Evidence Design joined donors, scientists, museum colleagues, and our creative and fabrication partners at the National Museum of Natural History on Thursday evening to celebrate the completion of Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code, which opens to the public today. The opening marks the end of an 18 month dynamic collaboration with dozens of curators, educators and scientists at NMNH and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). The event was particularly festive in light of yesterday’s unanimous Supreme Court ruling that human genes cannot be patented — as enthusiastically noted by NHGRI director Dr. Eric Green and Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, in their opening remarks.

Congratulations to the teams at NMNH, NHGRI and all our collaborators: D+P, Cortina Productions, Sanan Media and Karen de Seve.

Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code opens next month, and the interim website is live!

Evidence Design, in partnership with Design and Production Incorporated, collaborated with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and the National Institutes of Health’s National Human Genome Research Institute on this new exhibition that aims to demystify the science behind sequencing the human genome and explore how this “code of life” relates to each of us.

Photo Credit: Al Seib, Los Angeles Times

More than 1 million people have visited the space shuttle Endeavour since it arrived at the California Science Center in November, according to an article in today’s Los Angeles Times.  The impressive announcement coincides with the unveiling of a new exhibition, Mission 26: The Big Endeavour, which features over 80 images highlighting the orbiter’s flight over California and 12-mile, 68-hour journey through Los Angeles streets to its current home in the Samuel Oschin Pavilion. Photographs by NASA, the Sacramento Bee, Getty Images and the Los Angeles Times, a time lapse video by David Knight and contributions by local schoolchildren celebrate Endeavour’s epic journey.

Flat Rock Brook Nature Center’s permanent indoor exhibition, A Walk in the Woods, officially opened on October 21. Evidence Design was pleased to be part of the team that brought the center’s Indoor-Outdoor vision to life, and we congratulate everyone involved, including the staff, Board of Directors and volunteers at FRB, Phil Fraley Productions, City Aquarium, Mystic Scenic Productions and Focus Lighting. Click on this link to read about the exhibit’s opening at NorthJersey.com.

Photo credit: Los Angeles Times

The Space Shuttle Endeavour is now on display in the Samuel Oschin Pavilion at the California Science Center. Pretty amazing, and this is just its temporary home. Congratulations to the museum on all the work it took to get the orbiter this far!