GD 2: Museum Project: Part 1

The last project for GD2 is the Museum Project. We were told to bring in three objects with us to class, any objects we wanted. I brought an Ikea light, a new Munny I haven’t worked on yet and an Apple Mouse from the Mac Classic. Then the next step was to pick an object and create a museum around it. Since Junior Review is in the middle of the project, our goal was to establish an image and create three ads for the museum and have them done before review (April 16th and 17th).

I decided to make my project about the Apple Mouse that I brought in. From here I decided that Apple has marked several milestones in the personal computing world, and it would be a good concept for a museum to be based around personal computers. After digging into about 30 years worth of personal computing history (starting with the Apple 1 in 1975), I decided the museum should have a 10 year gap between current technology and what was being featured in the museum (since a computer lifespan have been shortened from 10 years to about 4 or 5). Then I ended up narrowing the three ads into representing each decade in the museum’s timeline of personal computers. My colors are based off of the RGB colors that monitors output, and the stream of color represents the input and interface of the computer (which is added to by the overlaid operating system images). The logo/mark for the museum is based off of the Planar Transistor invent in 1959 by Dr. Jean Hoerni that enabled the creation of the monolithic integrated circuit (that later became the silicon microchip).

LSI ADM-31 (1978)

This is an extremely rare computer that has little information available about it online. I chose this computer to represent the wing of the museum that is devoted to rare computers. The computer’s original brochure can be found here

IBM PC XT/AT (1983)

This model of the popular IBM PC had a 286 Intel Processor in it. This enabled it to run the first version of Microsoft Windows, which as we all know, ultimately helped change the world to using the graphical user interface (that was invented by Xerox and popularized by Apple).

Apple iMac (1998)

Apple’s iMac marked the beginning of many things in the computer industry. It was the first computer to wildly break through the normal industrial design of computers up until this point. It also was designed for the future and the internet (discarding the floppy drive, having both an ethernet and dial-up modem). It also marked the beginning of Apple’s resurgence in the computer industry lead by the return of Steve Jobs and Jon Ive’s industrial design.

From here the next step is to continue with the project by doing a few things. I can either design a narrative piece (website, brochure, etc), 3D piece (museum shop items, actual exhibit piece, etc), or a guerilla marketing campaign of some kind. But I won’t be working on this until after Junior Portfolio Review is over. So for now this is where the project stands. Updates will be coming.