The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Shrewsbury is home to world-renowned medieval stained glass installations. The Churches Conservation Trust commissioned us to create a range of heritage interpretation resources to help engage young children with this fabulous collection. We’ve designed 3 hand-made jigsaws and 6 children’s interpretation boards to complement the existing adult-focused displays. The boards […]
We have worked with the Canal & River Trust to develop a wide range of resources to raise awareness of environmental issues around water systems and pollution education. Our work has included the creation of printable activities, interactive PowerPoints, school assemblies, hands-on workshops and much more. A great example is the ‘Schools Plastics Challenge’ which […]
We worked alongside a fantastic project team (including Keystone Heritage) to design resources and visuals for a new learning portal for the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct & Canal World Heritage Site. This huge project involved the creation of characters, animations and educational resource designs (in both English and Welsh) which fed into 6 themed learning topics. The […]
Muddy Publishing offers full children’s book design services including feature covers and interior layouts. We are experienced children’s book designers accustomed to a range of genres and formats. We are able to work with external illustrators or offer illustration services in-house. Our book design package can support authors to take their finalised text content through […]
The heritage trail brochure designed for Biggin Hill Memorial Museum features fascinating facts about buildings and places of interest in this historic area, famous for being the location of Britain’s most significant fighter station during the Battle of Britain. Developed to carefully match existing design guidelines, this folding A3 document provides a rich variety of complimentary […]
Matt Buckingham, our children’s illustrator, created a series of charming zoo animal illustrations, commissioned to form part of the BCA Zoo redesign. Using references, observations and expertise from the zoo team, he created characterful yet accurate representations of a range of animal species that make Berkshire College Zoo their home. The illustrations will now form […]
As a celebration of their 60th Anniversary, The Dorothy Clive Garden commissioned Muddy Publishing to produce a sensory, discovery map to enhance accessibility to a wider range of visitors. The vibrant and user-friendly map has been installed as stand-alone orientation signage at various points around the garden and, as seen below, forms the reverse side […]
We offer interpretation consultancy services for a range of clients. For this project we were asked to produce interpretation concept designs for a Black Rhino viewing area used primarily by school aged children for education purposes. The exhibition installations were designed to provide information about biological adaptations, ecology and conservation through low-tech interactivity, bright and […]
Aligned to celebrate the opening of the stunning new World Gallery, The Horniman Museum commissioned Muddy Publishing to develop twenty-three interpretation sheets for their object handling boxes, housed in their ‘Hands on Base’. Each box has a unique theme and twenty of these boxes were developed by community groups local to the Forest Hill area […]
We were tasked with developing a new visitor map for the wonderful Reaseheath Zoo, near Nantwich, Cheshire. The challenge involved creating an array of illustrated animal characters to represent the zoo inhabitants. The reverse of the map provides a species key and timetable as well as a closer look at some of the lovable illustrated […]