When it comes to graphic design, you need a good all rounder. Austen Kaupe have a wide range of skills to guarantee you have consistency across your whole brand. We can help you with your brand strategy and then deliver innovative design that will appeal to your target audience.

Austen Kaupe also provide a comprehensive range of services for museums and galleries, from exhibition displays to shop merchandise. And we can provide comprehensive signage solutions, from strategy through to finshed product. Here are some recent projects that have delivered great results for our clients.

Sandstone Heart: The history of Dubbo Gaol

Old Dubbo Gaol celebrated the 50th anniversary of it’s opening as a museum in 2024, and wanted to published a history of the gaol to commemorate this landmark. While helping create an amazing museum in the heart of Dubbo, Chris Anemaat had been compiling text and sourcing images for the project over many years. Austen Kaupe were asked to design the case bound book, with 172 pages in two sections covering the gaol’s history and it’s people and places.

Printed by Pegasus.

Australian Museum Thin Ice VR

Thin Ice VR is a touring virtual reality experience, on show at the Australian Museum in mid 2024. The show tells the story of Ernest Shackleton and his crew, and their epic journey
to escape Antarctica after their ship was crushed by ice. A theatre was created for visitors
to experience the VR, and Austen Kaupe were asked to help create displays in the entry and exit areas. The displays included clothing worn for the making of the VR film, a model of the Endurance, maps plotting their intended and actual journeys, and photographs from the ordeal by Frank Hurley. Austen Kaupe also produced marketing and promotional material for the show.

3-D design by Aaron Maestri, Australian Museum Design Department.

First Estate logisics park signage

Austen Kaupe have designed the signage scheme for a large logisics park at Mamre Road, Erskine Park, close to the new Western Sydney Airport site. The flexible signage suite has been applied
to around 20 tenant sites over a number of years as the site has expanded.

In conjunction with Diadem.

Australian Museum history display

The Australian Museum required a display to interpret the history of the Museum’s oldest building, The Lewis Wing, built 1846–1847. It is situated in, what is now, the cloakroom which only revealed it’s hidden sandstone walls and architectural details when it was recently renovated. The display could not be fixed to the heritage walls, so it has been constructed
to fix into the floor grill and ceiling.

Sign manufacture by Cunneen Signs.

Museum of Sydney entry displays

The Museum of Sydney, operated by Museums of History NSW, required a graphic display for a Nawi (bark canoe) exhibit, and carved lettering for the Acknowledgement of Country
for the entry lobby of the museum.

3-D design by Dean Scott, MHNSW.

Her name is Nanny Nellie

In 1925, Nellie Walker and two relatives were literally ‘cast’ as anonymous aboriginal figures for the museum, but now Nellie has had her story told and been displayed in a newly made outfit, surrounded by her family. Austen Kaupe have designed the temporary display
to accompany the figure, which featured in the SBS documentary of the same name made
by Nanny Nellie’s great grand daughter and great great grandson.

1788 Residences

Signage for a deluxe residential and retail development in Double Bay.

Australian Museum Minerals Gallery

After several years without a minerals gallery due to renovations, The Australian Museum opened a new gallery combining the best of it's collections in 2022. Austen Kaupe helped design displays for the gallery and produced marketing material.

In conjunction with the Australian Museum Design Department.