pen names
This exhibition invites visitors to explore how ideas of gender, genre, privacy, reputation, authorship, and authenticity influence authors’ use of pen names in the past and today.
National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh
Interpretation Design
Graphic Design
What Did We do?
Using layers of rainbow colour and cropped imagery to suggest masked identities, the exhibition design was intended to represent the diverse nature of the authors and themes on display. Pared-back zones, whilst clean and focussed in their own right, amounted to an explosion of colour suggestive of the assorted reasons for the authors having pseudonyms and the extreme creativity they continue to bring to the world.
