Though the end product of my design work for Ayala Museum is its Website (its incarnation ran from 2004-2007); the intricate and delicate work of capturing the Museum; its philosophy, spirit, character and holdings in the most subtle of ways and manner; is like capturing a djinn in a flask; and patiently and calculatingly distilling it for its vital essences.
The launch of the Website coincided with the opening of the New Ayala Museum and I can't be more happier.
During the span of my design process from conceptualization to final execution and publication, I was fortunate enough to travel abroad and visit a few of the great museums of the world: Louvre, Uffizi, Vatican, Cologne...but one particular visit to an exhibition in Bonn, Germany precipitated a deluge of ideas and inspiration. It was an exhibit of the hoard treasures of the Scythians; a once-mysterious race of tribal conglomerations which ran the steppes across Eurasia during the centuries of Imperial Rome.
Below is a sample of my sketch work for the website design.
To be continued...
