In 1998, I took my first position as a graphic designer at a museum and exhibit design firm; ever since I have worked off and on in the industry for a total of three firms and for a wide variety of clients. This is just a general survey of a few projects and pieces through the years in no particular order.
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An exhibit for younger children on the senses. The entry wall graphics would be a typographical composition of adjectives that evoke one the five senses; the wall becomes a vocabulary building activity for early readers. Inside the exhibit there iis a unique station for each of the senses.
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The Tweed Courthouse in downtown New York was transformed into City Hall Academy, a place where public school children could learn about the history and culture of their city … and then four years later the program was dismantled so a wealthy patron could move a charter school into the building. sigh.
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An exhibit on Civil War ironclad warships in Newport News, VA.
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While in Boston I was employed at a firm with a long standing relationship with the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI. I was responsible for the graphics for the ATP, WTA galleries, and Ivan Lendl's induction exhibition.
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An exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of Boston Symphony Hall that included graphic panels and banners throughout the halls of the building. This exhibit was written up in Communication Arts – read the article here …
Boston Symphony Hall, Communication Arts.
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Proposed exterior banners.
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A museum on the history of Timex, its earlier incarnations, and the New England clock and watch industry.
Methods of communication
Résumé/CV
Character sketch
"The Journey, The Makers, The Book"
MA Design Dissertation
Arcanum 17
Fountains
Walk in a Pine Wood
Orchestras Creeping in to Piano
Smell of Tahiti
Wood
Hell
New Year's Eve : 2012
Compilation
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