Poster House

An interactive poster machine and photo booth for a museum dedicated exclusively to posters. Read More

Poster House is the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters, presenting a global view of posters from their earliest appearance in the late 1800s, to their present-day use. We were tasked to create four interactive exhibits as permanent fixtures of the museum that are seamlessly integrated into the newly built architecture.

I was responsible for the information architecture, wireframing and design for two of the exhibits. A touch screen kiosk called the Poster Machine and a green screen photo booth.

Role

Design, Information Architecture, User Experience Design (UX)

Year of Completion

2019

Created at

KUDOS Design Collaboratory

The Poster Machine is a table-top interactive kiosk through which visitors can learn and experience the poster creation process. We deconstructed what goes through in a designer’s brain and created a choose-your-own-adventure poster design game. Each step explains the significance and thought process of the basic ingredients required to make a poster—symbols, colors, phrases, fonts, and design styles. There are three themes: Propaganda, Film, or Advertising, for which we created over 143,000 images that represent every possible path one can take!

The green screen photo booth is visible from the street and embedded into an alcove at the museum’s entrance. Visitors can place themselves in iconic posters using the custom interface we designed, and receive the final posters via email, text message or a print.

Initial brainstorming sessions led to many concepts for the interactive kiosk including a multi touch experience and a trivia game among many others.

Slides showing the photo booth UI and it's various states.