Exhibition identities for Derrick Adams: Sanctuary and Unpacking the Green Book: Travel and Segregation in Jim Crow America at the Museum of Arts & Design (MAD). Adams' work in Sanctuary was inspired by The Negro Motorist Green Book, an annual guidebook for black American road-trippers published by Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1967, during the Jim Crow era in America.
Both exhibitions were on at the same time, on separate floors, and explored issues of mobility and racism within the United States.
The two graphic identities shared similar gestures, creating visual connections between the exhibitions — elongated em dashes to reference a sense of travel, tonal and reflective vinyls that became visible with the viewer's movement through the galleries, and various framing devices that referenced the Green Book's design.
Curators: Dexter Wimberly (Sanctuary) with Samantha De Tillio (Sanctuary + Green Book). / Cheif Curator: Shannon Stratton. / Exhibition Design: Hendrik Gerrits & Willow Holdorf. / Creative Direction & Design: Joshua Graver. / Images of the Green book courtesy of NYPL. / Installation photography Jenna Bascom.