Interactives

Take control of a three-tier reservoir system and try to keep the town supplied with power. Built for a visitor centre in Wales, this hands-on exhibit turns water storage and energy management into a practical challenge.

Build a model car, send it down the track and try a different design. Created for Cambridge Science Centre, this interactive lets visitors explore how weight, wheel size and aerodynamics affect a race.

A joystick-controlled digger arm gives visitors a hands-on introduction to engineering. Produced for a JCB education facility, the pneumatic exhibit challenges users to pick up balls and place them in a box.

A theatrical console invites visitors to make choices that help save carbon. Designed and made for Carbon Neutral Cornwall, it combines audiovisual content, lighting, sound and fans in an interactive story.

Two model homes show the difference preparation can make during a flood. Custom built for Cornwall Council, this exhibit uses moving water to explain flood resilience through a direct, side-by-side comparison.

Press the button to make it rain and compare two landscapes. Created for Forest for Cornwall, this interactive explains how changes to land and waterways can alter runoff and contribute to flooding.

Wheel turning, lifting and scene building introduce younger visitors to railway engineering. More Creative designed and produced these educational exhibits with the curators at Talyllyn Railway Museum in Wales.

Turn the traditional-style taps and explore the effect of changing a flame. This museum interactive uses screens and digital inputs to explain Gurney’s limelight through a controlled audiovisual simulation.

Explore the coastline through the distinctive flashes of its lighthouses. Visitors press a button to locate a lighthouse and see a pulse pattern matching the signal used to identify it.

A scale replica brings the Gurney lamp into the Bude heritage story. Made for The Castle in Bude, the model includes the lower police-box section and a working lamp at the top.

Invite visitors to investigate an object by touch before revealing what is inside. These interpretation boxes combine tactile discovery with a sliding top reveal and a short description of the item.

Lift a flap and discover a scent from the rainforest story. This custom-built sensory display brings interchangeable scent pods and interpretation graphics together in a freestanding activity unit.

Match a tree to its leaf pattern using a simple button-based activity. This nature interpretation panel encourages visitors to compare shapes and connect familiar leaves with tree names.

Pick up the handset to hear a recorded message. This audio telephone interactive uses a familiar action to introduce spoken interpretation without requiring visitors to find a separate play button.

A vintage-style record player opens into a box of objects from the past. Commissioned by Plymouth City Museum, this bespoke sensory unit was designed to prompt thoughts, memories and emotion.

A button press sets an automated nut-cracking mechanism in motion. The exhibit demonstrates the power of hydraulics through a familiar task, with the working sequence visible inside a clear display.

Rotate the triangular unit to illuminate an equation and discover where it is used. This bench-top exhibit connects engineering relationships with examples from the real world.

Choose colours on a touchscreen and bring a textured landscape to life. Created for Conkers visitor centre, this interactive links a separate control console with a three-dimensional wall scene.

A puppet-show-inspired cabinet tells a story of Cornish superstition. The Oggy Oggy interactive uses an automated presentation within a purpose-built theatrical display.

Crush it, shake it and see what survives. This corporate demonstration takes a cardboard package containing a chocolate egg through a sequence of stresses to show the value of protective packaging design.

A working product story makes marine fuel filtration easier to understand. Commissioned by Parker Hannifin for the London Boat Show, this display combines filter products with video and coordinated lighting.

Bold graphics and illuminated details create a portable brand display for Sharp’s Brewery. These mains-powered units were made as sales and advertising tools for pop-up events.

Over 1,000 individually formed butterflies created an exhibition centrepiece for Ideal Standard at the NEC in Birmingham. This sculptural installation shows the bespoke fabrication behind a memorable branded environment.