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Every Train, A Note May 5, 2026
Let me bring to your attention the website called Train Jazz.Here's the premise: designer Joshua Wolk assigned a jazz instrument to every active NYC subway line, then mapped them against the MTA's open real-time transit data. Every note you hear is triggered by where an actual train is along its route. Bass, piano, sax, vibes, […]
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Museum/Exhibit/Design Inspiration: "Cook This Page" April 23, 2026
What if instructions and end product become one and the same?Leo Burnett Toronto created fill-in-the-blank recipes printed with food-safe ink directly on cooking parchment paper for IKEA Canada's "Cook This Page" campaign.You lay your ingredients over the illustrated outlines (sized to actual proportions, naturally), roll the whole thing up, and cook it. The recipe IS […]
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Building LEGO Bridges (Over Ponds of Water Lilies) April 15, 2026
I've been keeping an eye on the LEGO Art series for a while now. As someone who thinks a lot about how people engage with objects, ideas, and making things with their hands, there's a lot to appreciate in LEGO's latest collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.The new LEGO Art "Claude […]
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Town Squares, not Telephone Booths April 6, 2026
The theme for this year's InterActivity conference in San Diego is "The Fabric of Belonging: Crafting Spaces for Connection and Resilience." As Children's Museum folks from around the world head to the conference later this month, many sessions will focus on programming, staffing, community partnerships, and institutional strategy.All important stuff. But I want to talk […]
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Material World: Sourcing Smarter for Museum Exhibits March 26, 2026
Here's a confession: some of my favorite exhibit moments have not come from clever interpretive frameworks or brilliant visitor research, but from wandering the aisles of a restaurant supply store, a theatrical prop house, or a salvage yard, and thinking, "Wait. What if I used THAT?"Materials make or break museum exhibits. Not just visually, but […]
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Museum/Exhibit/Design Inspiration: "Nature's Reflection" March 17, 2026
I love the elegantly executed installation "Nature's Reflection" by Brooklyn-based brothers and artists ICY and SOT. Like many great design ideas, Nature's Reflection seems quite obvious after you see it, yet still creates a quite powerful and thought-provoking impression. You can find out more about the entire range of ICY and SOT's work by clicking over to […]
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Revisiting "Staff over Stuff" March 6, 2026
Every so often, I revisit an old ExhibiTricks post and think, "Yep — still true. Maybe even more true now." That's exactly where I find myself with this one.When I first wrote a version of this post in 2020, the pandemic had just laid bare some uncomfortable truths about how museums really value (or don't […]
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Every Train, A Note

Let me bring to your attention the website called Train Jazz.Here's the premise: designer Joshua Wol...

Museum/Exhibit/Design Inspiration: "Cook This Page"

What if instructions and end product become one and the same?Leo Burnett Toronto created fill-in-the...

Building LEGO Bridges (Over Ponds of Water Lilies)

I've been keeping an eye on the LEGO Art series for a while now. As someone who thinks a lot about h...

Town Squares, not Telephone Booths

The theme for this year's InterActivity conference in San Diego is "The Fabric of Belonging: Craftin...

Material World: Sourcing Smarter for Museum Exhibits

Here's a confession: some of my favorite exhibit moments have not come from clever interpretive fram...