Company Profile

Design is a collaborative creative process that is imaginative, compassionate, and ultimately productive.

Alan · Graves · Design is dedicated to:

  • Planning, designing, fabricating and installing exhibitions.
  • A design process which allows for creativity, originality and “a symphony of wills”.
  • The art of organizing and molding information and experiences, but allowing others to find their personal path to knowledge.
  • Creating projects and products that have “integrity”, the right/appropriate concept, craftsmanship and details.
  • Supplying a product on time and within budget.
  • Effective project management - giving support to the entire team, the design concept and the content.
  • Partnering with smaller institutions and groups.
  • Covering a broad spectrum of topics in both natural and human history.
  • Working respectfully with various ethnic groups and minorities. .
  • Sharing our design knowledge and techniques.

Biographies

Alan Graves / creative director and senior designer

Trained as a designer at the University of Victoria and graduating with a BFA Visual Arts honours degree in graphics and sculpture, I was first employed in the museum field as an education program technician and later as a museum technician specializing in the design, installation and maintenance of permanent, temporary, travelling exhibitions, and education kits.

With over twenty-five years as a professional exhibition designer, I have planned, designed, managed, installed and maintained over 200 exhibitions – this includes the consultation, project management, exhibition design, graphic design, interactive design, and sensory design. Working through my private design firm, Alan • Graves • Design (established in 1985) and previously at the Royal British Columbia Museum, I have dealt with museums, both large and small, art galleries, First Nations, various ethnic groups and private companies. These exhibitions encompass not only provincial and national venues, but also international, and cover a broad spectrum of topics in both natural and human history.

As a sessional member of the faculty at the University of Victoria, I currently teach an exhibition design and installation course. Working in the industrial design field I have developed a line of Japanese-inspired table lanterns and “Tansu” modular furniture.

Nicolas Graves / graphic designer

I am currently living in Victoria BC, Canada and working with my father Alan Graves as a graphic artist, exhibit handler and computer support technician. After graduating from the Esquimalt High graphic arts program, I attended Camosun College's program for web design; learning how to work with html and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). I have been working extensively with Adobe products such as Illustrator, Photoshop and ImageReady for over five years now. I am also experienced with InDesign, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash.

In my free time I enjoy drawing, reading, playing videogames, caring for my kitten Kira and keeping fish and lizards.

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