Exhibit Designer Toolkit: LIT LEDs

LED technology continues to advance, and designers can take advantage of the high-impact of LEDs to add some punch to exhibit components and/or environments.

LIT is a company that offers some nice compact LED lighting elements, as well as some nifty interactive demos on their website that give you a sense of the possibilities that LED lighting offers.

Of course, LEDs have the double advantage of a long life span and low energy usage compared to many other light sources, making them a "greener" design choice as well.

So check out the LIT website and consider how you might be able to use LEDs in your next exhibit project.

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For Sale: INFINITY

Yes, the title of this posting is for real --- I'm offering infinity for sale.

Well, OK, it's actually a portable Infinity Room exhibit. This one of a kind piece was developed with the M.I.T Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and has been experienced by over 100,000 people (note the "undoctored"photograph of the person inside the Infinity Room above.)

The entire walls, floors and ceilings of the interior space are covered by high quality mirrors, behind which is a system of lighting units and over two miles of high quality, solid core fiber optics!
The entire all-steel mobile structure is mounted on two axles, each with dual wheels (8 tires total) on a leaf suspension. The current owners would like to sell the Infinity Room to a museum, planetarium, astronomical organization or the like.

If you are interested, or know someone who might be, please direct all inquiries to: info@orselli.net

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FREE Green Exhibit Design Article

If you'd like to download a free PDF of my recent Green Exhibit Design article, just click over to the POW! website.

The article is jam-packed with resources and techniques to help you expand your green exhibit design toolkit.

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Pictaculous: Great Free Design Tool

The fine folks at MailChimp have released a free graphic design tool called Pictaculous.

Simply plug an image into Pictaculous, and different sets of compatible color palettes are generated. A nice little tool to help you with your print or web projects!

Try it out for yourself on the Pictaculous website.

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Exhibit Design Inspiration: The Twisted Films of PES

I'm not sure how I ran into the film work of PES, but there's something really great about their clever use of familiar household materials in new and creative ways to create their videos. The update to old-school stop-motion style is really appealing as well.

But don't just take my word for it, click on the example entitled "Fireworks" at the top of this posting, or zip on over to the PES website to discover the wide range of their film work --- just take in the eye-candy in small doses!

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The OUTSIDE Factor: A Great Exhibit Design Meeting In Brooklyn

Have you ever been in the middle of an interminable exhibit design meeting where you just wanted to slit your wrists out of boredom and frustration?

Well just a few days ago, I participated in an exhibit design meeting that was actually fun!

I was able to join some of the intrepid Liberty Science Center (LSC) staff on an informative (and tasty!) romp around Brooklyn. (We went to visit the Children's Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Blue Marble Ice Cream, The Pickle Guys, and Taci's Beyti Turkish Restaurant.) And the best part is that it was all related to the exhibit design process for a project called Cooking: The Exhibition.

While a trip through Brooklyn with a food writer, in this case Arthur Schwartz, to visit different restaurants and food-centered sites was automatically going to be big fun, the biggest take-away for me was the OUTSIDE Factor:

1) The event took place OUTSIDE the LSC offices.

2) The event offered opportunities to learn from OUTSIDE people (Arthur Schwartz, restaurant and store staff.) At each stop, we could ask questions, discuss ideas, and get behind-the-scenes glimpses of how things happened.

3) Most importantly, the Cooking project has been inviting (actually encouraging) OUTSIDE ideas from anyone who joins their NING site. You'll also find design write-ups, grant submissions, inspirational websites, and notes related to the Cooking exhibition development process on the site as well.

While you might not be able to take in a food tour through Brooklyn, hopefully your can apply the OUTSIDE Factor to your own exhibit design process sometime soon.

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