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Many opportunities have been for museums. Museums compete for the best of displays, which tends to take designers to new heights and challenges.
One example is the primary exhibit for the Cleveland Botanical Gardens. The exhibit design firm had a wonderful idea of a three dimensional leaf in the center of the room that would rotate and have projected video from three sides. While it is a great idea, they had not taken into account that the video projectors would spill over around that leaf, and that contour would change as the leaf turned. With audience locations all the way around the leaf, this would blind anyone standing opposite the projection. The solution was to create a mask for each of the three projectors that would change with the rotation of the leaf. Sound simple? Not when the leaf was planned to hang from a simple mirror ball motor that was not synchronized with the projection. Yet another technical mystery to solve! The end result was a spectacular display. Visit the museum some time and see if you can find the technical challenges that we solved.
This was one of many over the years, but a good example of the challenges that I have helped to solve. Although these are permanent installations, every event is a design challenge. Experience in solving these on a daily basis is how I end up being asked to solve them for the long running installations.
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