Digital Interactives for Exhibits
visual design, interactive, digital, prototype, nature, animation, motion, non-profit
Each of these interactives extends what a physical exhibit element can do for a visitor who wants to go further. Two were produced and installed on the public floor; a third started as an experiment in what a beloved seasonal exhibit might become in digital form.
A Journey Through Time is a proof of concept inspired by Dino Days, a seasonal festival featuring life-size animatronic dinosaurs and printed multilingual interpretation—imagining what that content could become as a scrollable digital timeline.
Sea of Skulls pairs with a wall of over 600 California sea lion skulls in the museum’s West Hall. What reads at a distance as a single dramatic installation holds individual stories—each skull has a collection number, a location, a history. The interactive gives visitors a way in: browsing specimens by category, meeting the collector behind the wall, learning about the marine mammal research the collection supports.
Filipino Voices is embedded in a graphic panel flanking the Philippine coral reef tank in the aquarium. Where the exhibit focuses on reef ecology, this interactive shifts the lens to the Filipino communities whose livelihoods depend on healthy reefs.
MY ROLE
Visual design, Prototyping
Exhibit design and content development by the in-house team at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
