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Sydney, Australia

Sense Experiential Design | Specialist in Experiential Graphic Design & WayfindingWith over 25 years of industry expertise, Sense Design stands as a leading authority in experiential graphic design (XGD) and wayfinding. Our boutique firm excels in crafting thoughtful and innovative design solutions that enhance human experiences within the built environment.Our Expertise:Experiential Graphic Design (XGD): We create visually compelling and contextually relevant designs that resonate with users and elevate their interactions within spaces.Wayfinding Design: Our solutions simplify navigation and improve accessibility, ensuring a seamless journey through complex environments.Our Approach: At Sense, we pride ourselves on our ability to blend creativity with functionality. Our expert team of design thinkers is dedicated to delivering exceptional outcomes that captivate and engage both customers and visitors. We focus on providing enlightened design solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations, creating meaningful experiences that leave a lasting impact.Whether you're looking to transform a physical space or enhance user experience, our commitment to excellence ensures that every project reflects our passion for thoughtful and impactful design.

Sydney, Australia

Entro Australia is an international place branding and experience design firm that uses design to connect people to place. Entro's work gives places identity and meaning; it makes complex places navigable; it reveals the history behind new places.We draw on a legacy of 50 years, and staff expertise spanning fields from art through neuroscience, to find elegant and inventive design solutions for the unique challenges of today’s built environments. Our multi­cul­tural, multi­lin­gual, and multi­dis­ci­pli­nary team has deep exper­tise in archi­tec­ture, graphic design, media, fine arts, indus­trial design, science, engi­neer­ing, urban plan­ning and project management. This unique level of diversity in an experiential design firm is integral to Entro’s success.Our team shares a common vision for design excel­lence, and a repu­ta­tion for rela­tion­ship build­ing. Our process enables us to distill a design prob­lem into the rele­vant and appro­pri­ate, in order to create design solu­tions that with­stand the test of time and help build our clients’ businesses.Established in Montreal we are headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Calgary, New York, Sydney and Zürich.

Sydney, Australia

Sense experiential design, exists to deliver enlightened design solutions to achieve specific and meaningful outcomes for each project. We are focused on how we can use design to improve human experiences - within and across the transition points between strategy, brand and identity, planning, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture and art, by utilising knowledge, passion and design thinking distilled into methodologies and applied to brand, identity and environments to achieve exceptional outcomes for project solutions.

Sydney, Australia

Branding, design and customer experience, wayfinding strategy including retail centres, car parks, commercial property and hospitals.Clients:Dexus; CBRE; Hailiang Property Group; Elanor Investors; Health Infrastructure.

Sydney, Australia

Successfully managed deadline driven, complex brand, design and wayfinding projects across a diverse range of precincts delivering branded environments and excellence in user experience.Responsibilities Client services and account management; Client and stakeholder presentations; Direction and management of project stages from strategy, concept, design development, technical documentation, finished art and implementation; Design management of brand identities, including preparation of brand guidelines and associated brand alignment; Management of external designers and suppliers; Briefing, review and approval of all documentation including technical brand and guidelines manuals; Design and construction drawing approvals, site visits and defects reports.Project Experience HighlightsSpecialist brand design, strategy, customer experience & wayfinding for shopping centres, commercial properties, universities, hospitals, corporate and industrial business parks for clients such as: Lend Lease; Dexus; GPT; Mirvac; ISPT; Stockland; Australian Catholic University; Charles Sturt University; Westpac; BATA; Eureka Funds Management; Health Infrastructure NSW.

Sydney, Australia

Sydney

Sydney, Australia

Design management and project management of multi-disciplinary design projects. Brand and Identity design. Interior retail design and roll out. Packaging design. Brand guidelines and technical signage manuals. Branded commercial interiors. Visitor / tourism branded experiential graphics, interiors and signage design and implementation.Clients: Wesley Mission; Jeans West; Westpac; Investa; Sydney Skywalk at the Sydney Tower and Sydney Aquarium.

Sydney, Australia

Senior account manager for insurance, not for profit, finance and retail clients such as TAL; Coca Cola; Westpac; Opera Australia.

Sydney

Successfully established the retail and graphics business within a corporate interior design and fit out practice. Business development and excellent networking skills, motivate and lead the design team of graphic and interior designers.Design and execution of commercial interior brand overlay projects, retail brand, signage and interior design for clients such as: Eden Gardens; RM Williams; agedere Retail Travel Group; NewsLink.

Sydney, Australia

Successfully established a boutique multidisciplinary design practice with national and international project reach.Brand strategy, graphic, signage and interior design and implementationClients: ASIC; NewsLink; RM Williams; Crabtree & Evelyn; Angus & Coote; Cancer Council NSW; Duty Free Shoppers.

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia. Toronto, Canada.

Successfully managed multiple corporate signage roll out programmes and architectural signage projects, on time and on budget.Relocated to Toronto, Canada, short term to manage a national wayfinding roll out programme.

Iv, Project Management

Post Graduate (Part), Design

Diploma, Associate Diploma Engineering (Land & Engineering Survey Drafting)

Associate Diploma, Fine Art (Major Colour & Design)

Vis Comm, Graphic Design (Short Course)