ALFA the Alien Rides Again!

Posted by Liz in Blog Posts, Design, Design Media, Digital, Interactive on Thursday, November 10th, 2011 at 1:41 pm | No Comments

ALFA the Alien first came to these shores as part of an e-game to help school children in Somerset learn about their countryside. After rebuilding his spaceship, we’re pleased to announce that ALFA has returned to explore the Somerset coastline. Funded by the Somerset Coastal Pathfinder project, this is the second web based e-game we have developed for primary schoool children in Somerset.   Travelling with ALFA they’ll learn about coastal history and marine environments as well as important subjects such as the impact of sea level rises, coastal management...

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Bugs Count App Recognised at National Lottery Awards

Posted by Liz in Apps, Blog Posts, Design, Digital, Interactive, Social Media on Monday, November 7th, 2011 at 1:59 pm | No Comments

Great news that OPAL and Natural History Museum has been recognised as one of the UK’s best environmental projects at the National Lottery Awards 2011 and that our Bugs Count app is featured! Read all about it...

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A roaring success

Posted by Matthew Jones in Blog Posts, Design, Exhibition Design, Interactive, Interpretation, Photography, Planning, Uncategorized on Thursday, May 19th, 2011 at 2:53 pm | No Comments

Well done to all the team at Port Lympne! Yesterday I attended the opening ceremony for an exciting new visitor experience at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent. At the heart of the visitor experience is a new safari-style tour around the 600 acre site. For this people set off from ‘Basecamp’ on the backs of former army trucks. The trucks take you on an authentically bumpy track through the ‘African Experience’, where giraffe, water buffalo, gazelles, zebra (and a huge supporting cast of other beasts) roam freely across an enormous grassy escarpment with sweeping...

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Diary of an interactive designer (Part 1)

Posted by Paul in Blog Posts, Interactive on Monday, April 4th, 2011 at 12:49 pm | No Comments

After carrying out some consultation I found myself in London on a Friday and it seemed the perfect opportunity to stay on in the big smoke to tour around some of the museums. As someone who helps to design museum experiences I tend to take in museums slightly differently than most. Whilst the topics of the exhibits are very interesting I’m more fascinated in watching the behaviour of the other visitors. What are people drawn to? What do they participate with? What do they ignore? Does interest correlate with learning or is it simply amusement? Do people continue their...

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Battlegroup Afghanistan – The Armoured Soldier’s Story

Posted by Liz in Audio, Blog Posts, Exhibition Design, Interactive, Interpretation, Photography, Planning on Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 at 11:09 am | No Comments

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...

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