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STUDIO: Music Timeline Exhibit (Pratt Institute Exhibition Design Certificate courses, 2020)
Design Advisor: Alan Wilpon; Rhinoceros CAD Advisor: William Haskas
We were given freedom to explore the life of any composer, musician, or musical type, creating an exhibition based on a timeline. I chose Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. With research I discovered that as a child, he built a toy theatre on top of a record player using toy blocks, and acted out scenes with his action figures. This became the inspiration for an exhibit that allows the visitor to explore Webber's entire canon as well as brief interludes about his life, in relatively chronological order. Celebrating the childhood imagination that Webber has held onto in order to create giant, spectacular, productions, you are invited to explore his imagination. The "big" musicals are presented on top of record-like discs 2" off the floor featuring artefacts and costume pieces, and other information is shown with photos, captions, and small objects displayed on oversized toy blocks. At the end, visitors are asked "what can you imagine?" and given a life-sized toy theatre to play in and on. In designing this exhibition I was very conscious of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Canadian Standards of Accessibility in order to create an accessible space. The full presentation given about this exhibit is available below.
Design Advisor: Alan Wilpon; Rhinoceros CAD Advisor: William Haskas
We were given freedom to explore the life of any composer, musician, or musical type, creating an exhibition based on a timeline. I chose Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. With research I discovered that as a child, he built a toy theatre on top of a record player using toy blocks, and acted out scenes with his action figures. This became the inspiration for an exhibit that allows the visitor to explore Webber's entire canon as well as brief interludes about his life, in relatively chronological order. Celebrating the childhood imagination that Webber has held onto in order to create giant, spectacular, productions, you are invited to explore his imagination. The "big" musicals are presented on top of record-like discs 2" off the floor featuring artefacts and costume pieces, and other information is shown with photos, captions, and small objects displayed on oversized toy blocks. At the end, visitors are asked "what can you imagine?" and given a life-sized toy theatre to play in and on. In designing this exhibition I was very conscious of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Canadian Standards of Accessibility in order to create an accessible space. The full presentation given about this exhibit is available below.
STUDIO: Trade Show Exhibition (Pratt Institute Exhibition Design Certificate courses, 2020)
Design Advisor: Alan Wilpon
A trade show booth for the MIDO Eyewear Exhibition. I chose the eyewear brand created by actor Daniel Levy, DL Eyewear. Using their latest product release video as inspiration and expanding upon the colours and themes there, I created a booth that carried the L.A. vibes of the brand, focusing on colour palette, the acetate materials of the glasses frames, and incorporating succulent plants for a natural break from the bright artificial world of a trade show.
Design Advisor: Alan Wilpon
A trade show booth for the MIDO Eyewear Exhibition. I chose the eyewear brand created by actor Daniel Levy, DL Eyewear. Using their latest product release video as inspiration and expanding upon the colours and themes there, I created a booth that carried the L.A. vibes of the brand, focusing on colour palette, the acetate materials of the glasses frames, and incorporating succulent plants for a natural break from the bright artificial world of a trade show.
Apart, Together Art Exhibition (Artbeat Studio Inc. 2020)
Collaborators: James Dixon, Marissa Hoff
Artbeat Studio is a charity that facilitates the use of art for mental health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, one of their initiatives was to send kits of art supplies to people living in Winnipeg's Central neighbourhoods so that each could create a shadowbox reflecting their experience of isolation during Winnipeg's first lockdown period. We displayed the resulting artwork in a vacant storefront at Portage Place Shopping Centre for residents to come visit for a week in October. To follow provincial health mandates, there needed to be sufficient space for visitors to keep physical distance while still featuring the art. While created individually, the boxes needed to make a statement when all together - though still give observers the chance to appreciate the unique features of each one. We filled the space and used a variety of levels, but made sure that each could still be seen and its details appreciated.
Collaborators: James Dixon, Marissa Hoff
Artbeat Studio is a charity that facilitates the use of art for mental health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, one of their initiatives was to send kits of art supplies to people living in Winnipeg's Central neighbourhoods so that each could create a shadowbox reflecting their experience of isolation during Winnipeg's first lockdown period. We displayed the resulting artwork in a vacant storefront at Portage Place Shopping Centre for residents to come visit for a week in October. To follow provincial health mandates, there needed to be sufficient space for visitors to keep physical distance while still featuring the art. While created individually, the boxes needed to make a statement when all together - though still give observers the chance to appreciate the unique features of each one. We filled the space and used a variety of levels, but made sure that each could still be seen and its details appreciated.
STUDIO: The Fall of the Berlin Wall (University of Victoria Exhibition Planning and Design course 2018)
Advisor: Tim Willis/Collaborators: Alyssa Sy de Jesus, Heather Dean, Katherine Purves, Nicole Parson-Admussen
This group project involved developing an exhibit's Big Idea, themes, messages, interpretive plan, potential activities and programming, as well as layout and design. All group members contributed to each element and then took the lead on their area of expertise, so I led the design aspects. See the pertinent parts of our presentation here or below.
Advisor: Tim Willis/Collaborators: Alyssa Sy de Jesus, Heather Dean, Katherine Purves, Nicole Parson-Admussen
This group project involved developing an exhibit's Big Idea, themes, messages, interpretive plan, potential activities and programming, as well as layout and design. All group members contributed to each element and then took the lead on their area of expertise, so I led the design aspects. See the pertinent parts of our presentation here or below.
STUDIO: Scent Exhibition (Pratt Institute Exhibition Design Intensive 2020)
Design Advisor: Alan Wilpon
The project brief was to use shipping containers to construct an environment where visitors could interact with elements of scent. Inspired by the recycled nature of our assigned material, I chose to create an exhibition about the old-growth forests on Canada's west coast, focusing on their importance to the Indigenous Peoples of the region as well as worldwide climate, and the threats that they face. An immersive forest environment is infused with the smells of cedar, pine, and other trees; petrichor as a rainstorm periodically moves in; and salt air blowing in from the coast. Scent also showcases the threats of logging, oil spills, and forest fire. I imagined that this concept could be applied to many different ecosystems to create a series of travelling exhibitions.Please see the document below for a more detailed exhibit presentation!
Design Advisor: Alan Wilpon
The project brief was to use shipping containers to construct an environment where visitors could interact with elements of scent. Inspired by the recycled nature of our assigned material, I chose to create an exhibition about the old-growth forests on Canada's west coast, focusing on their importance to the Indigenous Peoples of the region as well as worldwide climate, and the threats that they face. An immersive forest environment is infused with the smells of cedar, pine, and other trees; petrichor as a rainstorm periodically moves in; and salt air blowing in from the coast. Scent also showcases the threats of logging, oil spills, and forest fire. I imagined that this concept could be applied to many different ecosystems to create a series of travelling exhibitions.Please see the document below for a more detailed exhibit presentation!
STUDIO: The Timeline Project (Pratt Institute Exhibition Design Certificate courses, 2020)
Advisor: Alan Wilpon
This assignment asked us to distill a typical day into timeline format. I chose an average day in the life of an assistant designer at the Stratford Festival. The proposal for this exhibition is that it would be on a larger-than-life touch screen. A visitor could touch a bubble to expand it and reveal more details including images (some examples of the "expanded view" shown).
Advisor: Alan Wilpon
This assignment asked us to distill a typical day into timeline format. I chose an average day in the life of an assistant designer at the Stratford Festival. The proposal for this exhibition is that it would be on a larger-than-life touch screen. A visitor could touch a bubble to expand it and reveal more details including images (some examples of the "expanded view" shown).
