Founded in 2013, Janiga Design is Boston based award winning design studio working on a wide range of exhibit projects including cultural history, military history, nature centers, children’s museums, corporate exhibits, art museums, and private collection exhibits. The studio works very closely with clients to help to shape their vision and direction of their project ideas, from concept development to final design and installation. This close relationship results in highest quality interpretive design.
Jakub Janiga
Lead Designer
Jakub was born in Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), where he earned his master’s degree in art and design.
A 3D designer for more than 22 years, Jakub started out as a furniture designer and has spent over a 16 years in exhibit design field, including at renowned Boston-area exhibit design firms Christopher Chadbourne and Associates and Cambridge Seven Associates. In 2013 he founded his own studio, Janiga Design, LLC.
Jakub has extensive experience across the entire design process, from concept through final design, fabrication, and installation. Throughout the creative process he engages with clients through dynamic design visuals including immersive 3D renderings and, in some cases, animated walkthroughs, so clients can easily visualize the presented design concepts. His design sensibility is characterized by clean lines and attention to details and proportions, and he enjoys merging design with story to create cohesive and engaging exhibit environments.
Teo Janiga
Marketing & Graphic Design Intern
Teo is currently a sophomore studying Global Marketing and Consumer Insights with a minor in Graphic Design at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business in New York City. He currently writes weekly for Fordhams Marketing Club on emerging trends in the industry. He was also the winner of the 2023 Rhode Island Department of Education Steam Month, for his design of a logo that was used for promotional materials across the department. He has experience in graphic design, web design, and creating various forms of digital media
COLLABORATORS
Ernesto Mendoza
Graphic Designer
Ernesto has been in the museum design industry for well over 25 years. His body of work includes major installations from children’s and science museums to nature centers and cultural museums. His award winning projects include the Great Platte River Road Archway which portrays the stories of the westward migration, Pony Express, and the Lincoln Highway and The U505 Submarine at Chicago’s famed Museum of Science and Industry. His work can also be seen at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
As owner of One By Design, Ernesto currently collaborates with museums, design firms, and fabricators to create immersive experiences around the world. His extensive knowledge coupled with his unique artistic abilities allow for limitless ways to make history, art, science and technology come to life. His graphic design work—whether whole scenic environments or interpretive panels—attests to his sensitivity to the story he is interpreting. It’s stunning or muted, as the case requires.
Sarah P. Morris
Content Developer, Writer
Sarah handles all aspects of interpretive content, from identifying interpretive themes through developing detailed content outlines and writing final exhibit text. As a content developer, she relishes the challenge of winnowing through information and ideas to articulate a clear messaging hierarchy. As a writer, she is adept at conveying complex concepts to diverse audiences and committed to making the text engaging, relatable, and lively.
After graduating from Harvard with a degree in English, Sarah worked as researcher and arts writer before discovering her true vocation in museum interpretation. She worked on staff at two exhibit design companies before going out on her own in 2000. Now, after more than two decades in the field, she has a portfolio of past projects varied in subject, approach, and size—from jazz to brain science, from printed graphics to immersive media environments, and from a single panel to an entire museum.