More to be Esteemed Than Gold

More to be Esteemed Than Gold

Curation, catalog layout, and identity for a conjectural exhibition of medieval reliquaries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I sought to complement the complexity and majesty of the artifacts with relatively simple supporting design elements. The typefaces, Norman Stencil and Garamond, evoke hand-painted forms while remaining legible and not pandering to tired conventions of the “medieval.” The pale gold, silver, and blue colors echo the dominant colors in the reliquaries themselves. A pattern adapted from one of the artifacts provides iconography.

Curation, catalog layout, and identity for a conjectural exhibition of medieval reliquaries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I sought to complement the complexity and majesty of the artifacts with relatively simple supporting design elements. The typefaces, Norman Stencil and Garamond, evoke hand-painted forms while remaining legible and not pandering to tired conventions of the “medieval.” The pale gold, silver, and blue colors echo the dominant colors in the reliquaries themselves. A pattern adapted from one of the artifacts provides iconography.