Hands-on interactives

Nearly all projects we design include hands-on interactives as part of a strategy to create learning opportunities. We know that visitors learn through doing, participation and hands-on engagement, and we design robust bespoke interactives which communicate messages, reveal meanings and make learning fun.

Client

Adventure Planet
Provost Skene’s House
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Rangers Museum
Mackintosh at the Willow
Blitzed Brits
Rosslyn Chapel
The Eagle Centre
Stirling Castle
Kilmartin Museum
Museum of Childhood

Services

Interpretation Planning
Interactive Design
Content Development
Graphic Design
Prototyping

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Digital

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Signage & Wayfinding

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Retail & Cafe

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Digital

Digital technology has an important place in our work, allowing audiences to engage more widely and deeply with cultural heritage content and collections. We develop digital strategies and create digital experiences in response to audience needs, providing layered content to engage visitors with different learning styles. Immersive experiences, film, interactive audio, soundscapes and digital interactives can maximise engagement by helping to meet the needs of existing visitors as well as attracting new audiences.

Client

Aberdeen Art Gallery
Rangers Museum
Kilmartin Museum
Provost Skene’s House
Adventure Planet
The National Wallace Monument
Mackintosh at the Willow
Rip It Up!
Cambo Stables
Stirling Castle
The Devil’s Porridge Museum
Parasites: Battle for Survival

Services

Digital Strategies
Content Development
Graphic Design
User Interface

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Hands-on interactives

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Retail & Cafe

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Print & Publications

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Signage & Wayfinding

How we manage visitors on site is key to a positive experience. Effective signage and wayfinding play an important role in ensuring visitors understand what’s on offer and how to find their way around. As part of our service, we undertake detailed signage strategies, often across large and complex sites, to highlight the visitor journey and analyse the requirement for orientation, welcome, directional, naming and exterior signage.

We can develop new, or work with existing, branding and identities as part of delivering signage and wayfinding. We have extensive experience in ensuring accessibility of signage and regularly prototype and work with different user groups to test signage in advance of production. Our work encompasses digital signage across sites, both indoors and outdoors.

Client

Aberdeen Art Gallery
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Stirling Castle
Rosslyn Chapel
Cambo Gardens and Estate
Kilmartin Museum
The Devil’s Porridge
The National Glass Centre
Brodick Castle
Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Inspiring Impressionism
An Irish Impressionist: Lavery on Location
John Gray Centre, Haddington
Glencoe Visitor Centre
Tentsmuir National Nature Reserve
Edinburgh World Heritage

Services

Signage Strategies
Site Surveys
Statutory Permissions
Graphic Design
Brand Development
Artworking
Supplier Management
Project Management

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Hands-on interactives

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Digital

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Retail & Cafe

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Print & Publications

As an extension of our research and interpretation work, we write and design a range of publications and guidebooks. These include official souvenir publications for sale, such as our work for The Scottish Parliament, Mercat Tours and Rangers Museum. We have also written several guidebooks for the National Trust for Scotland for properties including The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Culloden, Killiecrankie, Glencoe and the Glenfinnan Monument.

In addition, we regularly create and design print and publication material as part of our strategy for visitor engagement. This can range from activity booklets and interactive trails and guides to publications which support more complex or in-depth exhibitions. Our graphic designers also work closely with clients to design marketing and educational material to support the wider visitor offer. As part of our service we undertake picture research, licence clearance and print management and can also offer in-house illustration.

Client

Rosslyn Chapel
National Trust for Scotland
Historic Environment Scotland
The Scottish Parliament
Mercat Tours
Rangers Museum
The Devil’s Porridge
Kilmartin Museum
The Imperial War Museum North
Nature Scot
The Smith Art Gallery

Services

Copywriting
Illustration
Graphic Design
Artworking
Supplier Management

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Branding & Packaging

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Digital

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Signage & Wayfinding

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Branding & Packaging

We have worked extensively with Rosslyn Chapel since 2005 to help develop their visitor offer. As an extension of our interpretation work, we have helped to create site specific merchandise and have developed a number of themed collections with supporting point of sale, bespoke packaging and branding. These range from Chapel-related products presented through ‘A Treasure in Stone’, to the ‘Countess Collection’ with bespoke toiletries and stationery, from children’s products in the ‘William the Chapel Cat’ collection to luxury packaging for limited edition whisky and gin.

We have also developed a range of merchandise for Scottish Canals and have worked with the National Trust for Scotland on packaging for the development of the Kitchen Garden at Culzean Castle.

Client

Rosslyn Chapel
Scottish Canals
National Trust for Scotland
Perth Museum
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Edinburgh World Heritage

Services

Graphic Design
Branding
Brand Application
Packaging Design

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Print & Publications

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Retail & Cafe

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Signage & Wayfinding

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Retail & Cafe

In addition to exhibition design, we offer a specialised interior design service for museum gift shops and cafes. This allows us to extend the visitor experience and create a complementary look and feel for these high traffic, commercial areas.

Our work includes the design of reception desks, information units, shop shelving, storage and gondolas. We also design and specify cafe furniture, serveries and display units. This allows us to carry branding and material finishes through all spaces for a seamless experience. Our 3d team brings their expert knowledge and experience of commercial interiors to ensure these high footfall areas combine robust finishes that wear well, provide for flexibility of displays and integrate lighting and graphics. We also offer specialised branding and packaging for merchandise and point of sale.

Client

Mackintosh at the Willow
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Kilmartin Museum
Rosslyn Chapel
Rangers Museum
Provost Skene’s House
National Galleries of Scotland

Services

Furniture Design
Shop Design
Graphic Design
Lighting Design
Specification of Furniture and Fittings
Point of Sale

Various Clients