more interactive exhibits

engineer

tim .

. hunkin

cartoonist

MORE INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS

I still enjoy making things for museums. The jobs are very varied and provide a useful income!

During the last year I've made a victorian texting exhibit for the national archives, a mad dog for a danish science centre, some games about the sense of touch for the V&A. I've also drawn monkeys for notices on a new enclosure at London Zoo and some cartoons about food miles for the Eden Project's new education centre.

VICTORIAN TEXTING

The National Archives in Kew, West London, hold an amazing variety of documents. Amongst other things, they hold most of the key original patents from the industrial revolution.

They were mounting an exhibition of 'invention' celebrating their patents and wanted some working exhibit related to one of their patents that kids could play with. We chose Wheatstone's ABC telegraph. The original 1842 version on the left and my version on the right. In situ, one station is placed in the museum area and one 50 yards away in the cafe.


	MAD DOG This copy of my coin operated arcade 'Test your Nerve' machine was commissioned by the Danfoss Univers science centre for an exhibition about risk. The photos show it before the tri lingual graphics were applied. The idea is to put your hand in the cage, holding the pushbutton inside, for as long as you dare. The dog pants and starts dribbling warm water on your hand and eventually barks loudly.


		THE SENSE OF TOUCH A consultancy commission, in collaboration with Sarah Angliss, for the Victoria and Albert museum for a temporary exhibition about touch. We produced a series of ideas for interactive exhibits - these are just a few of them. I then fabricated the mechanical and electrical parts for the ideas they selected.