Planning and Design Services
Design Approach
EXPERIENCE STRATEGY
Working closely with your stakeholder team, John fully frames the needs to be met and unifies the communication and design strategies, creating narrative landscapes that will engage and inspire your audiences.
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DESIGN INTEGRATION
John builds a comprehensive visitor journey by effectively orchestrating the multiple visitor touchpoints, including physical and digital installations, public and educational programming, architectural infrastructure, and web offerings.
Photo by John Chiodo
Design Services
Interpretive Place Making
John collaborates with your interdisciplinary team to activate physical settings by combining open-ended visitor exploration with storytelling narratives. Digital technology and the physical environment are conceived together to empower audiences to better interact and connect to messaging and each other.
Photos by John Chiodo
Project Master Planning
John helps organize a master planning effort by dovetailing visitor experience development with the key areas of facility, organizational and financial assessment to build a fully informed and comprehensive plan. Through this balanced process a consensus is built around a shared vision and clarity is brought to the complexities of multi-faceted projects.


Core Services
+ Interpretive Planning & Communication Strategy
+ Visitor Experience Planning and Design
+ Concept Development
+ Space Programming and Planning
+ Environmental and Set Design
+ Creative Direction
+ Design Integration
Additional Services Provided by Consulting Partners
+ Organizational and Strategic Planning
+ Audience Research and Community Engagement
+ Digital Museum Strategy
+ Financial Analysis and Fundraising Feasibility
+ Architectural and Engineering Coordination
Teams built are composed of seasoned associates with whom I have had strong, long term working relationships. Their expertise ranges from exhibit and graphic design, architecture, art & illustration, digital design, content development and writing, market research, and business planning. These are passionate professionals who have been running their own successful consulting businesses for many years.