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San Diego Museum of Art

Paint like the artist, one layer at a time.

I built an interactive experience about the creative process of one of the painters in the exhibition. Visitors didn’t just read how he worked: they lived it, with the same constraint he had.

Screenshot of San Diego Museum of Art
RoleDesign and development
StatusLaunched
ForMuseum visitors
TypeInteractive with print
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The idea

The experience revolves around the creative process of one of the exhibition’s painters: how he built a piece layer by layer, on stone, with one color per layer.

02

How it works

First you read how the painter worked. Then you pick one of his works and paint it with the same technique, one layer at a time and one color per layer.

03

The twist

Just like the original technique, when you switch colors the previous layer disappears from the screen. You don’t see your piece until you “print” every layer on top of each other.

You don’t see your work until you print it. Just like the artist.
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Why it works

The constraint is the lesson. Instead of explaining in a wall text that the artist didn’t see his full work until the end, the experience puts you in that exact spot. You understand it because you lived it.

And you leave with something physical: the only way to see your work was to print it, so every visitor walked out holding theirs.

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