Maynard Design Consultancy

As another year draws to a close we take a moment to reflect on what we have achieved with our partners and clients.

We are excited to see the signage at Maungawhau Station being mounted and fixed to the station building this week. A lovely end to the year! https://lnkd.in/eWS8Dnpq Link Alliance City Rail Link Ltd

We’re thrilled to share that our line-wide design for the Elizabeth Line has won the Graphics, Logo, and Wayfinding of the Year award at the FX Design Awards 2024! It was a great opportunity to invite our client, Julian Robinson, and some of the original Maynard team members, Helen Garley and Gary Smith, to join us in celebrating the award. This achievement reflects 13 years of collaboration with incredible partners, including Grimshaw, AtkinsRéalis, and EQUATION Lighting Design. A special thank you to Theresa Dowling for hosting such an amazing night of celebration!   #FXAwards2024 #ElizabethLine #TransportDesign #Wayfinding Image credits: Dean O’Brien / FX Design Awards

Over the last 20 years TDC and Maynard Design Consultancy have worked with transport authorities Transport for London, Network Rail, Transport for NSW, Auckland Transport, Roads and Transport Authority and Land Transport Authority (LTA) Singapore designing signage systems for new networks and metro lines.   The opening of Riyadh Metro is a landmark event for TDC and the legacy of Tony Howard who led the design of a comprehensive wayfinding and signage manual for Royal Commission for Riyadh City | الهيئة الملكية لمدينة الرياض, a project that started back in 2015. Since then the team have worked closely with One Works, Zaha Hadid Architects, CREW - Cremonesi Workshop, Omrania and Snøhetta implementing the manual for the orange line and the iconic stations: KAFD, Western and Qasr Al-Hukm. It’s rewarding to see the line opening and congratulations to our client team and design partners who we have worked with on this project.   We have selected some images from the 364 page manual which shows the content from the graphic elements through to the product family.

Our Australian Director, Kate Pleban, and Wayfinding Associate, Geoff Ashmore will be at the Australian Airports Association (AAA) 2024 National Conference in Brisbane this week. Reach out to chat about Customer Experience, Wayfinding and Industrial Design! #AAANC24 #NationalConferenceAndIndustryExpo #AirportsOfTomorrow #Aviation #Airports #AustralianAirportsAssociation #Wayfinding #Signage #IndustrialDesign #CustomerExperience #PassengerExperience

The Linewide team of Grimshaw, Maynard, EQUATION Lighting Design, AtkinsRéalis were invited to the Stirling Prize Winners talk at the RIBA last night. The Maynard team were there to hear Julian talk through the Wayfinding and Product Design. We particularly liked how he described the Totem ‘as a beacon in a sea of people, the open arms of a trusted guardian showing you the way.’ The evening continued with celebration drinks with all the Linewide team. #userexperience #wayfinding #productdesign

Place names are clues to history and culture. Yesterday, the NZ Herald celebrated the installation of the Te Waihorotiu sign and shared its story "The name has been gifted in recognition of the Waihorotiu stream and wetland system that flowed past the Horotiu pā down to the Waitematā, providing fresh water for iwi living nearby."    This article is another exciting reminder of what's to come! 

Celebrating the Elizabeth line's 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize win, on 5 November join Grimshaw, Maynard Design Consultancy, AtkinsRéalis, and EQUATION Lighting Design to hear the story behind this transformative project. From concept to completion — prioritising the passenger experience, technology, access, movement and safety — the team will share the line wide design of London's new transport network which opened in May 2022 after 12 years of design and construction. Book your ticket here → https://lnkd.in/emCHnmfJ Working across the Elizabeth line the line-wide design team of Grimshaw, Maynard Design Consultancy, AtkinsRéalis, EQUATION Lighting Design, Crossrail International, and the architects across the 10 new stations including John McAslan + Partners, WW+P Architects, Hawkins\Brown, AHR (formerly Aedas), WilkinsonEyre, BDP (Building Design Partnership Ltd), Adamson Associates Architects, Allies and Morrison and Fereday Pollard. #RIBAStirlingPrize #ElizabethLine #Architecture #UrbanDesign #SustainableTransport #Innovation

Spring has sprung! Our studio felt like getting stuck in and giving back. Recently, we spent the morning weeding around newly planted natives in the Eskdale Reserve with Kaipātiki Project. Kaipātiki are an innovative EcoHub, growing a sustainable future and inspiring connection for people and nature. It's was nice to get our hands dirty for the morning, then back to the studio to catch up on some in-house spring cleaning as well.

Infrastructure can dictate how people should live or it can create better opportunities for them to choose how to live. I believe the Elizabeth line is the latter - infrastructure as scaffold for living - architecture in the service of life. The project was the archetypal collective endeavour. Its realisation was an act of monumental persistence by many, over decades. Its manifestation is hundreds of millions of better journeys, connections made, for people from all walks of life.  Gosh I’m proud to have played my little part in it, and of my respected colleagues from Maynard Design Consultancy, Grimshaw, EQUATION Lighting Design and AtkinsRéalis for earning the deserved recognition of this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize through dogged determination and a little touch of quiet genius. As others have said, the beauty of this project team was its true melting pot of skillsets and collective commitment to the vision, and I learned something from every single one of these people (and still am in many cases): Julian Maynard Neill McClements Keith Miller David Hunter Julian Robinson Peter Brown Jorrin ten Have Graham Gibbon Wynne Leung Alkestie Skarlatou Philip Avery Lauren Rundle (nee van Uden) Katarzyna Jurkiewicz Yassaman Mousavi Stephen Wheater Helen Garley Gary Smith Juan López de Lerma Euan Russell Carolina Florian and all the others who came before me and after me on the job! The architecture is the canvas - the people are the colour ❤️ #elizabethline #kitofparts #dreamteam #stirlingprize