Interface design for “Read All About It”. An interactive which allows visitors to browse the newspapers of the day 100 years ago.
Graphic design of maps and information design of timelines for dioramas and a large multi-user Gallipoli Aerials Touch Wall.
Interactive, Multi-user Table
Our brief: To create a platform, using innovative technology, to familiarise guests at awards ceremonies with nominees and judges. To promote networking between guests (approx. 200-300 per event).
Our solution: An interactive, multi-user table displaying dynamic and rich content and a design that allows for shared and individual experiences and which fosters interaction between guests.
Deployed in awards ceremonies in Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne.
Adam Hinshaw – Co-creation and Development
Interactive, Multi-user Table
At an event where innovation was celebrated, this multi-user, interactive table was the perfect device to allow guests at the awards ceremony to familiarise themselves with the nominees through rich text and video content.
The design allows for shared and individual experiences and aims to foster interaction and networking between guests.
With a diameter of 3.5 metres, the table allowed for around 20 people to be viewing content at one time. Up to 12 people could interact with this content simultaneously – one person per content segment.
A short video on the table in use can be seen here.
Adam Hinshaw – Co-creation and Development
Making Invisible Data Visible and Interactive
This display maps the pulse of data flowing through Royal Naval House’s network. As a virtual window into the digital traffic of this building’s occupants, it makes the invisible, visible.
Every fifteen seconds two new lines are created from current data levels – one for incoming (moving to the right), and one for outgoing (moving to the left). Changing colour on the hour and fading with age, these lines mark the relationship between time and data levels.
Visitors have the opportunity to interact with the display: overhead sensors tracking their proximity to screens, which displaces or contracts the data lines.
DataWall reflects human traffic passing in and out of Royal Naval House – drawing a link between the physical and virtual worlds.
This project was commissioned by CMG Group and McCann Worldgroup and is one of two installations created for the foyer of their building, The Royal Naval House in the Rocks, Sydney, Australia.
The other installation can be seen here.
CMG Group and McCann Worldgroup
Adam Hinshaw – Co-creation and Development
Project initiated by Michelle Schuberg
In collaboration with Tim Scott
Bringing the Outside In
Outside In is an interactive artwork designed to let visitors to The Royal Naval House, home to creative agencies from CMG Group and McCann Worldgroup, tell a visual story by manipulating the elements of the local environment.
A poetic wallpaper, taking its cues from the immediate environment. It is designed to be a restful and reflective sanctuary for the visitor, who has just come from the hustle and bustle of the city.
Visitors see an ever-changing colour palette; overlaid are soaring birds which dramatically scatter and reform as if startled; looking up, as if into an airy canopy – there’s a growing tree, part of a burgeoning environment.
On closer inspection, the visitor realises the colours in the palette are derived from an external camera signal, which they can control via a touch screen interface. Only they realise the beautiful colours come from what the camera sees.
The birds react to audio levels detected by a microphone in the foyer – shout and they will scatter. Our tree gains sustenance from people entering the building. The more individuals detected, the more the tree matures. It’s an organic representation of the comings and goings of visitors and employees.
This project was commissioned by CMG Group and McCann Worldgroup and is one of two installations created for the foyer of their building, The Royal Naval House in the Rocks, Sydney, Australia.
The other installation can be seen here.
CMG Group and McCann Worldgroup
Adam Hinshaw – Co-creation and Development
Project initiated by Michelle Schuberg
In collaboration with Tim Scott
Seven West Media’s activity across their media channels
The project visualises the previous day’s nationwide activity using time and location and is projection mapped onto a 3 metre wide screen.
“We set you a very difficult task and you flew through the challenge… On top of your work, your attitude towards making it work always left us with a confident feeling, no matter what we faced.”
Andy Kay, Head of Olympics and Commonwealth Games, Seven Network (Operations) Limited
The Thought Yard – Development
Experiential Crowd-sourced Music Video Clip
Experience agency, Rizer, commissioned the conceptualisation and development of a crowd-sourced H&M Recording studio to feature in the launch of the H&M’s flagship Sydney store.
“…a formidable force. The ingenuity, the professionalism and your insight is second to none.”
Barry Wafer, Director, Rizer
In three public locations in Sydney; Bondi Beach (that’s why you’ll see people in bikini’s in the video), Pitt St Mall and Circular Quay, people could enter the studio and record snippets of a song by Swedish electronic duo Axwell and Ingrosso. These clips were then dynamically inserted into a music video of the entire song and displayed outside the studio as well being sent to the participants for sharing on social media.
The clip was entirely generated by participants and dynamically populated each run-through, creating a continuously unique composition.
Great Barrier Reef Research made accesible to the general public.
Reef Research is a multi-user touch table showcasing research on The Great Barrier Reef from three agencies (GBRMPA, JCU and AIMS).
Working in collaboration with content creators Digital Dimensions, our role was to present this research as easily digestible and engaging to the general public.
This involved careful consideration of the user experience, clear and attractive design and the development of an intuitive interface accessible to widely varying demographics.
Digital Dimensions
Sharks!! Communicating shark tracking research to the general public
Commissioned by the Sydney Aquarium, our brief was to communicate Australian shark tracking research findings to the general public in an accessible, informative and entertaining manner.
Privileged to have access to data on Great White Sharks and Bull Sharks from both the CSIRO and the Cronulla State Fisheries, for the first time, results of highly sensitive shark tracking research of Sydney Harbour were released to the public.
Sharks’ past movements are overlaid onto maps and replayed in real-time. Visitors can see when, where, why and how sharks move.
The tracking project is part of a permanent, evolving exhibit that aims to show the general public some of the most fascinating findings of shark tracking research around Australia. Its objective is, through education, to reduce misplaced fear of sharks, and to further the cause of shark conservation. New data will be added as received from the scientists.
See a sample of the visualisation looking at shark movements in Sydney Harbour.
The take home message was that, yes, they are everywhere but if you don’t swim at dawn or dusk, or when the water is murky you will most likely be totally fine! You’re more likely to have a fatal encounter with a bee sting than a shark.
Adam Hinshaw – Co-creation and Development
Underwater Australia
The heartbeat of the University
“It makes me feel like there is such a diverse range with so much going on. People are studying such incredible things, it’s a hub of academic intelligence, I love it.”
UNSW Student
One of the most well-used academic libraries in the country with up to 28,000 views a day, UNSW Library Unstacked displays and interprets usage of the UNSW Library collection in real-time, communicating the scale, breadth and depth of library research activity that is otherwise invisible.
Each time someone accesses an item online in the Library Collection, it is reflected in the visualisation. Every view is counted and mapped to high-level disciplines which connect with UNSW faculties, revealing the level of library research that happens across the University each day. Unstacked highlights individual titles as they are viewed and tracks the most-viewed items in the Library each day.
This innovative intersection of data, visual communication and library science is a collaboration between UNSW Library and the Unstacked team.
An introduction to the project by Hero Macdonald, Jackson Mann and Unstacked:
An initial scoping phase with the UNSW Library Unstacked project leaders Hero Macdonald (Director, Learning Services, Digital Innovation & Library Experience), Jackson Mann (Curator, Special Collections & Exhibitions) and Sue Harmer (Associate Director, Digital Experience & Innovation) determined the objectives, purpose and technical integration of the project.
Subsequent workshops with both students and staff were held to test the creative concept and identify narratives to pull out from the data which would be engaging and relatable, for example, “Most viewed item in a faculty today” and “Total Views this Year”. This was followed by several rounds of user testing to refine the communication so that all students, no matter their background or research area, could identify personally with the visualisation.
An exhibition of the project in the Library’s gallery demonstrated the creative and technical processes behind the project.
As with any project, seeing how people creatively engage with it in ways you couldn’t imagine is always a delight, for example, we didn’t realise people would search for titles containing with their names and take selfies. It’s also been great to hear from students who have said:
“It’s nice to see your study and research contributing. It is a culmination of all our study efforts, everyone is working towards the same thing.”
“It’s exciting being part of a community and remembering we’re all in it together and everyone is just trying to learn.”
“As a student in the arts faculty it makes me feel pretty important seeing our square being the biggest!”
“Before I saw this I didn’t think so many people used the library.”
“I am realising that online resources are much more vast than I thought they were.”
Hero Macdonald – Director, Learning Services, Digital Innovation & Library Experience:
“UNSW Library Unstacked is a flagship digital project for UNSW Library and it was an absolute delight to work with Elisa to realise our vision for this project. As a predominantly digital library, we were looking to create a visualisation that really communicated how our unique academic community use the Library collection and to give visibility to all that invisible digital engagement. We also wanted to enable our students and academics to really see themselves and their research as part of a rich and dynamic Library community.
Elisa took us on an amazing design journey, and was incredibly engaged and responsive to our feedback and ideas and worked with us closely to iterate both the concept and the visual design elements to ensure we ended up with something that matched our vision.
It has been fantastic to see how engaged students have been with the visualisation on show in our Main Library, and their feedback has been incredible. We feel incredibly excited to share UNSW Library Unstacked with the community.”
