The music industry is catching up with the heritage sector! Bjork, working in collaboration with Apple, will release the first app album....
Projects live in our imagination and on the drawing board for a long time so it’s always exciting when they finally come to life. Last week Charlie returned from a site visit at the new Battlegroup Afghanistan Exhibition at the Tank Museum, Dorset where final touches are being put in place. It tells the poignant story of the Royal Armoured Corps who have been engaged in some of the fiercest fighting since World War Two in combating the insurgency in Afghanistan. We have recreated what is now an iconic symbol of the conflict, the ‘Forward Operating...
I had a great meeting at St James Priory, Bristol earlier this week. We’re creating an interpretive exhibition, a web site and an audio trail for this stunning place, which is the oldest building in the city. The church is being carefully restored and it has been a privilege to see this work progressing under the watchful eye of the St James Project directors, the conservation architect and English Heritage. As I was leaving, the sun came out and I looked up and took this picture of the first signs of the church tower emerging from its cloak of scaffolding. The...
In Spring 2011, The Tank Museum at Bovington, Dorset, will open an exhibition: Battlegroup Afghanistan: The Armoured Soldiers’ Story. Imagemakers has been appointed to design and project manage the exhibition which interprets the contribution of the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) to the conflict in Afghanistan. The setting will be a reconstruction of a Forward Operating Base: one of the most iconic symbols of the campaign. Using audio recordings of soldiers recounting their experiences and feelings, film footage from the frontline, authentic objects for set dressing and, of...
Chances are most of you have heard of, or use, ‘bluetooth‘. After all, it’s pretty much standard on all mobile handsets now and is the dominant platform by which we connect to hands free ‘headsets’ and wirelessly transfer data from ‘phone-to’phone. However, if the word (and the below symbol) just sounds like more ‘technical flubbery‘ I’ll explain a little more. Bluetooth is basically a means of transferring electronic data (text, ringtones, photos, sound etc) between fixed and / or mobile devices over short...
