms of marketing, branding, advertising and film.
She grew up in Southern California and earned her film degree with honors from San Francisco State University, specializing in Animation Production with a minor in Graphic Communications. Proving early on to be diligent with her deadlines, Danika was the only student within the prestigious Animation Department to finish their thesis film on time to be included in film finals, where hers stood out among all films screened to gain recognition from The International Animated Film Association (ASIFA).
After finishing school, Danika combined her technical skill with light and camera, natural storytelling ability and design sensibility into a career spanning the various aspects of Art Direction for both still and moving images. Over the past fifteen years she's worked in collaboration with top photographers such as Pamela Hanson, Patrick Demarchelier, Walter Chin and Arthur Elgort, as well as partnering with brands such as Alexander Wang, Cole Haan, Nordstrom, Fashion Nova, Ann Taylor, Amazon and Target. Her highly compelling work has been included in Lürzer's Archive and earned her two Telly Awards, as well as various print design honors.
With EmCo Entertainment, Danika has the dual focus on designing projects into compelling pitch materials, look books and business plans as well as securing key partnerships and producing projects such as the short film TROPHY BOY as it is developed for television, as well as Associate Production and Art Direction for the independent feature film THE SHUROO PROCESS.
Danika lives in the Lower East Side of Manhattan with her husband and daughter. Her theory on Art Direction, as it is in life, is this: have fun or what's the point?
Danika Underhill is an award-winning interdisciplinary Art Director who specializes in photography, video and graphic design within the realms of marketing, branding, advertising and film.
She grew up in Southern California and earned her film degree with honors from San Francisco State University, specializing in Animation Production with a minor in Graphic Communications. Proving early on to be diligent with her deadlines, Danika was the only student within the prestigious Animation Department to finish their thesis film on time to be included in film finals, where hers stood out among all films screened to gain recognition from The International Animated Film Association (ASIFA).
After finishing school, Danika combined her technical skill with light and camera, natural storytelling ability and design sensibility into a career spanning the various aspects of Art Direction for both still and moving images. Over the past fifteen years she's worked in collaboration with top photographers such as Pamela Hanson, Patrick Demarchelier, Walter Chin and Arthur Elgort, as well as partnering with brands such as Alexander Wang, Cole Haan, Nordstrom, Fashion Nova, Ann Taylor, Amazon and Target. Her highly compelling work has been included in Lürzer's Archive and earned her two Telly Awards, as well as various print design honors.
With EmCo Entertainment, Danika has the dual focus on designing projects into compelling pitch materials, look books and business plans as well as securing key partnerships and producing projects such as the short film TROPHY BOY as it is developed for television, as well as Associate Production and Art Direction for the independent feature film THE SHUROO PROCESS.
Danika lives in the Lower East Side of Manhattan with her husband and daughter. Her theory on Art Direction, as it is in life, is this: have fun or what's the point?