Millenium
Client: The National Ethnographic Museum
exhibition design, concept design, graphic design, multimedia, animation
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story behind
the project
The aim was to create a conceptually thought-out, ethnographic and educational collection that reflects the changes in trends related to everyday things over the last century. The Millenium collection includes 13 groups of objects illustrating the phenomenon of a continuum (the recurrence of trends) - from the use of natural resources that are "at hand", home production methods and handicrafts in the past, through technologically advanced products, through mass production lacking care for the environment and real production costs (Millenium), to selected modern projects and objects - technologically advanced, but created from natural resources with respect for the environment, enriched with socially responsible narrative (story).
Presentation of three generations of items at the exhibition was meant to invite viewers to the intergenerational discussion on the role of the subject in human life in the past and present, and on the changes that took place in the processes of design and production and the emotions that they arouse in users.
The objects representing various branches of everyday life were exhibited on transparent display polyhedrons underlining the three-level structure of the exhibition. The heart of the exhibition was a sensoric tube – a place for direct interaction with various elements present in the exhibition and for multimedia.
The idea for the exhibition design was focused around mobility and the requirement of providing easy transportation of the objects.
The leitmotif of the graphic design was a bubble accompanied by colorful solids in two color palletes, relating to the millenium as a bubble – once treated as a symbolic break, it later became a time to which we can trace the return to tradition.