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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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Product Design, Australia, Visualization, Exhibit Design, Museum Mark Gunning Product Design, Australia, Visualization, Exhibit Design, Museum Mark Gunning

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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Visualization, Event Design, Graphic Design, UK, Product Design, Stage Set, Audi Mark Gunning Visualization, Event Design, Graphic Design, UK, Product Design, Stage Set, Audi Mark Gunning

Audi Polo Event Cambridgeshire UK

The stage set is made in three pieces. Three identical fibreglass parts were taken from a mold. Care was taken to reduce visible repetition in the polygon pattern. Edge polygons were kept whole so as to reduce the visual impact of the seams between the panels.

The design was refined using SketchUp. the initial panel was made into a component and copied twice more so visual impact of changes to the polygons could be assessed in real-time. Using this method you have a lot of confidence that the finished piece will fit together seamlessly and will turn out as you envisaged.

Stage set design, Media wall. Bar Backing.

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Graphic Design, Event Design, Product Design, China, Visualization, Horse Mark Gunning Graphic Design, Event Design, Product Design, China, Visualization, Horse Mark Gunning

Shanghai International Horse Cultural Festival

The show was staged on a disused dock on the Bund, Shanghai. All facilities were built for the show, and removed afterwards.

Production design for the show. There were considerable difficulties in fitting everything on the challenging site.

Visualization, Graphic design, banners, building wrap, trade show.

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iPad Stand product design

Product design and visualization for an iPad stand that would make the iPad useful for event organisers and gallery situations. In these public situations, iPads are just too easy to steal. They need to be protected. Also charging and managing software updates are a problem. This stand was designed just before the first generation iPad was released. It secures it and allows for battery augmentation while retaining something of the iPad aesthetic. The design allows the iPad to rotate to accommodate both landscape & portrait apps. The rotation can also be locked in place if so desired.

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