Career
Shortly after moving back to New York City in 1982, Raywood would meet and become the assistant to Eugene Lee on the film Easy Money. He then worked with Lee as his assistant and art director for the next five years on most of Lee's film, television, and theatre projects, while designing his own sets for music videos, commercials, television, and theatre. In 1985, Raywood would co-design with Lee the original production of The Normal Heart at The Public Theater in New York City. Raywood has remained close friends with his mentor Lee, and to this day they share the Production Design credit at Saturday Night Live.
Raywood became the Art Director of Saturday Night Live (NBC) in 1985, and has been one of its production designers since 1989. He has also designed many music specials and series for Viacom's MTV, VH1, BET, and Spike TV networks including The MTV Video Music Awards, The Hip Hop Honors, The Vogue/VH1 Fashion Awards, Hard Rock Live, 106 and Park, MTV Unplugged (2007), Divas Live, The Eagles' Hell Freezes Over, Spike Guys' Choice Awards, Spike TV Video Game Awards, VH1 Rock Honors: The Who, as well as all of the combined upfronts for MTV Networks. His other television credits include 30 Rock (NBC), Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry (HBO), Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam (HBO), Late Night with Conan O'Brien (NBC), and The Concert For New York City (VH1/CBS) broadcast live from Madison Square Garden one month following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, and for which he received a 2002 Emmy nomination. He has designed music videos and performances for recording artists such as Justin Timberlake, Usher, Beck, Paul Simon, Iggy Pop, Madonna, Fiona Apple, Mary J. Blige, Maxwell, Whitney Houston, Salt-N-Pepa, Death in Vegas, Bon Jovi, The Foo Fighters, and Macy Gray, as well as commercials for Nikon, AT&T, Apple, Revlon, Elizabeth Arden, Gap, GE, Visa, Dove, and Nike, while working with noted directors Michael Haussman, Mark Romanek, Mark Seliger, and Terry Richardson, among others. He also designed at 11 Penn Plaza, New York City the new studios for the Fuse Music and MSG networks in 2010.
In 2007, Raywood turned his attentions to creating architectural designs for video art installations by artist-director-photographer Michael Somoroff. Their first collaboration Illumination opened at the BravinLee gallery on June 21, 2007, in New York City.
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