Robert Wirth is passionate about all facets of design and design management, delivering innovative ideas to clients that links their unique vision, identity and brand to their target audiences. He believes in supplying the very best creative work that impacts and inspires people to engage and connect – be it environmental, experiential, film, interactive, print or online.
Robert can lead and work with multi-disciplinary teams offering a comprehensive service that embraces all stages of a project’s development and realisation: concept development, style guides, planning and strategy, business plans, budgets, content management, 3d and 2d design and documentation, editing, production and implementation. He has excellent communication skills, gives open and professional advice, is flexible, adaptable and solution driven.
Direct yet conceptual.
quality Design AND facilitation
for exhibitions, museums,
not-for-profits, brands, SIGNAGE,
publications and marketing.
EXHIBITIONS
Milestones La Perouse
Permanent Exhibition, La Perouse Museum, Randwick City Council – Consultant for Xsquared Design, Creative Direction & Design Jisuk Han & Robert Wirth – Curator Roxanne Fea
Gapu - Monuk: Saltwater
Aboriginal Temporary Exhibition, Australian National Maritime Museum – Creative Direction & Design Nicole Monks & Robert Wirth, Content Management Robert Wirth – Curators Helen Anu & Beau James
• 2018 Winner Best Scenography for a Temporary Exhibition – IDCA International Design & Communication Awards
Transformations: Art of the Scott Sisters
Temporary Exhibition, A1 Gallery, Australian Museum – Creative Direction & Design, AV Storyboards, Robert Wirth – Curators Vanessa Finney & Robert Wirth, Director Steven Alderton, Audio Visuals Eye Candy
• 2017 Winner Exhibition Projects Museums – Museums & Galleries NSW IMAGinE Awards
Bayala Nura: Yarning Country
Aboriginal & Torres Permanent Exhibition, First Australians Gallery, Australian Museum – Creative direction & Design, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Community Consultation & Approvals, Image Research & Copyright Approvals Wirth – Curator Tasha Lamb, Director Steven Alderton, Robert Wirth
The Daring Ship
Temporary Exhibition, Australian National Maritime Museum – Creative Direction & Design Robert Wirth – Curator Alexandria Gaffikin
T. rex on Tour
National Travelling Exhibition, Australian Museum – Creative Direction & 2D Design Robert Wirth, 3D Design Jisuk Han – Director Steven Alderton, Palaeontologist Anne Musser
Tyrannosaurs: Meet the Family
International Travelling Exhibition, Australian Museum (North American tour) – Design Robert Wirth, Palaeontologist Dr Anne Musser, Director Steven Alderton
• 2016 Best large scale Touring Exhibition Museums Australia MAGNA Awards
Search and Discover
Permanent Exhibition, Australian Museum – Creative Direction and Design Robert Wirth – Curator Helen Whitty, Director Steven Alderton
Pacific Spirit
Permanent Exhibition, Pacific Gallery, Australian Museum – Creative Direction & Design Wirth, Curator Keren Ruki, Director Steven Alderton
ANZAC Memorial Centenary Project
Temporary Exhibition, Anzac Memorial Hyde Park – Creative Direction & Design Wirth – Director Caroline Mackaness
Without Borders: Emergencies, Natural Disasters, Epidemics & Conflicts
International Travelling Exhibition, Médecins Sans Frontiers Australia – Creative Direction & Design Wirth – Curator Warrick Saunders
Same Jukurrpa, Same Country: 30 years of painting at Yuendumu
Temporary Exhibition, Australian Museum – Creative Direction & Design, Aboriginal Community Consultation & Approvals Wirth – Curator Scott Mitchell, Director Steven Alderton
Indigenous Australians Gallery
Permanent Exhibition Upgrade, Australian Museum – Creative Direction & Design, Concept Plans & Implementation, Content Management, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Community Consultation & Approvals, Image & AV Research & Copyright Approvals Wirth – Historian Nigel Parbury, Curators Robert Wirth/Sheryl Connors/Laura McBride, Director Steven Alderton
Sustainable Living Centre
Exhibition & Training Room Fitout, Tweed Shire Council –Creative Direction & Design, Concept Plans & Implementation, Content Management, Image Research & Copyright Approvals Wirth – Director Adam Faulkner
• 2009 RTA Infrastructure Excellence in Regional Communities Award, Engineers Australia, Engineeering Excellence Awards
Lismore Visitor Information Centre
Exhibition, Shop, Gallery, Lismore City Council – Concept & Implementation, Creative Direction & Design, Content Management, Aboriginal Community Consultation & Approvals, Image Research & Copyright Approvals Wirth – Historian Dr Jennifer Cornwall, Director Mitch Lowe
• 2013 Gold Medal NSW Tourism Awards
Water to Gold – a history of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area
Permanent Exhibition, Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas (MIA), Griffith – Creative Direction & Design, Content Management, Image Research & Copyright Approvals Wirth – Historian Dr Jennifer Cornwall, Director Tracey Cotter
Liquid Luxury – celebrating 75 years of the North Sydney Pool
Temporary Exhibition, Stanton Library, North Sydney Council – Creative Direction & Design Wirth – Curator Dr Jennifer Cornwall
Home Made – a history of domesticity on the lower North Shore
Temporary Exhibition, Stanton Library, North Sydney Council – Creative Direction & Design Wirth – Curator Dr Jennifer Cornwall
Coffee Customs
Temporary Exhibition (& Publication), Customs House, City of Sydney Council – Creative Direction & Design Wirth – Curator Dr Nicola Teffer
Griffith Italian Heritage Trail
Bronze street plaques, Poster, Guide, Griffith City Council – Creative Direction & Design Wirth – Historian Dr Jennifer Cornwall
Our People Our Valley – the early years of Tweed Shire
Temporary Exhibition, Tweed River Regional Museum – Creative Direction & Design Wirth – Curator Dr Sally Watterson
Watermarks – adventure, sport & play
Permanent Exhibition, Australian National Maritime Museum – Creative Direction & 2D Design Wirth – Senior Curator Dr Peter Emmett
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Permanent Exhibition, Signage, Site interpretation & displays – Creative Direction & 2D Design Wirth – Senior Curator Margaret Betteridge
Sport & War
Travelling Exhibition, Australian War Memorial, Canberra –Creative Direction & 2D Design Wirth – Curator Rebecca Britt
40 Up – Australian architecture's next generation
Travelling Exhibition & Publication – Creative Direction & 2D Design Wirth – Curator Davina Jackson
Sydney Opera House Story
Temporary Exhibition, Creative Direction & 2D Design Wirth – Sydney Opera House
Sydney Vistas
Temporary Exhibition, Greenway Gallery, Hyde Park Barracks Museum, Historic Houses Trust (Sydney Living Museums) – Creative Direction & Design Wirth – Curator Lynn Collins
Forging the Nation – Federation, the first 20 years
Travelling Exhibition, Australian War Memorial, Canberra & Melbourne Museum – Creative Direction & 2D Design Wirth – Curator Peter Burness
Out in the Cold – Australia's involvement in the Korean War
Travelling Exhibition, Australian War Memorial, Canberra – Creative Direction & 2D Design Wirth – Curators Dr Rosalind Hearder, Chris Goddard
State of the Waratah – the floral emblem of New South Wales in legend, art & industry
Temporary Exhibition & Publication (An official Olympic Arts Festival Event) S. H. Ervin Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney & National Trust – Creative Direction & 2D Design Wirth – Curator Rosie Nice
Sydney 2000
Exhibition, Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games – Creative Direction & Design Wirth
Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival
Travelling exhibition, Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games – Creative Direction & Design Wirth
signage
Anzac Memorial Hyde Park
Centenary Extension Project – External and Internal, Identification, Directories, Foundation stones and plaques, Wayfinding, Amenities, Graphic Symbols & Arrows, Sponsorship, Audio Visual Directory
National Art School
Queer Contemporary – Identity, location and way finding
Australian Museum Research Institute
External Building Identification Title
Médecins Sans Frontiers Australia
Acknowledgement to Country, Identification & Interpretive
Australian Museum
External & Internal, Identification, Building, Wayfinding, Hoardings
White Rabbit Gallery
Identification, Wayfinding
Casula Powerhouse
Concept Plan – Building, Banners, Identification, Wayfinding, Amenities – Design & Implementation Major Directional Billboards (Hume Highway) and Directional Street and Entry Signage
Cape Byron Headland Reserve
Concept Plan – Identification, Wayfinding & Interpretive Signage, NSW National Parks & Wildlife
Observatory Gate, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne Wayfinding & External Interpretive Signage
Westfields Chatswood – Flagship Foodcourt Signage and Identity
publications
Without Borders – Emergencies, Natural Disasters, Epidemics & Conflicts
Médecins Sans Frontiers Australia – Editor Dr Nicola Teffer
The Battle of Lone Pine – One Australian’s war
Anzac Memorial Hyde Park Sydney – Author Brad Manera
Life Under the Light – Lighthouse families of New South Wales
Online & Offline Publication, Office of Environment & Heritage – Author Dr Johanna Kijas, Project Officer Sonia Limeburner
• 2012 Bronze Medal NSW Excellence for Print Awards
Caravans and Communes – stories of settling in the Tweed 1970s & 1980s
Tweed River Regional Museum – Author Dr Johanna Kijas, Editor Josh Tarrant
• 2012 Highly Commended Museums Australia Multimedia & Publication Design Awards
Families of Fortune – Chinese people in the Tweed
Tweed River Regional Museum – Author Joanna Boileau, Editor Sally Watterson
• 2010 Highly Commended National Trust Heritage Awards
A Special Kind of Vision – contemporary Aboriginal art from the Northern Rivers
Arts Northern Rivers – Editor Melitta Firth
• 2010 Silver Medal NSW Excellence for Print Awards
The Other Side of the World – international migration to the Tweed 1940s to 1960s
Tweed River Regional Museum – Author Dr Johanna Kijas, Editor Sally Watterson
• 2009 Cultural Heritage: Community Group Award, National Trust Awards
• 2008 Excellence in Education and Public Engagement Award, Museums & Galleries NSW IMAGinE Awards
Double Love Knot – Patricia Piccinini
Lismore Regional Gallery – Editor Steven Alderton
• 2009 Curry Award for Image and Print Innovation
• 2009 Gold in the National Excellence for Print Awards
• 2008 Gold in the New South Wales Excellence for Print Awards
Margaret Olley – Interiors and Still Lifes
Lismore Regional Gallery – Editor Steven Alderton
Angus McDonald – Selected paintings from 2001-2006 Lismore Regional Gallery – Editor Steven Alderton
Ian Fairweather – An artist of the 21st Century
Lismore Regional Gallery – Editor Steven Alderton
Chief Secretary’s Building – A poem in stone
Department of Commerce – Author Margaret Betteridge
John Horbury Hunt – Radical Architect
Historic Houses Trust (Sydney Living Museums) – Authors Peter Reynolds, Lesley Muir & Joy Hughes
State of the Waratah – the floral emblem of New South Wales in legend, art & industry
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney – Editor Rosie Nice
The Calling to Come
Historic Houses Trust (Sydney Living Museums) – Author Paul Carter
Greater Blue Mountains Area – World Heritage Nomination
Government of Australia – Principle Editor Joan Domicelj AM
• 2000 Inscribed on the World Heritage List
Sydney Opera House, in its Harbour Setting – World Heritage Nomination
Government of Australia – Principle Editor Joan Domicelj AM
• 2007 Inscribed on the World Heritage List
not-for-profits
Inspire Project
Corporate Headquarters refurbishment, Médecins Sans Frontiers Australia
Sri Lanka Refugee Crisis Fundraising Pack,
Amnesty International Australia
PNG Stop violence against Women
Fundraising Pack, Amnesty International Australia
DRC Stop rape as a weapon of war
Fundraising Pack, Amnesty International Australia
Isabel Fundraising Pack, Camp Quality
Christmas Appeal Ronald MacDonald House Charities
Mardi Gras BGF Parade Float Event graphics, Bobby Goldsmith Foundation
Christmas Appeal Heart Foundation
CAWB Community Action for Windsor Bridge – Online & Offline Awareness Campaign: Street Posters, Direct Mail Flyers, Social Media campaign
identity, STYLE GUIDES, branding
& SIGNAGE
National Art School
Major Public Signage DA Package – Wayfinding, Whats On & Interpretation Systems – Street & Site Banners, Electronic Changing Information, Large Scale Public Art, Identification
Anzac Memorial Hyde Park – Centenary Extension Project Corporate Identity, Style & Branding Guide, Audio Visuals Storyboard. Signage package including Wayfinding & Identification, Symbols, Sponsorship Acknowledgement, Plaques, Foundation Stones
Beardson for Conservation – Concepts through to implementation, Identity, Branding, Events, Posters, T-shirts, Social Media Graphics, Advertising & Marketing
Historic Houses Trust (Sydney Living Museums) Corporate Identity, Style Guide, Signage, Branding & Advertising
Museum of Sydney Corporate Identity, Style Guide, Signage, Branding, Advertising & Marketing
Lismore Regional Gallery Corporate Identity, Style Guide, Branding, Signage
Art Gallery Society of New South Wales Corporate Identity, Style Guide, Branding, Look (Flagship bi-monthly publication)
Uptown Local Corporate Identity, Signage, Branding (online & offline store)
PNFA People for a Nuclear Free Australia Identity, Branding, Street Posters, Postcards, Banners, Events, Website – Directors Dr Helen Caldicote & David Suzuki
The Promenade Coffs Creek Identity, Style Guide, Branding, Signage, Advertising & Marketing
The Edge Coffs Harbour Identity, Style Guide, Branding, Signage, Advertising & Marketing
Sydney 2000 Olympic & Paralympic Games – Look of the Games Package Concept development – Sub-brand graphic pattern, Style Guide, Banners, Signage, Hoardings, Ticketing, Sponsorship, Marketing, Exhibitions, Events, Displays
Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival Identity, Style Guide, Branding, Advertising & Marketing, Events, Travelling Exhibition
MUSEUMs
Australian Museum Masterplan 3D Visualizations
Creative Direction, Design & Coordination of Conceptual 3D illustrations (Future new building views: exterior, internal entry & key exhibition areas) – Director Steven Alderton, Architects Hames Sharley, 3D Visualization Mogamma, Exhibition Design Jisuk Han
Museum of Sydney
Corporate Identity, Style Guide, Branding, Signage, Exhibitions, Publications, Audio Visuals, Public Art, Public Programs, Marketing, Advertising, Merchandise – Senior Curator Dr Peter Emmett
Hyde Park Barracks Museum
Identity, Exhibitions, Signage, Publications, Marketing, Merchandise – Senior Curator Dr Peter Emmett