The News 03.16.2021

News from the worlds of exhibition design, interior design, and environmental graphics.

The secret life of museums during lockdown; “we miss our visitors” | COVID study finds that museums are safer than any other indoor activity | Covid-19 has driven millions of women out of the workforce | Smithsonian scales back its $2 billion expansion plan | Congress authorizes two new Smithsonian museums: the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women’s History Museum — hoorah! | Steal this job: museum exhibit designer | Or build your own museum in a box | Researching a sustainable kitchen countertop | Should we revisit the term “master bedroom”? — and committing to “going into the basement” | I Love Typography’s favorite fonts of 2020 | Lessons learned about team projects | A treasure trove of exhibition design inspiration: past winners of the SEGD global design awards | Benchmarks for online museums | And while poking around the onlines, I found that an exhibit I designed is on Google Street View Arts & Culture! Here are some screenshots from Pacific Exchange: China & U.S. Mail, which was on view in 2014/2015 at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum:

It’s a little “uncanny valley,” but also really neat to see an old friend. (Previous blog coverage, here and here.)

Gone Solo

I’ve thought about setting out on my own for a while now.

When my partner and I chose to move to a beautiful house in the woods just outside southern DC — which would make commuting up to Silver Spring onerous — the timing suddenly made sense to leave my position as a Senior Designer at Gallagher & Associates.

I am now practicing as Christine Lefebvre Design. I offer services in graphic design, museum exhibition design, and interiors. Over the past eight years I’ve had the opportunity to work on a vast assortment of design projects in various capacities. My experience has been both specialized — in museum exhibition design, all phases — and broad. (Print work? Of course. Website design? Check. Event graphics? Yep.) I am currently available for project-based contract work, so if you are interested in working together, please get in touch! Thank you all for your support, and for following along on The Exhibit Designer.

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Post updated in January 2021. This post was originally published at theexhibitdesigner.com on 11 Feb 2014.