Diversity X Design Poster Contest

Client:
The California Academy of Sciences museum

San Francisco, CA

2020 - 2021

A poster contest and workshop series for Bay Area high school students. We collaborated with local artists, educators, SFMOMA, and Inneract Project. This was a way to inspire excitement about the environment, science, and design.

Winning posters from each of the competition themes (along with honorable mention submissions) were displayed as exhibit graphics along with information about the poster design.

See project online

Ways to access

Website landing page with key info about the competition and submission details.

Press kit for collaborators and outreach. Distributed at public libraries and to Bay Area schools.

Key features

  • 1. Home screen. Including links to key pages about the contest.

  • 2. Judges bios including links to Q&A videos (if provided).

  • 3. Design resources created for the students. This included an overview of the key categories that the posters were judged on.

  • 4. After the contest was complete, a page was completed to celebrate the winning posters from each category.

  • 5. A page created to describe the 5 poster themes for the students to create posters about.

  • 6. Content rules

Workshops

The team and partners wanted this to be a learning opportunity for students as well as a competition. The team and judges hosted multiple workshops crafted around each of the poster competition. We also created a web resource hub covering some high level fundamentals to design and tools to build a poster to help the students feel successful.

Exhibit Photos

  • 1. Exhibit view with the winning posters, and a poster about the judges.

  • 2. Visitors viewing the exhibit.

  • 3. The winning posters for the themes of “Composition”, “Imagery”, and “Typography”.

  • 4. An illustrated example of a poster winning for “The Beauty of Diversity”

  • 5. The poster created about the contest and about the judges.

  • 6. Winning posters installed over a mural by Alexander Vidal.

Exhibit Opening Event

Even though this project mostly happened remotely because of COVID restrictions, we were able to host an exhibit opening event for the students to give certificates to the winning posters along with a button making activity.

The Team

Andrew Sawyer – Design
Rhonda Rubinstein – Creative Director
Maya Lim – Design
Saba Tauqir – Event Production
Jennifer Teu – Project Management
Nick Colin – Content
Sterling Larimore – Exhibit Design