One of my favorite projects during my year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was contributing to Viewpoints: Body Language, selecting the image crops paired with expert commentary on 20 sculptures from the collection. It was a firsthand look at the intersection of art and psychology, how a single framing choice can shift the emotional read of a piece before a viewer even processes what they're looking at.
The Challenge: A fragmented Seljuk-era cave painting acquired by the Met needed digital reassembly before conservation. Treating the pieces like a puzzle, the process drew on Seljuk paintings, pottery, and motifs for reference — sketching headgear, weapons, and horse details to cross-check against the fragments. One match, a red cap with a halo, pointed to a royal figure, hinting at more riders nearby; a gold belt motif anchored how the horses fit together.
Samples from the pre-launch marketing campaign for the Met App. Deliverables included LCD monitor signage, info desk plexiglass, posters, internal signage, email blasts, and hall signs, all built around close crops and the red dot motif.
