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Gender Bending Fashion Animation & Interactive App

Role: UX & UI Designer, Animator, Technical Production

This project hit a lot of notes for me as an interactive designer at the MFA and an artist within Boston’s LGBTQIA Community. GBF was a multi-channel interactive narrative project created for the Gender Bending Fashion Exhibition. The challenge was to design a symbiotic experience using photography, branding, animation, written narratives, and UX Design. The solution ended up boldly elevating the voices of the Gender Bending Queer community within Boston in an often traditional museum space by displaying color, style, and diversity front and center.

Photography by: Ally Schmaling. Branding by: Jill Bendonis. Technical Manager: George Scheron. Producer: Sarah Cowen.

Proud & Out &

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Proud & Out & 🌈

The interactive Narrative App

The interactive app for the exhibition, allowed visitors to read through stories of each individual’s approach to bending their rules of gender within themselves and within their fashion. I used transitional animation in the interactive app and sharp angular shapes, that mimicked the exhibition design created by the MFA’s Exhibition Design Team. I also upskilled by learning new software in order to build out the experience.

Interactive Narrative App

Exhibition Design

Triptych In-Gallery Video Animation

The in-gallery video was mired with technical complexity. I created a triptych animation by combining portraits shot by Ally Schmaling and a typographic animation that encompassed phrases from each participants narratives. The gradient transition also provided high impact color and a seamless continuation of the branding of the exhibition.

Tryptch video in the gallery

Final Animation

What I learned

Gender Bending Fashion at the MFA, taught me how to balance creative expression with institutional structure. I learned to translate complex narratives into accessible digital experiences, collaborate closely with exhibition designers, artists, and Technical production while adapting quickly by upskilling with new tools. Most importantly, I gained insight into how thoughtful interaction design can amplify underrepresented voices and transform traditional museum spaces into vibrant, inclusive environments.

Personally as an artist I realized…Man I’m just obsessed with gradients.