NEWS - Local Projects

Our “Explore 9/11″ iPhone App is Featured in the iTunes Store!

jake — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:28:29 +0000

The iphone app we built for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, “Explore 9/11″ is currently featured in the “New and Noteworthy” section of the iTunes app store! Check it out!

More info on apple.com

Local Projects Ballot Re-Design Concept in the NY Times!

jake — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:54:39 +0000

Recently the New York Times called for people to submit new user interface re-design ideas for New York City voting machines. Local Projects’ graphic is now first on nytimes.com!

Check it out here

Local Projects is a Finalist in the 2010 National Design Awards

jake — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:20:41 +0000

We’re both humbled and thrilled to announce our selection as a Finalist by the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum for the 2010 National Design Awards. The National Design Awards celebrate the best in American design. Finalists are selected from a pool of roughly 2500 nominees for originality, innovation, imagination and insight in their body of work. The awards honor excellence in design that impacts the public’s quality of life. We are also very excited for Jake to attend the presentation of awards at the White House!

Learn more about the award at www.nationaldesignawards.org

Learn about the National Museum of American Jewish History here

See a preview of our work at the National Museum of American Jewish History here

In Pursuit of Freedom on view at Boston Society of Architects

jake — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Designs for “In Pursuit of Freedom” for the Brooklyn Historical Society & The Weeksville Heritage Center are presently on view at the Boston Society of Architects, 52 Board Street, Boston. The exhibition will be up through the end of March. The project will be featured in Keith Moskow and Robert Linn’s forthcoming book Small Scale: Creative Solutions for Better City Living published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Check out the project here

Make History in the New York Times Today: Jake talks to Alex Wright about Crowd-sourcing Museum Collections

jake — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:25:00 +0000

Alex Wright interviewed Jake about Make History, the site Local Projects created for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, a leader in the bottom-up museum collections movement.

“The key is to use constraints,” said Jake Barton, the lead designer for Make History. “Just giving visitors an open mike is the least kind thing you can do. We are asking for people’s experiences, but that doesn’t relieve us of the responsibility to share a narrative with the visitor.” Read full article here

Ian Curry on Storytelling through Interaction Design: Wed. 1/13 @ Galapagos

jake — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:15:26 +0000

Join seasoned Senior Interaction Designer Ian Curry of Local Projects this Wednesday as he discusses designing our recent “Make History” storytelling web initiative for the National September 11 Memorial Museum at Galapagos Art Space. The talk is entitled “The Storytellers” and is part of the Dot Dot Dot MFA Interaction Design Lecture Series. Here’s how they describe it:

“The Storytellers”

People are natural storytellers, and as interaction designers, it’s our job to navigate the relationship between people and the objects they use every day. Is there a story that is unfolding between people and their products? Are stories organic? How do they emerge? Do interfaces tell a story? Should we be designing with a narrative in mind? Join us to hear short lectures from four very different perspectives on the story and our role in it.

6:30-8:30pm, $6
Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

GOOD Mag Covers BIKE IT!

jake — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:42:28 +0000

Recently Jake presented at GOOD Design NYC, presented by GOOD at Nau, a showcase for ways design can serve New York. Local Projects took on the question of “How can we get more people to ride their bikes?” from Rick Bell and Sherida Paulsen of AIA NY. Local Projects proposed BIKE IT! a super-charged iPhone app that calculates time and money saved as well as calories burned plus locations of other cyclists through interactive bus shelters.

Read GOOD’s post here

Watch Poptech’s video of the talk here:

Jake presents Local Projects’ work in the Netherlands to a distinguished audience

jake — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:53:35 +0000

Jake criss-crossed the Netherlands this past week, presenting work to both the States-General and the Nationaal Historisch Museum’s New Museum Lab international conference on new media and technology in collaboration with the technical universities of Delft, Eindhoven and Twente and Mediamatic Lab.

Local Projects @ SEGD Dynamic Environments 3 November 12-13 in NYC

jake — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:54:07 +0000

Interaction designer Jake Barton and his team at Local Projects / WXY Architecture have created a visitors center for the digital age, transforming what was once a warehouse for printed brochures into an interactive launchpad for the New York City tourist experience. The Official NYC Information Center is a happy hybrid of boutique retail design and interactive museum experience, with media elements that “…make the correlation between moving through the space and searching the content.”

See the Official NYC Information Center and meet Jake at the SEGD Dynamic Environments 3 workshop November 12 and 13 in New York. For information or to register, visit www.segd.org or call 202.638.5555.

Hoi! Amsterdam, dzien dobry Warsaw!

jake — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:28:41 +0000

If you find yourself near the grachtengordel reach out and say hi to Jake, in town for the Nationaal Historisch Museum’s New Museum lab event. Prefer to say hello in Warsaw? Jake will be there next week to visit our colleagues at The Museum of the History of Polish Jews.