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The Ancient Mexicans 展览视觉识别系统 by Eduardo Guizar Vukovich

The Ancient Mexicans 展览视觉识别系统 by Eduardo Guizar Vukovich is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award 银奖 in 文化遗产与文化产业设计 Competition Category.


银文化遗产· 2024

The Ancient Mexicans 展览视觉识别系统

by Eduardo Guizar Vukovich

Client: Universidad de Monterrey

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 文化遗产 Category

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The Design

About The Ancient Mexicans 展览视觉识别系统

《古代墨西哥人》是为墨西哥蒙特雷东北部博物馆的墨西哥前西班牙时期文化常设展览所设计的平面视觉识别系统。该识别系统以"星座"概念为基础:在精选展品的图像上覆盖点状网格,并运用方形及其变体为每一种文化与主题创作象形图符。这些图符经过镜像与重复排列,形成可作为模块使用的图案,能够灵活适配各类应用场景。展览内的信息设计亦为参观者的观展体验提供了有力支持。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

The Ancient Mexicans 展览视觉识别系统是 A' Design Award 银奖得主,这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品,展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计The Ancient Mexicans 展览视觉识别系统将成为一件出色的典范之作,兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明,造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。The Ancient Mexicans 展览视觉识别系统是一件令人羡慕的创作,它唤起渴望,带来积极的情感,并激发惊叹与赞叹。

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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