Postcards to Chicago
DMoC & Navy Pier, 2020
Public art and graphic design
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Navy Pier: 600 E Grand
Photo: Color 4
© 2020
Navy Pier's north facade is 700 feet long and 90 feet tall. For years it faced the lake as a blank wall. In 2020, DMoC and Navy Pier partnered to change that.
Postcards to Chicago organized the facade around four of the Pier's own icons: the Centennial Wheel, Lake Michigan, the Wave Wall Staircase, and the USS Chicago Anchor. Photography students from three Chicago colleges — Harry S Truman, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of Illinois Chicago — contributed images that became the visual anchors of each section. The graphic system translated those photographs and icons into a bold, modular installation in Navy Pier's signature colors.
The result is visible from the water, from the skyline, and from the street. It has faced the lake since its installation.
Learn more → NavyPier.org
Mural Installation
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Drone Photo: Murmur Ring
↓ Working with students
Harry S Truman College, City Colleges of Chicago
Teacher: Jaclyn Silverman. Students: Victoria Marty, Daniel Reyes, Mayra Cruz-Mendoza, Marco Tecua & Marilyn Ramirez
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Teacher: Oliver Sann. Student: Alayna N. Pernell
Photography students from Harry S Truman, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of Illinois Chicago made images of the four icons. Their photographs became the tower panels, and working with them shaped the project as much as anything else
Large-scale public art, from concept through installation
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