We Bring High Quality Designs and Interpretive Services to Clients

Peter Hyde Design provides dynamic and innovative design solutions for Master Planning, Concept Designs and full turnkey projects. Our expertise and experience includes all aspects of design, fabrication, graphic production, kinetic and digital interactives, interior design, media production, audio-visual design and site installation. A flexible business and studio model, allows us to apply our high standards of creativity and design regardless of scope, budget and timeline. Our roster of clients include professional sports organizations, children’s museums, historical museums and societies, science centers, visitor centers, broadcast networks and Fortune 500 companies. The ability to collaborate closely with clients and content specialists coupled with our varied project experience, results in visually exciting, engaging and rewarding experiences.

Leadership

Peter Hyde

Owner, Lead Designer

Peter Hyde is a designer with over 25 years of experience in the professional design field. Peter brings his combination of strong design, management, client relations and technical talents together to create impactful projects. He has a diverse background across multiple disciplines, venues and geography with projects throughout the United States and internationally in Norway, England, Morocco, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia.

Peter’s current and past clients include professional sports organizations, children’s museums, historical museums and societies, science centers, visitor centers, broadcast networks and Fortune 500 companies. The projects he has designed incorporate a wide variety of content for permanent installations and traveling exhibits that encompass historic, children’s, science, natural history, cultural, fine art, theater, business and brand promotion.

After spending his career working at top design studios, Peter Hyde achieved his long term goal of founding Peter Hyde Design in 2012 to bring high quality design and interpretive services to his clients. Before founding Peter Hyde Design Peter worked for internationally recognized design firms including BRC Imagination Arts, PDG /Jack Morton Worldwide and Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership where he was an Associate.

A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts Peter is a frequent guest lecturer for exhibit and experience design. He has lectured for such universities as Seaton Hall University and Syracuse University. Peter is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in the Exhibition and Experience Design department.

Peter is very involved in promoting the museum field and is a Board Member of the Museums Association of New York. He has lead and participated in conference sessions for AAM, International Sports Heritage Society, the Museum Association of New York and the Mid-Atlantic Museum Association.

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Our Team

Bethany Fleming

Exhibit Developer

Bethany Fleming is a museum professional with over 20 years’ experience in museum, exhibit and interpretive development. She holds a B.A. from Valparaiso University and a M.A. in Public and American History from Loyola University Chicago. She is the owner of Fleming Museum Consulting.

Bethany served as the Director of Museum Experience and Curator at the National Hellenic Museum. Bethany was the founding Curator and Director of Collections & Exhibitions for the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie, Illinois. As the Director of Collections & Exhibitions, Bethany led a team in growing the Collection from 200 objects to over 11,000. Prior to that Bethany was the Curator of Collections at the Geneva History Center.

Bethany’s other museum building projects include the Geneva History Center in Geneva, IL where she worked with staff, architects, and builders to renovate the Kane County Title Company building into a museum on Geneva’s historic Third Street. She facilitated the move and reorganization of the center’s collections and archives, and led the creation of the permanent exhibition, ‘Greetings from Geneva: a trip through history’, which won awards from the Illinois Association of Museums and the Association for State and Local History.

Bethany has worked with a diverse group of organizations to create a wide array of engaging museums and exhibitions, including Mackinac State Historic Parks, the New-York Historical Society, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and the Chicago Bears Football Club.
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David Catalano

Senior Exhibit Designer

David Catalano is an accomplished designer and illustrator with a diverse background that includes theater, television, themed entertainment, exhibit design, branded environments, experiential marketing, and architecture. Throughout his career David has not only grown as a designer, but has developed strong technical and organizational skills as well as a profound appreciation for the collaborative process. He has had the honor of working with many talented individuals and is proud to been a member of many award winning design teams.

David hails from New York City and has a B.F.A. in Scenic Design from North Carolina School of the Arts.
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James Silva

Senior Graphic Designer

James Silva holds a BFA and MA in Design and has been working in the field of graphic design since 1995. In 1998, Mr. Silva began working for the first of what would be several museum and exhibit design firms. During his career he has developed graphic programs for groups as diverse as science and nature centers, history museums, children’s museums, libraries, sports-related clients, and various other cultural institutions. In addition to his work with Peter Hyde Design James is the owner of Juniper&Scribe, holds a BFA and MA in Design and is a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

His work experience also spans projects for clients as large as multinational corporations, sports halls of fame, international religious organizations, to clients as small as local museums, start-ups, public schools, and individuals involved in academia and the creative arts.
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Corrine Doron

Educator, Exhibit Development

Corrine is an education and museum professional with over 20 years of experience in exhibit content development as well as event and project management. She currently oversees a portfolio of over 80 Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs for NYC public high schools driving alignment of curricula with industry trends and workforce needs. Previously, as Senior Manager of Programs at Sony Wonder Technology Lab, a technology and entertainment museum, she directed programs and events and contributed to the exhibit development of the museum’s 14,000 square foot space. Corrine has also held roles with the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Kingsborough Community College, and Art in General. She holds a B.A. from SUNY Buffalo in Media Studies and English.
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Kayla Van Name

Exhibit Designer

Kayla brings a unique combination of creativity and technical problem-solving skills to any project. Her background encompasses a wide range of work experiences in design, documentation, and project management, as well as multidisciplinary collaboration to serve high-profile corporate clients, universities, museums, and transit authorities. During her graduate studies, Kayla was awarded a Dean’s Fellowship to explore the intersection of physical and digital experiences through augmented reality. She looks forward to transforming the way we interact with the world by reigniting curiosity and engaging communities. Kayla received her Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University, and her Master’s in Exhibition and Experience design from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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Ciera Iveson

Exhibit Designer

Ciera is a designer and creative producer with experience in exhibition design, live entertainment production, and musical theatre script development. After developing new musicals with theaters around the country, her passion for developing new stories brought her to exhibition design. Through her work, she seeks to combine the respective strengths of theater and exhibitions to make engaging stories for physical and virtual spaces. She holds a BFA in Acting from Emerson College and is a Master’s candidate at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Exhibition and Experience Design.
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