Alusiv

09/15/2025

In the late 19th century, some women made the boldest, most bizarre fashion choice imaginable—they started wearing pants.

These new costumes, whether pantaloons, bloomers, or knickerbockers, subverted long-held expectations and symbolized changes taking place in society. Women entered traditionally masculine spheres like higher education and the workplace, with hopes to make further progress. But just as there were those who welcomed the change, others felt profound anxieties.

Curated by Library Collections Specialists, April Armstrong *14 and Emma Paradies, and designed by Alusiv, the "Fashion, Feminism & Fear: Clothing and Power in the 19th Century" exhibition is on display through March 31, 2026 in the lobby gallery of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.

09/15/2025

Led by curator Martin Heijdra, Director of Princeton University’s East Asian Library, "Forms & Function: The Splendor of Global Book Making" is a 2,000-sq ft exhibition designed by Alusiv to showcase a diverse array of treasures of global book making, focusing on three major traditions of the book form: codex, East Asian, and pothī. It is on display at the Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery at the Firestone Library through December 7, 2025.

10/02/2024

Nice article from WHYY about our new exhibit, “Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray”!

Philadelphia pioneered the school lunch 130 years ago.

09/27/2024

What’s On The Friday Menu Round
Grab a tray and get in the lunch line — it’s lunch time! The Friday rotation has your choice of Veggie Pizza, Crispy Chicken Salad, or a Cheeseburger with fries. Apple juice box with that? Move along, now…
Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray
Science History Institute
Philadelphia, PA
09.27.24

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09/23/2024

“Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray” is a new exhibition that explores the surprising story behind one of the most familiar rites of passage—eating a school lunch. It opens Friday, September 27, 2024 at the Science History Institute.

Alusiv designed the 1,600-sq ft exhibition in collaboration with the Science History Institute Team, led by curator Jesse Smith, Director of Curatorial Affairs.

On view through January 2026, this exhibition offers a novel historical perspective on efforts to feed children in U.S. schools. Visitors will also learn about the unique and important Philadelphia connection in jumpstarting a national conversation around children’s access to food in the early 1900s.

Drawing from nearly 250 years of rare scientific instruments, posters, pamphlets, photographs, and period editions of books popularizing new ideas about a proper diet, Lunchtime delves into the history of food science and the difficulty of feeding schoolchildren nationwide.

The exhibition also highlights innovations like dehydrated and frozen foods, preservatives, and cellophane, as well as the leading role the federal government played in the development of the school lunch.

The exhibition is open from September 27, 2024 through January 2026 and free to the public.
Wednesday through Saturday 10am-5pm

Read more about the exhibition on Science History Institute's website

02/20/2024

“Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond” is a new exhibition opening Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at Princeton University Library. Alusiv designed the 2,000-sq ft exhibition in collaboration with the Princeton University Team, led by curators Sal Hamerman, Metadata Librarian for Special Collections at PUL, and Javier Rivero Ramos, a recent Ph.D graduate from the Department of Art & Archaeology.

Ulises Carrión Bogard was one of the most influential of all modern book artists, and this new exhibition is the largest retrospective exhibition of his work in the U.S. to date. Carrión reconceived the book not as a document for literary expression but as a material, semiotic, and social medium in its own right.

Carrión’s multimedia practice encompassed artists’ books, sound poetry, performance, videos, theoretical writing, publishing, curating, and archiving. He also became heavily involved in mail art, a participatory and network-driven practice rooted in the international exchange of artworks through the postal system.

The exhibition is open from February 21 through June 13, 2024 and free to the public. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat & Sun 11am-6pm

Read more about the exhibition on Princeton University Library's website at https://library.princeton.edu/ulisescarrion

02/22/2023

“Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory” is a new exhibition opening February 22, 2023 at Princeton University Library. Alusiv designed the 2,000-sq ft exhibition in collaboration with the Princeton University Team, led by curator Autumn Womack, Professor African American Studies and English, and artists Lizania Cruz and Josh Begley.

The exhibition brings together select manuscript drafts, notes, letters and research from the Pulitzer Prize winning author's papers and offers visitors a glimpse of her writing life and practice. It illuminates how her creative process was a deeply archival one, and is arranged according to six interrelated “sites” that, together, elaborate the crucial place of the archive within Morrison’s own dynamic career, and also in Black life itself.

Morrison is the world-renowned writer of Beloved, her most famous novel and winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She is a touchstone in African American and American literary history.

Read more about the exhibition on Princeton University Library's website at
https://library.princeton.edu/tonimorrisonexhibition

10/21/2022

The Inauguration event for Elizabeth Magill as Ninth President of the University of Pennsylvania included a community picnic and concert featuring Sheryl Crow and Jeff Tweedy. Alusiv designed the outdoor graphics and stage for the performance venue on Shoemaker Green next to The Palestra.

10/21/2022

On October 21, 2022 Penn inaugurated Elizabeth Magill as its ninth President. Alusiv designed the event brand inspired by the ornamental patterns representing an ‘engine of learning’ in the architecture of Penn’s Fisher Fine Arts Library, which was the site of the first welcome event for President Magill. Brand design implementations included event identity, print materials, digital, environmental and exhibit components for the ceremony, dinner, a symposium featuring Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, and a community concert featuring Sheryl Crow and Jeff Tweedy.

09/27/2022

It is very exciting to see the final installation of "Solving the Unsolvable" at Children's Hospital of Philadephia's new Hub for Clinical Collaboration building -- truly a visionary collaboration between The ROZ Group, Alusiv, Art Guild and mural artist Nilé Livingston!

Her creation "is vibrant survey of who we are from the past, present, and future perspectives. Weaving together imagery of CHOP’s scientific excellence in children’s health, the mural is a commitment to diversity and inclusivity in leadership, research, and patient care." The more you look, the more you see!

09/07/2022

Alusiv's exhibit design "Records of Resistance: Documenting Global Activism 1933 to 2021" opens at the Princeton University Library today September 7th!

It is an impactful visual and historical view into four different events of protest and activism from the civil rights march in Selma, Alabama in 1965, to Jewish spiritual resistance to their oppressors during and immediately after the Holocaust, to the women's march in streets of Lahore, Pakistan in 2020 and human rights protests in Santiago, Chile in 2019 and 2020.

The exhibit is on display until December 11, 2022.

09/02/2022

We're in the final installation phases for our new exhibit "Records of Resistance: Documenting Global Activism 1933 to 2021" for the Princeton University Library! Walls and panels and graphics going up!

The exhibit captures continuity and change in practices of protest and activism in diverse geographic contexts and around issues that may be particular to an area or of universal concern. The exhibition will include images that range from sacred Passover Haggadot that embody Jews’ spiritual resistance to their oppressors during and immediately after the Holocaust, to dramatic photographs of marchers on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, to vibrant posters and pamphlets created by protesters taking to the streets of Santiago, Chile and Lahore, Pakistan only a few years ago.

Opening to the public next week September 7th!