1st Edition

Graphic Design in Museum Exhibitions Display, Identity and Narrative

By Jona Piehl Copyright 2021
278 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 49 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Graphic Design in Museum Exhibitions offers an in-depth analysis of the multiple roles that exhibition graphics perform in contemporary museums and exhibitions. Drawing on a study of exhibitions that took place at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Museum of London and the Haus der Geschichte, Bonn, Piehl brings together approaches from museum studies, design practice and... Read more

1: Framing and reframing exhibition graphic design

2: Exhibition graphics as means of display

3: Exhibition graphics as expressions of institutional identity

4: Exhibition graphics as visual content

5: Exhibition graphics as resource of exhibition narration

6: Negotiating the multiple roles of exhibition graphics

List of exhibitions and museums

Biography

Jona Piehl is Professor of Communication Design at the HTW Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin. As a graphic designer and design researcher her practice focuses on processes and methods of visual storytelling, in particular in the creation of narrative environments, and she has worked on numerous exhibition projects both in Germany and in the UK.