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Welcome to Cheyanne

We’re delighted to welcome to the team Cheyanne Black who joins us as an intern having recently graduated as a mature student in graphic design from the University of Derby. Since Chris gives guest lectures at the University, he was in contact with Cheyanne’s tutor.

The London Bridge Experience wins at ScareCON

More congratulations, this time for our client, The London Bridge Experience whose London Tombs has won the 2015 Best Year Round Scare Attraction at this year’s ScareCON event, Europe’s only show dedicated to the growing scare attraction industry.

Conservation award for St Martin’s Church

It’s turning into a month of celebrations for Wide Sky Design’s clients. Now there is more to celebrate as St Martin’s Church win the John Betjeman Award for the sensitive restoration of the unique Evelyn Gibbs murals as part of their Hidden Treasures project.
Tablet tours

Introducing our tablet tour

A tablet tour is a practical way to ensure that visitors can control their own experience of your historic site, museum or gallery at their own pace in a personalised way. Visitors to St Martin's CHurch talk about their experience of using one.

Congratulations to Woodhall Spa Cottage Museum

We’re thrilled for the team at Woodhall Spa Cottage Museum, who have won the award for Customer Care at the second East Midlands Heritage Awards which recognise excellence and innovation at museums.

Maintenance at the Military Intelligence Museum

We have had a terrific working relationship with the Military Intelligence Museum for ten years now. As well as continuing to create new interactive exhibits for them we support older exhibits which inevitably experience a little wear and tear.
bowlees RFID interactive concept

New Project: Bowlees Visitor Centre

Chris Woodley-Stewart, Director of the North Pennines AONB Partnership which runs Bowlees Visitor Centre, had seen a project that we worked on using RFID tags to create an interactive experience around key themes. This sparked some ideas of his own.

To the rescue at Conkers

Conkers, based in the National Forest, had an exhibit, been installed fifteen years ago, but out of action for the past three years with the team unable to find anyone who could bring it back to life. They contacted a fit-out company that we have previously worked with who suggested a call to us.

New Project: Plas Heli

It’s great to be working again with artist Jessica Lloyd-Jones, the artist who we worked with stunning digital fireplace interactives. This time we’re in a very different setting, Plas Heli, the Welsh National Sailing Academy.

Filming our new tablet tour video

We’ve blogged before about the benefits of a tablet tour but we thought there has to be a better way to show the benefits. So we have engaged a group of film students to help bring our storyboard to life.