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March 2, 2010: The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
I have designed and produced a website to accompany this ambitious US tour, working with photographer and VR specialist Jared Bendis and project director Len Steinbach.
The site features high resolution 360° imaging with 3 viewpoints of each sculpture, and a 3D 360° view that can be viewed with red/cyan 3D glasses.
Visit the web site at www.mourners.org
Read the Arts Journal review here
January 24, 2010: MOACAT system unveiled
The new Multiversity Galleries at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, opened January 24, 2010. The installation includes fourteen 24-inch touchscreen systems that allow visitors to explore the 36,000 objects in the collections via the MOACAT system that I have designed and produced. The computers are deeply integrated into the galleries, with custom graphics and 3D modelled orientation to help visitors understand where they are and what is around them.
The MOACAT system also includes an ambitious Google Earth implementation enabling visitors to explore where objects in the collection originated.
November 2009: Interactives delivered for Medieval and Renaissance galleries at the V&A
I have designed and developed a number of interactive systems for these spectacular new galleries including Inside the Renaissance Home (screen shown), a search the collection system, and three different page turning interactives for precious books including three of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks.
The page turning interactives include many custom Flash overlays that allow visitors to explore and learn about the page content without interfering with the view of the page.
September 2009: Interactives on show in the new Ceramics galleries at the V&A
I have extended the search the collection system, originally developed for the Gilbert Collection galleries, for these beautiful, light galleries.
I have also designed and developed a "Tell us what you think" system. This enables visitors to browse video comments from other museum visitors, and to record their own comments.
June 2009: Interactives for Gilbert Collection at V&A
I have designed and produced a "Search the collection" system for the V&A's Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection. It is installed on public computers in the galleries and is designed to be easily updated with data from the Museum's collection management system and images from their digital asset management system.
The system will be extended for use in other galleries in due course. It can be given a new design skin to suit each environment, and many options can be customised by the client in a browser-based administration system.
September 2008: New collections website for the Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House recently embarked on an exciting new project to open access to the rich and varied materials housed in ROH Collections to as wide an audience as possible. This website is the foundation stone of that project, and allows members of the public to search, for the first time, the Collections Catalogue and the Performance Database. It also includes special features on highlights of the collections.
I designed and produced the website for the Royal Opera House and my team developed backend tools to facilitate data updates, image processing and to enable in house staff to create new special features.
Visit the web site at www.rohcollections.org.uk
May 2008: Hidden Treasures interactive unveiled in new V&A jewellery gallery
The V&A opened the William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery on 24 May 2008. The gallery displays 3,500 jewels from the V&A’s jewellery collection, one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. A multi-media programme, Hidden Treasures, was commissioned for the new gallery to enable visitors to explore in detail a selection of jewels.
I designed and produced this interactive which is installed in two touchscreen kiosks adjacent to the jewels themselves. The style is immersive and visually-led, focussing attention on the craftsmanship of the objects and on aspects of them that cannot easily be seen even when viewing the actual objects.
Visit the web version at www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/hidden-treasures/flash/
Please note this site is designed specifically for broadband access.
January 2008: Royal Warrant awarded
On January 1, 2008, I was granted a Royal Warrant. My warrant was granted by HM The Queen in connection with the e-Gallery touchscreen kiosk system, used in the Queen's Galleries, and with the Royal Collection website that I design, develop and maintain.
Royal Warrants are granted to people or companies who have regularly supplied goods or services for a minimum of five consecutive years to The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh or The Prince of Wales. The practice of granting Royal Warrants (originally Royal Charters) goes back to 1155, in the reign of Henry II.