We took our first plunge into environment design working with La’Tasha Banks, Curator of Visual Culture at Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center to design the exhibition logo for the late-summer 2012 exhibition for artist Curtis Woody. Mr. Woody’s art reflects the colorful, densely layered style of African and African American quilts. For this showing he explored the history of slavery in Prince George’s County, MD and its impact on the larger culture of the region. After seeing his work, we worked with Ms. Banks to design a logo that was also true to Mr. Woody’s patchwork style and also conveying the weight of the subject matter. The logo also needed as since of movement, as the artwork chronicles the movement of people from bondage to emancipation, during and into nebulous phase of reconstruction at the approach of the 20th Century.
Take a look at a few of our early concept sketches:
