'Awaken' exhibition graphic design

For 'Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment', as part of the exhibition design team, I designed environmental graphics for exterior and interior spaces. We installed large banners to activate the museum's atrium space and to draw visitors toward the exhibition entrance. Role & responsibilities: schematic design, layout, production management for environmental graphics and printed map.

Large banners at the entrance area to the exhibition. Each banner: 60" x 228" (152 cm x 579 cm). Photo: David Stover © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Schematic elevation showing detail of entrance banners. Images: 'The Three Protectors of Tibet (details)', 2008, Tsherin Sherpa (Nepalese, born 1968), Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. © Tsherin Sherpa.

Installation view, with details of two banners. Photo: David Stover © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Working with the Education Department, we designed a map for the 'Journey to the Center,' to help guide the visitor through the complexities of the traditional Tibetan Buddhist mandala structure.