Portfolio
Interpretation & Display
Case Studies:
Red Cross Diaries , Avon Heath, Dorset, Colyton Heritage Centre, Culm Valley Cloth Trade, Devon Wildlife Trust HQ, Exeter Custom House, Lundy St Helen's, NCI Prawle Point, NCI Torbay, St Stephens, Exeter, Tiverton Canal Centre, Tower Bridge, London, Tuckers Hall, Exeter, Whalesborough CafeFind out more about we can offer in Interpretation & Display
Design
Introductory text to this portfolio.
Case Studies:
Bideford Railway Centre, Red Cross Diaries , Avon Heath, Dorset, Colyton Heritage Centre, Culm Valley Cloth Trade, Devon Wildlife Trust HQ, Exeter Custom House, Greater Horseshoe Bats, Lundy St Helen's, NCI Prawle Point, NCI Torbay, R.S.P. B., St Andrew's Church, St John's, Church, Totnes, St Sidwells, Exeter, St Stephens, Exeter, Tiverton Canal Centre, Tower Bridge, London, Tuckers Hall, Exeter, Whalesborough CafeFind out more about we can offer in Design & Illustration
Visitor Centres
Case Studies:
Avon Heath, Dorset, Devon Wildlife Trust HQ, NCI Torbay, St Stephens, Exeter, Tuckers Hall, Exeter, Whalesborough CafeFind out more about we can offer in Interpretation & Display
Touchscreen interactives
Case Studies:
Avon Heath, Dorset, Colyton Heritage Centre, Culm Valley Cloth Trade, Exeter Custom House, Devon Wildlife Trust HQ, Greater Horseshoe Bats, NCI Prawle Point, NCI Torbay, St Andrew's Church, St Stephens, Exeter, Tiverton Canal Centre, Tuckers Hall, Exeter, Whalesborough CafeFind out more about we can offer in Touchscreen Interactives
Web Design
Low-tech interactives
Client:
Colyton Parish History Society
Location:
Colyton
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Budget:
£60,000
Brief:
Installation of a top-end document digitising suite to scan and secure the Colyton Foeffees’ Archive of over 30,000 parish records. This Heritage Lottery Funded project involved the recruitment and training of research volunteers, and the development of original artwork to showcase the history of the parish through graphic panels and a deep-learning touchscreen interactive in the Merchant's House Heritage Centre.
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Client:
The Landmark Trust
Location:
Lundy Island
Budget:
£20,000
Brief:
Large-format display banners, wall panels and a low-tech interactive detailing the history and wildlife of Lundy, installed in the Church of St Helen's on the island. Conceived and developed through cooperation with several community groups with responsibility for Lundy's church, heritage and wildlife, the exhibition was opened in a ceremony led by the Bishop of Exeter.
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Client:
Greater Horseshoe Bat Project
Location:
Multiple sites around Devon
Budget:
£750,000
Brief:
Micro visitor-centre installations and transportable touchscreen interactives installed at The Donkey Sanctuary, Berry Head, and other beacon sites around Devon. Developed for a consortium of wildlife charities, the exhibition spaces comprised interpretation panels and a deep-level touchscreen interactive filled with wildlife information, audio, infra-red video, interactive maps and video arcade games.
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Client:
Whalesborough
Location:
North Devon
Budget:
£350,000
Brief:
Design and installation of a complete wildlife interpretation centre within the centre's tea rooms, as part of a rural development grant. The exhibition space comprised a matched pair of interactive touchscreens - one mounted in a coffee table, and low tech non-digital interactives including a tabletop magnetic quiz game, and a set of large-format photo-printed building cube puzzle. Curved graphic interpretation wall-panels of wildlife information were installed throughout the space. Download PDF
Client:
British Red Cross
Location:
Exeter School, St Stephen's Church, Exeter Cathedral, Exeter RD&E and others
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Budget:
£8,000
Brief:
Copywriting and design of eight wall panels to accompany walk-through reconstructions and exhibits depicting hospital and medical practice during the First World War. The exhibition kit is fully mobile and continues to be transported and rapidly installed in multiple venues around the South West.
Client:
Devon County Council
Location:
Grand Western Canal, Tiverton
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Budget:
£40,000
Brief:
Complete visitor centre installation, including 10m of curved interpretation wall panels, design and production of four low-tech interactives - rotating puzzles, 'what the butler saw' viewing consoles, a large-format board game mounted on a horse-drawn flatbed trailer - as well as life-size model animals. A large body of multimedia resources were curated to a form the basis of a touchscreen interactive, which included puzzle games, wildlife profiles and video, an image gallery and an interactive map . This map incorporated 360° 3D panoramas from the entire 10 mile length of the canal. Download PDF
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Client:
ECC and Exeter Canal Trust
Location:
Custom House, Exeter
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Budget:
£30,000
Brief:
Design and installation of a local history exhibition display, as part of the relocation of Exeter's Tourist Information Centre to the quayside Custom House. This included multiple fabric-printed interpretation panels on bespoke wooden A-frame mounts, graphic wall-panels, walk-through exhibition spaces and the installation of an interactive touchscreen questionnaire, to gather visitor feedback and demographic information to inform future development of the city's heritage and tourism provision.
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Client:
National Coastwatch Institute
Location:
Torbay
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Budget:
£55,000
Brief:
Design and installation of visitor centre including multiple interpretation panels and deep-level touchscreen interactive. The interactive includes arcade games, 360° panorama tours of the function of shipping watchtowers, maritime navigation maps, aerial photography of the local coastline and town, wildlife and geology information, and local walking trails.
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Client:
National Coastwatch Institute
Location:
Prawle Point
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Budget:
£7,000
Brief:
Authoring, design and production of seven interpretation panels on wildlife and geology, for the National Coastwatch Institutes's HLF-funded visitor centre at Prawle Point. Download PDF
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Client:
Corporation of London
Location:
London
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Budget:
£5,000
Brief:
An exhibition of montage and information panels, showcasing 1960s photography and historical information in the walkway of Tower Bridge.
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Client:
Diocese of Exeter
Location:
Cullompton
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Budget:
£11,000
Brief:
A fully-featured touchscreen interactive installed with videos, drone footage, aerial maps, and a 3D virtual tour allowing visitors to switch between the appearance of the church building now, and as it was hundreds of years ago.
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Client:
Incorporation of Weavers
Location:
Exeter
Sector:
Budget:
£105,000
Brief:
Produced full HLF grant application for, designed and installed multi-storey interpretation centre on the history of the cloth trade for Exeter's Guild of Weavers, Fullers and Shearsmen. The interpretation centre was built as part of a building overhaul of Tuckers Hall, an historic building in the city. Exhibits included 10,000 words of copy on interpretation panels, display cabinets and a touchscreen interactive filled with videos, interactive maps, 360° panorama tours and a digitised record of hundreds of years of the Guild's minutes in a digital bookcase. The project including the recruitment and training of a group of volunteers to research, digitise and transcribe the historic records. Freeline also created a content managed website for the guild with member, event and email management system to allow members to view each others' profiles and receive regular email bulletins about guild events: www.tuckershall.org.uk Download PDF
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Client:
Dorset County Council
Location:
Avon Heath, New Forest
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Budget:
£24,000
Brief:
Design, authoring and installation of an interactive computer suite including 46” touchscreen table, and a set of 28 interpretation panels for Dorset County Council’s Ranger Service heath land discovery Centre. Interpretation copy and touchscreen content covered all aspects of the wildlife and management of the nature reserve, and included multiple custom-built puzzles and games for young visitors as well as wildlife profiles, video and image galleries and nature trail information. Download PDF
Client:
Parish of Central Exeter
Location:
High Street Exeter
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Budget:
£26,000
Brief:
As part of a £1.5 million church restoration, we were commissioned to design and produce a set of panels and a historical computer touchscreen for the Heritage centre within the newly refurbished community church, this included coordinating historical research by six groups of volunteers over a three-month period. Training and support was given as the volunteers searched local records for information which was then professionally translated by our editor Todd Gray, into text suitable for a series of leaflets, a study pack for school children, a number of static information panels, and an interactive touchscreen unit. Download PDF
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Client:
Cullompton Town Council
Location:
Cullompton
Sector:
Budget:
£60,000
Brief:
Touchscreen interactives detailing the story of the local Cloth Trade, installed in four locations in Cullompton & the Culm Valley. Each site advertises the other three, and has interactive panoramas and films. Content included multiple interactive maps of the local area, 360° tours of every site, and new video content of working machinery and dramatic reconstructions of life in Coldharbour Mill.
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Client:
Devon Wildlife Trust
Location:
Cricklepit Mill, Exeter
Budget:
£29,000
Brief:
DWT invited us to tender for the design, production and install of the visitor centre in their new headquarters at Cricklepit Mill, this included researching the history of the Mill, producing a range of bespoke wooden interactives and authoring an extensive computer interactive. Download PDF
Client:
St Sidwells Community Centre
Location:
Exeter
Sector:
Budget:
£10,000
Brief:
Authoring, design and production of interpretation panels on the history of the local area.
Client:
Various
Location:
Various
Sector:
Budget:
£0
Brief:
Design, develop and build a "magic robot" appropriate to the visitor centre theme. The "magic robot" is a traditional game in which the "robot" is asked a question and when placed on the mirror will turn to the correct answer.
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Client:
Devon County Council
Location:
Various
Sector:
Budget:
£0
Brief:
Design, develop and build games appropriate to the visitor centre theme.
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Client:
Devon Wildlife Trust
Location:
Whalesborough
Budget:
£0
Brief:
Design, develop and build games appropriate to the visitor centre theme.
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Client:
Devon County Council
Location:
Various
Sector:
Budget:
£0
Brief:
Design, develop and build games appropriate to the visitor centre theme.
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Client:
Devon Wildlife Trust
Location:
Various
Budget:
£0
Brief:
Design, develop and build games appropriate to the visitor centre theme.
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Client:
Devon County Council
Location:
Grand Western Canal, Tiverton
Sector:
Budget:
£0
Brief:
Design, develop and build games appropriate to the visitor centre theme.
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Client:
Devon Wildlife Trust
Location:
Devon Wildlife Trust HQ, Exeter
Budget:
£0
Brief:
Design, develop and build games appropriate to the visitor centre theme.
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Client:
Devon Wildlife Trust
Location:
Devon Wildlife Trust HQ, Exeter
Budget:
£0
Brief:
Design, develop and build games appropriate to the visitor centre theme.
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Client:
Bideford Railway Heritage Group
Location:
Bideford
Sector:
Budget:
£60,000
Brief:
Design and installation of a visitor centre including multiple interpretation panels and deep-level touchscreen interactive. The interactive includes: puzzle games, 360° panorama tours of a functioning signal box, a diesel and a steam locomotive cab, historical rail films and image galleries. Photography, video production, illustration and artwork.
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Client:
R.S.P.B. South West
Location:
South West England
Budget:
£0
Brief:
Design and layout of various leaflets, panels and signs.
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Client:
St Mary's & St John's Churches
Location:
Totnes
Sector:
Budget:
£25,000
Brief:
Installation of a touchscreen featuring St John's church Bridgetown, its heritage and the fabric of the building. The touchscreen illustrates the rich cultural, architectural, religious, historical and community heritage of Totnes. As well as text and images the touchscreen delivers 'virtual tours' - 360 degree panoramas where the viewer can move around a virtual space and zoom in and out to pick out the smallest detail. Each panorama is programmed with a range of multimedia information hotspots. A brochure was produced to compliment the touchscreen which includes summary detail of all the main subjects outlined.
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