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Exhibit, Event, Graphic, & Product Design.

I’ve worked on a lot of events, both large and small. Projects include: Diamond Jubilee Pageant, Qatar National Day, RSA Conferences, Centenary of the UK Territorial Army, and multiple horse based extravaganzas.

Graphic Design is an element present in most of my projects. I have also done projects where Graphic Design was my primary role. I’ve designed books, posters, maps, pitch documents, flyers, set scenery, building wraps, and advertising.

I trained as a product designer so I also do that. Most often developing bespoke parts for exhibitions like object cases, or display plinths.

I’m a multi-skilled designer with 31 years experience. In 2016 I moved from New York City to Sydney Australia. I’ve designed exhibitions ranging from museum exhibits to car launches across the UK, Europe, Middle East, Australia, China, and the USA.

I’ve worked on projects for the Queen of England, the Emir of Qatar, Microsoft, Intel, Ford, Nissan, Toyota, Audi, Volkswagen, Acura, Citroën, Skoda, Nokia, Bonhams, UK National Motor Museum, The Wallace Collection, the National Museum of Australia, and the Australian Museum, to name a few.

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Visualization, Event Design, Australia, Exhibit Design, Samsung Mark Gunning Visualization, Event Design, Australia, Exhibit Design, Samsung Mark Gunning

Activation for Samsung

Activation for Samsung via the Projects, Sydney.

Samsung was launching a phone with a camera that had a frame rate so fast that everything was like it was filmed in slow-mo. it reminded everyone of the videos from moon landings. So, this is a moon-themed exhibit, with a ball pit, and trampoline stage. It’s set up for taking selfies with the new tech in slow-mo!

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Visualization, Event Design, Australia, Exhibit Design Mark Gunning Visualization, Event Design, Australia, Exhibit Design Mark Gunning

Activation for Milo

Activation for Milo via XPO brands Sydney. This is the result of a One-day concept to visuals project. It’s for a staffed exhibit in a shopping mall. It includes a knock-down-the-Milo-boxes game. The pyramid arrangement included a quick reset system using the back panel of the display box and cables attached to each prop-milo-box.

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Exhibit concept, Australian Museum

With an extremely loose creative brief, and very tight deadline, this was an exercise in making something that looked like it could be a considered museum exhibit, without considering it very much at all… Heavy lighting effects and unsubtle images evoke a mood of the exhibit without getting bogged down in details.

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Exhibit for Australian Museum

Calendar touchscreen interactive housing

The shape is based on Muttonbird island, Coffs Harbour, NSW. Muttonbird island holds a special significance for some of the Aboriginal collaborators on the project.  The three planes are derived from contours of the island. The island was 3D modelled, sliced into three planes, then detailed for CNC routing. A grid of battens hold the planes in space. The touchscreen is mounted to the middle plane.
Concept development, 3D modelling, Construction drawings, CNC toolpath linework.

People of the sea graphic

This was a redesign of an existing gallery element that was displaced by the new interactive. The original element was made physically from multiple cnc routed parts and stuck on the wall. For budgetary and real-estate reasons, the new element is 2D. In order to preserve the original elements look as much as possible. The parts were 3D modelled and rendered to achieve a 2.5D result. Further, the piece is all about people’s connection to the sea, so a sea-scape water-mark image has been used to evoke that context for the original ‘DNA’ graphic. It’s direct printed onto hoop pine. The hoop pine plywood helps to tie it into the rest of the gallery.

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"Bipotaim" exhibit for National Museum of Australia

Design for a permanent Museum exhibit for the National Museum of Australia, Canberra. Bipotaim: Stories from the Torres Strait is an exhibition of striking photographs, stories and objects about the lives, culture and identity of Torres Strait Islanders.

Bipotaim means ‘before time’ in Torres Strait Creole and refers in a general way to ‘olden times’.

People from islands across Australia’s northern frontier are depicted in David Callow’s portraits. They compare current and traditional ways and practises and reflect on changes that have occurred in the Torres Strait during their lives.

The photographs in Bipotaim are complemented by objects from the National Museum’s Torres Strait Islander collections.

I did the whole process in 3D so all stakeholders could easily visualize the proposals. Because all the display objects were modelled in 3D to scale, and placed in the accurate 3D virtual exhibit space we could be very confident that the final result would have no surprises. One of the very useful moments in this process came when early renders demonstrated strong reflections from a window on the display cases. I was able to include a window treatment in the final design to cut down the light entering, and to enhance the context of the display objects. The result was exactly as per the renders. It was easy to justify the cost of the window treatment to the museum by showing renders with and without the window treatment. 

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