VEDEM UNDERGROUND

Role: Creative Direction, Branding, Exhibition Design, Publication Design, Environmental Graphics

Commissioned to create the visual identity and exhibition design for VEDEM: The Underground Magazine of the Terezín Ghetto, I helped transform one of the Holocaust's most extraordinary acts of creative resistance into a contemporary museum experience.

Drawing from the 83 clandestine issues of Vedem—more than 800 pages of essays, poetry, artwork, and commentary created by teenage Jewish prisoners in the Terezín Ghetto—the exhibition reinterpreted the original publication through contemporary graphic design, archival photography, illustration, and environmental storytelling.

My role included creative direction, branding, exhibition graphics, publication design, website design, and the development of a traveling exhibition system that made this remarkable story accessible to new audiences while honoring the voices and resilience of its young creators.

The exhibition was recognized by the Smithsonian as one of its "10 Don't Miss..." museum exhibitions for Winter 2018.

EXHIBIT DATES:
Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, May – July 2016
Los Angeles Jewish Community Foundation & The BOX Gallery, January 2017
El Paso Holocaust Museum, March – June 2017
University of Texas at Austin, April – May 2017
Brenham Heritage Museum, Texas, June – Sept. 2017
Texas Historical Commission (four locations), 2017 – 2018
California State Capital Museum (every Jan. and May), permanent collection
Holocaust Museum Houston, June – August 2017
Czech Center Museum Houston, August – January 2018
Amarillo Central Library, January – March 2018
Oregon Jewish Museum & Center for Holocaust Education, Feb. – June 2018
Texas A&M University, March – May 2018
Southern Methodist University, September – December 2018
Atlanta’s Breman Museum, October 2018 – March 2019
Dallas Love Field Airport, January – May 2019
Jewish Museum Milwaukee, February – June 2019
AMA-CON (Amarillo’s Comicon), August 2019
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH), Sept. 2019 – Jan. 2020