empowering self-expression

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop, this exhibit about the culture and history of the genre includes exciting opportunities for interactive self-expression, and a host of clever DIY ways to save fabrication costs.

Project:
Hip hop america: the mixtape exhibit

Gallery Type:
5,000 sq.-ft. Temporary exhibitioN

Our Role:
Exhibit design (Overall; Interactives; Art direction & Graphic Design)

Project Partners:
Grammy museum, los angeles, cA (project leadership/curatorial vision/content development); HGC Studio (Graphic Design)

Photos:
grammy museum

first up

Initial exhibits include a video montage with highlights from GRAMMY Awards shows, a breakdancing display, and a popular sampling interactive designed by Curious Beast.

Puffy pods

To create an apropos sense of play while saving costs, existing guided listening rooms were reskinned using puffer fabric panels that we designed.

When in rome

DIY solutions for the musical interactives part of the show included re-use of found art from old mixtape cassette cases, deliberately crude photography of exhibit artifacts, and repurposed road boxes.

Who’s who

A digital interactive designed by Curious Beast lets visitors look deep into the people and places that are part of the Hip Hop story.