MiniGEEK is off to Singapore

We are packing up our boxes and some of our favourite highlights from GEEK and taking them off to Singapore to be part of the Singapore Science Festival. Originally booked for August the festival has been rescheduled for November because of the air pollution affecting the region. Mini GEEK highlights will include Punch the Custard, the Video Game Carnival including the wonderful Fruitcade and Replay Event's Classroom of the 80s. As well as a pile of GEEK boxes the team of six are heading off with a supply of Raspberry Pis, Arduino and Makey Makey kits so visitors to the festival can Meet, Make and Play. For more about GEEK visit www.geek2013.co.uk - more news about 2014 coming soon.

HKD

Building on our successful appointment as designers of the Hong Kong Space Museum the team is in Singapore for start-up meetings for a new gallery about Alfred Russel Wallace for the Singapore Science Centre.

“There is a picture of Alfred Russel Wallace on the cover of the anthology of his works that I have lugged halfway around the world. It was taken in Singapore in 1862 and shows a man with full beard, hat, black frock coat, waistcoat and high collar. Stepping out into 32 degree heat with thunder clouds building overhead I am not thinking about the Theory of Evolution (that he proposed at the same time as Darwin), I can only wonder whether he took his coat off to collect beetles in the jungle? Someone will know, and I am off to meet them later today.”- Richard Houghton, Creative Director HKD