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Design Category
Information design, 1996
Design firm
Pentagram Design (New York, New York)
Collection
(1997) Design of Understanding 2
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The Brooklyn Academy of Music is metropolitan New York’s premier venue for avant-garde cross-disciplinary music, dance, theater, and art performances. Pentagram was commissioned in 1995 to begin graphic design work coninciding with a major refurbishment of the main BAM facility. A new visual approach was introduced with the material for the fall 1995 Next Wave Festival of dance and musical performance.
Pentagram organized the layout for the brochure around a motif of wide stripes. Type is partially concealed by the stripes to suggest something coming over the horizon, a visual metaphor for the Next Wave Festival’s focus on emerging talent.