The Experiential Design Index

Potion Design

Also known as: Potion

Inactive

Acquired by Hyperquake, announced May 2, 2024; per Hyperquake's own account of the merger, "the Potion brand name is no longer used independently" and its work is now folded into Hyperquake's Experiences team. No independent Potion-branded activity found after the acquisition. (verified 2026-07-18)

Potion Design was a New York interactive design and media studio founded in 2005 by MIT Media Lab alumni Jared Schiffman and Phillip Tiongson, producing interactive exhibits, kiosks, and apps for museums including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Rubin Museum, the National WWI Museum and Memorial, and the New York Public Library. In May 2024 it was acquired by the experience-design agency Hyperquake and its brand was absorbed into Hyperquake's operations.

HeadquartersBrooklyn, NY
Founded2005
RolesMedia Design & Software
Websitehttps://www.potiondesign.com/about-us/

Projects (18)

ProjectVenueRoleYear
Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum Media Design & Software 2023
Object Explorer Science History Institute Media Design & Software 2021
Memory Koi David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care Media Design & Software 2020
City Explorer Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Pavilion Media Design & Software 2019
The Wheel of Intentions Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art Media Design & Software 2019
Waterfront Brooklyn Historical Society DUMBO (Empire Stores) Media Design & Software 2018
ARTLENS Exhibition Cleveland Museum of Art Media Design & Software 2017
Brooklyn Abolitionists / In Pursuit of Freedom Center for Brooklyn History Media Design & Software 2014
Future Energy Chicago Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Media Design & Software 2013
The Gateway Smithsonian Institution Building (the Castle) Media Design & Software 2012
Shop Life Lower East Side Tenement Museum Media Design & Software 2012
Biblion: The Boundless Library New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Media Design & Software 2011
Memory Pool and 18 Camps Holocaust Museum LA Media Design & Software 2010
Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center Media Design & Software 2010
Voices of Liberty Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Media Design & Software 2009
Eyewitness to Genocide: From Memory to Action United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Media Design & Software 2009
Star-Spangled Banner Gallery National Museum of American History Media Design & Software 2008
National WWI Museum and Memorial Renovation and Expansion National WWI Museum and Memorial Media Design & Software 2006

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