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Exhibition Design (in progress)

Exhibition design, photographs, tape, and negatives (1)

As we continue to paint the letters, we’re now moving onto some exhibition design for the launch of the Letter Library.

Exhibition design, photographs, tape, and negatives (2)

Really preliminary ideas here … but the gist of it is around wanting the work to feel open…

Exhibition design, photographs, tape, and negatives (3)

Not sure that we’ll go with tape on top of the photos like this.

Exhibition design, photographs, tape, and negatives (4)

4×6 photos and corresponding negatives.

Exhibition design, photographs, tape, and negatives (5)

Lovely test stamp.

Exhibition design, photographs, tape, and negatives (6)

Call and response.

Exhibition design, photographs, tape, and negatives (8)

Excite, grid.

Exhibition design, photographs, tape, and negatives (7)

A proposed stamp for the backs of the letters.

Hiba and Sara are still at the space, I’m heading back later this evening. Huge shout-out to Kiki for kicking ass alongside Kevin today, painting white styrofoam white.

More tomorrow.

 

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Tuesday Recap: in case you missed it, super jigsaw rig, graphic design in progress & other notes

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (29)

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (2)

In case you missed any of our spontaneous posts earlier today, here’s a quick recap of all the stuff that we got done!

It may look a little strange, but our jigsaw rig Kevin put together has really been a huge help today. Hiba made it through nearly 70 letters — and no wrist pain!

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (4)

Some final touches like this shim helped us to get it fine-tuned earlier today.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (1)

We had the cutting speed fairly high, and initially the jigsaw wasn’t quite locked down enough, so our cuts weren’t as straight as we would have liked.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (21)

However, once we got it all locked down, Hiba started speeding through the letters, which is completely necessary. We have about 400 letters to cut.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (3)

But, before that, Lucy came by to starting planning a project / event with Hiba and get up to speed with how things have been moving along here at CIVIC SPACE.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (7)

Lucy did a kick ass job with our press releases late last month and we’re really happy she’s back! This is how she is currently keeping track of things.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (5)

It was a full house today, Rosina and Sara came by and double-teamed some design work that needs to get done ASAP in preparation for our launch next Thursday!

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (6)

We’re still pulling from these notes that we took during a meeting a couple weeks ago as we start to assemble a basic schedule design.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (8)

Hiba made this note.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (9)

I spent the afternoon working on some answers for an interview.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (10)

Hiba flipped back to cutting more letters.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (11)

The library thus far.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (12)

Here’s a ribbon from a gift from DodoLab. Reminds me how much I love that gold printing / plating (what is it really called?) reminds me of track and field ribbons.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (13)

Snow storm.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (14)

Notes on the back of our window facade frame that Kevin came in to continue work on.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (15)

Rosina brought a polaroid camera and we instagramed old school.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (16)

Also, Rosina started to work with our new stamp as she finessed the design of our library card.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (17)

XW.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (18)

I took a break and added some bunting to the construction zone in front of our place.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (19)

I also painted the jigsaw blades that we had in waiting with more nail polish.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (20)

Z!

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (22)

The remaining letters for the day.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (23)

Hiba announcing her record time to cut 4 letters, or 6 letters or something.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (24)

The back of our library card being designed.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (25)

Kevin further bracing the face of our window facade.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (26)

Rosina at work!

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (27)

Stamp sizing.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (28)

Plotting our the date and letters checked-out setup for the back of our letter library card.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (29)

The back of the postcard in progress that Sara and I were tossing back and forth.

Tuesday at CIVIC SPACE with design sessions, styrofoam letters, bunting, meetings, and polaroids (31)

Broken City Lab in the 1970s.

 Tomorrow: some meetings, some guest cutters, and a lot more fun. We’re here between 11am and 4pm, if you’re in the hood.