Voyagers at National Maritime Museum, London
Pufferfish are proud to be part of the new “Voyagers” exhibition, a permanent audio video installation by The Light Surgeons for the National Maritime Museum’s new Sammy Ofer Wing. The Voyagers Gallery acts as an introduction to the extraordinary depth and range of the Museum’s collections and is dominated by a 20 metre wave-like structure that stretches the full length of the room. Designed by exhibition designers Real Studio, this 3D wave is made up of 26 triangular facets and features a Puffersphere M 900at one end. The Light Surgeons researched and meta tagged over 300 images and films from the Museum’s vast archives and translated them into a series…
Creating some AtmoSphere
The UK MET Office are the proud new owners of a PufferSphere M 900, now on display at their head office in Exeter, UK. The PufferSphere M matched their requirements for a high brightness single source projection sphere, equally suited to permanent installation and touring for the outreach work the MET Office undertake. Empowering the MET Office’s meteorological visualizations team to take the raw inputs from their extensive global field data and translate them for display on the sphere, Pufferfish ensured that the display can be kept fresh and contemporary at all times. With visitors from around the world visiting the MET Office HQ in Exeter, the display has proved…
Royal Scottish Geographical Society
The Royal Scottish Geographical Society were looking for an engaging central feature for their new Education and Information Centre in Perth and the PufferSphere was the intuitive choice as a flexible digital medium with a magnetism and shape ideally suited to the visualization of geographical data. The Centre, unique in Britain, is the biggest project that RSGS have ever been involved in and is housed in the Fair Maid’s House – an architectural gem in the centre of Perth, the geographical heart of Scotland. The PufferSphere M 900 display takes pride of place in the centre of the space designed by StudioArc, with opening content stories displaying the formation of…
PufferPartnership Commended
Pufferfish were nominated for an Arts & Business Scotland New or Returning Sponsor Award in association with the Scottish Government for our sponsored partnership with the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics. The company were awarded a special commendation at the award ceremony in Glasgow, and would like to express our thanks and gratitude to Arts and Business Scotland, the Scottish Government and, of course, our wonderful partners, the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. We have been privileged to work with Prof Jon Oberlander, Dr Mark Wright and Mark Daniels of New Media Scotland over the past year and look forward to continuing to build our partnership over the…
PufferSphere XL ‘the perfect solution’ for JPL/NASA
Portable and easy to set up, Global Imagination found the inflatable PufferSphere XL system “the perfect solution for Jet Propulsion Laboratory‘s (JPL) traveling exhibitions, which are charged with the mission of promoting and educating the public about each satellite currently being used by NASA. The mobility of the high-impact PufferSphere allowed JPL to take it on exhibitions that hosted as many as 50,000 visitors since it received its unit in March, including Climate Day, Earth Day, and Open House.” Our thanks for all the hard work from the Global Imagination team, our most space-age client yet!!
Pufferfish Inspace
Pufferfish are delighted to be working in partnership with an established world-class informatics institute and brand new public engagement lab, Inspace, right in our home town of Edinburgh. The UoE has a PufferSphere XL with interchangeable inflatable and HardBall screens, as well as an Interactive Module SDK. This comprehensive set-up offers teachers, researchers and students the full flexibility of the modular XL system, allowing them creative freedom in developing and deploying new applications and systems involving digital video spheres. The scope of planned R&D includes work on real-time 360 degree video content; reactive art installations; audience monitoring, interaction and behaviour; distributed workspaces; and artificial intelligence. The School’s partners include NASA,…
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
After making a splash at NOCs 2008 Ocean and Earth day, Pufferfish were thrilled to be asked back to their Southampton headquarters for the 2009 event. The 2m PufferSphere XL proved a massive hit with visitors young and old, professors and pre-schoolers alike. This time though we left with one less PufferSphere and one more new PufferPartner, with an excited NOC becoming the first UKN educational and research institution to take ownership of their very own display.