my toil...

Here are just a few of the things I've been working on at the Field Museum. The exhibit is called The Ancient Americas and it is all about the ancient indigenous peoples and cultures in North, Central, and South America. The exhibit is divided into 7 main galleries based on the time period in which different cultures were in power and based on their way of life. I'm working on 2 of those galleries: Empires, which covers roughly 2400 sq feet and has 15 artifact cases; and Leadership, which covers roughly 2300 sp feet and has 8 cases. Anything that gets read in those artifact cases, I designed. The graphics I designed in the cases aren't too special, but it does get tricky working around the artifacts, making sure the fit in they correct spots, are printed on the correct substrate with the correct color matches for the specific printer and gallery colors....

But the more design intense graphics are outside of the cases and they're huge. Here are a few snapshots of those graphics (click on the image to see a larger version.)

This is what we call a "cultural intro." each culture has one to introduce their section of the exhibit, so far I've designed 8, each with their own color combinations. Oh, and they're 8 feet tall!


This is a reproduction of an ancient mural. It's going to be 8 feet off the ground and the art itself is 7 feet high and 30 feet long. This painting came to me in pieces, so I had to put them together, make them the right size and retouch it for color and background texture in photoshop. I also had to make sure they get cropped and printed correctly so they can easily be installed by the production team at the Field Museum


This is what we're calling a "Monumental Map." It shows the Inca empire and how 'monumental' it was. The different colors represent the different ethnic groups in the empire and the smaller maps on the bottom represent how the empire grew over time. It's 9 feet tall and 3 feet wide.


This is at the end of the exhibit. It's 8 feet wide.


This exhibit is going to be huge! As you can see by this very small sample of graphics, everything is really big. I can't wait to see it all come together and be finished....4 months from today!! eek!!