Exhibition Design Strategies

Cecilia Riosvelasco de Peña

What: • The exhibit explains what farming

is and helps the visitors to relate to farming and farm animals

• Intention of the designers was to distill complex processes like agribusiness, farm management and livestock breading

So What: • This exhibit explains complex

concepts through graphics without using a lot of text

• It also has an interactive information comparison in which the visitors can compare some of the information (like animal heights) in reference to their own body

Farm in the Zoo Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago - 1989

Bedno/ Bedno Inc.

Farm in the Zoo Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago - 1989

Bedno/ Bedno Inc.

Manufacturing Emotions Cooper-Hewitt, New York, NY - February 15–September 28, 2008

Campana Brothers What: • In this exhibit the designers played the role of

curators for the Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery exhibition series; their selection criteria: “I like that”

• The exhibition was composed by two- and three-dimensional works conceived and executed using an impressive array of scales, materials, textures, and structures

• The pieces had no obvious relation among them, but they detected functions and processes in them that established a connection with their own creations

So What: • For this exhibit, the process used by the

designers to select the pieces reflected their own creative process

• The pieces by themselves didn’t have a strong relationship among them but when combined it reflected the notion of interweaving: not only interlacing threads, but also when colors, forms, and textures combine to create a new composition that stimulated emotions

Manufacturing Emotions Cooper-Hewitt, New York, NY - February 15–September 28, 2008

Campana Brothers

Design Revolution Road Show – Spring 2010

Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller

What:

• This road show will travel through the U.S. to display 40 product that where design with the philosophy of triple bottom line: People, Planet, Profit, focusing mostly in solving social problems

So What:

• This exhibit is trying to represent a design philosophy, it is not only about the products but also about what the products represent and the design process that occur behind that product.

• The exhibit will be at UT on February 12.

Design Revolution Road Show – Spring 2010

Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller

Design for a Living World

Cooper-Hewitt, New York, NY - May 14, 2009–January 4, 2010

Yves Behar/Costa Rica; Stephen Burks/Australia; Hella Jongerius/Mexico; Maya Lin/

Maine; Christien Meindertsma/Idaho; Isaac Mizrahi/Alaska; Abbott Miller/Bolivia; Ted

Muehling/Micronesia; Kate Spade/Bolivia; and Ezri Tarazi/China. What: • In this exhibition ten designers were

commissioned to develop new uses for sustainably grown and harvested materials in order to tell a unique story about the life-cycle of materials and the power of conservation and design

• The main goal was to increase awareness where the materials come from and that there’s an ethic about material usage, the designer takes an ethical professional position

So What:

• In order to communicate the process in which each designer “found” their product, they made a video telling the whole story: since they travel to the specific site, how they found and experiment with the material, and how they got to the final product

• At the exhibition were the final products, supported by information about the location, photos of the material (or something that represented the process) and the video.

Design for a Living World Cooper-Hewitt, New York, NY - May 14, 2009–January 4, 2010

Yves Behar/Costa Rica; Stephen Burks/Australia; Hella Jongerius/Mexico; Maya Lin/Maine; Christien Meindertsma/Idaho; Isaac Mizrahi/Alaska; Abbott Miller/Bolivia; Ted Muehling/Micronesia; Kate Spade/Bolivia; and Ezri Tarazi/

China.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV-

iGLy6yKU&feature=channel