California Jewish Open Exhibition Design

Identity Design
Exhibition Design
Environmental Design

The California Jewish Open is The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s first major open-call exhibition. It took place following Oct 7, 2023, when the need for connection was especially relevant, inviting Jewish-identifying artists living throughout California to respond to the question: How do artists engage with the many aspects of Jewish culture, identity, and community to foster, reimagine, preserve, or discover connection?

I developed a campaign identity using typography and a continuing drawn line to emphasize the exhibition's theme of connection, paired with a sunset-inspired color palette to symbolize the artists' shared home of California. The multi-channel marketing campaign applied this identity across print, collateral, digital, social, and out-of-home to raise awareness of The Museum and the exhibition throughout the Bay Area, reinforcing the theme experienced in the onsite environmental graphics.

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Connecting line in motion ad applications.

California sunset in smaller, secondary motion ads.

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The design for the exhibition encompassed print and digital collateral as well as environmental graphics with themes centered around connection and California.

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© Charlie Lederer 2025

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