Courtney Payne

Courtney Payne is a Portland-based designer with over six years experience specializing in the development and creation of immersive and experiential environments. She currently works as a brand experience designer at Nike. Prior to relocating to the West Coast in 2012, she was fully immersed in the cultural and non-profit worlds of New York City and Washington DC, where she discovered an undeniable passion for integrating education with art and design. She was previously an exhibition designer with Gallagher & Associates in the San Francisco Bay area.

Portland, Ore.

Wayfinding and Playfinding

SEGD member Jennifer Davis of Planar had an opportunity to spend some time with Leslie Wolke of Leslie Wolke Consulting in Austin, Texas and New York City. Leslie is the co-founder of SEGD’s XLab annual conference and is an independent consultant specializing in wayfinding technologies. Her clients include the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, New York University Langone Medical Center, and MD Anderson Cancer Center. Jennifer asked her questions about her passionate work in wayfinding and a new trend that Leslie has identified called “playfinding.”

Nature Lab at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles

Nature Lab, a new exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, uses media and lively graphics to invite visitors to “put their nature eyes on.” Gallagher & Associates and KBDA collaborated on the project, which was a 2014 SEGD Global Design Awards winner. Do what comes naturally—allow your work to shine by entering the 2015 SEGD Global Design Awards. The deadline has been extended to Feb. 28!

Bluecadet Creates Interactives for Saint John Paul II Shrine

Bluecadet (Philadelphia) created two digital experiences at the new Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C.

Gretchen Coss and Tateo Nakajima

SEGD is an amazing community of designers, fabricators and manufacturers who create experiences that connect people to place. One of the many membership benefits of SEGD is a library of talks from SEGD's past events. All videos from 2014 through 2019 are available for viewing for members for free.

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Panel: Managing Expectations while Fostering Innovation

SEGD is an amazing community of designers, fabricators and manufacturers who create experiences that connect people to place. One of the many membership benefits of SEGD is a library of talks from SEGD's past events. All videos from 2014 through 2019 are available for viewing for members for free.

If you are a member please log in (hint: top right below search) if not please join SEGD and experience its amazing resources. First year members receive a discount on the member rate!

G&A Brings Nirvana to College Football Fans

The Hall of Fame designed by Gallagher & Associates is an evocative and emotional experience highlighting the history and drama of the game, the emotions of the players, coaches, and fans, and the traditions of the "Saturday" game.

Kristin Bennani

Kristin Bennani, Marketing Communications Specialist at Gallagher & Associates, Washington, DC

Washington, DC

Design Disciplines Collide at SEGD's Exhibition & Experience Design Workshop

SEGD Exhibition & Experience Design Workshop

August 21-22 in Washington, D.C.

Today, exhibition design is a convergent discipline that borrows elements from retail store design, interpretive wayfinding, storytelling, media, and interaction design. The creatives who develop immersive, compelling exhibition experiences are just as diverse, hailing from the experience design world as well as web development, technology, science, typography, and brand design.

Nature Lab Exhibit

Merit Award 2014

The Nature Lab is a 6,500-square-foot, hands-on gallery showcasing live animals, media interactives, scientist demonstrations, and more than 200 specimens for visitors to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles is located inside a biodiversity hotspot, and the evidence is everywhere—if we know how to look. The Nature Lab is the place where visitors can “put on their nature eyes” and learn to see what they’ve never seen before about wildlife in Los Angeles.

Gallagher & Associates (exhibit design), KBDA (graphic design)