Maria is an exhibition graphic designer, artist and illustrator based in Sydney, Australia.
Exhibition Graphics + Illustration
HOTA
Photos Ellamay Fitzgerald
Exhibition Graphics + Illustration
Photos © HOTAGC
Exhibition design + Exhibition graphics
GOOD NATURED: Design Art Architecture celebrates creative projects by designers, artists and architects working to design a better future. These practitioners are focussed on creating outcomes that are both beautiful and good for the planet.
GOOD NATURED invites all of us to be active participants, inspired and engaged to become part of the solution to design a healthy, safe and beautiful environment.
The exhibition design is a good natured action itself, was conceived to present the lowest possible carbon print. We used cardboard, certified Latex and GREENGUARD GOLD inks, and certified plantation and recyclable materials.
Developed by guest curator Liane Rossler and ADC's Lisa Cahill, exhibition and graphic design by Maria Mosquera and Vania Contreras with creative direction by Liane Rossler, wallpaper design by Kate Swinson, creative production by ADC's Rhadi Bryant and fabrication by Signwave Newtown, with initial design concepts from Vanessa Low.
Photos: © Amy Piddington
Exhibition Graphics + Illustration
3D design Design Community
Photos Redzebra
Visual Identity + Exhibition Graphics
3D design Design Community
Photos Redzebra © Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum
Exhibition Graphics
3D Design Featherweight
Photos courtesy Featherweight
Exhibition Design + Visual Identity + Exhibition Graphics
Visual identity + Exhibition Graphics
Exhibition Graphics + Collage
Visual identity + Exhibition Graphics
Taking direct inspiration from Robinson’s masterpieces; playing with colour, light and texture, we pursued to create a contemporary and elegant space that will take the visitor to the majestic Gold Coast Hinterland.
Photos: Travis Cottrell - Fullframe Photographics. Courtesy HOTA
Exhibition visual identity + graphics
Designing the exhibition visuals for HOTA’s first ever exhibition in their brand new gallery…no pressure!
The exhibition showcased 19 of the most exciting Gold Coast contemporary artists. The design was inspired by the Gold Coast’s changing skyline colours. We used a metallic vinyl and printed a gradient on a 17m long wall!
Images courtesy of HOTA
Exhibition design + Exhibition Graphics + Illustration
Had the absolute pleasure to work with the Customs House team and @cityofsydney historians, on a historical display about this treasured landmark in our city! Collages, wallpaper and brochure take you through the history of the Customs House.
Exhibition design + Visual Identity + Exhibition Graphics + Illustration
Australian Love Stories 🖤 Love in all forms and shades!
I had the amazing opportunity to design both 3D and 2D aspects of this show. A series of love icons were designed to accompany the exhibition and act as support for the stories. Neons appeared on the space linking the different aspects and forms of love.
I couldn’t have done it without the fabulous @vania.x.contreras Gracias por todo!
Images courtesy National Portrait Gallery
Visual identity + Exhibition graphics
Photos: © David James, CCWM
Visual identity + Exhibition graphics + Illustration
Photos: © David James, CCWM
Visual identity + Exhibition graphics
Photos: © David James, CCWM
Visual identity + Exhibition graphics + Illustration
Photos: © David James, CCWM
Exhibition graphics + Exhibition design + Brochure
Spreading across levels 1 and 2 at the historical Customs House in Sydney. Developing Sydney showcases photographs commissioned by Sydney Municipal Council from 1900 to 1920.
The City Building Surveyor’s Department used photography to document the city’s profound transformation in the first 2 decades of the 20th century.
Exhibition graphics
This new exhibition developed by FRD for a new Visitor and Events Centre in the George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens. ‘Darwin Grown’ takes you through the history of region, and the development and establishment of the gardens.
Photos courtesy Freeman Ryan Design
Exhibition Graphics
Fashion label CUE celebrated their first 50 years with a beautiful display of their history and iconic looks at the Powerhouse Museum.
Bright colourful gradients were matched to emblematic patterns to serve as backdrops to the Cue history and ethos.
Exhibition design studioplusthree
Photography Marinco Kojdanovski © MAAS
Visual Identity + Exhibition graphics + Marketing materials
This beautiful exhibition developed by AIATSIS, Ngulla Wellamunagaa celebrates the survival, continuity and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, affirming ongoing connections to Country.
Exhibition design Design Community
Photos Redzebra
Exhibition graphics
Between 2012 and 2015, during construction of the Carnes Hill Library and Community Centre, archaeologists unearthed 155 Aboriginal artefacts. The flakes from microlithic tool repair, 5,000 years old.
The objects are now housed in the foyer of the Carnes Hill Library.
Four theme panels sit around a central showcase. They tell the ongoing story of the Aboriginal communities from the Carnes Hill area. The large-scale artworks featured on the panels are by local artists Mulgo and Aunty Edna Watson.
Exhibition design Design Community
Photography Ben Williams
Visual Identity + Exhibition graphics
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, Apollo 11 at the Powerhouse Museum showcases more than 200 objects that where part, influenced and inspired this great event.
The main inspiration for the graphic design came from the available manuals of the Apollo 11 lander. The diagrammatic illustrations became the backdrop for the narrative of the space.
Exhibition design Design Community
Visual identity + exhibition design + catalogue + marketing materials
Coinciding with Queen Victoria’s 200 year anniversary the NSW State Records launched the exhibition The Queen’s Album, a beautiful pictorial display photographs sent to Queen Victoria, 140 years ago, where NSW showcased it self showing the Queen their wealth and development. moving away from their convict past.
The exhibition was displayed in the amazing Governor’s House in Sydney, in the majestic setting of this victorian building.
Photographs @saltydingo
Visual identity + Exhibition graphics + Wayfinding
Spiral by Dr Oliver Bown, MAAS Visiting Research Fellow 2018, in collaboration with the Tangents ensemble, is a musical composition and installation that explores the mechanical and performative nature of self-playing instruments. This project was inspired by the Museum’s collection of player pianos and piano roll production equipment from the Mastertouch Piano Roll Company
This work shows how artists are rethinking the experience of music through using contemporary music technologies. The work combines distributed physical and digital elements, synchronised via networks.
Photography: Marinco Kojdanovski © MAAS
Exhibition graphics
Using as a centrepiece the replica the 18th century scroll of Emperor Quianlong’s Southern Tour. This temporary exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, showcases over 70 works from three modern Chinese artists, also a projected animation of the scroll and features the Harvest of Endurance scroll part of the NMA’s collection. Together, they illustrate the grace, impact and expression of the ancient arts of Chinese calligraphy and painting. The graphics approach was to work with a clean and understated design, allowing it work seamlessly with the diverse works on display. Each area was marked by the dramatic use of large scrolls, showing close ups and calligraphy of the exhibition. Exhibition design by Design Community
Photos: Redzebra Photography
Exhibition graphics
‘As a designer I want to make things that are emotionally or spiritually connected to people’ Akira Isogawa, 2018
This exhibition is the first to explore his career of more than 25 years, revealing the background, impulses and cultural influences that have contributed to the making of a fashion original.
Photography: Marinco Kojdanovski © MAAS
Visual identity + Exhibition graphics + Illustration
Showcasing some of the most fantastical items in MAAS’ collection, Fantastical Worlds welcomes the visitor to another world where ornament and beauty being supreme. Various elements were designed taken direct inspiration from the items on display, small and whimsical narratives start to occur when you step in side, the more you look, the more you will discover.
Photography: ©MAAS 2018
Visual identity + Exhibition graphics + Marketing materials
This new paleontological display in Alice Springs showcases a large range of megafauna fossils found at Alcoota, Central Australia. A cohesive visual identity was developed that evokes the diversity of the specimens and reflects on a world lost in time. A colour palette was chosen that would echo the colours of the land and simple clean typography was chosen to keep the space accessible and friendly for a large and diverse audience.
Winner 2019 Museum and Art Galleries Australia (MAGNA) Awards — Permanent Exhibition, budget over $500,000.
Photography: MAGNT, Lisa Hatz, Maria Mosquera
Visual Identity + Exhibition Graphics + Illustration
Being inspired by the exhibition Reigning Men at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS), their school holiday program had to engage the younger audience and inspired them into the world of fashion design. A colour and non-gender specific colour palette and graphics were created to invite boys and girls to make their own fashion creations on site.
Exhibition graphics
Why do we collect? The Collections Discover Lab, at CSIRO headquarters in Canberra, is an activity oriented space where children can discover and learn the importance of collections in the scientific world, while discovering some of the collections held at CSIRO.
The beautiful and open design by Design Community, becomes one with it's surroundings, while providing a great for discovery and interactivity.
Photography: David Paterson/Dorian Photographics
Exhibition graphics + Marketing materials
Developed by the Gab Titui Cultural Centre on Thursday Island, in partnership with the National Museum of Australia, the exhibition explores the longstanding importance of ceremonial masks in Torres Strait culture, and how they continue to influence contemporary art forms. The graphics were tailored to reflect on the materials commonly used by the artists, and the typography was chosen to be modern rather old fashioned to convey the modern and always evolving art form.
Exhibition design: Design Community
Photography: Redzebra Photography
Exhibition graphics + Marketing materials + Invitation
Inspired by the 1964 civil rights song of the same name, A Change Is Gonna Come, at the National Museum of Australia invites visitors to consider the 1967 referendum and the 1992 Mabo decision within the context of their time, through events that led to and followed these significant moments. Has change truly come, or is it coming still?
Exhibition design by Design Community.
Photography: Redzebra Photography
Exhibition identity + graphics + marketing collateral
Piksa Niugini: Photographs by Stephen Dupont, documents the fascinating work of numerous visits of Dupont to Papua New Guinea over the years. Dupont documented the changing face and the powerful impact of globalisation on the fabric of its traditional Melanesian society.
The exhibition also included artefacts from MAGNT's collection, such as masks, shields and drums from areas across PNG that are represented in Dupont's photographs.
Photography: MAGNT
Exhibition Graphics
The Koala Hospital in Port Macquarie, wanted to enhance the the visitors experience with the inclusion of the Educational Centre in it's premises. Working in conjunction with Design Community we focus our design in the key messages in the preservation of this vulnerable species. The protection of habitat, the human factors that hurt the koala population and the key role of the hospital in koala rehabilitation and preservation.
Photography: Jeremy Rogers
Exhibition visual identity + Catalogue + Wayfinding + Marketing materials
EXIT ART is the showcase art exhibition of Year 12 graduating students of the Northern Territory. The intention was for the identity to express the rawness and fearlessness of the young artists, also the thrill in this new stage in their lives. I worked with a restricted colour palette, bold and loud textured typography, revealing the exclamation mark as a visual aide to emphasise excitement and strength, and the identity as a whole, breaking out of the various formats as it could no longer be contained.
Exhibition graphics + Room guide + Marketing materials
Direct from the British Museum, this world premiere exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum (MAAS), explores the lives of six ancient egyptian mummies, being revealed by the use of CT scans technology. This was an object-centred exhibition using large-scale graphics and multimedia. The graphic design approach used subtle Egyptian-inspired motifs, evocative typography and a restricted palette that complemented the stone and gold colours of the objects. Marketing materials used the imagery from the innovative CT scans at the heart of the exhibition as a subtle motif to awaken the public’s curiosity. Marketing pieces included: Sydney lightrail and trains wrap, Melbourne tram wrap, street signage and posters, web and mobile presence.
Photography: Ryan Hernandez, Torch Media and Maria Mosquera
Environmental graphics + wayfinding signage
The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, was looking to invigorate their foyer area and donor's wall. A visual language showcasing the extensive variety of the museum’s collection was developed, to awaken in the visitor a sense of wonder and discovery. The design, playing with colour and opacity, was applied as wallpaper to walls and windows, wayfinding signage and external signage.
The Donor's Wall, designed in conjunction with Design Community, played with the museum's existing branding, adding colour, movement and texture to your expected lists.
Photography: Helen Orr
Exhibition graphics + design and layout
An unmissable date in Sydney's cultural calendar, the Head On Photo Festival showcases the best and groundbreaking photography from around the world.
As part of the Head On Photo Festival 2016, a number of containers showcasing various participating artists where scattered in Sydney's CBD. The result: a meeting place of discussion and wonder. Very happy to have participated in their design.
Images © Moshe Rosenzveig
Exhibition graphic design + room guide + marketing materials + way finding
Family as the supreme metaphor for our life on earth ...
Family Fragments at the SLNSW, comprises 37 haunting solar plate etchings and handmade paper folders with beautifully handwritten inscriptions by Sally McInerney, providing a rare insight into the private lives of one of Australia's artistic icons and her husband’s family.
Images © SLNSW
Exhibition graphic design + way finding + signage
Soon after the tragedy that has come to be known as the Martin Place siege, the first bouquet of flowers was placed in the vicinity of the Lindt Café. Over the following days tens of thousands of people blanketed Martin Place with flowers, messages and other items in an outpouring of empathy and connection.
A year later, the Field of Flowers exhibition, at the SLNSW, featured a rich assortment of the tributes that were left at the makeshift memorial – evidence of a community united in mourning but determined on a positive future.
Images ©SLNSW 2105 unless otherwise credited
Exhibition graphic design + marketing materials + way finding
In 1965 a busload of Sydney uni students took a trip to rural NSW that would be the catalyst to historical Indigenous rights change in Australia. This exhibition at State Library of NSW showcased the unpublished photographs from the Tribune newspaper.
Images ©SLNSW
Exhibition graphic design + catalogue + way finding + signage + marketing materials
Pulp Confidential: Quick & dirty publishing from the 40s & 50s, at the SLNSW, presented a rich collection of 1940s and 50s vintage Australian "pulp" cover art, crime story illustrations and original comic books, drawn from the papers of Sydney publishing house, Frank Johnson Publications. The pieces developed for this exhibition included: exhibition branding, exhibition graphics, catalogue, signage and promotional materials.
Images © SLNSW
Exhibition graphic design
In this immersive exhibition experience the visitor finds himself in the richness and beauty of the mountains. The space is dominated by film sequences of the landscape as it changes through the seasons and is impacted by the forces of nature. The graphic lecterns showcase the history, diversity and importance of the mountains.
© Freeman Ryan Design
Photography: John Gollings
Photography: Peter Beeh
Exhibition graphic design
The Dinosaurs exhibition at the Australian Museum, presented visitors a new look at a museum favourite. Bold vibrant colours and textures used to depict their wild and fascinating world.
© Freeman Ryan Design
Exhibition graphic design
The World Series Cricket gallery, at the Bradman Museum in NSW, takes the visitors back to the 70's and relive the moment the game changed forever. The players, the rebels and the visionaries, you can even see Tony Greig in his undies!
© Freeman Ryan Design
Photography: John Gollings
Exhibition graphic design
The World of Cricket gallery at the Bradman Museum, Bowral NSW, showcases the members of the International Cricket Council. In this infographic style display, all the members labels were individually mounted and contain general information and cricket trivia of each nation.
© Freeman Ryan Design