Synopses & Reviews
Commercial trade fairs, brand experiences, themed attractions, world expositions, museum galleries, visitor centers, historic houses, landscape interpretation and art installation are all areas that can be categorized under the broad umbrella term of ‘exhibition’. Millions of people visit exhibitions of one sort or another every year and globally it is a multi-billion dollar industry. Basics Interior Design: Exhibition Design offers a better understanding of the complexity of exhibition design as a discipline, by exploring the role of the exhibition designer as a creative practitioner. It considers the blurring of borders with other design disciplines, but interior, graphic design and marketing in particular.
Supported by case study examples and practical in nature, this book offers a guide on how to approach the design of the narrative.
Synopsis
"Basics Interior Design 02: Exhibition Design" explores the role of the exhibition designer as a creative practitioner, and seeks to communicate a better understanding of exhibition design as a discipline.
This umbrella term incorporates the development of commercial trade fairs, brand experiences, themed attractions, world expositions, museum galleries, visitor centres, historic houses, landscape interpretation and art installations. Millions of people visit exhibitions of one sort or another every year, constituting a multi-billion dollar global industry.
This book offers a comprehensive guide to the practice of exhibition design, and considers the blurring of its borders with other disciplines, such as graphic design.
Synopsis
Supported by case study examples and practical in nature, this book offers a guide on how to approach the design of the narrative.
About the Author
Pam Locker is the subject leader for the Design for Exhibition and Museums course at the University of Lincoln and has worked as a museum and exhibition designer and consultant for a range of projects and organizations in Britain and Europe. As a Principal Teaching Fellow at the university she has a special interest in the use of communication design in education and has developed an online resource ‘Pencils and Pixels’ that uses filmed demonstrations aimed at teaching design students about the role of drawing as a means of communication. Pam is a fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers and a Member of the Higher Education Academy.
Table of Contents
Introduction What is an exhibition? Expos Commercial exhibitions Museum galleries Heritage Art and leisure
Exhibition design Exhibition familiesThe role of the exhibition designerExhibition spaceDesigning for peopleUnderstanding the storyProject IProject II
Designing a narrativeInspirational triggersPersonal conversationsStructure of narrative spacePublic conversationsProject IProject II
Exhibition mediaDisplaySetting the sceneInteractivesLightAudioProject IProject II
Exhibition graphics Communication graphicsTypographyGraphic productionSignageProject IProject II
Putting on a show TenderingBuilding an exhibitionHandoverEvaluationProject IProject II
Conclusion Bibliography Useful websites and organizations Glossary List of exposAcknowledgements and picture credits
Featured museums/institutions etc.
Time Warner Center, New York, US
OC Tanner, Chicago, US
Quai Branly, Paris, France
Expo 2008, Zaragosa, Spain
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
River and Rowing Museum, Henley, UK
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, US
Slavery Museum, Liverpool, UK
The Science Museum, London, UK
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Museum of Communication, Bern, Switzerland
Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, Australia
Urban Planning Centre, Beijing, China
Great North Museum, Newcastle, UK
Churchill Museum, London, UK
Featured exhibition designers
At Large
Bremner and Orr
Casson Mann
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Frank Gehry
Gewerk Design
Jean Nouvel
John Csaky
Land Design Studio
Mauk Design
Metaphor
Nick Bell Design
Photosound
Ralph Appelbaum
Rebecca Shipman
Softroom
Zaha Hadid
Z-A Studio/Guy Zucker