Exhibit Design by Raylan Forest, Senior Designer Freeman

Raylan Forest, sent me these recently to post, these were done in 3d studio max.

David Macaulay Show ends Sept 20

 Heres an rendering from the David Macaulay show. The exhibit is at the National Museum of Health and Medicine and closes this month, Septemeber 20th, 2009.

Do It Yourself David Hasselhoff

Knight Rider used to be it on Thur nights when I was a kid, check out Garthe Knight that was some bad scripts but we was hooked.

I am not sure who this credit goes to.

'cheap ass toys'?

District of Columbia Proclaims Sikh Heritage Week

District of Columbia Proclaims 
Sikh Heritage Week 
in U.S. Capital

sikhchic.com

 

The District of Columbia - the "D.C." in "Washington, D.C." - has proclaimed the week of June 15, 2009 as SIKH HERITAGE WEEK in the American capital and vicinity.

The Resolution of the Council of the District of Columbia dated June 2, 2009, bearing # CER 18-125, and passed unanimously, reads as follows:

 

SIKH HERITAGE WEEK RECOGNITION RESOLUTION OF 2009

WHEREAS, Sikh Heritage Week salutes the 25 million Sikhs worldwide, 500,000 in North America, and the 25,000 throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area;

WHEREAS, Sikh Heritage Week honors the values and traditions of Punjab, a region straddling the border between India and Pakistan;

WHEREAS, Sikh Heritage Week acknowledges that the nation's capital welcomes international contributions to the artistic, social and economic foundation of our city;

WHEREAS, Sikh Heritage Week includes the Kaur Foundation's establishment of the Sikh Collection initiative within the Asian Division at the Library of Congress, and acknowledges the Kaur Foundation for working to create institutional inclusive environments; and

WHEREAS, Sikh Heritage Week plants the seeds of Sikh awareness and provides the Kaur Foundation with a forum for ongoing dialogue between Sikh-Americans and other communities throughout the Washington Metro area;

RESOLVED, by the Council of the District of Columbia, that this Resolution may be cited as the "Sikh Heritage Week Recognition Resolution of 2009."

Sec. 2 The Council of the District of Columbia recognizes and celebrates Sikh Heritage Week, as well as the Library of Congress and the Kaur Foundation for the valuable contribution they make in the City.

 

June 17, 2009 

Kaur Foundation Conference Library of Congress June 18th -

  

It is with great warmth and joy

that we request you to mark

June 18th & 19th

on your calendar, so we may commemorate  this significant event, 

in Washington, DC, together.

    b  a

 The Kaur Foundation &

The Library of Congress

Cordially Invite You

To

The National Sikh Conference

 ‘Taking Heritage into the 21st Century’

The Sikh Collection Initiative

Book Launch: ‘Empire of the Sikhs’

By S. Patwant Singh & Jyoti Rai 

&

‘A Journey’

A Unique Photography Exhibit

Reception

Thursday, June 18, 2009

At 7:00 PM

At: The Library of Congress

Thomas Jefferson Building

101 Independence Avenue, SE

Washington, DC 20540

Attire: Black Tie or

 Traditional

June 18, 2009

The Library of Congress

Jefferson Building

101 Independence Avenue, SE

Washington, DC  20540

Commencement of Conference:

1:00 PM – 3:30 PM

b Welcome Address by the Chief of Asian Division, Library of Congress

Mr. Peter Young at 1:30 PM

b ‘Portraits of Courage’

 Pushpinder Singh, Exec. editor Nishaan Magazine & Dr. Ken Robbins at 1:45 PM

b ‘Achievements of

Extraordinary Sikh Women in Art’

Arpana Caur, The Singh Twins,

at 2:30 PM

June 19th

Morning Session:

9:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Enter the Maharaja…

 

b ‘The Court of Lahore’,

Maharaja Ranjit Singh

F.S. Aijazuddin, Author, Honorary British Consul for the United Kingdom at Lahore,  Principal Aitchison College, Lahore at 9:45AM

 

b ‘Sikh Royal Artifacts’,

the V&A Museum Collection

Susan Stronge, Author, Senior Curator in the Asian Department at 11:00 AM

b ‘Life & Times of Duleep Singh’

Navtej Sarna, Ambassador to Israel, Author &

 Christy Campbell, Author at 11:45 AM

Afternoon Session:

1:15 AM – 4:45 PM

Connecting the Continents…

 

b ‘Scaling New Heights’, the professional and entrepreneurial role and contributions of Sikh American industry leaders & CEO’s

Speakers with moderator at 1:30 PM

b The Importance of establishing

 Sikh Chairs in Universities

 Speakers with moderator at 2:30 PM

 

b Enriching the fabric of American Society since 1899…

 a vision for tomorrow.

Speakers with moderator at 3:45 PM

The Kaur Foundation is honored to collaborate with the Library of Congress, in launching the Sikh Collection Initiative. Our aim is to introduce this project through a presentation of lectures, manuscripts, books and art; all very valuable materials in studying, and understanding historical events, periods, and the movements of any community.

Libraries are the reservoirs of knowledge and the Library of Congress is the premier and venerable American institution whose mission is to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge for future generations. Our work is to facilitate the creation of inclusive environments for the Sikh American community. Partnering with this oldest federal cultural institution in the nation for this initiative represents another significant step forward towards building and preserving our legacy in our new homeland.

As our nation grows and becomes more diverse, it is critical that we appreciate and understand the different backgrounds of all that make this country great. Sikh Americans have significantly contributed to every field of human endeavor from technology, commerce, health, science, agriculture, to the arts – further enriching the cultural fabric of this land of immigrants.

This initiative promotes and builds a progressive understanding of the Sikhs, for fellow Americans, through the expansion of subjects that define and celebrate a community’s heritage and roots. The Sikh Collection will become a permanent resource to help gain a better understanding and insight into our achievements, history and traditions.

As a community, whenever we cross a threshold, make a positive difference or witness the once impossible become possible, we must feel proud, and celebrate these achievements collectively. It is with great warmth and joy that we request you to please mark June 18th and 19th, 2009, on your calendar, so we may commemorate this very special and significant occasion in Washington, DC, the nation’s Capitol, together. We will be sending you a detailed schedule of events regarding this conference in March.

We look forward, with great excitement, to your participation in helping make the Sikh Collection Initiative a success!

Ocean City (Photo by Ruby C)

Ocean City 69th st.

Nice photo by Ruby C!

James Terrell At Busboys and Poets June 24th

James is getting some east coast love see this link of a review from recent NYC show, he has developed a unique mix of blues, soul, gospel, rock.

http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com/talent.php?talent=642&month=6&year=2009

James Stephen Terrell Live in Annapolis on May 29 @the Whiskey Bar

David Macaulay Exhibit, Exhibit Design by Navjeet Singh Chhina

Exhibit Design of the Macaulay Show, now at the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Here are the photos of the exhibit. I enjoyed doing this, 55 art works, and, the lightbox was fun.

David Macaulay Exhibit, Exhibit Design by Navjeet Singh Chhina

I just put up this exhibit for David Macaulay's work, from his book How We Work. These were renderings of how I wanted to design the exhibit space. I will post photos of the exhibit as I take them.

This exhibit is now showing at the National Museum of Health and Medicine and will show thru September 09.

Abraham Lincoln the Final Casualty of the War. Exhibit at the National Museum of Health And Medicine

Here you can see my initial exhibit rendering, done in photoshop and cinema 4-d. The photos are of the actual exhibit. You can see some changes in a few sundry details. For the most part.... its as rendered.

Sweet.  Abraham Lincoln, the Final Casualty of the War, is now showing at the National Museum of Health and Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. 

Exhibit Design, Art Direction,

Graphic Design by yours truly.

Sikhs Legacy of the Punjab, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

I am showing my work at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in Santa Barbara California

the exhibit is Sikhs, Legacy of the Punjab, its open till May 1st, 2009.

Smithsonian National Museum of The American Indian

Exhibit mural for Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

Art Direction: Navjeet Singh Chhina

Graphic Design:Navjeet Singh Chhina

4-H mural

Exhibit Graphics Americorp

Directed and designed these for Americorp, they loved em.

Exhibit Design US Maintenance, Exhibit Design by Navjeet Singh Chhina

This is a comp for US Maintenance

for a 20'x20' Island with two reception counters.

Celebrate Black History

Lincoln Exhibit, Exhibit Design Navjeet Singh Chhina

Here's an early rendering of the exhibit. Kathleen took the photo, of the museum floor. And 

I used it to map the 3-d exhibit design to it as a background. Its good to see what things look like at scale.

I used Photoshop, Vector Works, and Cinema 4-d.  

Office of the Secretary of Defense Health Affairs

this is a closeup of a mural for MHS in the 

Office of the Secretary of Defense inside the 

Pentagon.

Art Direction - Navjeet Singh Chhina

Graphic Design - Navjeet Singh Chhina

Exhibit Design, Navjeet Singh Chhina

Exhibit Graphics I Art Directed / Graphic Design for American Map /

Berlitz.

President Obama at Bens Chili Bowl

Man, as a Grad Student

@ Howard, 

Bens was the hookup night after night.

Especially those late nights...

Big ups to the Next Pres.

He's got good taste.

James Stephen Terrell Live in Atlantic City Tonight ONLY!

Rev. James Stephen Terrell

will preform at the Ashbury United Methodist Church Tonight ONLY

Atlantic City, NJ.

Abraham Lincoln Exhibit Coming up at NMHM, exhibit poster by Navjeet Singh Chhina

I just finished this exhibit poster

for NMHM exhibit about Lincoln

coming up soon. Exhibit opens 

Feb 12, 2009.

One of the interesting things is that all the elements are from the museum collection,

with the exception of one, the Harpers Magazine cover of the assassination.

Please leave your comments,

any feedback would be appreciated.

+/-

National Library of Medicine, Mural & Comp by Navjeet Singh Chhina

I got the imagery from NLM website,so i provided the content. they wanted to used a tag line, but their writers never came up with one, I actually came up with the one you see here. These murals used contemporary imagery of cat5 cable going into a router, with a davinci painting  I liked it. I did do others though, I think I will post those too.

Check out this Ad- Design for Hero Honda, Navjeet Singh Chhina

Art Direction, Ad-Design I did for Hero Honda, in 2004.

Images of 4-H exhibit design at National 4-H headquarters, Art Direction, Graphic Design, Engineering Navjeet Singh Chhina

I had the great opportunity to work with 4-H, in a previous job as art director and exhibit designer for Sue Benidetti.

To put together a graphic mural exhibit room that showed the history of National 4-H

and an area that highlighted work done by Kathleen Flom, what I have here are some of the final renderings before the install, and some images of the install. You can see which one was the final.

Pathology Banner,Navjeet Singh Chhina

This patho banner incorporates

a microscope, it was the most 

recognizable single image

I thought would still be in 

good taste, I thought of a 

skull saw, (i forget the technical term for that)

I also thought of what they would be looking

for, but remains and other imagery was 

just too disturbing, and I already had the 

skull from anthro section.

DNA banner,Navjeet Singh Chhina

The DNA section banner.

a hard thing to get across

in a photo or logo, I just

used a double helix

created from a photo

in Illustrator.

All these by the way were printed on cotton fabric 

off an HP printer. They just needed to be weighted.

Anthropology Banner, Navjeet Singh Chhina

For anthro section, the most recognizable logotype for me 

was a skull, I kept lookinf for a profile, but then decided to take a frontal and drawn it in illustrator. 

the photo behind shows anthopologists looking at remains.

I tried to keep part of the Stars and Stripes at the top, but that is where the photo ends, and they all had a fade at the top, so part of it got lost, and in the end it isn't as strong as I would have liked it to be, maybe if the photo angle was a little lower,

the other photo had just tranfer cases, I wanted to keep it more on a human level than in a scientific vien, in contrast to what the exhibit is, its the forensics, they kept telling me, my story of it was more on a human level, lets not forget who its for, sure theres the science but WHO IS IT FOR.

At one point the curators told me to keep red white and blue totally out of it, which is what they starting worrying about when  I redid the museum poster concept, which I showed to them first, bad idea, they just assumed I  would paint the walls red white and blue, well, at some point I got to put in my red white and blue, which I thought had to relate in some way other than the transfer case

central to the exhibit. Its in the hall on the wall in the form of service flags, Red White & Blue,

I think they started to see this only when it was finally done. 

Dentistry, Hall Banner, Resolved

Here I chose an image of a technician looking at postmortem remains. I used the logotype that included teeth. I looked at many options to display teeth, but at the time this seemed to make sense, I later, just the other day found a better set of drawings of teeth, but I drew these up in illustrator from a photograph. 

Dental records are an important source of information in identification. As fillings and dentures, bridges, and their information is taken in the antemortem stage they help later in the postmortem stage for identification.

Fingerprints, Navjeet Singh Chhina, Resolved

This was the logotype and hallbanner for fingerprinting

its next in the stage of identification of our war dead.

The logotype started out as a simplistic drawing of a fingerprint

then I took a real fingerprint and changed it in illustrator to get this logotype. I used a photograph of a technician checking fingerprints against antemortem and postmortem, and made sure to include the part in the photo that had a sign that said

fingerprinting in it to drive it home. This is the next stage of identification. All service members have antemortem fingerprints taken. If you look to the left of the logotype you can

read fingerprint on a board that was on the technicians table.

Resolved Exhibit Fabric Panels, Navjeet Singh Chhina

I cannot get this thing to post full size in the order I want so I'm posting these one at a time in the order I have them in the museum.

What they showed me when I got there was a half thought out plan of hanging the dead soldiers portraits on the walls, I just thought the ideas were poorly thought out and in bad taste. Come on, some poor guys wife would walk in and see his portrait and have a breakdown. My other thought was it was exploitative. So my idea was to make something that would lead vistors down this long empty hallway, actually start the exhbiit in the hall by incorporating custom logotypes in hanging fabric banners, that could be related throughout the exhibit, this started with creating logotypes which you see in all of these posters and within each section of the exhibit. this one was for material evidence, after searching through images of dead soldiers or images of their remains I felt this image lent iteself to material evidence in a symbolic  yet honorable way, the logotype I used was a dogtag, after all its one of the most critical pieces of material evidence one can find on a service member, not that its always found, but it is always something that is looked for during the initial process of identification.

Creative Design Navjeet Singh Chhina

Art-Direction Navjeet Singh Chhina

Exhibit Design / Graphic Design

Navjeet Singh Chhina,

Custom Cases & Free Standing Exhibit Display designed for DC Fisheries, Navjeet Singh Chhina

This was  a exhibit design that I art directed, engineered, and did the graphic design for. 

It was for DC Fisheries, as a freestanding exhibit display. 

Art Direction

Engineering

Graphic Design

Navjeet Singh Chhina

Another Digital Surrealism,Photo shot in Moga, Punjab

Shot this in the middle of the street near main bazaar, in Moga Punjab 2003.

I called this around the world we go, a million miles from home.

Surrealism, Photography, Navjeet Singh Chhina

Surrealism work, I shot in Delhi in 2003.

Comp for Vion, Navjeet Singh Chhina

Structure & Engineering, Navjeet Singh Chhina

CreativeDesign, Navjeet Singh Chhina

Art Direction,Graphic Design, Navjeet Singh Chhina

a 20x20 inline tradeshow exhibit for vion

I liked the graphics and use of extrusion and lighting.

Self Portrait, Everyone wears the Mask but how long will it last

This self portrait was inspired by a line Lauren Hill

said in a Fugees album,

we all wear a mask, I'm not a writer, but I function

visually, thats where I shine,visually. 

this reminds me of when Chris rock said,

something about when you meet someone for the first time your not really meeting that person, your meeting 

that persons representative.

we all wear this mask, some of us know the person below

all that material shit, some of can see thru it,  But everyone does it. in one form or another, this is a self portrait

Self Portrait as the Lord Krishna, by Navjeet Singh Chhina

Self Portrait as the Lord Krishna.

18x24 Oil pastel on Paper.

Sometimes my undreaming insect eyes, self portrait, Navjeet Singh Chhina

Did this self portrait when I did my Masters of Fine Art

at Howard. 

Oil Pastel on Paper 18x24