Interactive Design and Fabrication
Play is a powerful tool in exhibit design because it allows a wider audience to engage with the exhibit’s big idea in ways that traditional text panels can’t. The most engaging acts of play are interactives that allow visitors to make mistakes, to explore, and to learn.
Play can invoke feelings such as sorrow, fear, happiness, excitement, and calmness. Play is powerful. The most engaging acts of play are interactives that allow visitors to make mistakes, to explore, and to learn. Play can invoke feelings, propel action, and teach.
Advantages of working with us
Brainstorming Session
We can facilitate 1-on-1 or group brainstorming sessions that best work for your team. We deliver amazing actionable ideas partly because we take the time to know YOUR story, YOUR institution, YOUR budget and YOUR goals.
Research
Play is not just a frivolous act - it’s a learning tool. As such, we too need to educate ourselves in the subject. We may ask to access your collection, library, or research sources to develop an innovative interactive that truly reaches your goals.
Design
Our designs are refreshing, original, crunchy and tingly. The final submission is a full rendering of the interactive from our fabricators can begin a schematic drawing. Instructional and/or supplementary text panels are also included.
Maintenance Plan
Things break down - but how long they stay broken or how often can be manageable. With each interactive we include a maintenance plan that includes suggestions for when items should be replaced, re-fastened, re-glued, or reset.
Why choose us as your Fabricator
Our strengths are not only in creating innovative interactives but also fabricating them into reality. We enjoy challenges - allow us to create what we have designed for you.
From napkin sketches to hands-on installs — see the full journey in our blog case studies!
Drawing to Bronze: Interpretive Panels Painted Hand Pueblo
A sketch became a 3D print. A 3D print became bronze. Here’s how a MICA student’s artwork turned into a tactile, touchable interpretive element for Painted Hand Pueblo.
Salmon Tales from Prince of Wales Island
Atomic Carrots created custom illustration of the Tongass National Forest. The new waysides educate visitors about salmon lifecycle and fish pass architecture.
An Outdoor Classroom in the Sky: Atomic Carrots at the Gumbo Limbo Observation Tower
Climb the Gumbo Limbo Observation Tower and explore hands-on interpretive panels and tactile models about Florida’s dynamic coastline.
Explore our made-to-order exhibit elements in our online Exhibit Store.
Bronze Tactile Sculptures
Exhibit Interactives
Museum-Grade Tactile Animal Replicas
Reading Rails
