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National Portrait Gallery Ongoing updates to the NPG website |
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Project Overview
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) website is updated monthly and kept up to date with online previews of past, current and future exhibitions. Working to tight deadlines and content restrictions, the NPG requires a development partner who is able to react quickly and dependably to their changing needs.
Consulting Approach
A key component of the work with the NPG is understanding and interpreting the artworks and exhibitions that are published on the website. Whether it is capturing the feel of an entire exhibition or developing an interactive interpretation of a particular portrait, a complete appreciation of the subject, artist and medium must exist in order to portray the content in an online environment. Link collaborates closely with the management and curatorial staff at the NPG to ensure that the presentation of all online content represents the artistic nature of the work and is consistent with the style with which the Gallery presents itself to its worldwide audience.
Development Solution
In addition to the creative approach taken on each project, Link must determine a technical solution that presents the artwork appropriately and provides users with a rich and accessible experience. For portrait features, we use technology such as Macromedia Flash to bring the portrait to life and demonstrate aspects of the artifact from various perspectives. Exhibition subsites are generally developed in HTML and are heavily influenced by the theme of the exhibition itself, while both video and audio solutions have also been adopted on a number of these projects.
Successful Outcome
Link has produced more than 30 exhibition subsites and 15 portrait features for the Gallery since 2002. We have also developed and managed updates to as well as maintaining the touch screen installation in the Gallery space. Link have also developed several DVDs capturing artist interviews and visitor’s perceptions which have formed part of the exhibition to which they relate. Link have received Museums Australia Publication Design awards three times for its work with the National Portrait Gallery. The first was a Highly Recommended award given to Steven De Costa in 2003 for his work on the Barry Humphries exhibition Rarely Everage. In 2005, Michael Caruana received the Best Website Design for his work on the Masters of Fare exhibition and in 2006 he again received the same award for his work on the Glossy 2 subsite
