What we need to produce your audio guide

You can send us one or more images for this purpose. We will combine them with your logo to design the card. Please send them as JPG or PNG and in high resolution.

Our designer will create 2–3 design proposals that you can iterate to your liking until you are satisfied.

If you’d prefer your in-house design team to handle the design, please let your production manager know: she will provide you with the necessary guidelines.

For the rear side of the card, we offer 8 standard layout templates — will help you choose between the available layouts.

Of course, we will ask for your approval before moving forward with the print.

Need inspiration? Browse our customer gallery to see cards we have designed for other museums and institutions.

  Print considerations before approval:

• Dark colors: Dark backgrounds and saturated colors usually appear darker in print than on screen. If your design is very dark, please ask our designer for advice before approving.
• Check legibility at actual size: Review the PDF proof at 100% zoom to see the card at its real printed size, and make sure all text, logos and details remain legible.
• Exact brand colors (Pantone): Standard CMYK printing may not reproduce brand colors exactly. If precise color matching is important, please let us know in advance, as Pantone printing affects the cost.
• Matte vs. glossy finish: On PVC cards with dark colors, matte lamination usually gives more accurate colors and better scratch resistance than glossy.
• No print proofs: We do not offer physical print proofs. The approved PDF design and the sample cards you received before ordering serve as reference for the final result.
• Liability: Please review our Terms and Conditions regarding defects and liability for printed cards before giving your approval.

Your museum's logo will appear in the design of the card, in the digital content and in the PDF with the audio guide's credits.
Please send it as SVG or as PNG with transparent background.

Despite its democratization since the COVID-19 epidemic, about 5 % of users still do not know how to scan a QR code. To help them, we have integrated our own QR reader under nub.art. This page also allows you to enter the alphanumeric code printed on the card.

We always recommend using our nub.art domain. If you prefer it for branding reasons, you can also print the URL of a subpage with your domain and redirect it to nub.art. To do this, ask your webmaster to create a subpage, e.g. www.mydomain.com/guide and to redirect it to nub.art.

If your domain is very long, we recommend that you buy a short domain and then redirect it. We can help you with this. Keep in mind that your visitor will have to type this URL in full on the small keyboard of a smartphone. To ensure a reasonable usability, we do not accept subpages longer than 20 characters.

Please make sure that the URL of this subpage is created permanently and that the redirect remains active. We are not responsible for any cards that become inoperable due to an incorrectly redirected or inactive subpage.

Audio tracks, if available, in any format. We will adapt them to the parameters we need.

The pictures help the visitor to quickly identify the exhibits or POIs represented in the audio guide.
We only need pictures of the audio guided exhibits. Please send us the pictures as JPG or PNG and with a minimum width of 700 px, that's all! We will take care of cropping, resizing and adapting them for your audio guide.
You can decide if you prefer the pictures as thumbnails, in large format or as an image slider (up to 15 images).
Please let us know if an image has license restrictions so that we can look for an alternative solution. If you wish, for an additional fee we can take care of managing the rights of your images.

These images look fancy and are especially suitable for "showing" spaces normally inaccessible to the visitor.
We use a light-weight equirectangular format (one single image-file). To ensure support among all devices, the image size should be max. 4096 px wide.

If you would like to include one or more videos in the audio guide, please upload the files to your customer area in the format of your choice.
Keep in mind: our total offline mode is not compatible with videos!

We recommend optimizing the PDF-files to reduce its size.

To write your audio guide script, we need the following:

• General guidance on the tone and style you want for your audio guide: purely informative, informal or more academic, for a sophisticated audience or an unknowing one....
• List of points of interest (POIs) to be included in the audio guide.
• 2-5 keywords about the ideas to be conveyed per POI.
• Contact information for the curators of the exhibition to ask questions or request information.

Apart from some basic elements, such as information brochures about the exhibition or the catalog, it is usually not necessary to send us any other documents. Our script writers are academically trained and familiar with researching appropriate sources of information. They will contact you if they need additional information.

Send us the script you propose. We will review it, adapt it and use it for our translations and recordings.
If Nubart is also to create the script, a member of our team will contact you.

At the end of the audio guide, Nubart integrates a short feedback form to collect the opinion and comments of your visitors.
Two of the questions are included by default: the rating of the show from 1 to 5 and a free comment field.
You can choose the remaining three questions from this list:

• Age
• Gender (The preset answers to this question are "male", "female" and "non-binary")
• Is this your first visit?
• Country
• Postal Code
• Did the audio guide contribute to a better understanding of the exhibition?
• What other topics could be addressed in the audio guide?
• Would you recommend this audio guide?
• Where did you buy this audio guide?

Optionally we can send your visitors' comments in real time to a provided e-mail address.
We can unsubscribe from this service at any time if you wish (for example, if you should receive too many feedback emails): The comments of your visitors are available for you in your customer area as well.

At the end of the audio guide we will insert a downloadable PDF file with all the credits, including the names of the voice over artists and translators. Please provide us with the data we should include (e.g. copyright for images).