Robert Burns Museum
National Trust for Scotland
moving image, game, interactive
Spiral produced four immersive shows representing Burns poems and songs including Tam o'Shanter. We also produced a series of interactives including the five player Burns Supper activity and an interactive that lets visitors take their shadow portrait and email it home. Spiral also produced The Doll's House four screen video depicting a day in the life of Robert Burns aged 7 for Burns Cottage. The museum won the award for Best Permanent Exhibition at the 2011 Museums and Heritage Awards.
Online games here
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Atmosphere
Science Museum
moving image, game, interactive
Spiral designed and produced five exhibits for the exhibition, four interactives and one video. Flood Alert! is a three player game about London's flood defences, Carbon Minister lets visitors manage energy resources in a city and UK Impacts let's visitors send digital postcards from the future.
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A Changing Nation
National Museums of Scotland
moving image
Spiral produced eight videos for the Scotland: A Changing Nation gallery. The film One Nation, Five Million Voices presents a cross-section of people giving their personal views on what it means to be Scottish, or live and work in Scotland. The film features a people from all across Scotland and from all walks of life, as well as some Scottish celebrities, musicians and actors. Other videos for the gallery include programmes about Ravenscraig, Entertainment, Housing, Emigration and Shipbuilding.
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Touring exhibition
1001 Inventions
moving image, game, interactive
Spiral produced an interactive and five videos for this touring exhibition that traces the forgotten story of a thousand years of science from the Muslim world, from the 7th century onwards. To date the exhibition has had successful runs in London, Istanbul and New York. 1001 Inventions won the award for Best Temporary or Touring Exhibition at the 2011 Museums and Heritage Awards.
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Living Lab Games
Pizza Express
game, interactive
Spiral produced a series of touchscreen games for the new Living Lab Pizza Express restaurant in Richmond designed by Ab Rogers.
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Media Wall
The Guardian
moving image, interactive
We designed and built two large screen software installations for Guardian News & Media Ltd. The software displays media from live feeds that include RSS news, video and photographs from the Picture Desk. We also built a CMS back-end that allow authorised Guardian staff to customise the two media players from any desktop computer.
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Virtual Curator
Tate Modern
interactive
This is a six-player game played over nine monitors. The game consists of a series of quick-fire rounds, each one about a particular artwork and artist. The game has proved immensely popular with visitors and is rarely idle.
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The Last Place on Earth
Dundee Heritage Trust
moving image
Our film The Last Place on Earth – Discovering Antarctica for Discovery Point in Dundee has now opened. The film tells the incredible story of Antarctic exploration and science from its beginnings to the present day. The film show features synchronised snow and aurora lighting effects and a blast of ‘antarctic’ wind from a series of fans below the screens.
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Multiplayer Games
Science of Survival
interactive
Spiral produced two games for the Science of Survival touring exhibition. The fast-paced Future Drink game where visitors discover some of the places we might get more water in the year 2050 and a 3D driving game, Future Journey which explores some new vehicle fuels for the future including plants, electricity and hydrogen.
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Prove It!
Science Museum
interactive
This interactive was produced for a temporary exhibition at the museum. A trackball interface lets visitors access information about climate science on the projected screen.
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John Murray Archive
National Library of Scotland
moving image, interactive
Windows on the World is a ten plasma screen historical animation that plays out on five windows throughout the exhibition. There are nine character interactives; databases of documents, text, audio and animations that relate to key writers featured in the archive. The Publishing Table is an interactive game projected onto a circular table top.
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White Lodge Museum
The Royal Ballet School
moving image, website
Spiral produced ten videos, an interactive database and timeline, and the website for this exhibition at the Royal Ballet School.
Visit the Royal Ballet School website
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Making History
Society of Antiquaries of London
website
Making History: Antiquaries in Britain explores the work and achievement of the Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London from its foundation in the early eighteenth century to the present day. Spiral produced the website and kiosk to accompany the exhibition.
Visit the Making History website
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HCM Exhibition
Household Cavalry Museum
moving image
Spiral were commissioned to make a series of films for the museum's redisplay using archive film, specially shot new material, graphics and photographs. There is also an interactive that has three parts; a quiz about horses, a ceremonial dressing game and a database on the regiment.
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Valentines Mansion
Redbridge Borough Council
website
This website was produced for the recently restored Valentines Mansion. Behind it is a simple content management system that allows curators to update content.
Visit the website
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Harnessing Energy
Science Museum
interactive
Harnessing Energy is a two-player dance game that explores sources of energy. Two versions of the game are installed in the Science Museum's Energy Infozone gallery.
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Son et Lumière
Down County Museum
moving image, interactive
This a three screen son et lumière show projected onto the walls of Down County Gaol. The story of the gaol is told in six dramatic episodes. Spiral produced two interactive databases that work both in the gallery and online. The sites database allows users to identify sites of interest in Down County by selecting regions on a zoomable map. The object database explores objects from the museum's collections. Both interactives are easily updateable by curators.
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Energy Infozone
Science Museum
game, interactive, website
Energy Infozone runs on kiosks in the Science Museum's Energy Gallery and on the web. The project won an IVCA Gold Award for Multimedia/Web and the judges' citation said: "Engaging and a great example of education through entertainment. Beautifully simple whilst offering much."
Launch Energy Infozone website
Play Smartarse
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Ice Age to the Vikings
Rheged
moving image
From the Ice Age to the Vikings is a video installation telling the story of Cumbria. High resolution moving images are projected down onto a white relief map of Cumbria and there are two supporting screens showing additional content.
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Materials Challenge
Science Museum
game
A game to test your knowledge of materials and their uses.
Play the Game
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Art In Focus
Tate Modern
moving image, interactive
The In Focus touchscreen programmes introduce audiences to four art movements - Surrealism, Modernism, Cubism and Minimalism. Spiral's solution includes an animated introduction to each of the movements (pictured) as well as games and activities, a timeline, a mini database of images and text and a quiz.
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Six Films
The Dock Museum
moving image
Spiral produced six short films for the Dock Museum in Barrow-in-Furness. These are on permanent display in a cinema at the museum. Titles include: Above and Beyond, Life at the Yard, It's Grim Up North, Famous Launches, Furness Railway and Furness Abbey.
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Unlocking the Past
Islington Museum
website
Spiral produced this interactive map based website and kiosk for Islington Museum. Users can access information and pictures through a series of maps and explore famous people, places and objects as well as Islington’s bomb sites and trivia. A version of the website runs in the Islington Museum on a secure browser.
Visit the website
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Design a Poster
London Transport Museum
game, website
Spiral produced this ‘Design a Poster’ activity for the London Transport Museum’s website. Users choose elements from thumbnail menus and using a set of tools design, layout, colour, add captions, choose typeface, flip, rotate images and shapes. Their completed design is added to a gallery for other users to view. Click the link below to try it (the save function is disabled on this version).
Try it out here
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Millennium Seed Bank
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
moving image
A film showing the work being done at the Millennium Seed Bank in Wakehurst Place where seeds are dried and stored in a vault to secure their survival. Spiral's production uses specially filmed sequences, archive material form the BBC, graphics and special effects to tell MSB's dramatic story.
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Know Your Singapore
Singapore City Gallery
moving image, interactive
Know Your Singapore was produced for Singapore's Urban Redevelopment Authority, working with UK design consultancy HKD. Designed primarily for school groups there are twenty voting stations where children test their knowledge of Singapore's land use, heritage, nature reserves and other intriguing facts in a fun, interactive quiz show hosted by Gurmit Singh (one of Singapore's leading comedic actors).
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Spaceport
Mersey Travel
moving image, interactive
Spiral produced twelve videos and three computer interactives for this leisure attraction at the Wirral waterfront. The work included creating a 3D flight into space which was projected across nine monitors, and a four projector display that explores the origins of the universe.
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Duckboy in Nanoland
Science Museum
game
Duckboy in Nanoland is a series of interactive games that show what life is like in a nano universe. When things get really, really small science changes and the 'normal' rules of physics don't apply.
Play Duckboy in Nanoland online
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Website
The Library and Museum of Freemasonry
website
Spiral built this website for the Museum in 2010. Through a simple home page design users can access information about the Museum and its archives, find out about current exhibitions and events, search the collection and see the latest news.
Visit the site
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Art Gallery & Museum
Kelvingrove
moving image, interactive
Spiral produced over fifty multimedia exhibits for the new permanent galleries at Kelvingrove. These include games, interactive storybooks, audio, videos and a collections database. Spiral worked closely with designers Event Communications and the curatorial team at Kelvingrove.
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Birmingham Stories
Thinktank
website
This website explores stories about Birmingham's past and the inventions that changed people's lives. The curatorial team at Thinktank maintain the website and update content using a simple backend system designed by Spiral.
Visit the Birmingham Stories website
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