AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTRE


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GRAPHIC & VISUAL DESIGN, SIGNAGE, INTERPRETATIVE SIGNAGE
Nick Lewis Design collaborated with Sandpit and Heliotope Studio to significantly redevelop the Australian Wildlife Health Centre's (AWHC) visitor gallery at Healesville Sanctuary. This included developing a visual system around the theme of ‘rewilding' that was applied to internal and external signage, interpretive signs, built-form, environmental graphics and screen visuals.

The AWHC do amazing work caring for our native animals and landscape and it was a privilege to work with them on it. More detailed images and videos of this project to come.

Experience Design—Sandpit
Environmental Design— Heliotope
Build—MACWOOD Group
Graphic Production—Creative Visuals
Photography—Charlie Kinross 









THE LAB: POWERHOUSE MUSEUM


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DESIGN, USER INTERFACE, ART DIRECTION
The Lab is an immersive multimedia exhibition space with the Powerhouse Museum. NLD worked with project lead Junior Major to deliver a series of four interactives exploring scientific themes of gravity, magnetism, locomotion and aerodynamics. Motion tracking camera technology was paired with a minimal graphic aesthetic to allow visitors to explore each of the four phenomena with their own bodies. Visualising time and human locomotion through tracking your movements and affecting moving air particles by moving and angling your body for example. NLD was tasked with the visual design of the experience as well as the user interface design and overall art direction.  

Client—Powerhouse Museum
Project led by—Junior Major
Sound—Freya Berkhout
Development—Michal Moczynski
Photos—Joshua Heath
Dancers—Rhys Kosakowski & Nikki Sekar







MAKING THE METRO TUNNEL: REFLECTIONS BY CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS


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BOOK DESIGN
Melbourne’s long-running, multi-billion-dollar Metro Tunnel construction project is scheduled for completion by 2025. To celebrate, commemorate and capture the scale and significance of this city-shaping project, the Victorian Government’s Metro Tunnel Creative Program, in partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, has commissioned an exhibition of artworks created in response to the tunnel construction project.

NLD was engaged to work with clients, Cross Yarra Partnerships and curatorial by Global Arts Projects, as a complete one-stop design shop to deliver and manage the exhibition. Responsible for the brand identity, exhibition design, catalogue design, signage, project management and design rollout out (print, digital, social media), NLD developed the brand identity by playing off the shape and structure of a tunnel and the distinctive tunnel boring machines used to build the new Metro lines. All signage and exhibition furniture referenced and reinforced this visual relationship. Bespoke light fixtures, sourced from Italy for the exhibition, created a vibrant sense of movement and visual connection to the tunnel project.

Client—Metro Tunnel Creative Program
Curatorial—Global Arts Projects
Print—Bambra
Photos—Foliolio






CFMEU HEADQUARTERS


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ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHICS & SIGNAGE
Australia’s prominent trade union organisation, the CFMEU, tasked Nick Lewis Design (NLD) with developing a suite of large-scale environmental graphics and essential and interpretive signage to complement an extensive redevelopment of the organisation’s headquarters in Melbourne. The architectural remit granted to SPACEOS encompassed the building entrance, the CFMEU shop, amenities and an historical objects display. Considering the functionality of these spaces and the need to reflect the core CFMEU values of safety, community, unity and pride into the design, NLD used strong, building site-like materials, such as treated steel, rusted metals and laser-cut stone. The typeface, Druk, was customised into a stencil font to echo building site signage and rolled out across all mediums. 

Architecture—SpaceOS
Metalwork—Redfalcon
Lighting—Glowing Edges
Photos—Shannon McGrath







MAKING THE METRO TUNNEL: REFLECTIONS BY CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS


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BRANDING, EXHIBITION DESIGN, SIGNAGE, EXHIBITION GRAPHICS, COLLATERAL
Melbourne’s long-running, multi-billion-dollar Metro Tunnel construction project is scheduled for completion by 2025. To celebrate, commemorate and capture the scale and significance of this city-shaping project, the Victorian Government’s Metro Tunnel Creative Program, in partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, has commissioned an exhibition of artworks created in response to the tunnel construction project.

NLD was engaged to work with clients, Cross Yarra Partnerships and curatorial by Global Arts Projects, as a complete one-stop design shop to deliver and manage the exhibition. Responsible for the brand identity, exhibition design, catalogue design, signage, project management and design rollout out (print, digital, social media), NLD developed the brand identity by playing off the shape and structure of a tunnel and the distinctive tunnel boring machines used to build the new Metro lines. All signage and exhibition furniture referenced and reinforced this visual relationship. Bespoke light fixtures, sourced from Italy for the exhibition, created a vibrant sense of movement and visual connection to the tunnel project.

Client—Metro Tunnel Creative Program
Curatorial—Global Arts Projects
Graphics & Signage—Imagebox
Showcases—Synthesis
Photos—Charlie Kinross & Foliolio






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