Hello all,
I stayed in the gallery this morning and had a better look at the exhibitions and really enjoyed both the Kates - photography and drawings. Here you all are with Amy and the boxers. Angharad

PS, see some of you Sunday!

Hello exhibition design!
I was in London over the weekend and in the course of doing things with my family, went to several places that gave me ideas for this project - albeit in rather indirect ways.
These were the new Westfield (Stratford) shopping centre, with extensive views over the Olympic park, Columbia Road flower market and Bond Street and Piccadilly in central London.

Westfield and Colombia Road made me think how exciting it is when people converge on one place - that feeling of going towards something interesting .. so I took a few pics to try to capture this.

Looking from Westfield into Stratford - check the fake trees

At the end of Colombia Road market ... think temporary stalls - even the satellite dish is portable.

But the best part was some of the shops I saw in Westfield and also on Bond Street and the surrounding (very up market) area. Some of the ideas, of multiples, rabbits, or cut outs, simple to do with paper, or huge models, or single colour schemes, are in fact simple and could be executed in a variety of ways. Anyway, here are the pics.. I hope you can make them out.

Burberry window, see also giant soft boiled egg, below

Think this might Nikki de Saint Phalle art work(?) but is large papier mache anyway

Simple, large shapes, very up market shop, can't remember which one

Paper sculpture and fairground horses, all off white, Louis Vuitton

Asprey's (jeweller) window, series of frames with small 3 D pictures 

Diesel?

Richard James, Savile Row

What do red and white model rabbits have to do with top of the market tailoring?

This egg is over 1m tall, so is the toast soldier

Hope these give you some ideas for effective display - most could be interpreted in card or cheap or recycled materials.

Angharad 

The Reds Gallery Liverpool

I went to Liverpool on the weekend to see some exhibitions and get some ideas and while i was walking to the station for my return back in manchester i saw the Reds Gallery. I really enjoy my visit there, the atmosphere and the design of the gallery were really good

Maria Ioannou

Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Barclays pop up marketing exhibition.
When talking to one of the students involved from Manchester Uni, she mentioned it was a marketing company from London who had designed this for Barclays and it was to promote their facebook site www.facebook/differentscale and their graduate opportunities.  The giant chair and small van are to encourage you to to think in a different perspective.

Stockport Market

Here are some pictures from Stockport of the "bus stop" style exhibition in the market and one of the stalls that sold cakes.

Useful website/blog.

This website/blog has useful background, inspiring information and designs It is all about museum planning and exhibition design. Follow the live link which is the title of this post.

http://museumplanner.org/

Excellent master projects

Today, there was an opportunity to see excellent previous Master projects with brilliant supplemental materials. These artistic works made me extremely exciting!

Mami Kawaguchi

I enjoyed the feedback session this morning and thought that some of the ideas and what had been seen had lots of potential.

I went to the National Museum of Coal Mining near Wakefield over half term where the grounds have a nature trail with some visually very striking ponds that are linked to a European project to clean up the water from mine workings.

Angharad