Artist in Residence Week 3 - Where is Everyone?

Going into week 3 was even slower than the last. Gayle and Floyd went on a day trip to Miami so there was nothing to do when I arrived. I gave gave Gayle a call to see if there was anything that needed to be done. She informed me of labels that needed to be formatted and printed onto label sheets. So for about 2 hours or so I worked on finalizing and formatting labels to sheet templates so that they could be printed.

They then had me go on a lunch break for a short amount of time. When I got back Gayle had emailed me a a document. This document was a brochure that LMCC was working with another designer on. She wanted me to look it over and give feedback on things that should be changed before finalizing the document for print. As you can see from the preview above, there was a lot of stuff that I had to say about it. 

Artist in Residence Week 2 - Finishing Boards

     

       My second visit to the Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center was rather uneventful. The goal walking in was to try and figure out what tasks I was going to be doing throughout the duration of my residency. Unfortunately Gayle was not available all day as she was at some appointments with family things. The other volunteers did not want to try and negotiate anything while Gayle was away. It was also extremely busy as some exhibits where being moved and there was an event later that night. The whole museum is changing up their displays so there were a lot of volunteers moving things and organizing the back room.

       Even though Gayle was not present, I took my time there to take note of some of the locations of the storyboards I was working with. I transferred the content from the old storyboards to my personal drive and began moving the information to the new board design. I tried to make sure that the content remained the same with slight modifications as needed. I was able to spend several hours working on moving content from one board to another keeping an eye on the typography as it relates to the design. I was making sure the content was clear and legible. I sent the boards over to the main email for review. Next step with this is to try and get a test print and see how the new boards look from a large format print.

       Hopefully this Friday the heads of the board will be available so we can discuss what needs to be done and what direction they wish to take with these projects.


Revised Boards:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SnFg8mhub8A6VKjsc0Mb_T7-r7NffZVq/view?usp=sharing

Artist in Residence Week 1 - Getting Started

Week 1

My first visit to the Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center was more of a research day. The hours That I attended were spent taking pictures of the current storyboard designs while waiting for Gale to arrive later in the day. Working with other volunteers we were able to look through the archives and find the assets needed to re-design the storyboards. After gathering assets I began to decide what kind of visual identity these boards should have. I began looking through the current website and started to pull colors and patterns through there that flow with other designed elements throughout the museum. at this point I began creating a board template that will act as the intended layout for each board.  Once Gayle arrived I displayed a mocked up version of the board design for approval. Once approved I was then given the confirmation to move forward with the design style and content layout.

Gayle and I discussed one of the major projects that she would like to have done which is the website. Gayle wishes to have this site be more informative and up to date with events in the community. Gayle had told me the things she would like to have done with the site and I told her what I would need from her to proceed. This next visit will hopefully be planning our approach to give the Lincolnville Musuem a stronger online presence.