Harry White's 52 Exhibit Design Aphorisms

Over at his ExhibiTricks blog, Paul Orselli interviews Harry White (at right, in a fetching chapeau), the longtime director of exhibits at (and now a consultant to) the TechniQuest Science Center in Cardiff, Wales. Among our favorite parts of the Q&A comes when White discusses his famed exhibit aphorisms cards, a deck of 52 exhibit design-related quotations, jokes, and provocations that he created as a teaching tool. We prefer those that White describes as “shorter and reflect[ive of] bitter experience,” such as: “Sufficient ruggedisation of loose parts turns them into weapons” and “For every hole or gap, there is a corresponding human limb or appendage to get wedged in it.”