Metstudio – Publications and Press

If you are a journalist and you have a media enquiry, please contact our PR Director, Caroline Collett of Caroline Collett PR Ltd, by
clicking hereSince the company’s inception,
MET Studio’s work has been
published in many leading
books and journals from around the world, including national
UK newspapers such as The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Independent and international newspapers such as China Today, The Straits Times, The Business Times and The Singapore Times. Feature coverage has also been given in some of the world’s leading exhibition, architecture and design journals, such as Blueprint,
The Architect’s Journal,
The Museum’s Journal, Leisure Management, Heritage Development and FX in the UK, Interiors and Sources and Exhibit Today in the USA, Design 360°, Hinge, Perspective and Times Space in China, IDS in Malaysia and LINO in Australia.
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Our Approach at Metstudio

The
best design results from dialogue with the people who commission us. Understanding a subject, thinking strategically, appreciating
our client’s needs and communicating to your target audience in an imaginative way are at the very core of what we do as a company.
From dialogue comes ideas. Without an idea there is no
effective design. But, in the immersive experience world, we are also dealing with information,
devising strategies to make that information stimulating and engaging.
Innovation might commonly be described as the commercial and financially successful exploitation of ideas, associating innovation with a tangible outcome. However, in today’s fast-changing environment, this is not enough. Innovation is also the art of making new connections,
pushing the reactions of audiences both cerebrally and emotionally to create the most effective uptake of ideas and messages.
Increasing consumer sophistication is leading to ever more technically advanced methods of delivering experience, but we are acutely aware that while people gawp at the whizz-bangs and multimedia displays, there is a subtle but powerful yearning for the real. CGI and similar technologies are blurring the boundaries between what is likely or possible and what is real. As a result audiences increasingly need reassurance. This insight is driving
our current work towards ways of offering people the euphoria of spectacle and the absorption of static display at one and the same time.
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Met Studio shortlisted for 3 Awards in 2010

Three MET Studio projects have been shortlisted for three different awards so far in 2010. The BugWorld Experience (which also got an Honourable Mention in the ICIAD Ring Awards 2009 in China), was a finalist in the Scottish Design Awards exhibition design category. The Manchester United Experience, Asia’s first interactive football environment, was a finalist in the International Award section of the UK’s Museums and Heritage Awards, whilst Conflicts of Interest, our stunning, graphics-led exhibition for the National Army Museum in the UK, made the final four for the UK Art Fund Prize 2010, the UK’s largest single arts prize.
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Metstudio - Spring News 2009
Services to meet
your needs We offer
clients the highest service from masterplanning right through to final installation and beyond into an on-going revenue-generating project strategy.
MET Studio Design are able to offer the following services:
masterplanning and concept development
corporate design strategy
interpretation and scriptwriting
environmental 3D design branding and marketing strategy
graphic design
project management
institutional planning.
The
company is supported by a network of leading specialists who cover branding, corporate literature and website development, sculpture, modelmaking, computer/multimedia programme production, audio-visual production, illustration, electronics, engineering, architectural services, interactive device production, lighting design, project marketing, production and special effects.
http://www.metstudio.comMetstudio continue to be masters of museum design, excelling at exhibition design and vistors centres. We are currently working on a number of exciting new projects at home and abroad.
Internationally awarded in recogniton of our work, including winner of
International Trade Queens Award for Enterprise,
Top Honnor Award Excellence on The Waterfront,
Winner of The Urban Land Institute - Global Award for Excellence, Winner International Trade Awards & Winner International Award Museum and Heritage Awards for Excellence.Labels: architect services, architects practice, exhibition design agency, gallery architects, lighting architects, lighting designers, museum exhibit designers