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Carnegie International (1999)

  • Size: 5 Sections, pproximately 90 pages
  • Complexity: HTML, CSS, Flash
  • Maintenance: Sporatic

An off-shoot of the Carnegie Museum of Art Web site, the biennial Carnegie International exhibition was intended to be a marketing tool, as well as an informational supplement to the printed program.

Challenges:

  • To design a distinctive site that resembled the Carnegie Museum of Art Web site.
  • To display large amounts of text (artist profiles, history) in a well-constructed manner.

Color-coded content areas, and the placement of the vertical "Menu" image and museum image created the connection between the exhibition and the Museum's main Web site. To display large amounts of text in the History and Artist sections, a conscious decision was made to limit the amount of text per page. Ample white space was provided on each screen to reduce eye strain, and prevent the text from spanning the entire screen width. Long articles were broken into two or more pages, and an interactive Flash timeline was created for the History section.