I can help you get your project off the ground and can assist you with:

• Creating and developing an initial brief
• Defining your key objectives

When we have created your outline brief, I can produce:

• Exhibit layouts that will help define your project areas and the types of spaces you want and need. Detailed briefs and concepts often develop concurrently.
• Site masterplans will create a coherent plan and development framework for a whole site. They combine your experience elements with your practical requirements. This is where fiction and function come together.
• Feasibility studies for your project identify your opportunities and constraints and define a path to completion.

I am a specialist in whole exhibit design development. Through collaboration I bring together the various requirements of the project stakeholders and develop them into a balanced and coherent design. I produce:

• Detailed design elements, thoroughly researched and fully tested. This may include, detailed scheme design, technical elements, theming, landscape, play and interactive design amongst others.
• Design visuals and presentation documentation.
• Integrated experience, engagement, and narrative plan.
• Planning applications, including design drawings and planning statements as required

I know what input is required at the various stages of development and who to bring in when additional expertise is needed.

As a creative hands-on project manager, I am on-site to monitor development and am always available to clarify design detail, ensuring design principles are adhered to throughout.

• On site management of works and programming of individual elements.
• Appointment of contractors and oversight of production.
• Management of the design team and design processes, providing feedback and handling communications.
• Programming and budget control.

I appreciate that project settings are living environments. It is important to adapt to the changing landscapes in which exhibits are set. Sometimes development needs to take place on the ground.

I’m a big believer in ‘learning through play’. I produce storylines and ‘wow-factor’ experiences that combine education and entertainment:

• Specialising in the creation of an overall narrative and the application of that to an exhibit space, area, and audience.
• Using experience elements to shape visitor use of a space, to slow people down, speed up a visit, encourage or discourage dwell time, behaviours and movement.
• Linking stories and narrative to create a coherent project and site message.
• Design of individual, high impact pieces, telling specific stories that fit into the overall message.

I understand that engagement elements should never be bolted onto an exhibit, they should be integral to the project development from the outset.