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The Ancient Mexicans Udstillingsidentitet by Eduardo Guizar Vukovich

The Ancient Mexicans Udstillingsidentitet by Eduardo Guizar Vukovich is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award i Sølv in Kulturarv og Kulturindustri Design Competition Category.


SølvKulturarv· 2024

The Ancient Mexicans Udstillingsidentitet

by Eduardo Guizar Vukovich

Client: Universidad de Monterrey

A' Design Award i Sølv Winner in Kulturarv Category

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The Design

About The Ancient Mexicans Udstillingsidentitet

The Ancient Mexicans er en grafisk identitet for en permanent udstilling om mexicanske præcolumbianske kulturer på Museum of the Northeast i Monterrey, Mexico. Identiteten er baseret på konceptet om stjernebilleder. Et gitter af punkter blev placeret over billeder af udvalgte udstillingsgenstande, og kvadrater og deres variationer blev brugt til at skabe piktogrammer for hver kultur og hvert tema. Piktogrammerne spejles og gentages for at danne mønstre, der fungerer som moduler og tilpasser sig hver anvendelse. Informationsdesign i udstillingen understøtter besøgsoplevelsen.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Sølv

The Ancient Mexicans Udstillingsidentitet er vinder af A' Design Award i Sølv, en usædvanligt prestigefyldt anerkendelse, der tildeles designs i topklasse, som er pragtfulde og imponerende. Sølvvinderne er enormt geniale og overordentlig kreative værker, der illustrerer deres designeres fremragende ekspertise, talent og skarpsindighed. The Ancient Mexicans Udstillingsidentitet forventes at være et vidunderligt udstillingsværk, der er bemærkelsesværdigt professionelt og dybt innovativt. Dette design, der har vundet A' Design Award i Sølv, er en højst bemærkelsesværdig, beundret opfindelse, som gavner og flytter grænserne for kunst, videnskab, design og teknologi. The Ancient Mexicans Udstillingsidentitet er en skabelse, som mange misunder, og som vækker begær, bringer positive følelser og antænder forundring og undren.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Design of a new graphic identity that is flexible and functional, as well as a communication strategy that attracts the public to the exhibition of Ancient Mexicans, (exhibition of Mexican pre-Hispanic cultures at the Museum of the Northeast in Mexico, MUNE); offer information design within of the exhibition to enhance the experience of the user and finally, promote knowledge of pre-Hispanic cultures in the Northeast of the country through graphic design.
Dimensions & Packaging
The exhibition The Ancient Mexicans has 466 pieces, these are divided within the exhibition in cultures and themes. During the development From the graphic identity, two were selected
pieces from each culture and theme. to make choose each piece, were considered the most representative and with better photographs of the technical sheets provided by the Alfa Planetarium.
The first thing that was done during the abstraction process
of the graphic elements was to select the image of the piece, consistent with this step, the reticle was placed over the image and the opacity of the image in order to be able to observe
with greater clarity. Finally, the main element, which is the square and its variations on the image and the grid, generating
as a result different pictograms, or elements graphics for graphic identity.
Tags
Cultural, Heritage, Pre-hispanic, museum, archaeology, identity, signage, Aztecs, Mayans
Production Technology
For the graphic identity, a grid created from the concept of Constellations, considering that the stars when they come together generate new ones figures, different shapes were placed and organized points. By joining four points with lines, we generate a square.
Design Challenge
For the creation of the graphic identity, it was taken into account
account our client, the investigation, the public objective and the concept of Constellations. Starting From this background, several characteristics that we consider essential for what was sought to be represented through the graphic identity. We translate these characteristics to goals, which are: having an identity flexible, attractive, recognizable and current graphics.
Research
Interviews were carried out with people specialized in the field
of museums. The Double Diamond Model was implemented, methodology that allows improving creative processes and idea prototyping. Various world-class museums were visited and the creative proposal was developed. From the research process, we developed the concept for the development of graphic identity. It arose from the search to connect the present with the past.
Taking this into account, a reflection was carried out about connections such as the union between two or more things that sometimes reveal to us and communicate new messages.
Inspiration
Our country has a deep and extensive history, in Mexico from 2,500 BC. In 1521, a series of cultures developed, among which the Olmecs, Teotihuacans, Mayans, Zapotecs, Toltecs, Mixtecs and Mexicas or Aztecs.

Codices consist of pictorial documents or images that serve as a historical source in which the pre-Hispanic peoples left recorded its cultural and scientific advances, beliefs, rituals, system economic, chronology and in essence… its history.
Project Duration
The design for the exhibition will be permanently at the Museo del Noreste (MUNE), in Monterrey Nuevo León, Mexico.
Operation Flow
From the development of graphic elements designed based on the search for representation of each culture and theme, we decided to make emphasis on one of the goals established for the new graphic identity of “Los Antiguos Mexicanos”,
flexibility.
With the aim of designing a graphic identity flexible, a series of patterns were generated from the graphic elements. These are formed through reflection and repetition of one of the graphic elements. Each pattern works as module and system; usage varies depending on the application.
Team Members
Andrea Rodríguez Tapia
Ariadna García Ríos
Daniela de la Fuente Lozano
Isabel Villegas Martínez

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