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Oil and tourism are the world’s biggest business sectors – and this project brings them together. Canada’s first new science centre is in Alberta, a pioneer in the use of oil (or tar) sands – also knows as unconventional oil.

Enigma were asked to join a team of designers, electronics & audiovisual specialists, interactive programmers and product engineers working on the Energy & Innovation gallery.

The task: to deeply engage and enthuse visitors for up to 30 minutes for each exhibit. We used an evolutionary approach to brainstorm, sketch, design, prototype, pilot and refine ideas before final build.

As well as fast feedback from visitors at the old science centre there were workshops, blogs, and outreach with local groups, schools and universities.

These iterations create exciting, hands on and extremely engaging exhibits – from a solar powered sound panel and personalised oil pipeline grids, to a hand-pumped energy shooting gallery and a portable energy lab.

From everyone at Enigma Creative Solutions, we’d like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and fantastic New Year. We’ve been getting into the festive spirit after a magnificent 2011 which has taken us from the tundra of Murmansk in Russia to the tropical heat of Jakarta, Indonesia.

Along the way we’ve encountered some interesting sights – Dominic’s meal of pickled Reindeer tongue at Sevtek, Julian’s epic cross country ride from Fort Worth to San Antonio on a Harley Davidson and Lee surviving an almighty thunderstorm at Gamescom its been truly memorable!

We’re looking forward to January kicking off an exciting 2012 program that will see Enigma journey further than ever before, visiting and exhibiting across 5 of the 7 continents (well, the Arctic can be a little cold at any time of year!).

So after a hectic year we close the office for a hard earned break and re-opens on Tuesday 3rd January. Have a golden festive period and we’ll hope to meet you on our travels during 2012.

Best wishes, the Enigma team.

Petsem was hosted in Bath an historic UK city granted World Heritage Site status due to it’s highly renowned history - including the famous Roman spa water baths sites, stunning Georgian architecture and local railway station designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. 

Over 150 guests attended the three day event, with some of the most important industry figures in the energy industry converging across four different hotels in the historic city.

With the energy industry at the forefront of ground-breaking technology, Bath seemed an appropriate location to discuss innovative industry developments that may indeed make history. 

The Dubai Airshow recently took place in the UAE. Enigma were helping Moog exhibit at the show, one of the most important and fastest growing areas in the Aerospace industry.

Marking 40 years since the signing of the UAE constitution the airshow participated in the build up to this historic celebration. 960 exhibitors from 50 countries welcomed over 56,000 visitors – in total $63billion of business was signed at the event.

Locally built, the booth followed our distinctive design of Moog’s European shows. Their debut at Dubai, with their own booth for the first time, was another reason to celebrate.      

We recently returned from the World Shale Gas Exhibition & Conference in Houston Texas which attracted a wide range of important industry personnel from across the globe.

This is an increasingly important area - technological advances have discovered large volumes of untapped potential within shale, fine grained sedimentary rocks that can contain rich sources of natural gas and petroleum.

Part of a global exhibition program, the Statoil stand attracted a great deal of attention and Enigma’s design won the “Best in Show” award.

The recent Cartes exhibition in Paris is the Digital Security and Smart Techologies leading industry event. With more than 20,000 global visitors and 450 exhibitors visiting Paris it’s one of the most important shows for many companies in their event calendar.

This show is part of our European exhibition program for NXP. With the booth moving to a hugely prominent position and increasing greatly in size, this extra capacity led to more demos of exciting technologies with bigger areas for meetings and hospitality. Why not view the video?

Demos of the latest technology are crucial to the success of the booth and NXP were rewarded for consistently pushing innovation by winning two Sesame awards for “Best Software” and “Best Mobility Application”. NXP were the only company to win two awards at this year’s show.

The SESAME’s are highly respected within the industry, since 1995 they have rewarded digital and smart technology innovation. With Cartes North America being held for the first time ever in 2012, Las Vegas will set the stakes high for another round of SESAME winners (and losers).