Exhibit Design

More or Less in Common: Environment and Justice in the Human Landscape

Exhibition design translating historical and contemporary mapping into a public narrative about environment and inequality.

Graphic design and coordination for a free exhibition at the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library

  • Summary

    Sole exhibition graphic designer and design lead

  • Studio

    Joelle Riffle

  • Collaborators

    Print House (Fabrication and installation)

  • Deliverables

    Exhibition graphic system, interpretive labels, maps, timelines, and wayfinding

  • Client

    The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library inspires curiosity and learning, and fosters geographic perspectives on the relationships between people and places, through free and accessible collections and resources, critical interpretation and research, and K-12 and public education.
  • View the Project

An exhibition design that connects environmental conditions with the lived experiences of humans, past, present and future in boston

In lieu of interpreting “environmental justice” as strictly relating to green spaces or access to nature, the graphic look and feel is influenced by midcentury materials distributed by the notorious Boston governmental department, the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA), formerly known as the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA).

A simple boxed design system moves visitors through stories relating to objects throughout the exhibition.

The exhibition’s weighty topics of land dispossession, pollution, and divestment along racial lines are displayed in black and gold with heavy condensed sans serif titling.

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