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• 26|10|11 National Galleries of Scotland

  • A completely new look and information architecture for the website of National Galleries of Scotland has been revealed today, to coincide with the re-opening of the refurbished Scottish Portrait Gallery. The site reflects the new brand of National Galleries, together with a new focus on the individual sites of the National Gallery, The Modern Art Galleries and the Portrait Gallery. The content from the previous site, already stored in Qi (our Content Management System) has been re-purposed, resulting in a totally new interface, which required very little work by the museum staff. John Leighton, NGS's Director general, commented: "Looks really good and very fresh – visually appealing and I am looking forward to exploring more."

  • Visit the new nationalgalleries.org
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• 19|10|11 Horniman Museum

  • The new Horniman Museum website is now live! In designing this site we wanted something that was as varied and colourful as the Museum itself: the result is a joy to watch, comprehensive and easy to use. The new site is powered by Qi (our Content and Collection Management System) and Apache SOLR to offer a very sophisticated access to the collections online.

  • Visit the Horniman Museum
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• 12|10|11 British Council Visual Arts

  • The new British Council Visual Arts website is now online. The new site represents a major upgrade of the previous collection website, now featuring (in addition to the collection) the entire range of visual art projects and activities created by the British Council, all over the world. As part of the project, the database and assett management of the British Council art collection has been migrated to Qi, our Content and Collection Management System: the British Council now uses Qi to manage both their collections as well as their website.

  • Visit the British Council Visual Arts
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• 23|06|11 Your Paintings Tagger

  • Keepthinking are releasing today Your Paintings Tagger (part of the BBC Your Paintings). Tagger is a revolutionary, state-of-the-art crowd-sourcing interface that allows people to tag and classify paintings, helping to create a multi-faceted access to the extraordinary Your Paintings resource. Different audiences, from school children to scholars and people who are simply passionate about art, are having fun spotting and tagging details of paintings, thus helping others find art that is relevant to them, on any platform from computers to tablets and mobile phones. For the project, Keepthinking have created a new, entirely web-based Collection Management Software (Qi, which is generally available to license and already in use by the British Council) that is allowing the PCF to control the entire collection and that populates the BBC website. We have also designed and developed the Tagger concept and interface, which is integrated with Wikipedia, ULAN (Getty) and The Oxford Dictionary. Anyone interested in licensing the technology for tagging collections based on established authorities please get in touch!

  • Visit Your Paintings Tagger
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• 23|05|11 The Public Catalogue Foundation

  • What a year for Keepthinking and the Public Catalogue Foundation! We re-started working together in May last year and completed a new Collection Management System (Qi, news here soon); an API to publish paintings to the BBC; three versions of Tag Your Paintings (news to follow here, on the 23rd June)...and finally a new website, with integrated e-commerce and newsletter. The Public Catalogue Foundation are carrying out an amazing series of projects and initiatives: check them out on their new home on the web.

  • Visit the Public Catalogue Foundation
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• 03|02|11 Ruskin School of Drawing

  • Following the Jameel Online Centre for Eastern Art, Keepthinking have created a second node for the Collection Online of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford: the The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin's teaching collection at Oxford. John Ruskin created, collected and catalogued over 1,400 drawings, sketches and paintings, with the precise scope of teaching his students how to draw. He also published multiple editions of four catalogues, each unique in scope and magnitude, each with notes and cross references (available online in full).

  • Visit the The Elements of Drawing
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• 01|11|10 The Horniman Museum & Gardens

  • Following a successful tender, we have today been appointed to re-design the website of the Horniman Museum and Gardens (current website not by Keepthinking). The new site will be ready in the spring of 2011 and will feature their extensive and varied collections, the exhibitions and the countless children activities at the Museum.

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• 22|10|10 2010 / The PCF / The BBC

  • It looks like a bit of name dropping... but we cannot talk (too loudly) about it yet... The Public Catalogue Foundation have partnered with the BBC to offer to the public Your Paintings: the definitive online museum of all oil paintings in public hands in the UK. Keepthinking are working on a number of concurrent projects: we are finishing a Collection Management System for the PCF, based on our CMS; we are about to launch Yourpainting tagger, where people will be asked to help catalogue the artworks; and we are working with the BBC creating an API that will feed their public website. More later.

  • Yourpaintings press launch
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• 20|09|10 The elements of Drawing

  • For the Ashmolean Museum, we have started working on a new version of The Elements of Drawings (current website not by Keepthinking). It is the definitive resource for the John Ruskin's drawing school at Oxford University in the second part of the ninetinth century. Ruskin had made or collected a large number of drawings to teach students to draw, learning from the finest examples in art history. There is a monumental - yet rather labyrinthine - effort to catalogue the drawings, which we are currently trying to decipher... More later.

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• 09|08|10 Exhibitions at the Jameel Centre

  • The Jameel Centre of the Ashmolean Museum has added a new set of features to the website launched back in February this year. Following on the powerful concept of grouping object (content) in many ways, to create new way of discovering the collections (context), we have created the ability of adding exhibitions to the website. Exhibitions may mirror physical displays in the galleries and be linked to the floor plans, or else be entirely virtual - online only. We have also added fully hierarchical geographic thesaurus, in anticipations of more to come early in the new year...

  • See exhibitions at the Ashmolean Museum
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• 12|07|10 The Burlington Magazine

  • Following the successful work on the Burlington Index we have been asked to re-think the website of the entire magazine. We have today launched it in its new form, including feeds from the Index (so the magazine content has to be entered only once), the ability to purchase articles and subscriptions online, an event's diary, a gallery directory... and much more.

  • Explore the Burlington Magazine
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• 07|06|10 The Burlington Index

  • The Burlington Magazine is the world's longest running art magazine: it started in 1903. In 2003 they had their 100-year history scanned on JSTOR and commissioned Keepthinking a bespoke version of our CMS to help them index (add subjects connected to AAT and ULAN from the Getty Foundation). They have then worked on it for five years and finally produced the Burlington Index: a state of the art search facility for the largest repository of articles of art history ever conceived.

  • Search the Index
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• 01|03|10 New at National Galleries of Scotland

  • After four years and countless additions to the National Galleries of Scotland website, it was time for a major review of the NGS website, which was prompted by a significant shift of focus from temporary exhibitions to works in the permanent collection. The NGS have decided to attract more visitors to their incredible collection and to make a better use of interactive and multimedia content. The new and wider website features larger images, new templates, completely redesigned home and work of art pages, a new PLAY section with audio and video and a new and improved what's on calendar. It's a new dawn. And more to follow in the coming months...

  • Visit the National Galleries of Scotland
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• 11|02|10 Yousef Jameel Centre at the Ashmolean Museum

  • After one nearly nine months of thinking, architecting, designing, refining, converting and work at a close contact with a wonderful client team, we are today very proud to have released the new website for the Ashmolean Yousef Jameel Online Centre. This is our most complex and complete museum collection website to date, featuring many different ways to explore and research the beautiful Eastern Art collection of the Ashmolean. You can choose to view objects by browsing or searching, by looking at floor plans or publications, or by exploring themes. An interactive timeline will allow further filtering and refining, while fantastic zoomable images will allow detailed analysis. And this is only step one, watch that space for more to follow...

  • Visit the Online Centre
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• 01|02|10 We have moved

  • After 5 years in Covent Garden, we have now moved to bigger (and a lot nicer) premises in Clerkenwell. We are working on a number of very exciting projects (launch of the new Eastern Art website for the Ashmolean Museum, a new Collection Management System for the Public Catalogue Foundation and the BBC - one which will actually revolutionise the market, to be modest) and more. And trying not to get (too) distracted by the many entertainment opportunities of the new area...

  • See where we are
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• 19|06|09 Wedgwood is the Art Fund Museum of the Year!

  • As providers of everything digital at the Wedgwood Museum (including website, CMS and digital exhibits) we are particularly proud! Lord Puttnam, who chaired the Art Fund Prize panel, said: "This Museum is extraordinary for so many reasons and we were all but unanimous in our decision. The Wedgwood Museum brilliantly highlights the marriage of art, design, manufacturing and commerce; a marriage that resonates more today than at possibly any time in the intervening years. In every respect it fully meets our criteria of what a 21st century museum should aspire to be."

  • Read the Guardian article
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• 04|06|09 British Council Venice Biennale

  • Following the launch of the new British Council Collection website, Keepthinking have designed and developed a new website for the UK participation at the Venice Biennale. The new site is based on the Keepthinking Think! CMS and it features every year, artist, work and event related to the history of the most famous art exhibition in the world.

  • Go to Venice!
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• 01|05|09 Horniman Intranet

  • Keepthinking has completed the design and development (based on the Keepthinking Think! CMS) a new intranet for the Horniman Museum in London. The new Intranet allows the about 140 staff to access internal information, news, events, documents, forms, manuals, etc. A site wide bull board allows everyone at the Museum to post their own little announcements. The Intranet has been received enthusiastically from everyone! As we cannot link to the Intranet, please get in touch for a demo.

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• 04|03|09 Yousef Jameel Centre at the Ashmolean Museum

  • Following a open and competitive tender, Keepthinking has been awarded the project to design and develop the website and Online Collection of the The Yousef Jameel Online Centre for the Study of Islamic and Eastern Art, at the Department of Eastern Art of the Ashmolean Museum - part of University of Oxford. Work is already under way for releasing the new website, based on the Keepthinking Think! CMS, integrated with Museum+ and to include access to over 12,000 objects, in October 2009. Stay tuned for more...

  • Visit the interim site (by Keepthinking)
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• 02|03|09 The British Council Collection

  • The British Council has offices in 110 countries and for 75 years has been building strong cultural relations with other countries, exchanging knowledge and ideas and providing educational opportunities. This is the well known part. What is less known is that the British Council has large and important collection of contemporary art, which doesn't have a permanent home and is not displayed in a single building: a Museum without walls. The works are constantly displayed through exhibitions, all over the world. Keepthinking has designed and developed a new website for this important Collection, highlighting the links between the Collection and the Exhibitions and making both of them more visible to the general public.

  • Visit the collection
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• 20|11|08 Award winning!

  • It didn't actually come as a golden statuette, but The National Galleries of Scotland website has won an award as the "Best Website of 2008" at the Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions. This is great news, as we have been working on the site for over three years, starting from an initial brief into what now is one of the most comprehensive museum websites around.

  • Visit the National Galleries of Scotland
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• 24|10|08 The Wedgwood Museum opens

  • The history of Wedgwood spans 250 years, during which the company started by Josiah Wedgwood pioneered every aspect of creating with ceramic. That history is now visible in one of the most beautiful museums and displays we have had the chance to visit. Following a year-long effort, in collaboration with the brilliant team at AllofUs and the great branding from punkt, Keepthinking have now completed a complete set of digital assets for the Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent. The project includes a website, over 20 on-site and online interactive and educational activities as well as films. All beautifully kept together by our CMS. It is worth a visit, and not only online!

  • Visit the Wedgwood Museum website
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• 15|08|08 Jameel Centre and The Ashmolean Museum

  • We got in touch with the Ashmolean Museum at the end of July and we starting discussions on how to best integrate websites and collections online. The discussion led to a meeting and then a small project, a taster website for the The Yousef Jameel Online Centre for the Study of Islamic and Eastern Art. The Online Centre is progressing a large scale photographic campaign to capture images of some 8,000 objects. The objects, and the images, are simply stunning. The site is totally focussed on the beautiful images, it is fully controlled by our CMS and it was designed, developed and released in just two weeks!

  • Visit the Yousef Jameel Online Centre
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• 01|06|08 Stories from the Archive at the National Maritime Museum

  • The project "Stories from the archive" is now live on the National Maritime Museum website. The Stories are a way to increase the visibility of their huge archive material. From the website: "As well as being an unrivalled research resource, the archive collections hold many hidden narratives which unfold through the objects themselves. These web pages are designed to tell some of these stories."

  • Visit NMM Stories from the Archive
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• 26|02|08 Artists Rooms at National Galleries of Scotland

  • Anthony d'Offay started collecting contemporary art in the late sixties. His gallery, opened in London in 1980, has quickly become one of the most important art establishments in the UK, representing artists such as Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Gerhard Richter, Gilbert and George and Richard Long. In 2008 he donatedover 700 works to Tate and National Galleries of Scotland, in "one of the largest and most imaginative gifts of art ever made to museums in Britain". Welcome to the Artist Rooms.

  • Visit the Artists Rooms at the National Galleries of Scotland
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• 10|12|07 Wedgwood Museum

  • Keepthinking, AllofUs and punkt have been awarded the design and development of everything digital at the new Wedgwood Museum, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The project includes re-branding, interactive e-screens around the exhibition, games and educational activities, as well as the new website and online collections. Every aspect of content will be managed by Wedgwood Museum using the Keepthinking CMS. To be launched in stages between July and September 2008.

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• 22|11|07 Charlie Chaplin Archive

  • The Charlie Chaplin Archive, at the Cineteca di Bologna (Italy) is a fantastic resource about everything Charlie Chaplin. Thousands and thousands or documents, letters, original scripts, photographs, film posters from the personal archive of one of the greatest and most prolific directors of the twentieth century. Keepthinking has help making all of this material more accessible to everyone: we designed and developed a new search engine to facilitate discovering the hidden treasures (fully available in English and Italian).

  • Visit charliechaplinarchive.org
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• 09|09|07 Catalogue for Philanthropy

  • Work has started on an exciting project, developing a new website and fund-raising software for the Catalogue for Philanthropy of Boston, Massachusetts (USA). As you'll see in a few months, they are literally re-shaping the charity sector in New England, reviewing and promoting philanthropy, charities and charitable giving across the State, raising awareness of what need to be done in order to help other people.

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• 15|08|07 Dilettante Music

  • Now, here is a revolutionary idea: classical music is alive, making headlines, sells and generates a lot of buzz. The world does not necessarily spins around Madonna or the U2, there are lots of people who are truly enthusiastic about listening to and performing a different kind of music. The term classical is somehow out of date, as a lot of new non-pop music is being composed today. Enter Dilettante Music, a community for everyone who loves, listens to, plays and writes Music, with the added benefit of the huge AMG music backend, fully integrated.

  • Visit dilettantemusic.com
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• 27|06|07 National Maritime Museum

  • We won a project for the National Maritime Museum, to image a way to increase the visibility of their huge archive material. The Museum wants to tell 'Stories' from the archive, thus creating a series of plots, which are based on the documents in the archive (letters, photographs, maps, diaries - all very exciting reads, yet very difficult to find for non-specialists). The project "Stories from the archive" will initially uncover the journey to Antarctica of Victor George Hayward. (The site will launch in June 2008).

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• 01|05|07 The near future

  • We are currently working on a number of projects, among which:
    

    • Iperbole, the information portal of the City of Bologna
    • A comprehensive search of all archived material relating to Charlie Chaplin
    • A user friendly site to walk normal people through the new urban plan in Bologna
    • An English version of the Cultural Portal of Bologna
    • And more, which we cannot say yet ...
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• 03|04|07 The National Galleries of Scotland

  • Culminating a two-year collaboration with The National Galleries of Scotland, we have completed a completely new site for the world class institution. The site features over three thousand objects managed using our Content Management System, ranging form collections to online shop, educational activities... and a lot more. It will take some time to explore it all! Art direction by punkt.
  • Visit nationalgalleries.org
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• 01|03|07 Contemporary art in Milan

  • Hangar Bicocca is a space for contemporary art in Milan, Italy. Their website was to be as cutting edge as the art in their exhibitions and research projects. With the help of the fantastic people at UsTwo studios, we have conceived a fully functional 3D space/timeline representing the large, dark space of the former factory building, which allows seamless navigation. Fully integrated Flash, Ajax, Web 2.0, combining elegance and usability.
  • Visit hangarbicocca.it
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• 10|02|07 Welcome InHolborn

  • We started working with The Holborn Partnership at the end of 2006, to create a highly dynamic website promoting the activities and business in Holborn, central London. We decided, together with the client, to centre the whole navigation around a map of the area, which visitors can use to explore every single aspect of the busy district. You might find you don't know London that well, after all! 
  • Visit inholborn.org
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• 30|06|06 Universal Leonardo

  • Keepthinking and UsTwo have completed Universal Leonardo, the most comprehensive online resource about Leonardo da Vinci. It features an interactive timeline, scientific analysis, narrative trails and lots of online games and activities. Nominated for Webby Award and Design Week. To be published in the 2007 D&AD book. Used by more than fifteen thousand people every month.
  • Visit universalleonardo.org
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• 03|04|06 Everything Bologna

  • It's online from today the portal that reports everything (or nearly everything) ralating to culture, which happens in Bologna. The new site, driven by our CMS, includes events, places of interests, online collections of the nine municipal museums, online trails through object belonging to each museum, educational activities of hundreds of cultural institutions. All of this kept together by a simple, beautiful and accessible interface. It is the first step in building up the new Iperbole, the city wide council website.
  • Visit Iperbole Cultura
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• 09|02|06 Working together

  • Keepthinking have designed the information architecture, graphics and accessible templates of the new Intranet of the Bologna city council, which will be used by some 3,500 people to share information about their working environment. We have created a new metaphor based on the concept of IO (me, employer) and NOI (us, working together).
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• 09|05|05 Burlington Magazine 100-year index

  • Burlington Magazine aimed to celebrate their 100th year with the publication of a comprehensive online index of all of their articles. We have customised our CMS in order to help with the demanding task of managing vocabularies and adding subjects to each and every one of the over 200,000 records. Work is currently under way.

• 09|05|05 The public Catalogue Foundation

  • Ambition is one thing. But aiming to capture, catalogue and publish every single oil painting in public hands in the whole of the United Kingdom is ambition on a different scale. We are particularly proud of this site, which is elegant and simple to use. It features an integrated content management and e-commerce... without needing a user manual (which is there, just in case). Art direction by punkt.

  • Visit thepcf.org.uk
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• 02|09|04 Norkin

  • The most beautiful images by the best photographers, enhanced by Scott Norkin to make them absolutely perfect. A perfect combination of Art and Science, like the circular, ever changing logo designed by punkt. Simplicity is the key. Like the code that analyses every image to determine the colours of the circles.
  • Visit norkin.net
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• 09|05|04 Fynn's

  • Play with the forms, explore the mind of a product designer based in California. Meet Shaun Fynn (designed by punkt).
  • Visit shaunfynn.com
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• 03|05|04 Mental Picture

  • Imagine a photographer working mainly in West Africa. Picture the people and the places he sees through his lenses. Think of his mind finding similarities and making connections between different stories, coincidental facts, countless images and diverse people. Pciture all of this in your own mind. It's a connected world. Art direction by punkt.
  • Visit mentalpicture.org
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• 09|02|04 Smart Stamp

  • Online demo and promotional intro for Smart Stamp, the the online postage service that lets you print the postage you need 24/7.
  • Visit Smart Stamp

Clients

• Adstream,
• Ashmolean Museum,
• Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,
• Cineteca di Bologna,
• Comune di Bologna,
• Hangar Bicocca,
• Harris Lindsay,
• Mental Picture,
• National Galleries of Scotland,
• Norkin,
• Swami,
• The Ashmolean Museum,
• The British Council,
• The British Museum,
• The Burlington Magazine,
• The Public Catalogue Foundation,
• The Victoria & Albert Museum,
• Universal Leonardo,
• University College London,
• you?

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