This week, Demone and I started working our our exhibit panels. We met Monday to make the final selection of our photos and then began constructing our panels on Tuesday. We made the panels in Microsoft PowerPoint. Our backgrounds are grey blue and the font is black. We decided on Bookman Old Style size 29 for our font. We interspersed photographs with the text on the panels as well as creating a couple panels that were only photographs.
On Thursday, we completed our panels and began work sketching out the exhibit space. We met again on Friday to finish our sketches. We drew out each wall of our space and then drew in which panels, objects and curios would go where. This has been the most challenging part of the project so far. I have measured the walls and curios and will need to redraw some of my sketches this weekend to make sure that all the panels, curios and objects will fit in the wall space that we have.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Friday, November 16, 2012
November 13th and 15th, 2012
The week of November 5th-9th, the Museum staff was out of town for the SEMC Annual Meeting in Williamsburg, VA, so Demone and I worked independently on wrapping up the edits on our labels. We also finalized our font and color scheme. We decided to use Bookman Old Style as the font for our exhibit labels and narrowed down color schemes to either black font on a pale peach background or black font on a light grey-blue background.
On Tuesday, Demone and I went up to the Museum to examine the different types of labels and layouts used in current displays. We explored each exhibit and took notes on the font sizes, the style of the label's backgrounds and the size of the labels. We then decided what size we would like our labels to be and what color we would like the background to be. We decided to stick with our initial decision to have a solid color background for the text, and after discussing color choices with Ms. Bryner, decided that black text on the blue-grey background would be easier to read.
After we had finished deciding the size and color of our labels, we finished scanning in photos of which we only had hard copies.
On Thursday, Demone and I went back up to the Museum, this time to sketch the layout of the area where we will be installing our exhibit. Demone sketched the layout of the wall space while I drew a bird's eye view of the room. We decided where we would like to place the curios and how many label panels we would need to have printed.
After mapping out the space, we had a better idea of how much room we would have to display objects and so we worked on finalizing our objects list. We tried to make sure that our final list of objects represented a variety of cultures and time periods, but would also fit in the space that we had.
During the second half of our time on Thursday, Demone and I met with Dr. Whittington and Ms. Bryner to discuss designing our labels and the process of having them printed. Dr. Whittington showed us how to use PowerPoint to create an exhibit label.
Over the Thanksgiving break, Demone and I will do one last round of editing on our exhibit labels and narrow down our photo choices so that when we start back on the 26th, we can begin the process of building the exhibit panels.
On Tuesday, Demone and I went up to the Museum to examine the different types of labels and layouts used in current displays. We explored each exhibit and took notes on the font sizes, the style of the label's backgrounds and the size of the labels. We then decided what size we would like our labels to be and what color we would like the background to be. We decided to stick with our initial decision to have a solid color background for the text, and after discussing color choices with Ms. Bryner, decided that black text on the blue-grey background would be easier to read.
After we had finished deciding the size and color of our labels, we finished scanning in photos of which we only had hard copies.
On Thursday, Demone and I went back up to the Museum, this time to sketch the layout of the area where we will be installing our exhibit. Demone sketched the layout of the wall space while I drew a bird's eye view of the room. We decided where we would like to place the curios and how many label panels we would need to have printed.
After mapping out the space, we had a better idea of how much room we would have to display objects and so we worked on finalizing our objects list. We tried to make sure that our final list of objects represented a variety of cultures and time periods, but would also fit in the space that we had.
During the second half of our time on Thursday, Demone and I met with Dr. Whittington and Ms. Bryner to discuss designing our labels and the process of having them printed. Dr. Whittington showed us how to use PowerPoint to create an exhibit label.
Over the Thanksgiving break, Demone and I will do one last round of editing on our exhibit labels and narrow down our photo choices so that when we start back on the 26th, we can begin the process of building the exhibit panels.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
October 31st and November 1st
This week, Demone and I worked on scanning photographs to the computer and finalizing our timeline date labels.
On Wednesday, while Ms. Bryner and Ms. Cromwell finished editing the rough draft labels that we had submitted, Demone and I began sorting through and scanning in the photographs we had chosen. Several of the early photographs were only available in hard copy form, so we used a portable scanner to create digital copies of them.
On Thursday, we used Ms. Bryner and Ms. Cromwell's revisions to edit and refine the labels for the dates on our timeline. We also used Beverly Serrell's advice offered in Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach to pick possible fonts and color schemes.
On Wednesday, while Ms. Bryner and Ms. Cromwell finished editing the rough draft labels that we had submitted, Demone and I began sorting through and scanning in the photographs we had chosen. Several of the early photographs were only available in hard copy form, so we used a portable scanner to create digital copies of them.
On Thursday, we used Ms. Bryner and Ms. Cromwell's revisions to edit and refine the labels for the dates on our timeline. We also used Beverly Serrell's advice offered in Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach to pick possible fonts and color schemes.
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