He Awa Pākeho…
A river of limestone…
Building something special for an upcoming project.
Watch this space for the finished work.
🧐 Any guesses for what it is?
Music by Coma-Media from Pixabay
#newzealand #outsdoors #adventure #nature #environment #aotearoa #wellbeing #conservation #nzmustdo #nzmade #purenewzealand #purenz #nztourism #getoutside #museumdesign #exhibitiondesign #exhibitiondesigners #creativedesign #nzcreatives
Pre-Covid we might have asked, remember QR codes? Today, they’re everywhere.
For us, their ability to translate and share further information makes them useful to extend the exhibition experience beyond the physical. Recently, we used QR codes to provide a solution where internet access was not available in an exhibition space:
The Paint Phila interactive imagines ancient Greek art in colour. When visitors touch elements of the artwork, it activates the marble to change colour and provide details about the object. If you hold down on an area, the colours become changeable and customisable, creating your very own ancient artwork!
Our client, the National Museum of Australia, wanted visitors to see and share their creations online. But without internet access, we had to come up with something else…our team encoded ‘on-the-fly’ the colour metadata from the interactive into a URL within a QR code which would display at the end of each person’s session. A visitor could scan the code, open their browser, and then save or share their work to friends and whānau.
The Ancient Greeks exhibit is soon to go on tour where once again the QR code comes in handy for the travelling exhibition and its potential lack of data network access.
Check out the Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes exhibit currently open at the National Museum of Australia and soon touring Australasia before coming to Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Last year right before Christmas - the Ship to Shore exhibition opened in the Texas Seaport Museum in Galveston, Texas. It’s a unique immersive experience that has visitors follow in the footsteps of early immigrants arriving to the US in the 1880s.
This great Exhibit Explainer from our client the Galveston Historical Foundation is a quick rundown of what to expect on site and showcases the membership card system which we had a hand in creating for the GHF network of visitor experiences.
Read more about the exhibition at: https://www.gibson.co.nz/ship-to-shore
Learn about the membership card system: https://www.gibson.co.nz/galveston-history
Happy New Year friends, whānau and creative collaborators! The Gibson Group office is officially back in action and gearing up for a great year ahead. 🤙
Wrapping up the year looking back at the projects we released to the public through the many normal challenges of work and - another year of the pandemic.
We wish to thank all our collaborators, colleagues and friends for your brilliant creativity and partnership in our projects.
Thank you to all our amazing clients for your patience, grace, and passion for great storytelling.
Cambridge Stud, Galveston Heritage Foundation, El Paso Museum of History, Construction Training Fund, Ministry of Education of New Zealand, TVNZ and HeiHei, Australian National Museum, Western Australian Museum, Movember NZ, Space & Time, Toulouse NZ, Anderson Design, Morgane Merien, Emma Robinson, Matt Chisholm, Tim Gibson, Ralph Upton
Kia Kaha Te Reo Māori.mp4
“A powerful language is the core of any great experience – the language of design, of a great story, of the gods and ancestors.”
Connecting with a visitor experience project means understanding te reo me ona tikanga. At Manea we had the privilege of learning whakapapa from kaumatua and master orators.
From the hautū E Kau Ki Te Tai E, to karakia and moteatea written into scripts, and correct pronunciation of te reo o Ngāphuhi, we owe thanks to the generosity of John Klaricich, Hone Taimona, Joy Ngaropo-Hau, Horo Horomana, and many others.
For checking each kupu and its nuances were accurate for Te Wahapū o Hokianga - ka nui te mihi ki a koutou.
#reomaori
#TBT on location for the install of a visitor experience for the opening of the Mercedes-Benz Autohaus facility in Breakfast Creek, Brisbane.
#MercedesBenz #Interactiveexhibitiondesign
“A digital town square that captivates visitors and connects your community”
🌠ONLINE - Accessible anywhere
🌠ON-SITE - Big, bold and high impact
🌠OUTREACH - Bring the story to your audience
Gibson Walls are a creative and customisable solution to transform collections, archives and data into a 3D experience. We have produced Gibson Walls around the world and at home - in Christchurch, Copenhagen, Cairo, Texas, and more.
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The unique interface allows your community to discover and stumble upon great bits of history by browsing, searching or following their fingertips in any direction through the unique 3D landscape and open any image to discover the story behind. Filter content by theme, or time and see the latest content that has been uploaded.
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Visitors can not only upload their own information to the experience, there are integrated social media functions -share links and likes, add selfies, snapshots, videos and comments 😍
Read more, including about our project for Tūranga library in Christchurch: https://lnkd.in/df6WwZK
Gibson Group designed and produced 6 interactive experiences and a large screen projection for the award-winning Western Australia Museum - Boola Bardip. We had some of the team in Perth visit our work and put something together to share! 🤗
The content ranged from exploring Western Australia’s war history through map exploration, understanding your point of view on migration, how automated systems are impacting the future and the importance of the Indian Ocean to culture and history.
#BoolaBardip #museumexhibitiondesign
Testing the new AR Experience for the Construction Training Fund at the Construction Futures Centre in Western Australia.
#Constructiontraining #Interactivedesign
The Sisters of Charity Heritage Centre celebrates the work of an order whose ongoing vows are built around service to their community.
The sisters’ Fourth Vow guided the narrative of a large-scale illustrated exhibition we created in collaboration with curator Jennifer Forest.
Manea #TBT
#TBT A little behind the scenes walk down memory lane of Manea Footprints of Kupe. If you haven't experienced the real thing yet - 🏃♂️🏃♂️.. get going!! #dosomethingnewNZ
Western Australia Museum Interactives
Last year we created, designed and delivered interactives for the WA Museum Boola Bardip in Perth, completely remote from Wellington.
Friends from home, if you get to Western Australia, Boola Bardip is a must-do (Take pictures for us 😆).
How To Spot A Cult
In 2009 we filmed a two-part doco called 🎬How To Spot A Cult.
The series explores groups like Exclusive Brethren, Gloriavale, Scientology and International Church of Christ and was made with the courageous participation of ex-members who shared their stories.
We can't help but wonder what the 2021 version might be like...
Both eps are available to watch on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/How-To-Spot-A-Cult/dp/B07DMQQ2LK
Spurred On in Messines
Actor Dean O’Gorman and Steven Reynaert, MNZM are in Messines exploring the site of the allies' ‘first victory’ of 1917.
Learn about what happened, and how New Zealanders were involved, in this clip from Spurred On - an interactive documentary following two personal journeys into family history during WWI.
#ANZAC #nzhistory #wwi
Off-duty Kiwis at War
Actor Dean O’Gorman learns about life off-duty for Kiwi soldiers at Christmas while stationed in Belgium.
🎥 clip from Spurred On. Watch more at spurredon.org
#ANZAC #nzhistory #wwi
Tales from Te Papa
#FBF Tales from Te Papa ✨
Hosted by Simon Morton and Riria Hotere, we produced this bite-sized series of 120 episodes that journeyed through our National Museum and ...
🗝 👀 even into the private collections of Te Papa!
You can still watch the episodes online and access the teaching resources at www.talesresource.tepapa.govt.nz
NZ Bloodstock
🎬 Behind the scenes at the New Zealand Bloodstock, the legendary auction house in #Karaka, NZ.
DIGIE - Opening Day Selfies
Happy Birthday DIGIE! 🥂🎉
Today marks the anniversary of the opening of the Digital Information Gateway in El Paso or DIGIE! at the El Paso Museum of History.
Covid has forced the temporary closure of the installation, so we are working hard with our friends in El Paso to take the full touch wall experience onto an upgraded digie.org website.
DIGIE is a celebration, archive, and living time capsule of El Paso and its residents. To celebrate, we thought we’d share some of the first visitor interactions with the selfie function on the wall.
Manea - Opening Day
Manea Footprints of Kupe is not a museum. It is an iwi-led cultural experience we are honoured to be part of.
Manea is an all-encompassing attraction - a live guiding and performance, purpose-made carvings, an interactive gallery, and a spectacular immersive 4D theatre experience.
#Maneaisnotamuseum
Watch the scenes below from opening day:
#exhibitiondesign #museums #dosomethinenewnz
Behind the Scenes at Mercedes Benz Autohaus
