Following two years of remote Commencement celebrations, Harvard Kennedy School want to make Commencement 2022 special. I worked in collaboration with the Office of Public Affairs and Communications (OCPA) team to revision and redesign the set dressing, backdrop, and experience of this important 2022 event.
Part of the redesign of Harvard Kennedy School's 2020-2021 and 2022 Commencements included new pole banners with the school namesake's quote "Ask What You Can Do."
The refresh of Harvard Kennedy School's Commencement backdrop included a sequence of stepped banners, a new branded podium, a new table for storing and staging the diploma distribution, and new planter boxes with topiaries for dressing up the perimeter of the stage.
The positioning of Harvard Kennedy School's branding is carefully orchestrated to appear with intention in photo and video documentation of the Commencement week's events. Seen here, the Dean of the School gives his opening remarks.
One of several backdrops for "Connections: The Nature of Networks," a permanent exhibition at the New York Hall of Science, Queens, New York. Each mural provides context for various thematic areas and visually activates the space as a whole. This thematic area is about self-organizing systems and natural patterns.
Close-up of the exhibit cluster about networks and organizing systems in nature features shell collections and a cast of a termite burrow.
Another mural from "Connections: The Nature of Networks" provides the backdrop and context for a thematic area on communication and transportation networks.
From "Connections: The Nature of Networks" this overview explores visualizations of social networks, networks found in nature, and various human-made constructs of networks. The mural behind is comprised of various ways of imaging social networks.
Located at GBH New's Worcester Bureau, this supersized painted GBH logo cropping is one of the first environmental-scale expressions of GBH's new brand identity.
Large murals and changing overhead imagery activates "Exploring Space," a permanent exhibition gallery at the Connecticut Science Center, Hartford, Connecticut.
A large sculptural display of instruments from all around the world sets the theme for the "Sight & Sound Experience," a permanent exhibition gallery at the Connecticut Science Center, Hartford, Connecticut. The gallery's color palette consists of vibrant, active colors, to embody the energy and vitality of sound, set against the warm bronze and cool silvery tones of musical instruments.
The entrance to the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, New York, sets visitors up to explore 4.5 billion years of earth history told through the lens of their unique collection.
The "Cambrian Explosion" mural, on the left, is the first thing visitors encounter on their "journey though time" as they enter the large light-filled gallery space of Museum of the Earth. To the right, visitors are ushered into a theater space that interprets the Museum's collection from the Cambrian through Silurian Periods.
This space tells the story of the Devonian Period – a period in which the Connecticut River Valley was submerged and sea creatures such as the featured Dunkleosteus thrived. It is one of several gallery spaces located within "A Journey Through Time," Museum of the Earth's permanent exhibition gallery, Ithaca, New York.
This alcove of Museum of the Earth's "A Journey Through Time" lays out the scientific explanation of evolution—utilizing hands-on interactive components, specimens, and interpretive graphics—as it is key to the understanding of the Museum's core message: our Earth and its inhabitants have changed, and will continue to change, over time.
At the Denver Museum of Nature and Science's "Discovery Zone," six different thematic zones immerse children in activities of open-ended exploration and play. The carefully art directed backdrop and finishes selection of "Dinosaur Gulch" makes kids FEEL as if they are on a paleontological dig site, unearthing embedded replica bones and experimenting putting (puzzle) pieces of dinosaurs together.
"Big Backyard," one of six different thematic zones inside the Denver Museum of Nature and Science's "Discovery Zone," was created specifically for the youngest visitors to the museum. Its theming, a larger-than-life-size garden, is rich in color, texture, pattern, and form to inspire young children to investigate and explore.
"Science Kitchen," part of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science's "Discovery Zone", is a multi-purpose lab space. It's friendly and festive environment welcomes visitors to come in and explore seasonally-themed activities even when a Museum-led program isn't in session.
The entry space to Denver Museum of Nature and Science's permanent exhibition gallery titled "Expedition Health," is envisioned as a transitional threshold between the larger museum and the activity-dense exhibition space beyond. This bright and friendly space supports a "quite moment" where visitors are invited to sign-in and select a "buddy"—a guide who will enrich and personalize their "expedition."
Visitors to the Science Center of Iowa encounter this sculptural advanced organizer upon entering the "Living with a Star" gallery.
Its content and design is intended to provide important multi-cultural and historical context for the gallery's more science-based exploration of our star, the Sun.
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