Exhibit Elements

Senses Signs for the Please Touch Museum

These are all signs I designed and helped to fabricate for the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia. I created a concept for a series of signs throughout the garden for visitors to interact with and more deeply engage with their senses. I created vector designs with Illustrator and formatted them so the CNC machine could read it. I observed the cutting process and was able to fabricate the signs from that point forward.

Sunflower Height Comparison Sign for the Please Touch Museum

This is a sign I designed for the Please Touch Garden at the Please Touch Museum during my internship. I created the concept for a sign where garden visitors could compare their height to that of the average sunflower. I started with a vector design in Illustrator and formatted it to the specifications the CNC machine needed. I worked with an exhibit tech to print the design and then painted and sealed the sign.

Scavenger Hunt Card Sets for the Please Touch Museum

I worked with the Museum Learning Department at the Please Touch Museum to create two sets of scavenger hunt cards to go in the garden for unguided garden exploration. Each set contains five plants or creatures that can be found in the garden for visitors to locate, increasing visitor engagement with the garden and encouraging close looking and curiosity. I created 10 illustrations and 10 vector designs for this project. I also fabricated the sets myself and installed them on the pergola. I used Procreate for the individual illustrations and Illustrator for the vector designs. I worked with the manager of STEM programs to write the content of the scavenger hunt cards.

Bug Out Title Card
Sprout Scout Title Card
Monarch Butterfly Card
Heirloom Tomatoes Card

Garden Visitor Board for the Please Touch Museum

I created the concept of a visitor engagement board in the garden that would have a space for visitors to write and draw about their experience there. I also designed magnets with illustrations of garden creatures that visitors could place on the board. This project was started late in my internship and will be fabricated in the spring. I created many mockups of potential board layouts. The team eventually settled on the final design, it includes a tray for chalk and magnet storage, removable magnetic prompts at the top, a roof to increase weather stability, and a child sized board for magnets and chalk writing. I designed 17 garden creatures to be turned into magnets. I also fabricated the first prototype of the magnets and the final set.

This is the first magnet prototype I created with an exhibit tech, Elliot Wilson. I used fiberglass resin to completely seal the magnet to make it weather proof. I also inset a magnet on the back.