Visitors to the Emerging Issues Commons may be drawn in by large-scale displays visualizing data, interactive tables enabling them to add their own suggestions for how to improve North Carolina’s future, or the voice of Governor Hunt greeting them from the…
The importance of data and its display have been in the media of late. I’m thinking about the recent NY Times review of the Tesla S and CEO Elon Musk’s response to the negative press, complete with his own logs…
One of our internal teams was recently iterating on a late stage conceptual design for a museum project that focused on historical changes during a specific time period and ultimately ended up with an interesting group collaborative experience. (G…
Here at Second Story, we pride ourselves on pushing the edges of existing technologies. But we also know how to create things using old-school methods. Back in our Media Lab – a place where multi-touch tables and depth sensing reactive displays re…
I’ve been developing technology based experiences in museums for the better part of two decades and I love seeing the evolution of experiences not only from the museum-perspective but as part of a change in our audiences. Visitors have become more…
If you were starting a new magazine, where would you start? You’d probably have a big thematic idea about what your magazine was about and would be thinking about structure. And you would almost certainly be in contact with writers and photographe…
Back in May, a production team from Lynda.com paid a visit to Second Story and spent about a week quizzing us on process and creativity. The week of interviews resulted in a mini documentary chronicling life at the studio. The video becomes the ne…
Recently, while watching Gary Hustwit’s Objectified, I was reintroduced to the master industrial designer Dieter Rams’ “Ten Commandments” of design. Good design is innovativeGood design makes a product usefulGood design is aestheticGood design mak…
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a leading voice in the art of 20th century photographic storytelling. Second Story’s challenge was to create a website that celebrates his rich, evocative portfolio in a way that was accessible to a broad swath of online …
A lot of our clients are becoming increasingly interested in using social media as a platform for posting updates about new content on their sites. As busy people, they often don’t have time to do this themselves. Wouldn’t it be better if their si…
