Parks Canada Design Guidelines for Media Accessibility?
In many publications about museum accessibility or universal design, I see references to “Design Guidelines for Media Accessibility” from Parks Canada. Some …
Color-Coded Labels for Different Audiences?
I recently saw the following in the prospectus for a traveling exhibition: Because the exhibition is addressed to two very different audiences, …
Harder to Read, Easier to Remember?
How does your choice of font affect the way your message is received? First, it may affect whether your message is received. …
Thinking Visually: Creating Integrated Label Graphics
The best session I attended at AAM this year was “Thinking Visually: Creating Integrated Label Graphics,” presented by Emily O’Hara, Senior Exhibit Content …
Exhibit Style Guides: They’re More Than You Think! — Handouts
We had such a great turnout for our session, we didn’t have enough copies of some of our handouts. Here they are: …
Exhibit Style Guides: They’re More Than You Think!
This Sunday at 2 pm, I’ll be co-presenting a session about exhibit style guides at AAM, with Swarupa Anila, Detroit Institute of …
Do your labels suffer from “The Curse of Knowledge”?
In this article on the source of bad writing, Steven Pinker advocates for formative evaluation, without ever using that phrase. http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-cause-of-bad-writing-1411660188
“Writer and reader, side by side, scanning the landscape…”
I don’t think Oliver Burkeman was referring to museum labels when he wrote this column, but he could have been. The whole column …
Resources for Exhibit Writers: “Gallery text at the V & A: A Ten Point Guide”
In the process of (1) preparing a talk about the research behind good label-writing practices and (2) trying to develop an in-house …
The Rhyming Label?
A number of children’s museums have used rhyming labels to good effect. This post from Daniel Pink makes me wonder if we …