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All systems go at Grange Court

A great article here about Grange Court, Leominster, where we’re working with Leominster Development Trust and Herefordshire County Council to interpret the site. http://www.museumsandheritage.com/advisor/news/item/2818?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Advisor+newsletter+2&utm_content=Advisor+newsletter+2+CID_457afe55b11fc74c15af261706de2cb4&utm_source=Email%20Campaigns&utm_term=Read%20more%20on%20Advisor  

Captain Morgan’s Mashed-up Cannon

Another piece of stunning Imagemakers design installed in Chester.   Will add an intriguing feature of interest on any visitor’s walk round the City Walls. A cast iron representation of how Captain Morgan’s cannon may have ended up when he was defeated during the Civil War. Another project working closely with Chester Renaissance and the [...]

‘Copper King’ of heritage centres.

On the whole we’re not a boastful bunch of people, but it’s hard not to be flushed with a little pride when a client sends us feedback like this, received from an independent reviewer of heritage sites:   “I cannot express enthusiastically enough how much I enjoyed my visit to the new Copper Kingdom Centre. [...]

Exploring Chester’s Historic City Walls

Imagemakers has recently designed a suite of eleven superb new interpretation panels for Chester’s historic City Walls. Chester has the best-preserved city walls in Britain, running in an unbroken circuit of around two miles. The new panels have been positioned at strategic points around the Walls, taking in the most interesting locations and the most [...]

Copper Kingdom

                I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking. Suffice it to say that I recently attended the official opening of the Copper Kingdom Centre at Porth Amlwch in Anglesey. Having worked very closely with the client team to develop the interpretive content, I feel I could [...]

Imagemakers in running for £50k grant from HSBC

We’re excitied to announce that Imagemakers have been chosen as one of five finalists in a prestigious national HSBC business award to win one of two £50,000 Overseas Trade Grants. We will compete in the London final on 2nd March, pitching to a panel of judges to showcase what sets us apart from the competition [...]

Imagemakers shortlisted for Heritage Sandbox project

I’m delighted to announce Imagemakers have been invited to pitch for the REACT Heritage Sandbox project. We’ve partnered up with two academics from the Department of Archaeology at Exeter University and will be heading to Watershed in Bristol on 2nd March to present our ideas. The competition has been tough, five universities from the South West submitted a number [...]

Exploring heritage sites in 3D

With the recent launch of the iPhone 4S and reports that Apple have bought 3D mapping company, C3 Technologies, it is thought that the future of iOS Maps are likely to include a third-dimension. Now for the non-technical heads out there this means in the future maps on iPhone handsets are likely to be in [...]

Is gamification the future of interpretation?

After speaking earlier this year at the Dehongli Cymru / Interpret Wales conference, ‘Knowing your apps from your elbows’, I am really pleased to have been asked to contribute to the latest Dehongli Cymru / Interpret Wales newsletter. At the conference I shared my thoughts on how the psychology of motivation can be used when thinking [...]

Community Consultation at Grange Court, Leominster

Consulting the community that live around a heritage site is an important part of all our projects, helping to ensure that they understand and support the schemes we propose.  It is an inspiring experience – local communities are nearly always  passionate about their heritage landmarks and provide valuable feedback and insight. In October, Lead Consultant [...]

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