This project featured a cross-media approach where we had to curate and design an exhibition of the Swiss designer: Niklaus Troxler. We took advantage of the designer’s connection with music, namely jazz, to build the identity. We used the musical sheets grid to design a responsive typeface, that would use the sheets’ lines as a baseline grid. We tried to keep the jazzy feeling to it, by maintaining the font with quite simple and geometric shapes, and by never using the same glyphs in the communication.
We chose the work that would be featured in the exhibition, mapped and organized the different gallery rooms with all the necessary details, and designed all the communication. The arrangement of the works on the gallery walls also used a grid inspired by music sheets.
We also prototyped an interactive object, for the last room, where people could create their own logo by playing a midi piano, and then take the printed output home.
This project was developed in collaboration with Guilherme Dias and Sérgio Morgado, within the scope of the Multimedia Design Workshop course, part of the Master in Design and Multimedia at the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal), and under the guidance of Professors Tiago Martins and Sérgio Rebelo.
January, 2022
January, 2022
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