DiversityXDesign project
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES:
DiversityXDesign
A poster contest and workshop series for Bay Area high school students. We collaborated with local artists, educators, SFMOMA, and Inneract Project. This was a way to inspire excitement about the environment, science, and design. See project online
Team:
Andrew Sawyer - Design
Rhonda Rubenstein - Creative Director
Maya Lin - Design
Saba Tauqir - Event production
Jennifer Teu - Project Management
Nick Colin - Content
Sterling Larimore - Exhibit Design
Location:
The California Academy of Sciences museum
Year:
2020 - 2021
Students standing next to their winning posters with the Academy team and judges.
Event coordinator presenting a student with their certificate and award.
Honorable mention submissions in the design themes we created workshops around. Mural by Alexander Vidal is backdrop for the exhibit and award event.
Posters were created expanding on the design language. (print on left, digital on right)
Winning posters were transformed into a temporary exhibit with a quote by the student about the poster, and the winning category.
This program was sponsored by Bloomberg and we created a press kit to increase visibility and a distribution program through libraries and Bay Area high schools.
Web experience
Landing page for the contest with a sub-navigation to key pages.
Featured info about the judges, call-out block for seeing winning posters, and design resources.
Students were also able to participate in two workshops to help and inspire them. With consent we shared the workshops on a DiversityXDesign youtube channel.
Along with branded poster themes, we also created design resources with descriptive illustrations and links to open source resources.