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Is email dead? A Design Museum show turns to sensory exhibition design to explore

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Initiated by email and marketing automations platform Intuit Mailchimp’s in-house creative agency, Wink, Email is Dead’s content and space prompt visitors to consider the future of communication. - Intuit Mailchimp
Creative studio Something Special Studios was brought on board to help develop the immersive experience, which uses colour, sound and even smell to engage audiences, visualizing what emailing might look like 50 years from now. - Intuit Mailchimp
. Other email iconography appears throughout the spaces, rendered in 3D forms, with the leading typeface inspired by the first-ever email, sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson. - Intuit Mailchimp

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Design
Intuit Mailchimp, Wink, Something Special Studios
Client
Design Museum

Officially opening tomorrow at London’s Design Museum, exhibition Email is Dead provides a multisensory experience around its namesake messaging form, a collaboration with

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