The team shakes off the cold and looks forward to checking out some Good Experiences Live this Friday in NYC. If you are further north and require some extra time to warm up, then please do come say hi at Gravity Free. We look forward to bumping elbows with you.
Jake will be speaking at the Gravity Free Design Innovation Conference in May, alongside graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, green architect Michelle Kaufman, and kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen.
The topic is “The Year of Dangerous Minds,” and it will be held May 12-14 in Chicago.
The cover of Print Magazine (September 2007) shows a glimpse of Local Projects’ studio. If you don’t have a copy of Print lying around, check out the article here.
Jake will be heading out to Pittsburgh, red land of the Allegheny, to speak at the 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference. The conference, sponsored by the Center for Arts Management and Technology, takes place Oct. 12 and 13 on the Carnegie Mellon campus.
Jake’s speech will be the keynote, but you don’t have to wake up early to hear it: It’s at 3:30 p.m. on Fri., Oct. 12. That’s correct only as of today, of course. Check out the Web site before you show up.
The newly launched Smithsonian Networks produced a series of videos in connection with the 2006 National Design Awards. This video shows clips from the Awards Gala, held last fall at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.
Local Projects’ Jake Barton was a finalist in the Communication category in 2006. He is shown throughout the video, along with other top designers, discussing design and interaction.
You can watch the video here. It uses the newish Brightcove player, by the by.
Jake will be speaking at “Design Remixed,” a presentation sponsored by AIGA and Apple at the Apple Store in SoHo, NYC. He will be talking about the process of creating engaging projects that communicate with audiences throughout many facets of the profession, and presenting some related examples from Local Projects. The presentation is open to the public and will occur on Oct. 17, 2007, at 6:30 p.m.
Participatory media and jetBlue storybooth featured in June issue of Adobe Magazine
Published June 18th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsLocal Projects was featured in the June 2007 issue of Adobe Magazine. In the article “The New Collaborators: Making User-generated Content Work,” Local Projects is recognized for creating environments that allow the audience to participate in content creation and become a part of the project itself.
You can download a free pdf of the magazine here.
Jake speaks at Postopolis!; describes Local Projects’ principles
Published June 11th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsJake gave a presentation for Postopolis! at the Storefront for Art and Architecture about the driving concepts behind Local Projects. His presentation included his method of mapping personal stories to physical locations and how that will relate to the design of the upcoming World Trade Center Memorial Museum.
You can see the video here.
You can read an article about it here.
Thinc with Local Projects awarded World Trade Center Memorial Museum
Published June 6th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsHello Friends and Colleagues–
We’re very honored that Thinc Design in partnership with Local Projects have been named as the designers for the World Trade Center Memorial Museum. Details are below.
We are also in the midst of a number of other projects, including media design for the National Museum of American Jewish History in a new Polshek Partnership building on the Mall in Philadelphia, and the new Museum of Chinese in the Americas, in a new Maya Lin interior.
Not surprisingly, we are hiring, see below. Since last July we’ve also had some nice additions to our team, including Burak Arikan and Bryan Ijeoma.
We hope all is well with you, and look forward to hearing from you.
All the best,
Jake Barton and Local Projects
