Basics Interior Design: Exhibition Design

✍ Scribed by Pam Locker

• Publisher: Ava Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 186
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.    

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
......Page 5
Introduction......Page 7
How to get the most out of this book......Page 9
01 What is an exhibition?......Page 12
Expos......Page 13
Commercial exhibitions......Page 17
Museum galleries......Page 21
Heritage......Page 27
Art and leisure......Page 31
02 Exhibition design......Page 36
Exhibition families......Page 37
The role of the exhibition designer......Page 39
Exhibition space......Page 43
Designing for people......Page 47
Understanding the story......Page 53
Student case study......Page 59
03 Designing a narrative......Page 62
Inspirational triggers......Page 63
Structure of narrative space......Page 65
Personal conversations......Page 69
Public conversations......Page 77
Student case study......Page 85
04 Exhibition media......Page 88
Theatrical techniques......Page 89
Cinematic techniques......Page 95
Interactivity......Page 99
Dispaly......Page 103
Student Case Study
......Page 109
05 Exhibition graphics......Page 112
Typography......Page 113
Graphic families......Page 117
Graphics and communication......Page 125
Graphic production......Page 129
Navigation......Page 133
Student case study......Page 135
06 Putting on a show......Page 138
Sustainability......Page 139
Tendering......Page 143
Building an exhibition......Page 149
Exhibition lighting......Page 153
Handover......Page 159
Evaluation......Page 161
Student case study......Page 163
Conclusion
......Page 165
Useful resources......Page 167
Glossary......Page 169
Index......Page 173
Acknowledgements......Page 175
Picture credits......Page 176
Working with ethics......Page 178