Dinostar gets a makeover to mark its 21st year
Joe Stuckey and Lilly Duffill, students from the Creative Briefs’ Junior Design Factory programme, with Dinostar owner Steve Plater(Image: supplied image)
Young designers of the future have helped create a new look for one Hull’s most popular visitor attractions. After recently celebrating Dinostar’s 21st anniversary, owner Steve Plater decided it was time for a makeover at the Humber Street museum, in the city’s Fruit Market.
He turned to youngsters from a programme run by Hull-based Creative Briefs to get the job done. The art and education company’s Junior Design Factory gives children from across the UK the chance to take on real-life design briefs from clients, giving them hands-on work experience of delivering a project from start to finish.
The museum is now adorned with a striking new design featuring a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex, courtesy of Junior Design Factory, including Hull-based members Joe Stuckey and Lily Duffill.
A delighted Mr Plater said: “It looks terrific.” Dinostar’s latest link-up with Creative Briefs comes exactly a decade since their first collaboration when children taking part in workshops run by the company helped create a new exhibition space inside the attraction.
During the recent half-term holidays the latest digital design workshop organised by Creative Briefs came up with ideas for new exhibits for Dinostar, funded through a KCOM Digital Inclusion grant. Company founder Jason Bowers said the Junior Design Factory members had all contributed to something special.
“The outside of the museum looks fantastic,” he said. “The young designers chose colours, fonts, stock imagery suitable for large print format and produced drawings showing their ideas.
“They then worked with Rebecca Shipham, an exhibition designer also based in Hull, who helped bring everything together into a detailed document for approval, costing and installation.
“The project has provided invaluable experience with a real outcome for the young designers to walk past and say: ‘I did that’, and now we are looking forward to welcoming more young people to work on the designs for the new interior exhibit.”