THE HOME OF CHARLES DARWIN, DOWN HOUSE WINS TOURISM AWARD

NOVEMBER 2009 Britain’s top travel journalists have voted Charles Darwin’s home, Down House at Downe, near Orpington, Kent as the best UK Tourism Project for 2009. Members of the British Guild of Travel Writers gave the house – Darwin’s home for 40 years – the accolade for the new exhibition and interpretation which opened at [...]

VALANCE HOUSE AND EASTBURY MANOR

NOVEMBER 2009 Designmap have been appointed by the London Borough of Dagenham and Barking to create the brand identity for two new heritage visitor attractions, Valence House and Eastbury Manor. We will also be working with Brennan Design to deliver the exhibition graphics for Eastbury Manor.

‘FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD’

OCTOBER 2009 Designmap have been appointed by Sheffield Millennium Galleries to design their new touring exhibition ‘Food Glorious Food’.

CECIL HIGGINS ART GALLERY & BEDFORD MUSEUM

SEPTEMBER 2009 Following a successful stage 1 HLF application and support from Bedford Borough Council, Designmap have been appointed to design the new and refurbished galleries at Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum. Cecil Higgins Art Gallery will display an outstanding collection of water colours, prints and applied arts, whilst the Museum tells the [...]

WESTMINSTER ABBEY 2020 VISION

JUNE 2009 – 2020 Vision Exhibition Development Plans for Westminster Abbey A new exhibition outlining the development plan, 2020 Vision, for Westminster Abbey, which has set an exciting agenda over the next decade for the world-famous coronation church in the heart of London runs at the Abbey’s Chapter House until the end of September 2009. [...]

DESIGNMAP DEVELOPS CROSSNESS SEWAGE WORKS VISITOR EXPERIENCE

FEBRUARY 2009 – Designweek press Designmap is developing the visitor experience at the Victorian-era Crossness Sewage Treatment Works Complex, London SE2, as part of a wider £3m restoration which is set to open to the public next year. The development will see new visitor facilities added to the complex, including a permanent exhibition, a retail [...]

DESIGNMAP UNVEILS £1M DARWIN SHOW

FEBRUARY 2009 – Designweek press   A £1m permanent exhibition, created for English Heritage by Designmap to mark Charles Darwin’s birth 150 years ago, opens tomorrow 13/02/09 at Down House, Downe, Kent.   The exhibition, in the house where Darwin spent most of his life after his voyages, is the fruit of a year-long project [...]

THE MEDIEVAL MAGUIRES

MARCH 2008   Designmap win Medieval Maguires project at Enniskillen Castle, Northern Ireland, following a 4 way creative pitch. The exhibition is due to open Summer 2008. 0 Enniskillen Castle & Museum site                    

DOWN HOUSE

Designmap win Darwin bicentennial project at Down House, the home of Charles Darwin. Following creative submissions by nearly 100 consultancies from UK, Europe and America, Designmap were appointed by English Heritage for this prestigious project. This Centenary exhibition at his home in the village of Down, is due to open in February 2009 which sees [...]

IDEAL HOME SHOW 2008

“100 years of inspiration” 14th March – 6th April 2008 Designmap were appointed by DMG World Media to develop the graphic identity for their centenary show. Working as part of the JJA design team we developed exterior and interior large scale graphics, linking period images taken from archive show guides, with ‘aspirational’ visions of contemporary interior [...]