Creative Spaces

Thorpedo!

Creative Spaces — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:39:00 +0000

Along the tourist attraction known as Tin Horse Highway, in the wheatbelt town of Kulin, there will soon be a new sculpture to add to the collection.

We have been involved in designing a ‘Thorpedo’ style tin horse sculpture to mark the entrance of the new public aquatic centre.

This fun project was in addition to the entry statement designs we are currently developing. The Shire’s Mechanic, Denis Brandis was brought into the project with the challenge of using local recycled materials to construct the tin horse. He has steamed ahead and almost completed the sculpture but luckily Gen Farrelly, Senior Project Officer with the Shire of Kulin, caught him just in time to get some progress shots to us.

We’ll update you with the final installation when Thorpedo is all painted up so you can plan your road trip…

Fremantle Ports – Discovery Centre

Creative Spaces — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:00:32 +0000

This Discovery Centre has been designed as an innovative approach to interpretive spaces for children. Situated on the Victoria Quay in Fremantle, the B Shed is a heritage-listed building, recently the recipient of conservation works.

The theme is the Working Port and interprets how Fremantle Ports operate in a colourful, interactive and sensory experience. The spatial flow of the centre was based along the historical timeline of Fremantle Port.

A dramatic, stylised environment ignites the imagination and showcases the development and workings of the Port. Built-up, textured landscape areas, a ship wreck, container stacks, gantry and littlies areas are interspersed with hand drawn, illustrated characters to create a friendly learning by play environment.

By supporting a sense of adventure the children will learn about the development of the Port by climbing, touching, smelling and playing.

This has been such an amazing experience to design. It enabled us to step into our inner child and develop a concept, which pushes design boundaries.

Trade Stand and Stage Display

Creative Spaces — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:17:32 +0000

This year Museums Australia and Interpretation Australia held a joint national conference at the new State Theatre Centre.

As part of the conference, Creative Spaces were involved in the design of the event logo, promotional material and signage. We also designed and installed our own unique trade show stand.

Not satisfied with the standard ‘shell scheme’ package, Amy and Brittney took the trade stand to a new, interactive level. The Interactive Wall design was inspired by the concept of re-purposing everyday items and materials into walls and furniture.

2000 project cards, 1400 sweets and 700 customised pencils were placed into hundreds of small boxes to then be placed into our ‘rent-a-fence’. The installation became a great conversation starter as we met conference goers throughout the week. Although a few were hesitant, once they realised it was all part of the ‘grand design’, they all left smiling with a box in hand.

Creative Spaces also took on the task of dressing the Heath Ledger Theatre stage. Warwick Fabrics generously donated some of their beautiful fabrics, chosen to compliment the conference logo. We sculpted the fabric around props to create an industrial style set whilst showcasing the colours in a textured flowing form.

Houghton’s Trail Signs

Creative Spaces — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:57:12 +0000

In the build up to the recent 175th anniversary of Houghton Wines, a weekend of family fun was planned.

The beautiful spring day was full of entertainment and sights to see. Creative Spaces (in conjunction with Savagely Creative) was asked to design a semi-permanent trail that leads people around the site and find out more about this piece of West Australian history.

The design was inspired by the royal blue ribbon seen on the White Classic bottles. By using the trees as the base for the signs, the flexible nature of the material created a different and interesting form at the each location. Accompanied by a map, this trail will be up for you to find over the summer.

Interactive Wall at Greenhouse

Creative Spaces — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:56:25 +0000

For the Museums Australia and Interpretation Australia national conference last week we had our custom designed trade stand built and set up at the State Theatre Centre, Northbridge.

After all the build up and excitement of getting our trade stand constructed, it got to Friday and we just didn’t want to take it down…

Instead we asked our friends at the amazing Greenhouse restaurant if we could relocate our Interactive Wall. After an entertaining trip through the city (quite the work out) the wall arrived safely. It should be up for most of the week so this is an even better excuse to go out, have a drink, bite to eat and pick out a box to see what goodies we have inside for you.

Hope you enjoy our interactive take on the trade stand, we look forward to hearing from you!

At the Frontier

Creative Spaces — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:04:51 +0000

This year Museums Australia and Interpretation Australia are combining forces and having a joint conference right here in Perth!

We have been involved in the graphic design and sponsorship of the event and have a trade stand at the State Theatre Centre during the week of Nov 14-18.

If you get a chance to come down or have been at the conference and not found us yet we are floating around at our trade stand down stairs, Basement 1. Yes thats right, that wall of colourful boxes is our alternative to a trade stand as we like to do things differently! Each little box is a gift for you so please pop down, pick a colour and say hi.

See you there!