Katy Bratun – Children's Book Author & Illustrator

I recently completed a really fun design and illustration project for an exhibit at the recently opened Audubon Insectarium in New Orleans. Build-a-Bug is an interactive computer exhibit that gives visitors the opportunity to design their own insects for three separate ecological environments including a swamp, desert or meadow. Visitors build a bug by selecting from individual bug parts. The visitors’ bugs are then set loose in the chosen environment to see how well the design is adapted to that particular landscape. The challenge for me as a designer and artist was to create graphic “parts” that could be interchanged with each other – quite a challenge given the many sizes and shapes that insect parts can take. The exhibit was produced for the Insectarium by New England Technology Group of Cambridge, MA.
If you visit New Orleans, be sure to visit the Insectarium, its amazing!