Gallery ~ Museum Work
During my years with the New Mexico Museum of Space History, I worked as the on-staff graphic designer, serving within the Exhibits Department (assisted with visual brand-development and developed graphic design/layout of large-format panels); and also worked in tandem with the Marketing Department (provided branded materials for various gallery-openings, events, advertising materials, museum collateral, publications, etc.) Museum-work was a fantastic adventure!
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Hand-drawn logo (intentionally sketchy style) & branding for an on-loan exhibit which had no cohesive brand... so I created one. Humorous exhibit about how folks of times-past envisioned the future. Promotional poster with funny poem; bookmark; art contest certificate (for grade schoolers); & large intro panel for exhibit.
Foundation's event to celebrate the opening of the museum's new SpaceShipOne Exhibit: invitation with foiled sticker; commemorative silver-toned coin, for which I designed the stamped graphic, featuring the Museum's iconic building (stamped coins actually flew in space); and large exhibit intro panel.
A series of 7 large-format panels designed for the visitors' center of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. (Obviously not for the Space Museum, but I always adore wide-format work!) Under development, and so much fun to work on!
Signage and exhibit panels for various museum galleries.
Signage and exhibit panels for various museum galleries. (Upper panel was displayed beneath a giant window overlooking the geographic basin; lower panel was the "standard" developed for all artifact-panels throughout the museum.)
An assortment of collateral developed for the "Fire Dragons" meteorite exhibit, with my own firey dragon image: poster, bookmark, postcard, and large footprints to be printed & affixed to the floor (leading folks to the new exhibit.)
Exhibit panels in support of the Fire Dragons meteorite exhibit; including large wall-mounted panel, panel to hold meteorite sample, and a poster geared toward children.
Materials for "Pupniks" exhibit (about the historical dog-based Russian space program): exhibit panel (mural-sized), promotional posters, and a multi-piece invitation for the gallery opening (set up like a secret dossier, complete with transparent "film" showing frames from an actual spaceflight of a Russian dog.)
Materials in support of two big public events: including poster, "passport" for children, t-shirt design (metallic copper ink), admission ticket, and two metal cloisonne lapel-pins.
Various materials for the museum's yearly summertime Shuttle Camp, for school-age children: cloisonne pins, trifold brochures, and poster (with a different look for each year's camp.)
Posters to promote events at the museum.
Various materials in support of a special event at the museum's IMAX theatre.... "Western Mardi Gras" offered a unique challenge to combine "old west" themes with space. Shown here are a giant "painting" for the "saloon" (historical sassy saloon poster, modified with museum-logoed hat & silk sash for modesty), posters, signage , and tickets.
Posters to promote events at the museum.
Posters to promote events at the museum.
Logo & collateral materials created for the museum's auxiliary astronomy group: business card, event-signage, and trifold brochure.