Design Journeys: You Are Here
Designing the mural
Photo: (c) 2010 Marco de
Mel
Helping with the design
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Mel
View of mural installation
process
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Mel
Mural installation
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Mel
Colors filling in the
design
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Mel
Contributing to the
ever-changing mural
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Mel
More color added to wall
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Mel
Detailed view of colors
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Mel
Participating in the “Where
are you from?” part of the exhibition
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Mel
Detail of post-it
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Mel
Attaching a post-it note to
the map of strings
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Mel
Exterior of the gallery on
opening night
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Mel
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View from inside the
gallery
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Mel
Crowd enjoying the
exhibition
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Mel
View of the attendees
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Mel
Magnetic arrow painted on
the north wall of the gallery
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Mel
Nine of the 25 designers.
In front: Art Sims. Standing, left to right: Archie Boston, Edel
Rodriguez, Karin Fong, Rafael Esquer, Michele Washington, Gail Anderson,
Sylvia Harris, Pablo Medina.
Photo: (c) 2010 Marco de
Mel
Interacting with magnetic
wall
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Mel
Attendees were encouraged
to color in the mural
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Mel
Another view of the mural
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Mel
Guests attached Post-it
notes saying where they are from to a world map made of string
Photo: (c) 2010 Marco de
Mel
Conversation around the
“Where are you from?” supply table
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Mel
View of magnetic arrow
through the strings
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Mel
Attendees enjoying the
opening
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Mel
May 20–August 6, 2010
In 2005, the AIGA Task Force on Professional Diversity developed
a list of recommendations for increasing diversity within the
profession. Among the stated goals were to create awareness of
outstanding designers from culturally and racially diverse
backgrounds and create traveling shows of the work of diverse
designers.
The “Design
Journeys” project seeked to achieve both—by not only
celebrating the lives and achievements of 25 selected
practitioners, but also encouraging aspiring designers from all
backgrounds to consider design as a viable and rewarding
career.
Exhibition design: TODA, New
York
The exhibit was made possible through support and contributions
from: AIGA Diversity task force; TODA, exhibition and collateral
design; alfalfa studio, mural and motion graphics direction;
Cubanica; Innovation Printing; Tekserve; RIS Paper; Bestype.