Based in New York City, Turnstone Consulting is a collaborative design practice. We tell stories for and about places and spaces. We deal in widespread content: Words that illustrate and pictures that explain.
About Turnstone’s work
For some clients, that’s communications strategy, promotions, publicity and copy-writing, for others, that’s interaction design and consulting. For public organizations and commercial companies, we create and collaborate, define, direct, draft, document and design for presentation, exhibitions and trade shows, cultural and retail spaces, web sites and site-specific interactive media.
About Turnstone’s clients
Our clients include American Express, The Design Trust, The European Design Institute (Barcelona), Imagination (North America), The Map Office (for Grimshaw Architects and The Queens Museum of Art), Maoworks, The New York Times, The UK Design Council and others. We update our client list regularly here.
About Turnstone elsewhere
See what others are saying about Turnstone’s work on our Press page.
Follow Turnstone on Twitter: @TurnstoneTweets
Learn more about Turnstone’s Creative Director, Rachel Abrams
About the Turnstone blog
This blog is updated regularly with Turnstone’s take on design inspiration from around the world. We tend to focus on the social, political, economic impetus for and impact of design practice; interdisciplinary creativity for public benefit; all-round progressive innovation. Posts are often prompted by news of interesting projects that we receive from clients, practitioner friends and colleagues in our wider network. Now and again, we swap earnest shout-outs and the greater good for the plain whimsical, and post stories just because they take our fancy. If you have a project to share, let Turnstone know.
About Turnstone’s thought leadership
We write and edit papers and articles regularly. Our opinions have been published in a range of design, business and academic media. For a selection, take a look at In Print.
We give lectures and make public presentations to and about the professional design community. Some of the places we’ve presented recently are listed here, under Talks.
We also teach and have mentored and critiqued the work of design-focused graduate students from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, Parsons Design and Technology program, Yale and Pratt. Starting Fall 09, we will add students in the School of Visual Arts Interaction Design program to this list.
About Constellation
Turnstone is part of Constellation, an enterprise partnership of multidisciplinary designers, technologists and strategists. Together, we offer experience in environment design, interactive installation, branding, design criticism, web site, software and service design, content and development, motion graphics, film and video production, and custom fabrication. Applying our expertise in small collaborative project teams, we combine storytelling, visual design, technology and architecture to create compelling, communicative experiences.
The Constellation process translates our clients’ needs into dynamic, visual systems, for audiences to consume at any scale. Completed solutions include online brand identity systems, a stunning, five-story facade, smart tables. Where all kinds of surfaces can become displays and all kinds of gestures can become commands, we strive to create seamless and meaningful mediated interaction.
