So its time to answer the question you have wanted to know since (part 3) Invisible display cases or may be you have been trawling the internet in the mean time for the definitive answer to “what is the best materials to make museum display showcases from”? Well the answer is both; it just depends [...]
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Can’t Touch This – The Invisible Museum Display Cases (3)
In part of one of the “can’t touch this” series of blogs we already touched on the goal of invisible museum display cases / vitrines in this the third article we return to the same subject of how to achieve this. The process of achieving a successful museum or exhibition showcase design, build and installation is [...]
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WWF 50th Anniversary Exhibition & Event
We were delighted when we were approached by World Wildlife Fund to provide exhibition & lighting design consultancy on this prestigious event. It was particularly important for WWF they worked with a design company with environmental & eco-friendly principles & ethos. SMA design’s own eco evolution started over 7 years ago, which leaves our consultancy uniquely [...]
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Commercial & Architectural Lighting Design: Please don’t leave it to us!
Sorry for the delay in bringing this next part of our lighting design blog on commercial and architectural lighting design, but as you have probably seen our studios have been very busy on project all in some way needing quality lighting layouts. “Please don’t leave it to us” might seem a strange title for a [...]
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Can’t Touch This – Museum Exhibition Display Showcases (2)
So is that Vitrines or Showcases? Ok so you have a new exhibition, museum or visitor centre that requires new glass display showcases or acrylic vitrines. Now if you were paying attention you might have noticed that I can’t make up my mind whether to write museum display showcases or exhibition vitrines or both? The [...]
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Can’t Touch This – Museum Exhibition Display Showcases (1)
Achieving the invisible museum display showcase or exhibition display vitrine has long been the aspiration or goal of museum designers, architects, curators and showcase manufactures. They all have a shared vision to display and communicate every day items along with extraordinary exhibits in their purest form without restriction or barrier. From its very nature, once [...]
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Enough Headaches – The Well-being Factor of Lighting Design
Architectural lighting design or commercial lighting can either make or break the spaces we work, rest, shop or play in so it is important to get the building lighting design right first time. Good lighting design can create drama, define, accentuate and enrich on so many different levels, get it wrong and the opposite it [...]
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Green initiatives
We have been growing our green initiatives seeds & ideas to a new level in the last couple of months. (Yes we have been busy bees) The teams here always keeps up with the latest eco-technologies, researches and seminars ensuring our projects include the most modern & efficient eco-friendly solutions and are environmentally accommodating. It [...]
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Lighting Design – It’s a difficult choice (Part 2 – Fibre Optic Lighting)
Last month we took a look at LED’s and how they can play a new role in all lighting environments with the exception of lighting some paintings etc. See Lighting Design, It’s a difficult choice (part one) for the full story. Also thank you for the nice comments you have been sending us regarding our [...]
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March 26, 2012










