May the mid-autumn festival bring good fortune and a harvest of smiles to you and your family. NorthernLight wishes you a happy moon festival! 愿中秋带来吉祥和笑容的丰收！ NorthernLight祝您节日快乐，阖家团圆！
Life In The Rail Yard Explore and bring to life the rail yard of the famous Dutch Railway Museum. Whilst walking around the yard visitors will find seven hotspots where they can activate an augmented reality animation. These animations demonstrate how the old trains, buildings and equipment of the rail yard were once used. Earn […]
NorthernLight has been nominated for the designs for the Industrial Cradle zone in the Liao Ning Science and Technology museum, China. The successful design awards will be handed out during the ceremony on the 3rd of September in Beijing. Fingers crossed!! The Industrial Cradle zone covers 2200 square meter and is designed as an interactive […]
It’s been a couple of years since my last travel to Africa. Being invited to Juba by the South Sudanese government and the UN was an excellent opportunity to refresh memories… Heavy rain, mosquitos, Nescafé and plastic chairs under a thatched leaking roof, welcome back! The check out of the hotel offered a prelude to […]
The Eneco WindLab is an inspiring learning environment located near a windfarm. It’s developed to provide an overview of the possibilities of renewable energy, for now and for the future. The windlab is sponsored by Eneco, Dutch largest renewable energy company, and serves both schools and employees. NorthernLight was responsible for planning and development of the […]
NorthernLight won the worldwide competition to design one of the large permanent exhibitions for the impressive new Liao Ning science and technology museum in Northern China. NorthernLight develops and designs the interactive exhibition about Industry and Robotics, that will consist of almost 100 interactive exhibits and displays. The museum will open in the fall of […]
NorthernLight designed the new “Smart Technology” exhibition in Amsterdam science centre NEMO. The exhibition shows the latest applications and future innovations of light. Themes are healthcare, design, art and fashion. In the fashion area four light dresses are exposed; a dress worn by Lady Gaga, a dress worn by Fergie (Black Eyed Peas) and an […]
International Workshop of IDEA Design NorthernLight is proud to be a partner of the first edition of the International Workshop of IDEA Design Lab (1-8 September 2012). Next week our General Manager Asia Pacific, Jeroen Jonkers, will talk about interactive design and storytelling. Hotel bedroom of the future This workshop is focused on a hotel […]
Together with Studio Dumbar, NorthernLight made the concept design for a unique ‘high-rise’ visitor experience in Shanghai: life changing, entertaining and iconic. A building can become a symbol if its symbolism reaches beyond itself. Our design makes this tower an icon for a sustainable future, an inspiration for today, a representation of our dreams and […]
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In the new Madurodam miniature city in The Hague, visitors can discover what makes the Netherlands special.
The official launch of The Schiphol Behind the Scenes bus tour took place on April 11 2012.
Filmmuseum Eye was officially opened by Queen Beatrix on April 4 2012. NorthernLight is proud to have designed the collection browsing Pods, the Educational Space and the exhibit furniture for the Panorama Room In the Panorama room visitors are surrounded from all sides by film clips and use seven control touch screens to thematically navigate through the […]
NorthernLight commandments featured in Dimension Magazine NorthernLight content manager Esther Hamstra has written an article in the latest issue of Dimensions magazine, the magazine for the worldwide science center community. Please check out her inspiring insights in the do’s and don’t of designing interactive exhibitions. Article PDF(500kb, English): Seven commandments of an Experience Design Company
Since last week passengers at Schiphol airport can visit an annex of Amsterdam’s famous NEMO Science Center. At the airport visitors can find six interactive exhibits that will enthuse both young and old passengers for science and technology. It contains interactive exhibits about topics such as genetics, physics and mechanics. Famous Dutch scientist Robbert […]
Dear Friends 亲爱的朋友们 The new year of the dragon is upon us and it promises to be a year that will be remembered. 龙年到来了，这是重要的一年,也是会被我们记住的一年。 The year of the Rabbit was fruitful and inspiring. Together we have completed many projects around the globe, we have spoken about amazing plans, philosophized on grand ambitions and […]
NorthernLight developed and designed the permanent exhibitions Hong Kong’s newest cultural visitor attraction, the Heritage Discovery Centre. Located in the famous Kowloon Park, the Heritage Discovery Centre offers a personal, emotional and interactive way to discover the heritage of the greater Hong Kong region. Heritage Discovery centre The Antiquities and Monuments Office (AMO) is responsible for […]
For Dutch Museum Museon, NorthernLight designed an interactive exhibition about Satellites. This innovative exhibition contains many interactive exhibits about rockets, satellites and space technology. The spectacular centre piece is a metal tube white dome.
Challenged to come up with a concept and business case Create a digital experience for Schiphol and Gazelle; that’s the assignment students of the Master of Media Innovation of NHTV University of Applied Sciences in Breda have been working on since September this year under supervision of NorthernLight. For Schiphol the students have been focussing […]
In December of 2006, the Media Experience at the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision had its grand opening. Five years later, it has received over 1 million visitors, well beyond the expected visitor numbers. The collection has grown to over 750.000 hours of sound and vision, and the YouTube channel has had 5 million views. […]
Beijing Design Week This year China hosted the first Beijing Design Week as a part of their efforts to recognise the creative industry and develop the design industry in China. The Dutch Design Generator featured at the event. This was our chance as a creative industry to show our talents and expertise. Dutch design Generator […]
DSM headquarters wins China’s most successful design Award 2011 We are proud to let you all know that the design we created, together with partner company Mattmo, for the brand experience at the DSM headquarters in Shanghai has won China’s Most Successful Design Award 2011. Twofold design strategy The brief was to reinvent the public space […]
Little workmen on the rail yard On Friday 14th of October the exhibition on the rail yard of the Dutch Railway Museum was opened. The exhibition offers a look behind the scenes of the rail yard during the steam area. What happens before a train can leave the station and where does the train go at […]
Exhibition Backstage in the medieval Abbey of Middelburg The educational exhibition Backstage is a traveling exhibition currently making its way through the Netherlands. Early September, the exhibition visitited the Nazomerfestival in the city of Middelburg, in the providence of Zeeland. Backstage stood at a prime location at the festival; the medieval Abbey of Middelburg. Students from […]
New interactive exhibition ON EXPEDITION. From September 16 on, the museum garden of Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden has as if by magic turned into one big exploring-expedition ground. Large expedition cases are placed in the garden. As if a ship has just returned from a distant and foreign country and has left her cargo behind […]
An Egyptian Adventure Our latest initiative, the digital publisher Follow a Muse, just successfully uploaded their first interactive adventure to the iTunes Store. After lots of positive feedback at the Beijing International Book Fair we hope this will be a great success. From October Amon & Amara will be for sale in the iTunes Store. […]
Peter Slavenburg of NorthernLight will give two talks in the coming month: BNO Talks # 9 on September 22 He will present a beautiful new iPad app at BNO Talks # 9 on September 22. https://www.bno.nl/ontwerpers/agenda/6168/6792 www.followamuse.com PICNIC festival on September 15 And he will talk about creating engaging experiences at the PICNIC festival on September 15. […]
Send a text message Roman style, build a Roman city, row in a Roman boat or go on a warpath as a soldier: everything is possible in the spectacular exhibition, High Tech Romans. Visit High Tech Romans and experience fascinating Roman technologies at first hand. See how inventive they were and be inspired. This stylish […]
Brand new theme hall in the Museon Museon recently opened a new theme room on sound, entitled There is more sound than you can hear. In this permanent exhibition, visitors can perform a number of interesting experiments with sound and enjoy some weird sound effects. For instance, the visitor can draw geometrical patterns with the help […]