Some early sketches and concepts
We have been commissioned to undertake a public art commission as part of the design of public open space associated with the new public open space at Houghton Regis. The artworks are being developed as a suite of three interpretive installations.
Read MoreCalifornia Way is a new green route through Wokingham. The wayfinding included a suite of bespoke site furniture design and created by us. The monolith signs are based on a standing stone and has rock art patterns perforated through the corten steel which references the ancient “sweet” routes that have connected communities through the centuries.
Read MoreThe Land of Oak and Iron is a Heritage Lottery funded landscape partnership project. The interpretation is the culmination of two years research, design and fabrication. The final interpretation panels are mounted onto corten steel with complementary oak poetry and wayfinding.
Read MoreCompleted Gateway Interpretation Sign at Markinch
We were commissioned to design and fabricate the Gateway signs for the Fife Pilgrim Way. Our concept was to incorporate traditional elements such as the classic arch of a field gate with the stained glass of a church window. The whole interpretive structure was designed for recyclability and every piece was carefully crafted by specialist carpenters and steel workers.
Read MoreWaterjet Cut Corten (weathering steel) designed to provide a gateway onto the National Cycle Network - note the bicycle saddle in the bottom left corner!
Sustrans commissioned us to create two bespoke route marker and gateway features designed and installed for locations close to Dunstable and Luton Airport.
The artworks are made from laser-cut Corten weathering steel, and has been designed to highlight the routes and provide attractive and prominent formal entrances which will encourage more walkers and cyclists to use the routes.
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At the beginning of the day as the sun is rising behind Lindisfarne Castle.
An interpretation shelter on Holy Island built using green oak and traditional construction methods, housing environmentally friendly panels and designed sympathetically into the landscape.
Read MoreNature Journeys with my dog.
Read MoreA miners wheel used as a template to carry the interpretation of the National Forest.
This is the end of a two year process of design and various stages of interpretation ideas. The brief originally came to us with the desire to create a series of hubs using cut through corten steel. However, we felt that this treatment was a little unsympathetic to the project aims so we created a completely new design. The hubs came from the notion of a pit wheel within which we introduced the stories of the landscape setting for each hub. Thus the story is in steel. The interpretation panel inserted into the hub puts flesh on the bones of these stories. The spinning zinc etched discs and coloured resin introduce a fun element allowing for the interpretation to appeal to a wide ranging audience including children.
Read MoreRedhall Estate is in Darlington and is surrounded by countryside and increasing development. The Redhall Nature reserve on site is full of grassland species such as six-spot burnet moths and butterflies of all kinds.
Read MoreNew simple signage system installed in Bishop Auckland.
Read MoreNew GRP interpretation panels for Whitehaven town centre.
Read MoreJess helping with studio work.
Moleskine Nature sketchbook recording my everyday walks with Jess.
Read MoreThe Allen Valley is a place of wonder and industrial heritage - sitting just below the surface. Cold and windswept often but glorious always. So working here has been a great inspiration and the interpretation panels we have installed are now looking wonderful in this landscape.
Read MoreAudio, visual, touch and smell all available at the turn of the cubes.
The latest interpretation at Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare has built on the existing interpretation we installed last year and includes audio, visual, smell and touch interpretation. This all adds to the mix of engaging activities that the education team run at the centre to help visitors understand and feel fully engage with their work of helping animal welfare.
Read MoreWe visits Arran once again this year and visited the interpretation signs we supplied last year. The project was to provide a range of signs that promote and illustrate the Arran Coastal Path.
Read MoreWe had a small part to play in the development of this memorial space for the Bradford Brothers in Witton Park. Our role was simply to produce a Zinc Etched Interpretation Plaque to be fitted to a stone plinth.
Read MoreWe have produced a suite of panels for the NHS in Scotland - the panels were used in a Dementia Garden that included a range of planting, objects, interpretation and signage to create a space that provides a relaxing environment for everyone whose lives are touched by dementia.
The garden was designed by landscape architect Nicola Duenas.
During the course of all my design work I use sketchbooks first - for everything. This allows me to have a real dialogue with my clients and myself in terms of the appropriateness of the solutions proposed.
In fact I have developed a real addiction to Moleskine Sketchbooks, Fountain Pens and watercolours.
Read MoreThis past year - 2016 - saw another phase of way finding, signage and interpretation designed and installed at Raystede Centre for animal Welfare. As with phase one this was another collaborative phase which saw how interpretation can inform the wayfinding and visitor experience for visitors to this popular place in Ringmer near Brighton.
We began the project with a Signage Audit which allowed us to assess how the first phase has been working over the past year. This done we proposed a series of landscape interventions which included simple wayfinding and some more interpretative features such as audio posts, wall friezes and cafe information graphics.
We have completed a set of GRP interpretation panels for the Kirkmichael Paths network near Stirling which involved some historical illustration. We commissioned Bob Marshall for the 3D rendering of the Bronze Age huts and produced the historical re-enactment of the raising of the banner in-house. All of the wildlife illustration was done in-house too.
