The Experiential Design Index

Top 10 Fabrication Firms: Midwest US

Ranked by recency-weighted eligible project count, 2021–2026, firms headquartered in the Midwest US (US Census Bureau regions; Canada listed separately). The 10 highest-scoring firms hold a numbered rank.

Score = 1.0 per eligible project completed this year or last, 0.75 for 2–3 years ago, 0.5 for 4–5 years ago, +0.1 per independently-sourced project (capped at +0.5/firm). Eligible: status: completed projects with year_completed in the trailing 5 years. Ties broken by most recent status_verified date. See About for the full methodology.

Counts reflect the work this index has recorded, not a census of any firm's total output — coverage depth varies by firm — and a position here implies no judgment of design quality.

RankScore FirmHQEligible projects
113.2 Ravenswood Studio Lincolnwood, IL Museum Experience Center (2026), Exhibit Software (Formula Fun, Face Value, Global Golf, Open Book) (2026), MoMoney Core Exhibits (2026), GAME ON! Science, Sports & Play (2025), Illinois Holocaust Museum Experience360 (2025), 007 Science: Inventing the World of Bond (2024), Larry Bird Museum (2024), In Slavery's Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World (2024), ReFramed: The Future of Cities in Wood (2023), National Music Museum Reinstallation (2023), Mars: The Next Giant Leap (2022), U-505 Dive Trainer (2022), Experience Gallery (2022), Moonshot Museum (2022), Life! Beginnings (2021), How Do You See the World? / Publishing House Experience (2021), Powering Lives (2021), Edsel & Eleanor Ford House Visitor Center (2021)
29.8 Dimensional Innovations Overland Park, KS Marquee Restoration (2026), Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Exhibition Experience (2026), The Forge (2025), Atlas9 Experience Design (2025), MidAmerican Atrium (2025), Kansas Museum of History Core Exhibits (2025), Grove Wickets (2025), Osborne Legacy Complex (2024), History Hallway (2023), Mavs Vault (2022), Amphibian and Reptile Center (2021)
38.0 Split Rock Studios Minneapolis, MN Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Exhibition Experience (2026), Waḳaŋ Ṭípi Center (2026), Bering Land Bridge Heritage Center (2025), Great River Children's Museum (2025), The Saga Center (2025), Tekαkαpimək Contact Station (2024), Curiosity Farms (2024), Philipse Manor Hall: Our Whole History (2022), Conservation Action Center (2021)
48.0 Taylor Studios Rantoul, IL National WWI Museum and Memorial Trench and Triage Hospital Refresh (2025), Skelton Park African American Heritage Trail Hall of Fame Sculpture (2025), Great Lakes 360 (2024), National WWI Museum and Memorial Media Refresh (2024), River's Edge Discovery Center Exhibits (2024), Allerton Park Visitor Center Redesign (2023), Pinnacle Mountain State Park Visitor Center Exhibits (2023), Natural History Building Mammoth Sculpture (2023), Pokagon State Park Interpretive Exhibits (2022), Fort Bend Museum Renovation (2021), Book Mountain (2021)
55.8 Roto Dublin, OH Prototype: The Experimental Museum (2025), Lehigh Valley Watershed (2024), Lehigh Valley Health Network: My Body (2024), Science in the Making (2024), Hamilton Family Aquarium (2024), Discovery World on Market (2023), Take Flight (2021), Puller Gallery & Miller Annex (2021)
63.5 Navillus Woodworks Chicago, IL Flyway City: Architecture for a Flourishing Ecosystem (2026), Gateway Through Time (2025), Loop as Lab: Reshaping Downtowns (2024), City in a Snow Globe (2022)
73.2 Chicago Scenic Studios, Inc. Chicago, IL Astronomy Discovery Center (2024), Amazon Visitor Landing (2023), Skydeck Chicago Renovation (2022), Dark Testament: A Century of Black Writers on Justice (2021), Exhibit Systems for a Research Communication Center (2021)
83.0 Exhibit Concepts, Inc. Vandalia, OH George H.W. Bush Gallery Renovation (2025), Navy SEAL Museum San Diego (2025), Children on the Homefront: Growing Up with War (2023)
93.0 Infinity Sign Systems Kansas City, MO Marquee Restoration (2026), Atlas9 Experience Design (2025), Tap Ins at the Greenhouse (2025)
102.2 Xibitz Grand Rapids, MI Mark and Paula Hurd Welcome Center (2023), Randall Lewis Second Story and Beyond (2023), Sloan Museum of Discovery Expansion and Renovation (2022)