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Tools

This Book is an explanation on how to create an exhibition. With using this book and the tools provided within the box will help you to create a great exhibition within any room. This box has taken all the default element to an exhibition and provided you with them. Follow the steps and use the tools provided as well as reference on the back page and you will be able to create a experience within your house or hall.

Below are the contents of the box and tools that you will need to provide your self. Have fun, be creative and enjoy the experience.

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x1Wall Chart used to hold up against the wall and use to place the pictures in there right positions.

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Tools Needed

- Tape measure - Pencil - Friend/Family

This yellow box is shown throughout this book and this box explains what you will need to create that section of the exhibition.

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Average viewing height

Flush Line

5’-3”(1.6m)

6’-3”(1.9m)

Wall Plan

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Floorplan of suggested approach to traffic flow

Floorplan of unstructured approach to traffic flow

Floorplan of directed approach to traffic flow

Directing the audience around your exhibition is important. If there are a number of images and 3D piece, Direction makes it easier for the audience to see everything. There are a number of different route that people can take. Work out what shape your room is and where fixtures are then you can direct people around by moving objects to create pathways.

Floor Direction

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Average viewing height

Flush Line

5’-3”(1.6m)

6’-3”(1.9m)

Floor Plan

This is a floor plan for a straight forward rectangle room. This is a basic standard size for a lounge. There isn’t much wall space due to the attached rooms. This is a great space for a 3-D exhibition. The use of the floor space would make it easier to walk around an admire the work.

Entrance

Exit

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Average viewing height

Flush Line

5’-3”(1.6m)

6’-3”(1.9m)

Entrance

Exit

This floor plan is an interesting shape with a number of different doors and entrances. This space can be used in a exciting way. The use of 3-D objects can break up the space. Using the space is very important, there are two walls that stick out into the room to dived the spaces, however a positive about this space is that there is more wall space for art work to be displayed on. This just shows that you can use any space. You just have to use the unique, quirky elements to make a great exhibition.

Mulitple directions

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This floor plan is a normal size room. There are a number of entrances and exits into and out of the room. These is a nice flat wall that would be excellent for displaying art onto the wall. There could be a centre 3-D piece in the middle of the room and then there can relating work around on the walls.

4’-0” (1.2m) C

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viewing space

Average viewing height

Flush Line

5’-3”(1.6m)

6’-3”(1.9m)

Entrance Exit

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How do you lay out the art work?

Within this pack there is a wall chart. You should hold the chart up to the wall that you are planning on using for the exhibition. Stand the right distance away from the wall that the lines, line up with the edges of your wall. Get someone to help you and use the colour dots make marks for the pictures. Work out the centre of the picture and hit the nail in. This will give you a layout for your pictures that suits the theme you are trying to achieve.

Children’s exhibitions Modern Exhibitions Classic Exhibitions

Tools Needed

- Wall Chart- Nails- Pencil - Friend/Family

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Children’s exhibitions Modern Exhibitions

Classic Exhibitions

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Modern Exhibitions Children’s exhibitions

Classic Exhibitions

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This is where you would put the exhibition title. (Size 50pt)

Information about artist

Modern Exhibitions

Wall Text

Title Signs

Large panel size and imposing print.• Short, 1-10 words.• Attention grabbing.• Thematically oriented - information content is superficial.• Design over content. • Mood setting (comic, serious, controversial, elegant, etc.)•

Sub-titles (section headings) signs

Longer than titles - 10-20 words.•Large; easy to read from distance.•content more focused and informational.•Topic oriented.•Design and content about equal.•

Introductory text

Longer - 50-200 words divided into succinct, concise •paragraphys about 75 words in length. Usually located near the entry to the exhibition.•Explanatory - relates the rationals for the exhibition; a unifying •statement.Intriduces major concepts within the exhibition.•

Group texts

75-150 words in length.•Associated with groupings of objects or serve as section texts.•sometimes begin with a “kicker” or heading.•Unifies grouping conceptually.•Informative, interpretive.•

Tools Needed

- Text- Printed Vinal- Pencil- Friend/Family

The use of wall text is useful to inform the audience. This allows you to give details about the art and artist. The title signs give the group of images a link and the sub-title can give more information. Galleries also use captions next to the art to provide the audience with the artists name, name of image, how the image was createdand when.

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TheSans Basic Light

TheSans Basic Light Italic

TheSans Basic Plain

TheSans Basic Plain italic

TheSans Basic Bold

TheSans Basic Bold Italic

For a Modern Art exhibition there are a number of typefaces that can be used such as Apple Casual, Brush Script Std , Century Gothic,, Chalkboard. They are easier to access but this typeface, TheSans Basic is a simple fun child’s font.

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What colour should you use?

Colour is an important element to an exhibition. The use of white is mostly used within wall colour, mainly with modern exhibitions. With children exhibitions they need to be bright and colourful. Colour is a great way to get the childrens attention it is also used for the publications for the exhibitions and advertising, so when you are producing your exhibitions think about the ways that you can us these colours. The child’s colours are bright and playful.

Tools Needed

- Colour Chart

R:58G:150B: 170

R:122G:179B: 190

R:158G:203B: 208

R:202G:226B: 228

R:192G:217B: 229

R:72G:91B: 113

R:80G:116B: 147

R:120G:152B: 178

R:155 G:175B: 198

R:180 G:213B:229

R:61 G:56B:122

R:120 G:123B:168

R:150 G:154B:194

R:192 G:182B:207

R:212G:209B:233

R:140G:55B:84

R:158G:80B:110

R:192G:124B:148

R:225G:184B:203

R:235G:208B:228

R:149G:15B:67

R:167G:72B:96

R:168G:111B:122

R:203G:158B:162

R:251G:212B:209

R:197G:53B:27

R:220G:111B:90

R:224G:145B:127

R:228G:191B:176

R:252G:210B:193

R:203G:115B:23

R:206G:139B:79

R:227G:181B:156

R:229G:200B:181

R:239G:199B:175

R:251G:176B:52

R:254G:196B:101

R:255G:217B:143

R:254G:219B:180

R:255G:239B:207

R:212G:176B:4

R:234G:200B:0

R:234G:211B:99

R:244G:223B:142

R:255G:251B:203

R:121G:154B:40

R:165G:182 B:56

R:184G:191 B:96

R:201G:201 B:146

R:217G:216 B:178

R:57G:99 B:83

R:53G:145 B:131

R:115G:173 B:160

R:168G:192 B:177

R:189G:200 B:178

Colour’s choices for a Children’s Exhibition

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Publications/Advertising

Place picture

Heading Heading

Place text

Place text

Place text

Place picture

Place picture Place text Place text

Heading

Place picture

Place picture

Place text Place text

Place text

Heading

Place picture Place picture Place text

Heading Heading

Publications are important tools within an exhibition. Creating a leaflet or guide for the exhibition will not only give the audience with background knowledge and images of the art work them selves but also provide them with something to take home and keep enjoying. The more information you provide the more intense the audience can be.

Here is a default layout for a leaflet. There are areas for text as well as images and this layout works no matter the content like the next diagram show.

Within this kit box there is a large printed out default leaflet. All you have to do is place your images and text within the boxes provided and scan or photocopy.

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Children’s exhibitions

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How to create a poster for a Childrens’ exhibition.

Advertising your exhibition is vital to the success of it. There are many ways to do this and creating posters are one of them. For a Childrens’ exhibition poster there is a certain difference from a classic or modern posters. A lot of the text is curved. The use of bright colours and fun shapes.

The typefaces chosen are often modern such fonts as Apple Casual, Brush Script Std , Century Gothic, also hand drawn type is also used. TheSans Basic Light is a type suggested for children posters and publications. All of these typefaces are used to create a certain look and entice a certain type of person to the exhibition, it is used to create a youth, hip look.

The choice of colours are interesting, bright, bold, strong playful colours are such as red, yellow, purple, green, black, white.

When creating your poster to advertise your exhibition think about the colours that you would like to continue through the exhibition something that can link the theme to the poster. The typeface chosen also represent your feel to the exhibition.

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Souvenirs

Within galleries and exhibitions there is always souvernirs that either the adults or children can take away. Within this box there is some tools to help you provide souvernirs for your visitors. There are pencils that you can use the white letrascech on and write the name of your exhibition or artists. There are rubbers that can also be writen on. A souvenir that is often forgotten about is the bag to hold these items in, so in your box there are a number of white small bags that you can be creative with and decorate anyway you feel fit.

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Reference

This last page is a page of help for you, if all of this past pages haven’t told you enough then this page will provide you with more information. Here are a number of references that you can find in a library or on the internet. This references refer to exhibition design and then there is always real life exhibitions, go and visit exhibitions where ever you live, there is nothing better than gathering information and experience from a real life exhibition.

Alles, A. (1973) Exhibitions: Universal Marketing Tools, London: Associated Business Programmers Ltd

Auerbach, J. A. (1999) The Great Exhibitions of 1851: A Nation on Display, Hong Kong: World Print Ltd.

(Cassar. M (1998) The Architects’ journal, the home of British architecture. Museums, the client’s way), 19 February).

Dean, D. (2007) Museum Exhibition: Theory and Practice, London: Taylor & Francis.

Dernie, D. (2007) Exhibition Design, London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd.

Gibson, D. (2009) The Wayfinding Handbook: Information design for Public Places, New York: Princeton Architectural Press. Harding, A. (1997) Curating: The contemporary art museums and beyond (Art & Design Profile) Vol 12 , No ½ January – February. Mostaedi, A. (2006) Exhibition Design, Spain: Carles Broto.

Pegler, M.M. (2007) Visual Merchandising and display, Fairchild Publications, Inc. Rattenbury, A. (1971) Exhibition Design: Theory and Practice, London: Studio Vista Limited.

Read, B. Lingwood, J. & Nordgren, S. Phillpot, C. & Higgs, M. (2001) The producers: Contemporary Curators in Conversation (3), Baltic

Richardson, A. (2009) Guiding touch, Design Week, Vol 24, No. 25, 25th June, p19.

Schwarz Frey, B. (2006) Designing Exhibitions, Switzerland: Birkhauser Publishers for Architecture.

Serota, N. (2000) Experience or interpretation: The Dilemma of Museums of Modern Art, London: Thames & Hudson Ltd.

Staniszewski, M,A. (2001) The power of Display: A history of exhibition installations at the Museum of Modern art, Canada: The MIT Press.

Tucker, J. (2003) Retail Desire, Design, Display and Visual Merchandise, Switzerland: RotoVision SA.

Velarde, G. (1988) Designing Exhibitions, London: The Design Council.

Wade, G. (2001) Curating in the 21st Century, Walsall: New Art Gallery.