Orange You Glad You Came?
The Stark Museum of Art’s most recent exhibition. I designed graphic and interactive elements using SketchUp and Adobe, engaging our visitors to learn more about how orange and color overall are used in the museum’s collection and the real world.
Intro Wall and Interactive Color Doors
I designed the title wall and color doors in SketchUp to get a sense of how they would feel in the space. We wanted to create an immediate visual impact upon entry, so scale was important.
Color Blind Awareness Activities
I created this 10’×10.5’ graphic by individually sizing and placing groups of circles in Illustrator to create a color blind effect using the exhibition’s color palette. This activity encourages visitors to interact and view the wall through different colored acrylic panels to show how color blindness affects our ability to see certain things.
I also digitally drafted and created dimensions for the interactive pedestals located near the wall to help our Facilities team recreate them accurately. Similar to the color doors, each pedestal has reproductions of the artwork, as well as information and activities related to color blindness.
To design the large-scale organic graphic forms found on our walls and subtle orange “amoeba” shapes on our section panels, I looked to orange as a flowing, living concept. It is both natural and unnatural, catching the attention while complementing the world around it.
These designs also helped to draw the visitor into the space and highlight ordinary corners. This was the first time the Stark Museum had actively used graphic elements on this scale. Nonetheless, since its opening, these elements have so far received positive feedback from visitors and museum leadership alike.
I also designed numerous other graphics for our “Nature” section of the exhibition. This included the panels, tags for naturally dyed fabrics that we had on display for visitors to touch and interact with, and panels near our natural dye garden, which we reference in the exhibit.
Reflection Section
