Award-winning filmmaker and designer Sherene Strausberg combines her experience in film, music, and sound engineering with graphic design and illustration to create animated videos for her clients at the company she founded, 87th Street Creative. Having won a national composition competition in high school, she was awarded a scholarship to the prestigious Indiana University School of Music, where she completed two bachelor’s degrees in four years. Film scores she wrote in her first career, as a film composer, have been heard on AMC, Spike TV, and Netflix. As a graphic designer for Jewish National Fund, she won two awards from Graphic Design USA. Her latest passion project, the short, animated film “Cool For You”, which she animated and scored, has been accepted to film festivals around the country. Recent clients of 87th Street Creative have included Walmart, American Express, and Amazon Web Services. 

Through the power of music and sound effects along with moving images, Sherene knew at the age of 16, she wanted to be a film composer. After 10 years pursuing that, while also working as a broadcast engineer at National Public Radio, she changed careers, first to graphic design and then to motion design. Motion graphics returned Sherene to her true passion of how sound and moving images together can immerse the viewer/listener. Combining this with her desire to work with clients who believe in sustainability and social justice, 87th Street Creative has worked with nonprofits and businesses that help make the world a better place. 

While continuing to partner with agencies and studios on projects, Sherene also works directly with clients such as Healthline, Spencer Stuart, and ProPublica. In 2021, a video that Sherene worked on with Propublica, was retweeted by Senator Elizabeth Warren and received almost 80k views on Twitter. She has been a frequent contributor as a guest blog writer and is also a teaching assistant at School of Motion. When Sherene is not working, she enjoys reading, running, and pottery. She lives with her husband and three children in New York. 

“Cool For You”, an animated film based on the book of the same title, explains global warming to children in a friendly way. Incorporating different characters and families, animals and plants, children are introduced to CO2, and positive, easy ways to improve our impact on the earth. To download or view our EPK (Electronic Press Kit), click here.

“You Are Not Small”, a film about how small people can have a big impact on the world, by working together. Lucy Hawking, award winning children's book author, and daughter of scientist Stephen Hawking, makes science accessible and engaging through her numerous books. Her latest book series, Princess Olivia Investigates, is about a young girl who would rather be a scientist than a princess. Our film, "You Are Not Small", is inspired by Olivia. In the film Young Lucy, like Olivia, is inquisitive, and inspiring and tells our youngest learners that we might be small in size but we can still make a difference and help to save our planet.

“We hired Sherene to help us storyboard, illustrate and animate an explainer video that needed to be finished on a time crunch for our “The IRS Files” series. Sherene did a wonderful job in a short time frame, was easy to collaborate with, a great communicator and a pleasure to work with. Would definitely work with her again!”

- Alumdena Toral, Executive Producer at ProPublica

87th Street Creative, owned by award winning designer Sherene Strausberg, creates animated marketing videos for companies and nonprofits using motion design. We have worked on videos for such companies as American Express, Walmart, Healthline, and McKinsey & Company. 

Motion design is a great tool for when you have a product to sell or a story to tell. We believe in using animated graphics to tell great stories and raise awareness for products and services that are eco-friendly or promote social good and equality. We also offer sound design and mixing, which combine with animated graphics to make a fully immersive visual and aural experience. 

We are currently creating animated videos for a non-partisan think tank in Washington D.C., and an executive consulting firm in Chicago.