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Category: Museum/Exhibit Design

BayWa ZLF Trade Show – Demonstration Walls

Posted: October 5, 2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, Heilmaier Messedesign-Tags: graphics, FIT, exhibit

BayWa requested a display that would demonstrate some of the money-saving qualities of their building materials. I worked in Illustrator to design multiple graphic layout concepts, and then Vectorworks to further refine details of the designs. Max Schmidt Von Braun was in charge of this project, and the final three images show the finished result [...]

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BayWa ZLF Trade Show – Tractor Unveiling

Posted: October 5, 2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, Heilmaier Messedesign-Tags: willkrause, graphics, FIT

A new model of tractor was scheduled to be introduced by BayWa at this year's ZLF trade show, and I worked on some initial concepts for the placeholder to stand in the new tractor's spot until the new tractor arrived on site, sketch ideas for how the curtain could be pulled away from the tractor, [...]

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BayWa ZLF Trade Show – Gift Shop

Posted: October 5, 2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, Heilmaier Messedesign-Tags: exhibit, design, willkrause

At Heilmaier Messedesign, I used Vectorworks to plan out shelving for the gift shop at BayWa's exhibit at the ZLF agricultural trade show. I also used Photoshop to add details to these early renderings. The final image is of the exterior of the main BayWa trade show structure, which contained the gift shop.

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BayWa ZLF Trade Show – Rotating Columns

Posted: October 5, 2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, Heilmaier Messedesign-Tags: willkrause, graphics, FIT

I worked with Max Pollner on the design, modeling, and graphics of two columns of rectangular forms that visitors could rotate to create different combinations. The first two images are my Vectorworks renderings, and the third image is a later, more finished rendering by another designer.

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Exhibitor 2012!

Posted: March 5, 2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, FIT Exhibit Graduate Program

I’m in Las Vegas for the next few days to visit Exhibitor 2012 – a trade show for the museum and exhibit design industry. My website is a blog of my projects, so I added this post with some of my favorite exhibit-related projects for any interested folks from the show that visit my site. […]

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Rainbow Lamp – Brooklyn Childrens’ Museum

Posted: January 29, 2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, FIT Exhibit Graduate Program-Tags: FIT, lighting, exhibit

I designed this lamp for a weather-themed lighting scheme for a FIT project set in the Brooklyn Childrens' Museum. The idea of the lighting scheme is that lighting would be used to show weather changes - projectors would show animated clouds, and lightning would be simulated with strobe lights, among other effects. After the thunder [...]

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Earthbound Farm – Trade Show Exhibit

Posted: January 26, 2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: FIT Exhibit Graduate Program-Tags: FIT, exhibit

Earthbound farm is a giant grower of organic foods, so for this FIT exhibit design project, I created a display with a giant display that is part farm tractor, part tractor trailer, and part shopping cart, to emphasize the connections between the farm, shipping, and the grocery store. The various displays also emphasize connections - [...]

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Rubin Museum of Art

Posted: January 26, 2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: FIT Exhibit Graduate Program-Tags: willkrause, FIT, exhibit

I was part of a group of FIT students to redesign the lobby and second floor gallery at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. One of the big challenges was that the Introduction to Himalayan Art exhibit on the second floor has two different entrances, each with two ways to start going through the exhibit. [...]

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Kikkerland Trade Show Counters

Posted: January 25, 2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, Abunch LLC-Tags: Props, willkrause, Furniture

I fabricated these two counters for Kikkerland's 2012 trade shows. They both have lightbox faces made out of acrylic covered with adhesive vinyl. The client wanted the acrylic to go all the way to the edge of the counter, so the plastic was applied before the laminate, and then the laminate was applied over the [...]

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Brooklyn Cyclones Signage Project

Posted: November 28, 2011-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, FIT Exhibit Graduate Program-Tags: signage, drawings, drawing

I designed some signage for the Brooklyn Cyclones' stadium on Coney Island. It was fun to do some research into the color schemes of New York baseball and Coney Island, plus I got to eat a candy apple every time I went to the stadium for a presentation! My concept was based on a combination [...]

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DISASTER!

Posted: November 21, 2011-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, FIT Exhibit Graduate Program-Tags: exhibit, critters, puppets

I designed this exhibit as a pop-up marketplace to be located on the site of the demolished Thunderbolt rollercoaster on Coney Island. It takes the shape of a giant squid attacking the mainland!

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Funnel Cake Exhibit!

Posted: November 8, 2011-Likes: 0-Comments: 1-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, FIT Exhibit Graduate Program

Hello everyone! I've been studying since this summer at F.I.T. in New York in the Exhibition design graduate program. Our first project was to design an exhibit centered around our favorite food. ...I don't really have a favorite, so I chose Funnel Cake - that sloppy mess of fried dough and confectioner's sugar that is [...]

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Puppet Stage for Miss Piggy!

Posted: September 10, 2011-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Abunch LLC-Tags: critters, puppets, puppet

I built this puppet stage for Opening Ceremony's event at Fashion's Night Out. It was built over a long weekend out of plywood, MDF, yards of black and red velvet, and lots of Christmas lights! Andrew Bunch helped me with painting and assembly, and sewing magnets to the curtains so that they would close nicely, [...]

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