We connect your brand directly with audiences in compelling and credible ways.We create environments and experiences that attract, inform, motivate and inspire. Our work inspires fresh perspectives, generates different ideas and opens up new opportunities.

 

MET Studio Design has won numerous UK and International awards over the years but our proudest moment was to be awarded the 2004 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade, in recognition of the company’s export achievements. This is a rare accolade for any company, but rarer still in the design world.

 

We have sold our services – the masterplanning and design of corporate visitor centres, museums, exhibitions, zoos and eco-parks – both inside and outside of the UK since our inception, with commissions from countries as diverse as China, Dubai, Mexico, the USA and Germany. As a result we now have an international reputation for creativity, innovation and the efficient delivery of complicated projects.

 

As well as national governments, we have worked with many major corporate businesses such as Cunard (on the masterplan and refurbishment of the QEII), Lucent Technologies (creating an award-winning and ground-breaking visitor centre) and PCCW (a new visitor centre to promote Hong Kong’s exciting Cyberport development).

 

Examples of work for museums include the Field Museum of Chicago, where MET were the first outside consultancy the museum had ever employed. We were brought in to create a permanent exhibition called ‘Underground Adventure’, which tackled the complex subject of soil – and made it interesting and enjoyable! Nearer to home, ‘Wired Worlds’ at Bradford’s National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, was the UK’s first exhibition looking at the subject of digital media and, in 2000, was judged to be the best design of any kind in the UK when it won the ‘Best of Show’ Award at that year’s Design Week Awards. Recent projects completed include the award winning Hong Kong Wetlands Park where we were both masterplanners and lead designers of Hong Kong’s first ever dedicated environmental attraction since 2001. It became the world’s largest eco-park when it opened in 2006. At Edinburgh Zoo we designed and built the Budongo Trail, an award winning world class Chimpanzee enclosure which opened this year and designed Fusion World, a showcase suite for the Singapore government’s technology R&D organization A*Star. This exhibit focuses on their latest technological innovations from home entertainment to medical breakthroughs.

MET Studio Design is first and foremost a design company but one which is not afraid of delving deep into difficult subjects for its inspiration. As well as architectural and design skills, a rigorous approach to researching subject matter, the effective use of technology, the often unexpected use of art and, the ability to tell stories characterise the company’s projects.