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Concept illustration of a gallery bringing several storytelling ideas together: artifact cases, an interactive table, a media wall and the Green Jacket

Augusta National Golf Club

How do you make embedded stories feel alive?

Client
Augusta National Golf Club
Brief
RFP for museum and storytelling design, Berckmans Place renovation
Timeline
Three weeks, RFP to submission
Role
Creative DirectorCompleted at G&A

The vision

Make it feel alive.

The stories of Augusta, as animated and vibrant as the game and the place.

Guests walk a corridor lined with golf clubs in glowing cases toward a Green Jacket
Creative Concept: Journey to the Goal

A corridor of clubs, each tied to one historic shot.

It opens onto the Green Jacket.

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Guests move through an immersive passage from iconic artifacts to living moments. A luminous corridor is lined with individual Masters clubs, each suspended in its own glowing case and tied to a singular historic shot. The space opens into a circular chamber where the Green Jacket hovers in quiet reverence, encircled by the same constellation of clubs.

A darkened chamber with a projected green on the floor and a glowing line tracing a ball’s path toward a Green Jacket
Creative Concept: Journey to the Goal

Then the room changes.

The lights drop, a green washes across the floor, and a champion’s putt ignites as the club behind it lights up.

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The chamber works in two modes. In gallery mode, it is a contemplative field of objects and legacy. In media mode, the space darkens, putting greens from specific holes wash across the floor, and the hush of the crowd and the cadence of legendary calls fill the air. A single ball’s path ignites across the surface, and as the shot unfolds, the matching club case brightens, revealing the instrument behind the triumph.

Guests study a Green Jacket taken apart into its pieces, suspended in a glass case
Creative Concept: The Green Jacket, Revealed

The icon, deconstructed.

Fabric, lining, buttons and craft, suspended in space. An inside look found nowhere else.

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The Green Jacket appears life-sized but deconstructed. Fabric, lining, buttons, lapels and pins, the craft and care of its construction, are suspended in space. The jacket is revealed as a crafted object: designed, tailored, repaired and passed forward over time. An inside look that can’t be found anywhere else.

A long wall of small artifact cases around a central video of a celebrating golfer, one case outlined in green light
Creative Concept: The Winning Moment

As the decisive shot plays, its artifacts glow.

A club, a ball, a glove, a note: each moment of victory snaps into focus.

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A video sequence plays at the center of a large wall of artifacts, each clip a shot that decided a Masters. Around it, individual cases hold objects from those moments: a club, a ball, a glove, a note. When a winning putt appears, the cases tied to that golfer glow green while the others recede. A living field of events and objects, where each moment of victory snaps into focus.

A guest touches a ring lit green on a cross-section of a tree trunk while a historic scene fills the wall behind
Creative Concept: What the Tree Saw

Touch a year on the Eisenhower Tree.

A laser traces that ring, and the year comes to life around you.

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A slab of the Eisenhower Tree becomes a living timeline. Guests choose a year on a slim illuminated touch strip. A precise green laser traces a single growth ring, isolating that moment and triggering a large projection that brings the year to life through historic imagery, sound and atmosphere. Some watch from a distance. Others stand close, hand on the tree, choosing the moment that speaks to them.

Guests look at a cutaway block of turf showing layers of soil, gravel, roots and irrigation
Creative Concept: Beneath the Green

What sustains every green you see.

Soil, water and roots, working quietly below.

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The course you see is only the surface. Beneath the Green reveals the hidden systems that sustain Augusta National: layers of soil, sand, roots and water, and the care that works below every step. A vertical strata display shows how nutrients move, water filters and living systems support the greens above. Quiet, precise and unseen: how the course is truly kept.

A curved media wall where a sketch of the land turns into a full-color view of the course
A guest reaches toward glowing points on a media wall showing the course at sunrise
Creative Concept: The Course

A living landscape.

Historic views give way to the present day.

Touch the land to uncover its nature, horticulture and history.

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Augusta National as a landscape shaped by light, weather, seasons, time and history. A large media wall shows slowly moving panoramas of the course: morning shadows across the greens, wind through the pines, blooms returning each spring. Historic views morph into the present day. Subtle hotspots let visitors touch the landscape and uncover its nature, materials, horticulture and history.

Woven in

Discovered, not visited.

Two guests stand at a paneled lounge wall where short phrases glow softly
Creative Concept: The Whisper Wall

Words surface on the lounge paneling.

Step close for audio only you can hear: fragments of memories from players, caddies and staff.

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The wood panels of an exclusive lounge sit perfectly within the interior design. Except, out of nowhere, words appear and glow softly on the surface. Step up to the wall and directional audio plays that only you can hear: fragments of overheard conversations, players recalling a decision, caddies describing a moment, staff remembering something seen only once. No timeline and no instructions. Just serendipity, found through proximity and curiosity.

Brass lines radiating across a restaurant floor, each labeled with a champion’s name
Creative Concept: Final Lines

Decisive putts, inlaid in brass beneath the tables.

History embedded in the ground, always present.

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A restaurant floor becomes a refined map of golf’s most decisive shots. From a brass circle marking a single hole, elegant lines radiate outward, each tracing the path of an iconic winning putt, with names and dates subtly inlaid beside them. Guests meet it as part of the room’s social life. The message is understated but powerful: here, history is in the ground, and countless paths across countless years converge in the same place.

A round dining room under a dome of glowing strands arcing toward a central bar
Creative Concept: The Flight Room

A canopy of light traces golf balls in flight.

The science of the game, etched quietly into the walls.

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A dining and social space that feels like a discovered room. A cascading canopy of glowing crystal orbs forms a luminous dome over the central bar, its strands tracing the arcs of golf balls in flight. Around the walls, etched panels read first as an elegant pattern. Look closer and the science of flight appears: launch angle and speed, backspin and lift, drag from the dimples, the shape of apex and descent. A place to gather and linger, and a quiet celebration of the precision in the game.

How it would be made

Story first. Technology second.

Technology earns its place only if it makes the experience better, not louder. If it can’t be reset in 30 seconds, it’s too precious. And it all begins with listening.

The story is here. Make it feel alive.

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