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| Check out more examples of our blue-sky dreative work and emerging trends within our chunky portfolio. |
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Based around the elements Sky, Earth and Sea the Zenith Gateway, The Earth Pavilion and the Ocean Centre were design as a side by side visitor experience for Scarborough Council's North Cliff Bay regeneration project. A residential development cuts into the cliff face and for good measure, a fashion mall retail centre extends the existing plan for a large crèche and play area. Sub attractions, advertising and merchandising opportunities. |
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Dr Bruce Davies of Intelligent Compliant Engineering commissioned IDEAS to produce the outer skin for his second generation fully functional intelligent sensing and organic motion robot. The project was funded by NESTA the organisation who work to increase the UK's capacity for innovation.
Robot skins can take any form, in this case an alien's outer form is applied to a fibreglass shell which houses the electronic and mechanical biometrics entity. In a separate project, four full-sized alien creatures have been built as part of the Invasion touring exhibition for Torquay Museum.
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IDEAS
Redding House,
Redding, Falkirk FK2 9TQ
York House,
14 York Place,
Edinburgh EH1 3EP
Shore Of Ard,
Kinlochard FK3 9TL
Telephone: +44 (0)1324 716827
Email:
www.ideas.co.uk |
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| A pop-up attraction features regular magic performances, live bird of prey displays, advanced education play structures and interactive electronic games that keep budding sorcerers and their apprentices busy for hours. A visitor attractor increasing footfall, it also increases average dwell time and acts as a profit centre in its own right. The project makes use of a 3d vision panel system devised by IDEAS and due to its simplicity, speed of construction and relatively low cost, pay back is within the first few weeks of installation. |
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| It's not a shop. We call it retail theatre. The stage is set for an all-star line up of the very latest trends in footwear. The deeply three dimensional flagship interior is perhaps more reminiscent of a funky nightclub. Of course the complimentary Champagne helps but the textures, sounds, even the aroma all serve to enhance the customers' sense of adventure, who willingly surrender, hopelessly predisposed to the seductive charms of this fancy footwork. |
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| The civic Piazza Falkirk. A beautifully liberated, minimal yet engaging essay of textured paving flags, sculptures, walkways and meeting points embraced by an vertical exterior volume of columns and luminaries adding drama to inviting eateries, galleries, crèche, retail, hotel, conference centre, bus station and outdoor natural performance arena. A centre full of spectacle, an expression of the area's creativity and a powerful civic statement reflecting a good balance of industrial heritage and contemporary influences. Stone from local quarries help to further emphasise a unique sense of place and a regard for local identity. |
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Once upon a time in a magical place called The Falkirk Wheel. There was a glittering land of festive fantasy.
IDEAS have built a spectacular full-size village designed to be erectable and de-mountable in a day and costing less than an average family car. Santa's Secret Village located at the Falkirk Wheel uses all weather theatrical flats and quite literally, a giant kid's pop up book using a production technique devised by IDEAS for the purpose is as appropriate as it is popular, having been hailed as one of the main reasons the Wheel continues to attract business during an otherwise quite period. Each building represents a department of Santa's toy building assembly line such as the paint room or clockwork components dept., a small detail not lost on the scrutiny of the many thousands of kids who lined up for the Christmas boat trips to visit the village and meet the man himself. ( Actually it was Big Jok dressed up) |
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| The brief to design an all-weather, family-friendly tourist resort for Scotland's Theme Park, catering for a cross-section of age groups and tastes includes an 100-bed hotel and interactive theme rides, restaurants relaxation zone, theatre/exhibition/conference centre and health spa all linked together by a tramway system. Glen Caledonia is sympathetic to the existing character of Strathclyde Country Park. As an aternative to the ubiquitous chalet accomadation, traditional Scottish Crofts are considered to be a more distinctive and therefore more marketable product. These sit around the resort reception and a Living Tourist Information Centre incorporating a dynamic atrium covered Village Square. Each of the crofts, aged to imply the passage of time, is accessed via a small humped back footbridge over a gurgling burn which winds its way through the village. The surrounding landscape is moderately moulded to take advantage of the wooded backdrop. From the village the burn leads down to a small lochan on which sits a number of Crannogs: studio/double rooms, in the round, with a central communal toilet block and shower facilities. Suitable holiday accommodation for groups, clubs and schools, individuals, couples or families seeking budget price accommodation. |
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You won't get this one at your local fish and chip shop.
Robert Burns, Scotland's most beloved poet has instilled a national pride in the Scots dialect and culture. Admiration for his legacy of work extends worldwide and is celebrated each year in the form of the Burns Supper. Now available for the first time is this beautiful limited edition individual presentation: the Burns' supper in a box. Each luxurious hand crafted presentation box contains: an engraved crystal glass, miniature of whisky, an individual haggis, an engraved silver Skean Dhu and of course the all important Burns' 'Address to the Haggis' scroll, together with notes on the ceremony and etiquette of the traditional Burns Supper. |
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| Getting up at crack of dawn to reserve your poolside seat in the sun is at last thing of the past. If you are really intent on staking your claim, why beat about the sand dunes? Now the best seat on the deck has got your name on it quite literally. There is just something about formalising this time honoured tradition that gives us a thrill. |
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If there is one piece of Scottish civil engineering which stands out literally and metaphorically above all other engineering achievements, it must surely be the Forth Railway Bridge. This massive example of late Victorian industrial skill is famed worldwide.
Iron oxide paint, manufactured under a formula which is kept secret to this present day by its manufacturer, has protected this gigantic structure from the vagaries of wind and weather, of storm and tempest, of rust and decay for over 100 years. The bridge's original coat of paint took 35,000 gallons of paint oils and 250 tons of paint. Now hundreds of tourists from all over the world are buying it for themselves in small souvenir sized cans.
It is intended that brand will be extended to other items such as clothing, jelly beans and even a subscription to yearly supply to repaint your toy bridge - just like real life! |
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| Inspired by the pungent smell of a broken biro pen, IDEAS came up with a sweeter alternative. Now a range of pens have been designed which will deliver more than just words. Specially commisioned range of aromatic inks will give scribes another level of persuasion and set the letter's recipient's senses alive. Indeed it may herald a turning away from mass texting in preference for a more romantic alternative in this IT rich world. The concept is infinitely expandable. For example, perfumeries can now extend their range to writing products marketed to devotees of their favourite brand or just menfolk looking to impress. Where else can these luxury fragrances be used beyond the obvious? I guess you know who may already hold the answer. |
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