A posthumous letter from Jesus sent from heaven. Eyewitness accounts of the fall of Troy. Proof that Noah colonized Italy 108 years after the biblical flood. These are some of the nearly 70 items that make up this exhibition, which draws from the university’s extensive Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of approximately 1,700 forged items that span from the ancient world to the 20th century.

This is one of three exhibitions we’ve designed for the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries for installation at the George Peabody Library. Combining a series of highlights from the exhibition, we created a graphic that serves as a central identifying image for banners and collateral material. Color and typography unify the exhibition while at the same time coding individual pieces and case labels to show which specific exhibit categories they belong to and organize the exhibit contents for visitors.