A unique software and digital design agency.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
About Work Museums Sites Approach Clients Contact
About
Keepthinking is a unique software and digital design agency. We offer innovative content and collection management software solutions, as well as design and development of web and mobile applications. We conceive beautiful interfaces, combined with robust technology, guided by strong usability and accessibility principles, to help our customers manage and present their information to all of their audiences. We work with museums, art galleries, libraries, magazines, archives, private collectors, local councils, schools and any other organisation wanting to manage and present information in a simple, beautiful and usable way. Our work has received numerous awards and has been selected for publications worldwide.
Horniman Museum horniman.ac.uk
In designing the website for the Horniman Museum we wanted something that was as varied and as colourful as the Museum itself: the result is a joy to watch, comprehensive and easy to use. The Horniman Museum is complex and multi-faceted, with five main collections, an aquarium and a garden: it is a continuous source of surprises and discoveries. The Museum is incredibly popular with families, schools and children and at the same time constitutes a unique research facility, due to the diversity of its collections. The website reflects both these aspirations: to be fun and easy and to offer a sophisticated search of the collection.
The website has been thoroughly tested on iPads, iPhones, Android and other mobile platforms.
Benjamin Franklin Bronze Clothing I Love It LOL Architecture Celebration Religious Clothes Cute Drama Fluffy Gold Heart Impressive Intricate Defense Musical Odd Ritual Science Shiny I want to own it weird wooden 1978.60
Speachless
Fashion
Tags create engagement and familiarity with the collection. “I want to own it� is among the most popular tags.
Extinct
Prophecy
Alphonse Mucha Website muchafoundation.org
Alfonse Mucha was one of the most versatile artists and illustrators of the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. His personal style, which became known as ‘Art Nouveau’ encompassed anything from painting, to illustration, jewelery, theatre stage design and much more. We have created a website that reflects the diversity of his work and offer insights into his approach to the full spectrum of the visual arts.
The Timeline has been carefully crafted to work seamlessly on both traditional as well as mobile devices. The Gallery allows to look at Mucha’s work from different angles.
National Galleries of Scotland nationalgalleries.org
Keepthinking has designed and developed the entire web presence of National Galleries of Scotland from 2004. In October 2011 a completely new look and information architecture for the website was launched to coincide with the reopening 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. * Recipient of a Best of the Web award at Museums and the Web 2012.
The website has over sixty templates to allow the perfect combination of content and presentation in every situation. The shop offers a single basket for products, tickets, memberships and donations.
The design of the site allows for sub-brands or special features to be accommodated within the main design identity.
British Council Visual Arts visualarts.britishcouncil.org
Keepthinking started working with the British Council in 2006, when we created their first collection website. The website was based on a pre-existing collection management system, which we integrated with our Qi content management system. In 2011 we moved the entire management of the collection to Qi, extended and relaunched the site, which now includes all of the British Council Visual Arts activities. We are currently in the process of adding the library to the list of services managed with Qi and presented on the website.
Infographic for an exhibition based on the collection, held at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 2010.
The home page includes an interactive map with the location of all exhibitions organised by the Council since 1938.
The collection and exhibitions are the main focus.
The Venice Biennale venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org
A website and an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London to document and promote the activity of the British Council for the Venice Biennale. The website offers a comprehensive view and a timeline of the British participation at the Biennale, while the show focussed on the history of the exhibitions in the Birish Pavillion in Venice, through catalogues and object highlights.
We do like timelines: they are often the best approach to reveal and provide context to complex content.
The timeline is colour coded to let visitors distinguish between the art and architecture Biennales.
A small scale timeline on each page of the site offers quick access to every year of the show and makes visible gap periods (e.g. during the two world wars).
75 years of British Council exhibitions Whitechapel Gallery, London.
The second exhibition we designed for the British Council at the Whitechapel Gallery in London focuses on the activity of the Council in the field of visual arts over the last 75 years and especially on the display of controversial work in politically tense situations. Keepthinking designed the layout of the exhibition, its graphic material as well as two maps. They are rather special maps.
A conventional map highlighting levels of activity in different parts of the world.
A circular ‘map’ showing the amount of work that over 75 years has gone into acquiring works, curating exhibitions and displaying them in venues across the globe.
BBC Your Paintings + Tagger bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings tagger.thepcf.org.uk
Your Paintings is a BBC website that displays the entire set of paintings from public collections across the UK. The Public Catalogue Foundation has collected data and images for Your Paintings using our Qi Content Management. The numbers are impressive: over 200,000 paintings, 50,000 artists and 3,000 collections. Alongside Your Paintings, we designed and developed Your Paintings Tagger: a revolutionary web application to let members of the public ‘tag’ paintings, using a bespoke ‘crowd-sourcing’ interface linked to Wikipedia.
Data is served to the BBC using our standard Qi API
Tagger engages audiences into discovering and documenting paintings, which are displayed at random and offer continuous epiphanies. In 12 months since launch, over 3 million tags have been created by more than 6,000 enthusiastic ‘taggers’, who compete fiercely with each other for the title of ‘master tagger’.
The Burlington Magazine index.burlington.org.uk www.burlington.org.uk
Started in 1903, the Burlington Magazine is the world’s longest standing art magazine. In 2003 they started a process of scanning and classifying every article and illustration from their 100-year archive and commissioned Keepthinking to provide a customised version of our Qi CMS to help them in this enormous task. The Burlington team have worked on the archive for over eight years, after which Keepthinking produced the Burlington Index: a complete search facility for the largest repository of articles on art history ever conceived.
The index blurs the notions of simple and advanced search facilities. Users can add as many or as few search fields as they wish
The Charlie Chaplin Archive charliechaplinarchive.org
The Charlie Chaplin Archive is an incredible resource about everything related to Charlie Chaplin. Many thousands of 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 helped making all of this material more accessible to everyone: we designed and developed a search engine to facilitate discovering the hidden treasures (fully available in English and Italian), powered by Qi.
Qi manages the transition and search seamlessly in Italian and English, for the website content as well as for the entire archive material.
The Ashmolean Museum jameelcentre.ashmolean.org
The website for the Ashmolean Yousef Jameel Online Centre is one of Keepthining’s most complex and complete museum collection websites to date. It features multiple routes to explore and research the beautiful Eastern Art collection of the Ashmolean Museum. Visitors may choose to view objects by browsing or by searching, by looking at floor plans or at publications. Categorised themes create a unique way to place collection objects in multiple contexts. An interactive timeline allows further browsing and filtering, while zoomable images enable detailed analysis.
A new photographic campaign produced images of extremely high quality and resolution, which we made available to explore in detail.
Thousands of content objects in potentially infinite contexts. Qi allow the Ashmolean to provide multiple meanings to objects depending on their context (exhibitions in this case).
Wedgwood Museum wedgwoodmuseum.org
In 2008, the Wedgwood Museum was awarded a substantial grant from Heritage Lottery Fund to build a new museum to host their collection dating from the late eighteen century to today. As a new museum, everything was needed, including branding, digital strategy, content and collection management, as well as a website and over thirty in-gallery digital interactives. Keepthinking was awarded the contract and over twelve months realised the entire Digital Wedgwood.
While some of the kiosks and interactives are unique, other use a templated approach. They are all managed using the Qi content management system.
Universal Leonardo universalleonardo.org
Universal Leonardo is the most comprehensive online resource about Leonardo da Vinci. The website features an interactive timeline with work and life events, tools for the scientific analysis of Leonardo’s paintings, narrative trails and many online games and educational activities. In addition, the website offers unprecedented access to all of the paintings by Leonardo Da Vinci and many of his manuscripts and drawings. Is used by more than fifteen thousand people every month. * Nominated for a Webby Award * Published by Design Week as well as in the 2007 D&AD book
Trails offer a way to discover how ideas and themes unfolded in the work and the life of Leonardo.
The site presents ten educational activities and games to bring complex ideas to younger audiences.
A bespoke interface and magnifier reveals what’s beneath the surface of the painting.
keepthinking.it/qi
Qi is a new generation of Content Management System. Qi helps organisations structure, organise and present all of their content to different audiences on any device (including desktops, laptops, tablets and mobiles). Over thirty between museums, collections, libraries, archives, local councils, magazines and commercial organisations have chosen Qi to manage and present their content online and offline.
Having struggled for years with old databases and synchronising updates to our website, now we can manage everything within our Collection and websites from anywhere in the world – and our updates are instant! Qi lets us properly audit, archive and report on our Collection and the whole of our Visual Arts programme globally. Sarah Gillett, Head of Arts Digital and Communications. British Council.
Museums Sites museumssites.com
A completely new way of managing and presenting museum information, integrating collection, archive, library, events, tickets, shop, social media and any other type of content management, within a single software solution, all integrated as a simple and flexible monthly package, powered by our Qi content management framework. Museums Sites offers small to medium museums a complete and affordable solution that includes content and collection management system as well as a professional, beautiful, customisable and accessible website with optimised templates for desktops, tablets and mobiles. Templates can be customised with different colours, logo and images, offering thousands of alternatives. Support, hosting and secure backup of data is also included.
There are over ten templates to create home and landing pages, events and exhibitions, visitor information pages, contact and feedback and more. Visitors can also search and browse the collection by type of object, artist or theme. More templates will be designed and developed regularly.
Features
How it works
Showcase
News
Support
Get started now!
A complete solution for museum information management, web publishing and audience engagement What is it?
Collection Management
Website Management
Everything else
Manage your collections, keep track of your objects, make sure they are securely stored, properly maintained, safely insured and readily accessible.
Manage, design and publish your entire collection, as well as your exhibitions, events, guided tours, educational material and visitors information.
Add a shop, tickets, donations, newsletter, interactive timelines and maps, interpretation, virtual tours, interactive floorplans, mobile apps... and much more!
1887 cm
$
1703
mm
ÂŁ
$
¼ ¢
Managing any object
Collections online
Tickets, donations, products
Museums Sites is based on Qi, a content and collections management system for all museums, from small to large. Qi is designed to manage all types of object in any collection.
Show your objects online, directly from your integrated collection management system. Add multiple narratives and interpretation and create guided tours and themes.
Create a single shopping basket for all your commercial activities, to facilitate customer transactions. Orders are processed and split by department.
Approach keepthinking.it/about
Every project starts with a meeting of ideas: we listen to your brief, look at your content and analyse your target audiences. Together with you we devise the best strategy for getting your message to your visitors and create a successful user engagement strategy, along with everything that follows.
Clients
We work with museums, art galleries, libraries, magazines, archives, private collectors, local councils and schools, as well as any other organisation wanting to manage and present information in a simple, beautiful and usable way. Our work has received numerous awards and has been selected for publications worldwide. Awards have included: - A webby award for Universal Leonardo - A BIMA award for Your Paintings - A Best of the Web Award for National Galleries of Scotland - D&AD book status for Universal Leonardo
Contact keepthinking.it/contact
Keepthinking 43 Clerkenwell Road London EC1 5RS UK tel. email. web twitter
+44 20 74905337 info@keepthinking.it keepthinking.it twitter.com/#!/keepthinking_uk
Thank you.
Release 1.0 Š Keepthinking 2012