Ted Nordlander
Biography
Ted Nordlander is a New York-based exhibit designer/developer with a focus on hands-on interactive design. For 10 years Ted was part of the team at Argyle Design in Brooklyn, helping to create numerous exhibits and immersive experiences for children's museums and learning centers throughout the United States and abroad.
In addition to content development and exhibit design, Nordlander has extensive experience in model-making, prototyping, game design, and fabrication processes, as well as sound design. Prior to Argyle, he worked as a fabricator and assistant for a number of artists and design/build firms over the years. Nordlander’s portfolio includes work for the Doseum in San Antonio, TX, Children’s Museum of Houston, WunderHub in Saskatoon, Canada., COSI in Columbus, OH, the Nido & Mariana Qubein Children's Museum in High Point, NC, the Clay Center in WV, among others.
Nordlander holds an Master of Arts degree in Exhibit and Experience Design from FIT (2012), an MFA in Multimedia and Installation Art from Pratt Institute (2005), and a BFA in painting from the School of Fine Arts, Boston (1995).
Nordlander's own art uses many of the same materials, tools, and techniques utilized in exhibit design, such as interactivity, motion, and sound. He is also a musician and occasionally plays in the NYC area.
Conferences and Presentations
Association of Children’s Museums, 2012-2019
Association of Science and Technology Centers, 2014-2018
Making Music in the Museum: Creative Hands-On Music Exhibits, Association of Children’s Musics: Interactivity, Denver, CO, 2019
Exhibitions
Power Play, Children’s Museum of Houston, Houston, TX, 2023
Play Lab, Waterplay, Museum of Solutions, Mumbai, India, 2023
Jr Explorer Program, NYC Center for Aerospace and Applied Mathematics, Manhattan, NY, 2023
Bronx Children’s Museum, Bronx, NY, 2022
Nido & Mariana Qubein Children’s Museum, High Point, NC, 2022
Nutrien Wunderhub, Saskatoon, Canada, 2020
Music Studio, My Town, Clay Center’s Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, WV, 2018
The Fort Bend Children’s Discovery Center, Sugar Land, TX, 2016
DoSeum, San Antonio, TX, 2015
Energy Explorers, COSI, Columbus, OH, 2013
Courses
- ED 651 The Exhibit Model