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Heilmaier Messedesign – 3D Modeling & Graphics

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

I worked on some graphics for Kennemetal's parking signs, 3D modeling for a cow milking machine, and planning for the stripe graphics at the BayWa exhibit at this year's ZLF agricultural trade show in Munich.

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Fermilab Visitor Center

Posted: December 8, 2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, FIT Exhibit Graduate Program-Tags: FIT, exhibit, interactive

For my thesis project at FIT, I designed a visitor center for the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory. When I started this project, Fermilab had recently decommissioned their Tevatron experiment and they were considering opening the giant ring accelerator to tours, which would help to show the importance of particle physics to the general public. My [...]

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BayWa ZLF Trade Show – Demonstration Walls

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

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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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: exhibit, FIT

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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Brooklyn Cyclones Signage Project

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

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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