The Speed Art Museum’s store features custom designed products related to the museum’s exhibitions. They’re often inspired by either the visuals of the artwork, the premise or goal of the exhibition, or a combination of both.
- Client Speed Art Museum
- Merchandising Jae Grady
- Design Carrie Scrufari
The Design Unveiled exhibition focused on modern and contemporary decorative arts from the Speed’s collection. Many of the pieces were geometric and abstract, which led to some custom typography explorations of the word “design” and the exhibition title.
T-shirt designs served as a way to promote the exhibition while it was open, but also sought to feature appealing and unusual designs that guests would be happy to wear long after the exhibition closed.
The hand-painted typography reading “Paint Like a Girl” went along with the Speed’s exhibition Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism. It captures the exhibition’s tone of celebrating women artists who in many cases had often gone unnoticed. And the design itself was in fact painted by a girl.
The American Library exhibition by Yinka Shonibare feature brightly colored fabric books with the names of immigrants on them. The exhibition truly was a celebration and a statement about the impact of immigrants on our country. “I Stand With Immigrants” was a design that related to the exhibition but continued to be relevant outside of it.