Environment and Graphic Design
Environment and Graphic Design
NEW YORK CITY, NY
I was the lead graphic designer for the historical exhibit at the 9/11 Museum. As such, I created and set the typographic style for all graphics, designed the graphics’ color palette, all diagrams, maps, wallpapers, wayfinding, iconography and timelines, and chose all materials and production methods.
I was on the project for nearly four years, through open.
The timelines in Section 1 were printed direct to concrete panels; in Section 2 they were printed to blackened steel.
I also worked closely with 3D Design to create the most elegant solutions to tell this complex and powerful story — from designing the reading rails, to laying out walls heavy with images and text.
I designed everything but the AV, including maps, diagrams, wallpapers, labels, and how and on what material photos were to be printed and finished. It was my job to take this precious content, and decide how to communicate the story/s most clearly and beautifully.
Sometimes it made most sense to punctuate moments by painting quotes directly to the wall along side time and location stamps.
I combined large scale imagery of the World Trade Center with quotes in dimensional steel letters to celebrate the achievement of the World Trade Center.
Many parts of this exhibit’s story are extremely complex and dense, and so I felt it was important for me to create digestible sections in a number of areas.
I also supervised the graphic production team, attended all press checks, fabricators visits, and the entire exhibit installation, personally overseeing quality standards for 35 graphic types over 1700+ graphics for this 25,000 square foot space.
This case is one of my favorite elements in the exhibit. The team had asked that I find a way to incorporate and overlay this concourse map, and related stories and artifacts on to the World Trade Center wall map I was designing. The wall map was already very heavy with graphics and text, and I preferred to keep it as legible as possible for the Visitor. I suggested instead creating this adjacent case for all three pieces of concourse content, and designed the map and interpretive to print-direct to acrylic atop a concrete deck. It is a beautiful solution for clear storytelling.