About the Company
 
Frina Design Founded in 2002, Frina Design is a design firm focused on Exhibit Planning & Design. The company provides creative services to a variety of clients. The principal, Pattie Smith, has more than 20 years of in-museum experience planning, designing, managing, and installing exhibits, signs and other creative products. Frina Design provides “designs for a Complete Museum Experience”.
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Memberships American Association of Museums Florida Association of Museums American Association of State and Local History National Association Museum Exhibitions Design Philosophy Creating an exhibit is similar to creating a symphony. It takes inspiration/motivation, a great score/script, instruments/collections, talented musicians/designers, practice/hard work, stage/gallery, conductor/design director, and an audience/visitors to experience the production. Many elements must come together for opening night. In exhibit design, the logistics, planning, and detailing are all necessary to make creative ideas ‘sing’ - the talents, expectations and ideas of curators, experts, audiences and designers come together in a experience that touches each person in unique ways. “Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” -Saint Francis of Assisi
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