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…
Pufferfish in The Deep Sea
A new exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum features a PufferSphere XL provided by our friends at The National Oceanography Centre Southampton. The exhibition explores the alien world of the deep oceans, our planet’s final frontier. The PufferSphere takes the form of a large format globe, showing how the currents of the ocean move around the globe using data visualizations provided by NOC’s Dr Andrew Coward. Pufferfish feel honoured to have one of our PufferSphere XL displays at one of our favourite Museums. We’d like to say a huge thanks to the NHM and the team at NOC, we’re delighted to be part of such an exciting installation. Click on…
IBM Smarter Planet at Disney Epcot Centre
Pufferfish would like to extend our congratulations to our American distributor Global Imagination on their installation of a 3m PufferSphere XXL unit at the Disney Epcot Center in Florida. The display is suspended in Innoventions West as part of the new “Smarter Planet” exhibition, which was officially opened on January 29, 2010. The exhibition is a collaborative effort between Walt Disney Imagineering and IBM. Click on the image above to see more pics, or find video and PDF-downloads through our case studies.