WE HAVE LIFT-OFF IN NEW KAZAKHSTAN MUSEUM

News sPRING 2015

Paragon Creative has just completed a £1.4 million project at the new National Museum of Kazakhstan in Astana; at more than 74,000 square metres, the museum is one of the largest in the world. we were commissioned to research, design and build and then install a series of historic and archaeological models, figures and large scale scenic exhibits. These included two large scale models of a stone Age Botai House and a topographical model of the archaeological site at Bes shatyr, plus three models showing the ancient scythian processes of smelting and casting gold and finally a scale model of the Issyk Tomb Kurgan.

The 1:1 scale scenic recreations included a full sized Medieval street with shops, stocked with all the goods that would have been on sale; a sectioned scythian Kurgan Tomb (20m L x 18m w); a large gold mine set works including five mining figures (12m L x 4.6m w x 5m H); a facsimile of a full sized wooden scythian chariot and another full sized wooden riding chariot with two fully sculpted horses. In addition we also built a third scale Proton Rocket which is 18 metres in length and a full scale Kazakh 2 Communication satellite.

The commission also included 13 life sized, fully modelled archaeological human figures complete with hair and costumes; many of which were covered with hundreds of pieces of gold decoration. Five of the figures depicted Scythian gold miners with tools and the other five depicted reconstructed ancient figures and weapons from a series of archaeological tomb excavations.

Two of the ancient figures were mounted on horseback and the commission included 8 sculpted and flocked full sized Kazakh horses. Three further human figures were built by Paragon depicting a typical Kazakh family from the 19th Century living in a Yurt; again this included traditional costumes and equipment. Paragon also made a full sized Bactrian camel (two humps) typical of those used in Kazakhstan and a full sized sheep and goat; all covered in modelled hair to look at realistic as possible.

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The Museum building

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Paragon Creative is proud to have produced the contemporary display plinth on which stands the most complete stegosaurus skeleton ever discovered. The dinosaur walked the earth around 150 million years ago and was discovered in 2003 in wyoming Us. It now proudly stands on display at the Natural History Museum in London.

Paragon’s design brief and challenge was to produce a plinth which supported the Armature for the stegosaurus without the plinth actually touching the Armature in any way, to eliminate any risk of vibration or impact movement. we designed an independent internal steel frame inside the outer plinth, which sits on bespoke shock absorbent feet. The outer plinth then surrounds and covers this inner plinth with no contact whatsoever. The outer plinth is covered in two colours of solid surface with each contoured layer CNC cut and thermo-formed to exact dimensions ensuring the contours remain exact and even.

The whole plinth and Armature was then erected in our solid surface workshop in York before being dismantled and shipped down to the Natural History Museum and erected on site amid tight security.

Also as part of the display we produced an Interpretation table, again made from solid surface and incorporating replicas of the stegosaurus supplied by Propshop and graphics and AV by the Natural History Museum.

The discovery of the 360 bones making up the specimen makes it the most complete stegosaurus specimen in the world. Researchers at the museum are hoping that the stegosaurus will allow them to learn a great deal more about this rare and intriguing dinosaur.

Our Client: Natural History MuseumDesigned by: Natural History Museum & Paragon Creative

STEGOSAURUS - NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

The Olympic Museum, one of our biggest and most prestigious projects to date, continues to experience strong success since it’s renovation. In 2014 (the year of the sochi Games) the museum reached over 240,000 visitors, a huge increase when compared to 180,000 visitors in 2010 (when the last winter Games took place before the renovation).The Themed entertainment Association (TeA) recently held a conference at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, as part of their sATe Academy Day series of events around europe & the Middle east.

Paragon Creative’s project manager Adrian Milner was among the speakers and he gave a fascinating talk about our work on this highly successful and award-winning museum, covering all aspects of our fit-out and the various issues that we encountered and overcame along the way. Topics included: Re-assembling a tried and tested team; pushing the design envelope; exploring and testing materials; projection screen dilemmas; costing logistics; access issues and statistics; framework and productisation. The event highlighted the truly collaborative nature of the project and the importance of choosing the right team to work together. The Olympic Museum has been our largest and greatest project to date. we are honoured to have been part of the team and were proud to show it off to our industry peers.

OLYMPIC MUSEUM SUCCESS

Adrian in action!

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IWM - FIRST WORLD WAR GALLERY

AL JABERParagon Creative is currently working with our client MAK Construction on the Kuwait Oil Company Visitor Centre, situated in Al Ahmadi Garden City and named after the late sheikh Ahkmad Al-Jaber Al-sabah. The project aims to tell the story of oil exploration in Kuwait and the incredible stories relating to oil production in the region. Paragon Creative has been commissioned to create a series of high tech interactive exhibits to demonstrate the processes of oil production in Kuwait.

Our work consists of a large interactive demonstrating how to correctly fill an oil tanker, three huge animated displays showing the massive drill heads and how they work when drilling for oil, as well as an exhibit called ‘Trapping the Oil’. Paragon has also created an Oil Refinery model which will be incorporated into a large ‘Pepper’s Ghost’ effect with spectacular results.The project is due to be completed in 2015.

Our Client: MAK Construction Designed by: event Communications

In summer 2014, IwM London launched the new permanent First world war Galleries, as part of IwM London’s major redevelopment to mark the centenary outbreak of the First world war. The chronology of the First World War and how the conflict affected both those fighting abroad from across the empire to the home front, is communicated through a variety of multimedia and interactive exhibits, supporting a large number and wide range of collection objects.

Paragon Creative Ltd was commissioned as specialist Contractor to complete the detail design development, fabrication and installation of the interactives and models throughout the First world war Galleries. Over a twelve month period our specialist teams were engaged on the detail design and manufacture of 30 interactives, models and themed props. Many of these required complex integration of hardware and close liaison with the AV designers to ensure the exhibits coordinated exactly with the software, for example, props which acted as ‘screens’ onto which images and videos were projected and interactive replicas that contained audio sources.

The various exhibits had to be 100% historically accurate as they were frequently displayed next to the actual collection object. we produced custom-made replica ‘try on’ uniforms as well as replica shells, canvas backdrops and mining geophone interactives. The project underwent many design changes which were managed through a change control process, this combined with our drawing sign off, sample and prototyping processes meant the changes were incorporated quickly and without issue.

Prince william has hailed the new First world war Galleries at the Imperial war Museum as a ‘spectacular’ tribute to the courage and dedication of the men and women who sacrificed their lives for freedom. Touring the London landmark, originally opened by his own great-great grandfather, King George V, in 1920, the Prince said the exhibition vividly brought home the brutal realities of the war and demonstrated why the conflict is still relevant today.

Our Client: Imperial war Museum LondonDesigned by: Casson Mann

Static setworks modelMotorised drill head model in production

Interactive camera viewerSoldier projection screen

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Paragon was commissioned by the science Museum in London to research, design and build five fully detailed collection models of historically important communication satellites.

The models formed part of the Information Age: six Networks That Changed Our world; it’s most recent and largest gallery project, which opened in October 2014.

Two of models included a full scale ‘GPs IIF’ satellite, which forms part of the GPs constellation of satellites transmitting signals to earth and a full scale Intelsat 1 ‘early Bird’ satellite, which was the first commercial telecommunications satellite launched into space.

The three reduced scale models depicted ‘Courier 1B’ which was the world’s first active repeater satellite; ‘Galileo IOV’ which is a global navigation satellite system built by the european space Agency to provide navigation information to european nations independently from USA’s GPS system and finally ‘World View 2’ which is an Earth Observation satellite, which can provide high quality and highly accurate satellite imagery and spectral data and is used by Google earth. All five models were made from acrylic and urethane, complete with laser cut steel and spray paint detail finishes where necessary.

Our Client: science Museum, LondonDesigned by: Paragon Creative

SHOE HEAvEN, HARRODS, ZAHA HADID AND USIn August 2014 Harrods opened its new department called shoe Heaven which covers a sprawling 42,000 square feet of retailing where there are over 50 exclusive brands, many showcased in their own custom-built spaces. Continuing the theme of heavenly bodies, 37 designers have added a special touch of silver to their designs for the exclusive silver Lining collection. shoe designers involved in the project include Valentino, Prada, Alaia and Dior, with pieces ranging from full-on futurism to a more delicate silvery sheen. One of the designers, stuart weitzman, commissioned the architect Zaha Hadid to design a sculptural installation centred on her characteristic forms to display his shoes.

Paragon Creative’s commission was to detail design, build and install a centre piece shelving unit to display some of the stuart weitzman shoe collection and to create a separate till wrap area within the retail space. The shoe unit was created from moulded fibreglass and was finished in rose gold. It included an integral lighting scheme using LED’s which Paragon’s electronics team designed and then installed the fittings. The till wrap area was finished in white Corian and included cable management channels to house the till, phone and credit card point. The commission also included a series of stuart weitzman branded illuminated signs which are positioned around the retail space.

Our Client: Zaha Hadid Designed by: Zaha Hadid

Model of GPS satellite Model of Galileo navigation satellite

The completed installationPreparation in our setworks workshop

ORBITING AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM – SATELLITE MODELS

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To help commemorate the centenary of the First world war, english Heritage has commissioned Paragon Creative to work on its new exhibition Fortress Dover and the First world war.

The exhibition will be located within the historic Fire Command Post and Port war signal station which is located at the southern limit of the grounds of Dover Castle and is set hundreds of feet above sea-level on the edge of the white Cliffs of Dover; overlooking the harbour and straits of Dover beyond.

The £100,000 exhibition will help to enhance the understanding amongst visitors of Dover Castle’s role in the First world war and explains how the building was used by both the Royal Navy and the Army during this period. Visitors will also be able to learn about the techniques used to detect enemy ships and aircraft and try their hand at Morse code.

Our Client: english HeritageDesigned by: Designmap

Paragon Licensing, our products and distribution division which aims to distribute exciting and unique attraction concepts and products to leisure operators worldwide, has successfully completed installing a Yu Kids soft play system into the Art Mall in Kiev, Ukraine.

The 345m2 (3713.5sq ft.) play area consists of 15 unique and attractive play elements, which feature water and light effects as well as moving parts.

The new soft play is sure to be attractive and dynamic addition to the Mall’s leisure facilities whilst also being the first soft play of its kind to be installed in the region.

LOOkOUT FROM THE CLIFF TOP – AT DOvER

SOFT PLAY INSTALLED IN UkRAINE

UP, UP AND AWAY WITH CHLOÉOur team at Paragon is well practiced at creating environments that tell stories in museums, theme parks and heritage centres. But sometimes a well-known brand wishes to tell its story through a unique physical object. The most recent example is the global beauty products company Coty, who challenged Fieldwork Design Consultants to create promotional animated hot-air balloons to advertise their prestige brand Chloé. The brief called for a display with a single balloon that rose into the air, spun slowly around then sank back down again, and another with three balloons rotating at different speeds and directions. The mechanisms were first prototyped by us before being developed in SolidWorks. The drive geometry was designed to minimize strain on the motors whilst allowing sufficient clearance between the moving parts. With the Paragon engineering design complete and approved by Fieldwork, the process moved to manufacture. This involved joinery, solid surfacing, engineering, fabrication & electronics. The mechanical systems were assembled and soak tested prior to being installed in their cabinets. The high expectations of the client meant that both the solid surfacing and brass-work had to be finished to the highest levels with many hours of work spent in polishing the brass to a mirror finish. The balloons debuted at the TFwA world exhibition in Cannes. This was followed by more balloons, in time for a series of Christmas promotions at top european Airports at Heathrow T5, Frankfurt, Madrid, Charles de Gaulle (2 terminals) and Istanbul. They continue to fly round the world!

Our Client: Fieldwork Design Consultants & Coty Prestige Designed by: Fieldwork Design Consultants & Paragon Creative Ltd.

The Ukraine installation

Dover Castle

The display in Cannes

Paragon Creative is proud to have produced another large scale GRP figure for the BBC.

Upsy Daisy is one of the popular characters starring in the BBC Children’s television series, In The Night Garden, broadcast on CBeebies and is aimed at children aged 0-6.

Upsy Daisy is similar to a rag doll, with a chime in her tummy and brightly coloured clothes. she likes skipping through the garden and blowing kisses to the other characters. Her hair stands on end when surprised and her skirt inflates to a tutu when she dances. Upsy Daisy will live at MediaCityUK in salford, the BBC’s home in the North of england.

Our Client: Laura sullivan – BBC Designed by: BBC

Paragon has signed a letter of Intent and have now commenced work on a major project with Lamda Development in Athens. Lamda Development s.A., listed on the main market of the Athens exchange, is a holding company specialising in the development, investment and management of real estate in Greece and south-eastern europe. The company is the leader in the Retail Real Estate sector in Greece with successful diversification in the office and residential sectors in Greece as well as in other european countries.

The company’s development portfolio includes: three commercial and leisure centers, The Mall Athens and Golden Hall in Athens and Mediterranean Cosmos in Thessaloniki, innovative residential complexes, office buildings and Flisvos Marina in Faliro. The company has also been declared by the board of HRADF as the preferred investor for the acquisition of 100% shares in Helliniko sA. The company is part of the Latsis Group. The LOI has commenced with the pre build phase which consists of master planning and design. This £6.65m design and fit out project consists of multiple leisure and attraction concepts. Paragon is proud and excited to be working with this great company to bring exciting Leisure concepts to Athens. we will release more news as the project develops further.

Our Client: Lamda Development sA Designed by: Paragon entertainment

UPSY DAISY AT MEDIA CITY

ATHENS FEC AGREEMENT WITH LAMDA

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Golden Hall exterior

The interior of the Mall

Final workshop touches Arrival in MediaCity

we are currently working for Potteau Labo on the scenography contract of Train world in Brussels.

This new Belgian National Rail Museum will open its doors in 2015. The 8,000 m2 museum will stand next to the station’s historic concourse dating from 1913. It will pay tribute to the rich history of the train in Belgium. The first railway line in continental europe was opened in 1835 between Mechelen and Brussels, the world’s first capital city to be served by train.

The famous artist, illustrator, designer and scenographer François schuiten has devised the displays for the future museum together with the Brussels design company expoduo. ‘we will try to bring the machinery alive at Train world, and to make this place as magical as possible,’ he commented.

The sNCB/NBMs Group has invested 20.5 million euros in the project, and hopes to attract 100,000 visitors per year from its third year of operations onwards.

Potteau Labo are market leaders in the field of laboratory furniture, interior fit- out of hotels, museums and exhibitions. Our Paragon workscope includes scenery, props, dioramas, figurative, set dressing and interactives.

Our scenographic team has recently sprayed cementitious plaster on site, applying over 92,000 individual pieces of ballast around three engines in one of the main galleries. Our Client: sNCB/NBMs Group Designed by: expoduo and Francois schuiten

Gulliver’s Theme Parks has launched the worlds first Hilo Challenge Dome at its Milton Keynes theme park, after collaborating with Paragon entertainment’s licensing division to design, build and install the innovative attraction.

Originally from Michigan UsA, the Hilo Challenge Dome is an active and fun attraction that is set to reshape the future of challenge courses. The structure of the dome is geodesic, giving it unparalleled strength; fantastic energy efficiency and creating a unique atmosphere to make the perfect all weather low cost attraction for FeC’s play centres and visitor attractions worldwide. The high ropes courses within the domes consist of a variety of exciting and challenging elements for an adrenaline-fuelled experience that is fun, repeatable and safe. Paragon entertainment’s Licensing division has exclusive rights to distribute and install the domes in the United Kingdom, eU, Africa and Turkey.

The dome sizes range from 16ft to over 70ft and thanks to it’s multipurpose function and completely customisable covers, means that a challenge course can exist above a service area, retail or F&B offering, making the most of the space. Add in a completely customisable cover, then the Hilo becomes the ultimate contained all weather attraction housing.

Paragon entertainment’s licensing division has previously collaborated with Gulliver’s Theme Parks to bring a range of Nerf branded attractions to each of their three theme parks in warrington, Milton Keynes and Matlock Bath.

NEW BELGIAN TRAIN MUSEUM

HILO LAUNCHES AT GULLIvERS

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The Hilo Dome

One of the many engines being installed

Our Paragon site team

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THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF kAZAkHSTAN, ASTANA1

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1 The Goldmine Diorama 2 The Proton Rocket 3 Smelting Model detail 4 The Botai House model 5 Paragon prop-making studio 6 Painting the detail 7 Final touches to the Camel

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8 The Berel Horses 9 One of the Chariots 10 The Taldy 2 figure 11 Preparing the gold decoration 12 Working on the rocket booster section 13 The Yurt woman 14 Building the Medieval Street

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GLASGOW HOSPITAL

Paragon Creative was commissioned by the Glasgow science Centre to develop and install a set of hands on interactives and bespoke seating for a permanent exhibition in the Outpatients Atrium, Imaging and Diagnostics Department and the emergency Department waiting areas of the new southern General Children’s Hospital. The project was conceived to improve the patient’s journey, through the creation of an ambient environment that encourages play and distraction for children waiting in the hospital and their carers.

Paragon developed a set of self-contained interactive wall modules, which needed to be durable and compliant with infection control requirements as well as a set of immersive, multi-sensory interactive pods. An exciting set of hands on interactives was also created including two interactive bubble walls. This exciting new interactive exhibition will aim to make waiting within the hospital a stimulating and reassuring experience for both the children and their carers.

Our Client: Glasgow science CentreDesigned by: Paragon Creative and Glasgow science Centre

The Outpatients Atrium

Interactive Bubble Wall

Ball run interactive in construction

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we were commissioned to design and build an interactive children’s activity based around Robert stephenson’s iconic “Rocket” locomotive. The idea was to engage children by giving them the opportunity to construct the locomotive and sit in the ‘driver’s seat’ when complete.

Drawing on the experience we gained from the successful “Build A Track” interactive which we built for the NRM’s education facility last year, we utilised the same High Density Polyethylene (HDPe) material, only this time we pushed the boundaries of what can be achieved with the materials and construction methods much further! Due to the size and shape of several of the removable sections,

we had to be mindful of not only functionality and durability, but also the weight and general mass of each item in order to optimise their safe usability by children. To this end we employed the use of lightweight, yet robust, foam to maintain structure whilst minimising weight. The “Build the Rocket” and the “Build A Track” interactives have proved hugely successful and we’re keen to develop this concept further and apply it to cars, trucks… who knows what else!

Our Client: National Railway MuseumDesigned by: Paragon Creative

ROCkET TRAIN

An apprentice engine driver

THE NURSE OF THE MEDITERRANEANParagon Creative is currently working on an exhibition which tells the story of the Royal Navy’s Bighi Hospital which is located on Malta. For 140 years, the hospital provided a crucial medical service for the British and allied forces in this strategic location in the middle of the Mediterranean.

The £80,000 exhibition forms part of Malta’s first National Interactive science Centre which will occupy the historic hospital complex, once the buildings are restored. It is located in the historic Cot Lift building which is positioned on top of a cliff overlooking the Grand Harbour, once home to the British Mediterranean Fleet.

The Cot Lift is a historic lift designed to take wounded sailors and soldiers from the ships moored in the harbour below, up to the hospital above. The lift is being upgraded to allow visitors arriving from cruise ships to access the science Centre and its exhibitions.

Our Client: The Malta Council for science and TechnologyDesigned by: Design Map

The Cot Lift and the Bighi Hospital

Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust has appointed Paragon Creative to undertake a £0.5m exhibition that will form part of the Boathouse 4 project. The Boathouse 4 project is the refurbishment of a 1930s industrial building to create a Boatbuilding and Heritage skills Training Centre, exhibition and Café.

The restoration of Boathouse 4 as a Heritage skills Centre will create a completely new type of visitor experience at the Dockyard and act as the catalyst for far greater engagement and participation with the local community and local businesses, including other organisations working in the traditional craft skills sector.

The centre, due to open in summer 2015, will house a Paragon Creative design developed and built hands on exhibition about small naval craft and a fantastic display of boats.

The project, which will cost £5.5m in total, has received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Regional Growth Fund as well as generous donations from private foundations.

Our Client: Portsmouth Naval Base Property TrustDesigned by: Real studios

As part of our broad skill base, Paragon Creative now offers the ability to create anatomically correct full scale models of any short haired animal using realistic flocking techniques to create the hair on the animals hide. Flocking is when real or synthetic animal hair can be applied using an electrical charge to capture and align each hair prior to gluing it in place on the cast animal form. This technique allows realistic layers of hair to be built up to create an accurate representation of an animal’s hide.

Previously it was only possible for Paragon Creative to provide realistic hair on models for animals with longer, rougher hair such as sheep, camels, highland cattle and some of the larger apes. Animals with short, smooth hair such as horses were modelled and then cast using GRP (glass re-inforced plastic) and then the hide of the animal was then painted onto the cast with any long haired elements such as manes or tails added separately.

We are proud to announce our first commission using this technique; which is a full sized replica of a Kazakh black horse for the National Museum of Kazakhstan. The horse is part of a full sized setwork depicting scene of a family living in a Yurt on the Kazakh steppe. The commission included Paragon building and installing a cow, a sheep, a cart and a goat plus three members a family all wearing traditional clothing from the 19th Century.

FLOCkING TECHNIqUES AT PARAGON

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The Kazakh Horse enjoying himself before installation

Preparing a Horse prototype

Orang-utan head

Portsmouth historic dockyard

Paragon Creative has been contracted to help with the creation of a brand new Asiatic lion enclosure at ZsL London Zoo. Land of the Lions, which will open in Spring 2016, will be home to Asiatic lions and the landscaping of the enclosure will be designed to mimic the lions’ wild habitat of the Gir Forest in India which is home to the last remaining wild population of the critically endangered big cats.

Giving Zoo visitors the chance to get up-close with the impressive predators, guests at Land of the Lions will be able to see just how

closely humans and lions live in the Gir Forest, with glimpses of the lions’ habitat appearing throughout a bustling Indian village setting. Our teams will create both rock and stonework work as part of exhibit layout including sourcing and providing theming and props to help make the environments immersive and engaging for the public.

Our Client: Zoological society of LondonArchitecture: Ray Hole Architects

LANDSCAPING THE LAND OF THE LIONS

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A visual showing the Lions enclosure

RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST – AT CHICHESTER

The Novium is Chichester District’s museum and tourist information service and covers over 500,000 years of local history. The museum is housed in a new building designed to display the remains of Chichester’s Roman Bath house, which is located on the ground floor. These remains are one of the most significant Roman finds in Chichester and include two excavated caldaria - hot rooms.

The full site excavations revealed that the baths were a massive complex - estimated to have been 5,500 square metres or the size of a small football pitch. However experts still do not fully understand what the building looked like and the museum’s education team wanted an exhibit to explain a typical Roman baths building to their younger visitors.

Paragon Creative is proud to announce that it was commissioned to produce an interactive puzzle model of a typical Roman bathhouse of the type that might have formed part of the Roman settlement of Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester). The model was designed and built on a wheeled plinth (1700L x 900w x 1200H) so that it can be moved around the museum. On the top of the plinth there is a recessed graphic panel showing the plan of the Roman baths and text asking visitors to rebuild the bath house. The model itself is made up of a series of individual three dimensional printed modular parts, each representing a section of the building. These building parts are designed to be placed on the plan so that a visitor can build the bath house building. The plinth has a recessed shelf placed within its side that allows the building parts to be stored when they are not being used.

Our Client: Novium, ChichesterDesigned by: Paragon Creative

The model and plinth

Detail of buildings

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RUDSTON HERITAGE MODEL

Paragon Creative is delighted to be working with National Museums Liverpool on the fit out of the major temporary exhibition, Mayas: Revelation of an Endless Time, which opens at world Museum, Liverpool on 19 June 2015. The exhibition looks back through time to the Mesoamerican civilisation of the ancient Mayas, whose kingdoms stretched from eastern Mexico to modern day Guatemala, Belize and into western Honduras and el salvador, from 1000BC – AD 1542. There will be 385 objects on display in the exhibition, including striking sculptures and funerary masks to intricate gold and sacred jade

jewellery, from museums and historical sites in Mexico. It has been developed by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) in Mexico. It is part of the 2015 ‘Year of Mexico in the United Kingdom’ and ‘Year of the United Kingdom in Mexico’.

The exhibition, which will run until 18 October, is located in the temporary exhibition gallery at world Museum, Liverpool, covering an area of 1200 sqm. Our Client: National Museums LiverpoolDesigned by: National Museums Liverpool & Paragon Creative

Paragon Creative is currently working for Kier with Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue service to develop their new facility in Bury into a fully functional fire brigade training centre as well as a fully themed fire and safety awareness skills centre.

Paragon has designed a layout, which includes a series of themed environments intended to replicate everyday scenarios in the home and street, with the aim to highlight the dangers present and how to spot them and avoid any consequences. This is all carried out through immersive role play, interactive media and professional guidance by trained fire fighting guides.

It is primarily aimed at Key stage 2 school children with the option for whole family refresher skills outside school hours and term time visitors will also be able to view the fire service carrying out training and demonstrations at the facility. The site is intended to be open in summer 2016.

Paragon has previously worked on Life skills centres around the country such as skillZone (Gloucester) And Danger Point (North wales) and look forward to developing the next stage of the project with Kier. Our Client: Kier Group Designed by: Paragon Creative

GMFRS SAFETY CENTRE

The Rudston Heritage Centre, in the north aisle of All saints Church, provides a range of resources for people to better understand the history of the village of Rudston.

Paragon was commissioned to produce 3D model of the village with LeD lights to indicate the location of key points of interest and graphic wall panels giving an overview of the history of Rudston through millennia. The model was researched, designed, built and installed by the Paragon Creative team.

Our Client: Rudston Heritage CentreDesigned by: Paragon Creative

The display gallery

A detail in the model

MAYAS: REvELATION OF AN ENDLESS TIME

STEPHEN JACkSONstephen Jackson retired in March this year after 27 years with our companies. stephen graduated from the Rose Bruford College of speech and Drama in 1975 after gaining a Diploma in stage Management and Technical Theatre studies and developed his career in stage and Production management during 13 years of senior positions in repertory theatres in scotland.

He has worked in the Museums and Heritage Industry since 1988 when he joined Heritage Projects after being asked by Colin Pyrah, then Project Director of Heritage, to manage the installation of The scotch whisky Heritage Centre in edinburgh, which also started a friendship with Colin that has lasted for over a quarter of a century. He moved to York to manage the production workshop facility of Heritage Projects and found his niche running a busy creative scenic workshop facility. Along with Colin and Peter Donohoe, he was a founder Director of scenic Route and for 14 years built on his experience to create a very successful business and complete many hundreds of projects.

In 2006 Stephen and Colin joined Peter Holdsworth and Mark Pyrah and merged scenic Route with Paragon Creative, to form a company that could, under one roof, tackle any aspect of a creative project for a Museum, exhibition or Family entertainment Centre.

As Production Director of Paragon Creative Ltd., stephen has been involved in some truly ground-breaking projects. The Titanic Museum in Belfast, The Robert Burns Memorial Museum, eureka Children’s Museum, The Istanbul Aquarium, The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, the Cairo Children’s Museum and the National Museum of Kazakhstan are among the highlights of his career. His main love is and always has been working with and managing creative and imaginative people and providing the fuel they need in terms of advice, information and materials to enable them to do what they do best in the most efficient

and effective environment possible. stephen has contributed greatly to the success of our company, and his achievements will not be forgotten. we wish him the very best in the next steps of his journey.

Stephens’s role will be filled by the appointment of two new key positions within Paragon. Jon Myers will be undertaking the role of Production Manager and will head up and control the organisation of the production department, managing construction coordination between design and our various specialist in-house departments. Jon will be ably assisted by Dave Johnson. Dave has been with Paragon in various capacities and roles for the last 30 years and will be returning to us full time in the role of Assistant Production Manager. He will manage the office administration, programming, estimating and assist with Production Management.

In June 2014 Paragon entered an agreement for representation in the Middle east with Dubai based design and project management company, Incorp Group.

The joint agreement will give Paragon increased access to businesses, trades and materials in the region whilst Incorp will benefit from Paragon’s sales, marketing and design & build expertise built up over the last 25 years in museum, heritage and theme park projects around the world.

sean Nicholson – Managing Director, Middle east at Incorp Group brings with him an in-depth knowledge of the region as well as a wealth of experience in the construction industry and stated “Paragon’s success in the Middle-east is proven by the high quality projects it has been commissioned to work on. we look forward to working with the team at Paragon and are confident the partnership will boost growth for both parties in the GCC.”

we also welcome Ola Awodipe to the extended Paragon family. Ola is now representing the Paragon group in Nigeria where she will be offering our products and services to an increasingly prosperous market Nigeria is Africa’s most populated country with a growing middle class and strong demand for sophisticated leisure and retail experiences. Commercial development is on the increase and this provides a great Opportunity for the Paragon entertainment group. Other recent additions to the Paragon family include David McRae – our Graphic Designer and studio Manager who joined in 2014. David brings a wealth of design, branding and creative experience to the team and will be overseeing the day to day running of the studio. Patrick Rufus joined Paragon Creative as Head of estimating in January 2015 and brings with him over 25 year’s experience estimating in the Museums and exhibition industry.

PARAGON FAMILY GROWS

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Ola Awodipe Sean Nicholson David McRae Patrick Rufus

Stephen (left) with Mark Pyrah

MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS

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Paragon Creative has designed, built, installed and maintained Interactive and AV based exhibits around the world for over 25 years. But did you know we also have an on the road maintenance team dedicated to keeping your exhibits ‘interactive’ rather than ‘out of order’?

Through regular maintenance inspections, servicing and replacement of minor parts, the life span of exhibits can be increased and downtime kept to a minimum.

Regular preventative maintenance of exhibits is essential and will lead to:

• Increased life of exhibits, reducing replacement costs and down time.

• Increased Health & safety duty of care – by undertaking regular reported and actioned maintenance visits, your attraction becomes a safer environment.

• Increased audience satisfaction and Increased repeat visits and revenue. Our team of Interactive Maintenance engineers are time-served Industry professionals, who fully understand the design, build and maintenance of electro mechanical and AV based interactives of any shape, size, orientation or complexity. We can offer flexible solutions to suit your requirements, from one off visits, to assess or repair specific items, through to fully serviced Annual Maintenance Contracts. To discuss suitable options for your Museum or Attraction, please call or e-mail for a quotation.

Paragon Creative Limited is owned by Paragon entertainment Limited, a company listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market.

For further information about our range of services please contact us: Paragon Creative, Unit 8, Harrier Court, Airfield Business Park, Elvington, York, YO41 4EA, EnglandTel: 01904 608020 web: www.paragon-creative.co.uk email: mark@paragon-creative.co.uk

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Presenting to the students

For the last five years design professor Tim McNeil from the University of California has visited Paragon Creative with a group of 30 students. each July his study abroad program “Design in Britain” spends four weeks in the U.K. researching and completing exhibition design related assignments, and visiting museums and professional design studios and facilities.

Two of those weeks are spent in the city of York and Paragon Creative is a highlight visit during this time. The full service exhibition design and fabrication experience that Paragon offers is an excellent way to educate students about the exhibition process- starting with the design phase and moving through all of the production, construction and installation phases.

Professor McNeil cites the calibre of work at Paragon and the full range of exhibition production as a differentiator, and the reason why over 120 students have consistently rated the visit to Paragon as one of their most rewarding field trips. McNeil also attributes the success of the student experience to the passionate and skilled staff at Paragon, and the infectious enthusiasm of stephen Jackson and his colleagues.

STUDENT LINkS WITH THE UNIvERSITY OF CALIFORNIA