Exhibition & Space

We’ve grown-up on exhibition design — we build their branding and marketing campaigns and we design and install interpretation. We plan the layout of space, dress the building, create signage and exhibition merchandise. It’s a true specialism and something we never tire of.

Exhibitions are all about experience — the anticipation, the being there, and everything you take away in your heart and mind about what you’ve seen and felt. Perhaps that’s why we enjoy it: because the chance to really engage, or educate, or share, or inspire memories, matters to us.

We’ve learned so much by working in partnership with curators and arts marketers — achieving a common vision where we get the intention of the exhibition and the expectations of the audiences. Our creative approach then threads everything together turning an exhibition from somewhere to go into something to feel.

“Cafeteria’s super power is listening! In any good collaboration the hard work is done before a design ever hits the page and even with our time pressured projects, the Cafeteria team created a space for us to have open and honest dialogue and to create a shared understanding of the vision and the path forward. We appreciated their support as solution hunters and as the practical and organised ‘glue’ between us and our other partners. A firm and experienced hand on the project management was very welcome - and of course we were delighted with the outcome!”
Caroline McDonald, Executive Manager, Great North Museum