Glasgow Science Centre
I wrote the texts for all of the 100 exhibits on Floor 1 of Glasgow Science Centre. We aimed to write no more than 80 words, occasionally straying to 100 when there was a pressing reason. I sweated blood over these texts, but I am pleased with the results. I did this work in collaboration with Ilze Groves, who oversaw all the text-writing for GSC. Afterwards she wrote me an unsolicited reference.
Click on the links below to see examples of these texts. Graphic design was by Claus Laemmle.
Example 1.
Example 2. This text is designed in three panels, and was housed in a rotating glass triangular prism.
Puzzlemania Exhibition
I wrote most of the texts for the Puzzlemania Exhibition while working as a consultant to Glasgow Science Centre and @Bristol.
Phaeno, Wolfsburg
I worked on about 200 exhibit texts for the Phaeno science centre, as a contractor to Hüttinger Exhibition Engineering. I wrote about three-quarters of them from scratch; the job also involved working on English translations of German originals, and doing a few of the translations myself.
I also wrote about 20 more in-depth texts, working directly for Phaeno.
Texts for an art exhibition
While I was working at Glasgow Science Centre, artist Belinda Gilbert Scott put on an exhibition of paintings there. These paintings were all of a huge brick granary - a Glasgow landmark - in various stages of demolition, and concentrated on the light that was present at various stages of the demolition and at different times of year. I wrote some short texts to go with the paintings, to explain why the various effects of the light occurred.
Hunterian Museum, Glasgow
I wrote 16 short biographical sketches of prominent Scottish medical scientists, for an exhibition at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow as a subcontractor to Ruth Ruthven of Innovative Learning Projects,