Museum of History and Industry

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Bezos Center for Innovation

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A permanent exhibition at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry which tells a story of science, design, and technology in the Pacific Northwest.
Project
Bezos Center for Innovation
Location
Seattle, Washington
Year
2014
Team
Principal: Kristine Matthews
Project Lead: Cassie Klingler
Designer: Jonny Sikov
Partners
Illustrators: Daphne Hsu, Shawn Wolfe
3D Design: Olson Kundig
Production: Brown Bag Creative
Fabricator: Pacific Studio
Photography
Hart Boyd, Cassie Klingler; Video: Kari Gaynor
Categories
Exhibition

A 360-degree timeline immerses visitors in a history of Northwest innovation, while a nine-foot-high graphic novel depicts stories of Seattle’s global pioneers including Boeing, Starbucks, and Amazon. Throughout, the exhibition invites visitors to contribute their own opinions, ideas and personal stories, asking: “Who inspires you?” and “What problems need solving now?” These ongoing contributions and a rotating “What’s Next?” exhibit remind visitors that the best ideas are still to come.

Our strong color, illustration and typography palette helped to unify a very broad mix of content. The use of flipping and sliding panels, cranks and illumination helps to bring life, animation and interest to even those exhibits with no artifacts to display.

Awards
Core77 Design Awards 2014, Visual Communication Professional Runner Up

“The multitude of approaches designed to tell the story [of innovation] are themselves seamless with the content. It is a brilliant and engaging execution.”
— Paul Roelofs, juror, Core77 Awards
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