Printing Proofs: Angela Xu

The second chapter of our Printing Proofs project, entitled Animals, Plants, Rocks and Minerals: the ISPRA Collections > Towards a Multispecies Museum, has been led by designer Angela Xu (b. 1995, Venice), invited to re-imagine the graphic devices for the rearrangement of the Litho-Mineralogy and Paleontology Collections. 

Taking inspiration from the idea of geological layering, a natural phenomenon but also a measure and “tool” of investigation, Xu developed a starting point for musealization of these collections through a visual system that conveys information by means of systems of graphic layers or strata, in minimal form recalling the geological layers, as well as the function and methods of scientific research on which these collections are based.

The intervention of Xu follows that of Goda Budvytytė, invited earlier to develop the graphic design for rearrangement of the Prehistoric Collections. This new Proof goes further in articulating the interwoven network of interpretations, contents and forms that for NERO, the project’s editorial partner, contribute to the definition of a visual communication capable of subsuming, interpreting and accompanying the research processes of the Museum of Civilizations and its co-authors, continually through time.