Te Papa photos

(Carly)

Outside entrance.

The inside foyer is quite big and empty. It has the store to the left, and the cafe, and toilets and seats on the other side, but the space isn’t used much to promote or display anything. I guess this might be because large volumes of people pass through every day, and the foyer is just that; a place to pass through, to keep people moving along. But our foyer will probably be different. It would be nice to utilize that space…

Introductory map for orientation 

(us — potential for this as well as little maps on brochures to help people get around the exhibition)

Installations

“newspaper” graphics, information, mounted photos

Lightboxes

Text and vector illustrations

Bold typography for section headers

3D/mounted blocks of information

Display cases

Lighting and 3D application of type.

Bilingual language system

Poetic and fluid structure/layout

The ceiling at Te Papa is quite high, so the height has been used to display titles and images which contribute to the overall atmosphere. Helps it not to feel too cramped. Potential?

Just another photo to show the height.

Also the layout is interesting because of all the different enclosed sections. Some of them actually feel quite cramped though

Timeline. Images, information.

Seems way too cluttered.

Not sure what’s up with the ‘earthquake’ line. Maybe it’s a population graph.

Interesting angles.

Despite the diagonal composition, this display seems a lot more clean and minimalist than many of the other displays. There isn’t too much information, and the quotes are really effective.