Evidence Design is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of SHIFT, a prototype exhibit at this year’s ASTC conference conceived to initiate a community dialogue about innovation. EVD created the SHIFT identity and exhibit graphics to launch the birth of this series.

SHIFT will be the starting point for a thoughtful, ongoing conversation about ways the science center community can marshal its resources and creative energies to inspire the planet’s next generation of inventors, innovators, and visionary thinkers.

Thanks to all ASTC sponsors who supported this exhibit and conference. We expect an inspiring, eventful weekend in Baltimore!

Last Wednesday, Rondi Davies, Evidence Design’s senior content developer and open-water swim-enthusiast, became the fastest American — male or female — to swim around Manhattan! She completed the 28.5 mile course in 5 hours, 44  minutes, 47 seconds, breaking the 16-year old record set by Australia’s Shelley Taylor-Smith.

Rondi swam through heavy chop, past enormous barges; the Staten Island Ferry delayed its departure to allow the swimmers to pass! Evidence Design colleagues and family were out on a Brooklyn pier to cheer for Rondi as she rounded lower Manhattan and headed up the East River. Click on the links to learn more about the Manhattan Island Match Race and Record Attempt and Record breaking NYC Swim Season.

Bravo Rondi — amazing accomplishment!

As we posted earlier, Science Storms received the Cross Media Award in AIGA’s 365: Design Effectiveness 2011 Competition.  Winning designs  are now on display at the AIGA National Design Center, as well as online in its virtual gallery, the AIGA Design Archives. In December, the exhibition will begin traveling around the United States and then become part of the AIGA Design Archives housed at the Denver Art Museum. Lots of opportunities to go see the Science Storms display and other award winners — check it out!

Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging

Reconstructing dinosaurs from scant fossil evidence requires enormous amounts of science, art, and imagination. Tonight BBC Four will air How to Build a Dinosaur, a documentary that features the work of many of the scientists, artists, and mount makers who created the displays in the Dinosaur Hall. If you are in the UK, check it out!  Most of us in the US won’t be able to watch, but the BBC website features a clip about fabricating the baby T. rex,  shown above.

Photo Credit: Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging

The Dinosaur Hall at The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County opened this weekend, and fans of fossils are enthusiastic about the exhibit’s fresh approach to displaying and understanding these magnificent creatures. Our favorite reviews so far include the pithy prose of LA Observed, the fantastic photos in LA Curbed, and the insightful article in our hometown paper, The New York Times. Congratulations to the team for the years of creative collaboration. Visit our Work page for pictures — more coming soon.