I design space for contemplation and participation in a beautiful moment.
Experience Designer
Interactive environment at the As you are: A Decade of You Are Beautiful exhibition, 2013
Interactive environment at the As you are: A Decade of You Are Beautiful exhibition, 2013
Chicago curator Matthew Hoffman invited me and designer Michael Pecirno, with whom I collaborated on this project, to participate in an exhibition celebrating the 10th anniversary of You Are Beautiful, a Chicago-born public art project that has become a global movement.
Michael and I knew the show would be emotionally powerful and we wanted to give visitors a chance to participate in that moment.
The piece we designed for the show offered visitors a place where they could sit and reflect, and where they could write and leave their thoughts. People responded by covering the Plexiglas we'd installed with beautiful messages in many languages. When the plexi was full, they covered the paper tubes in the installation with more heart-warming writing.
The Community Messages
We provided a space, markers, and the statement "Leave a Beautiful Message." We were thrilled and amazed with the beautiful messages left behind on the plexi and written on the paper tubes, all of the messages were positive.
Process
We start by asking the basic questions and then go much deeper. Each project we work with gets the attention it deserves by fully researching and understanding why it's important before moving forward.
We narrowed our ideas and sketched out how the wall would be assembled. We developed the custom letterforms for the wall and "Share A Beautiful Message" which was laser cut into select plexi circles.
Special thanks to our sponsor :: Chicago Paper Tube & Can Company
Special thanks to our volunteers for helping construct the wall :: Tafhim Rahman, Carrie Allen, Anna Jonsson, Tomomi Suwa & Levi Borreson
Special thanks to our volunteers for helping construct the wall :: Tafhim Rahman, Carrie Allen, Anna Jonsson, Tomomi Suwa & Levi Borreson
