ExhibiTricks: A Museum/Exhibit/Design Blog

Life (and Exhibit Development!) is often a series of compromises -- choices between two ends of the spectrum. While working on a Historical ...

Even though I've been stuck at home working on projects because of the pandemic, one thing I've come to appreciate even more as an e...

As we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving here in the United States, one thing I am always happy for as an exhibit developer and prototy...

I love finding interesting exhibit supplies that show up in unexpected places. While working on a recent exhibit design project, I went i...

SketchUp is a great, easy-to-learn presentation tool that is perfect for museum/exhibit/design folks. There's even a free versio...

I've been doing the ExhibiTricks blog for over eight(!) years now, and in that time I've built up quite a "back catalog...

Circuit Scribe is a fun way to electrify your drawings with special pens filled with metallic quick-dry conductive ink.  It really makes...

I recently got to play around with a SensoryPEN , and wanted to share my impressions with ExhibiTricks readers. SensoryPEN is a way ...

Spoonflower is one of those cool Web-based service sites that lets you turn your ideas into real stuff! It's also a great example...

As I've been thinking about and developing "maker" type spaces a lot these days, I thought I'd commend the Inventables ...

The biggest takeaway I had from the 2012 ASTC (Association of Science-Technology Centers) conference that just wrapped up in Columbus was...

Sometimes a design project needs the perfect sonic punctuation --- the sound of a zombie munching a brain, or an elephant's trumpet,...

Gear Ties are one of those forehead-slapping inventions that makes you wonder "why didn't I think of that?"  Basically, Gea...

Sugru is a great addition to the toolkit of any hacker/fixer/maker/artist. I've been working on a few projects recently...

I'm all for FREE tools that help exhibit designers, so let me commend babyCAD to your attention. BabyCAD is an online tool that ...

Sugru is a great addition to the toolkit of any hacker/fixer/maker/artist.  In fact, "Hacking Things Better" seems to be the ...

Here's a quick one to explore: 80/20 Inc. is a company that sells aluminum T-slotted framing that they call "The Industrial Erecto...

Sometimes (especially in these tricky economic times) adapting a well-designed "off the shelf" item to an exhibit purpose can b...

The Taylor Ergonomic Luggage Scale is a handy, and relatively inexpensive, digital scale.  As you can see by the image above,  the scale wo...