I was the production and design right hand to the Sr. Graphic Designer at the San Diego Museum of Art, turning approved art and exact copy into signage, labels, brochures, menu cards and banners, then printing, mounting and helping install them in the galleries.
A museum's collection can't be treated like stock photography. Every image had to be licensed by the museum, every line of copy had to match what was approved, and every piece had to look like the same institution, on tight deadlines.
Supporting the Sr. Graphic Designer from first logo sketch to the final vinyl on the gallery wall.
Box office window signs for summer 2019 that had to work in seconds: one commanding image, one clear headline, and a schedule a visitor can scan on the way in.
One exhibition, carried across formats: a half-fold brochure that doubles as the season's program schedule, and an admission pass with a map and sign-up fields. One image, one type system, every size.
A multipage guide to a full season of lectures, tours, films and events, organized so a visitor can find a date, a price and a place in seconds.
Menu cards for the event's many restaurants, bars and dessert stations, all set in one color system so every card reads as part of the same party.
Working with art means working within the rules that protect it.
I worked under the direction of the Sr. Graphic Designer and alongside the Marketing Department, attending meetings and picking up departmental tasks so every piece stayed on brand and on deadline.