As part of my ongoing freelance work for the Design Museum of Chicago, I was asked to help ideate concepts for their then-unreleased logo. I pulled imagery from the museum's ten year catalog of exhibits and my own vibrant designs to make the logo attract attention and maintain legibility. The idea was to ensure shows past and present would shine through in the logo while maintaining the core identity of the museum.
Since submitting these concepts, the museum has implemented a majority of the styles in their current marketing material - a glance at their website or installations and you will see a heavy emphasis on the large lettering of the logo as they serve as windows into new releases.
Since submitting these concepts, the museum has implemented a majority of the styles in their current marketing material - a glance at their website or installations and you will see a heavy emphasis on the large lettering of the logo as they serve as windows into new releases.
I've also assisted with art installations at the museum, with the most recent being the show "At the Precipice", an art show curating pieces about climate change. The pieces were selected by Colossal, the international platform for contemporary art, and highlighted the impacts of pollution, climate change, and overall human activity on the globe.
I was also tasked with designing navigational signage for the museum's second floor offices. Wanting to hearken back to older business-standard signage but with a pop of modern design, I printed rounded icons (modern) on black vinyl (older). This created a seamless navigation which encompassed the museum's viewpoint of looking both back and forward to properly execute design. The images above capture all of the signage along with a screenshot of the vectors made when cutting.
I have also created a graphic identity and presentation proposal for the museum, but that work is under NDA at this time.
My poster "Waves Unseen" was featured in the Design Museum of Chicago's "Free & Open" Exhibition, chronicling Free and Open spaces in the city. The piece itself was dedicated to Lake Michigan and highlighted an old lookout near Navy Pier that faces the lake to this day.
