Street to Trench

With access to an extensive archive the design forefronted large scale imagery and used multiple contextual images from the collection to create walls of drama and a sense pace and intrigue. A site specific environmental graphic working with the architecture of the space conveyed streets of the period to place the visitor within the scene.  

With a focus on local personal stories we extracted handwritten statements from the letters of Ada and Eva McGuire to bring a voice and relevancy to each section theme. This language was extended through a series of digital ‘story boxes’ juxtaposing traditional animation with poignant photographic landscapes to bring to life the letters and humerous ink drawings of Henry Lamb who wrote to his nephew from the trenches and the letters of a family desperate to save their horse Betty from being recruited by Kitchener’s army.

Our role Graphic design / Animation / Artwork