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About Corvidae | Corvidae Ltd

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Team - Production Director. Team - Creative Director. Corvidae was founded in 2003 to bring the exhibition and web expertise of Simon Basketter and Richard Crowest to the museum and heritage sector. Between them, Simon and Richard have more than three decades of experience in interpretation, theatre, broadcasting, publishing, interactive media and corporate communications. They are ideally placed to offer the combination of skills museums need at a price they can afford. In 1998, he decided that his skil...

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Corvidae | exhibitions & interpretation

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There are two key elements to any exhibition - design and content. Simon Basketter and Richard Crowest have always believed that the best results come from developing these two parts of the project together, as one complete whole.That's why they've combined their extensive experience and skills to form Corvidae. Below are some case studies of projects designed and/or written by Corvidae. Interpretation is image-led and text-light, ensuring visitors don’t feel overwhelmed by rivers of English and Welsh co...

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Corvidae | voice-over showreel

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Richard is a voice artist with over 20 years’ experience in television, radio, corporate work and the heritage industry. Richard was a continuity announcer for ITV Anglia for 8 years. He’s voiced literally hundreds of radio commercials, mainly for the JMS Group. In the heritage world, he can be heard in the British Library, Our Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, and at dozens of National Trust properties, notably Bateman’s, where he’s the voice of Rudyard Kipling. You can listen to his voice reel below.

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Philip Webb exhibition, Red House | Corvidae Ltd

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Philip Webb exhibition, Red House. To mark the centenary of the death of the arts-and-crafts architect Philip Webb, we were asked by the National Trust to design and install an exhibition in his first independent commission, the house he designed for his lifelong friend and colleague William Morris. The italic version of the typeface was kindly provided by Torbjörn Olsson. Find out more about Red House.

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News | Corvidae Ltd

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Corvidae offers self-contained web-based interpretation in partnership with Info-Point. Corvidae is delighted to be working with Info-Point. To offer digital interpretation to smartphones and other mobile devices – wherever it’s needed! Info-Point allows us to use all our digital interpretation expertise to deliver fantastic, accessible content to visitor’s own phones, cutting out the need for you to buy and maintain expensive, theft-prone handsets. Contact us. To find out more! 21 of our virtual tours a...

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Why Accessibility Matters | Corvidae Ltd

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Accessibility is now one of the key issues facing organisations when they plan their web presence. Although section 21 of the. Disability Discrimination Act makes accessibility a mandatory requirement, no court cases have yet been brought as a result. One of the problems is that there are no hard and fast standards - only guidelines. Nonetheless, many large companies and organisations are recognising the obligations the law places on them to make their services accessible to all. Can get the most out of ...

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accessibility statement | Corvidae Ltd

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Additional Navigation and Information. Many pages on this site, like this one, are divided into sections. Our accessible interactive technique enables browsers with JavaScript to show and hide these sections, reducing the need for sighted users to scroll. The whole content is downloaded in one go, and the interactive features can be turned on and off as you wish. Browsers without JavaScript automatically display all the text. Additional navigation and information. For keyboard users, there are hidden lin...

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Virtual Tours | Corvidae Ltd

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Nothing on the web can convey a sense of place as completely as an interactive panorama. Often described as 'immersive imaging', this technology gives a very real sensation of looking around a room or an outdoor location. By linking panoramas into a virtual tour, sites with physical access problems can give a taste of being there to people with limited mobility, or even, via the web, to people on the other side of the world. Most virtual tours require the free QuickTime. On the National Trust web site.

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The Magazzini Realised #buildyourownportus – The Interpretation Game

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Cultural Heritage and the Digital Economy. The Magazzini Realised #buildyourownportus. June 20, 2015. June 21, 2015. Yesterday, I got the Lego bricks I’d ordered last week. So I set about building, to see if I’d got my LDD ( Lego Digital Designer. This slideshow requires JavaScript. In the building of it, I discovered weaknesses in the construction – for example, the solid wall can be pushed down off the model too easily when fixing the upper story onto the ground floor. But of course, the adva...So I&#8...

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Narratives in social science – The Interpretation Game

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Cultural Heritage and the Digital Economy. Narratives in social science. July 2, 2015. I ought to watch out for the literature rabbit holes I can fall down. After my last foray into narratives and sociology. I got sucked into another work that was only tangentially about what I’m studying. This one though did at least have a few quotable quotes I might want to use later. Kicks off his Narrative Networks; Storied Approaches in a Digital Age. By asking (on page 2) What is narrative? In his debate on whethe...