Saturday, September 3, 2011

Re: Museums, Baseball and design.

I’m not that into sports, especially when it comes to baseball, but the typographic elements in this exhibit grab my interest. I love when museums are more than just, as Steve put it, look, move and repeat. Adding interactive elements really enhances the entire museum experience.

When I was in 10th grade, we took a field trip to the Spy Museum in DC. Because of those special interactive elements, I will never forget it. The best part was toward the end of the museum--a cut out in an air duct allowed you to crawl through the ceiling and spy from above on people in the beginning parts of the museum. It was so concealed that there was no way they could see you. I loved that! Another thing I remember is being taken into a room with a “guard” and told that I needed to quickly adopt a cover identity and memorize specific details about it. The urgency of the scenario really made me feel (I assume) how a real spy might feel.

1 comment:

Sarah Berger said...

I was actually going to write about the Spy Museum for my post! I love that place. All of the exhibits are so interesting.