Donald Richardson is a Systems Developer at Second Story. Here he chronicles his experience working on the Constellations project we recently completed for SapientNitro. Second Story was approached by SapientNitro with an opportunity to create an …
Donald Richardson is a Systems Developer at Second Story. Here he chronicles his experience working on the Constellations project we recently completed for SapientNitro. Second Story was approached by SapientNitro with an opportunity to create an …
An entrepreneurial, DIY spirit was in full force at the inaugural XOXO festival, and the event was exciting, engaging and well-attended. Speakers came from a variety of creative fields but shared a common message about connecting artists directly …
With increasing competition from other forms of entertainment and learning, museums are learning to change. They were once sacred spaces, refuges from the ever-changing blur of technology, but that’s not true anymore. These days, museums—like any …
Projects often demand the integration of digital media and the spaces that they occupy. This means that there is no clear boundary between the design and engineering when we’re realizing a project. Each discipline, from interaction design, archite…
This past weekend, Second Story created a reactive media experience for the TEDx Portland afterparty at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. For one night only, partygoers charted new landscapes from their movements. That day, TEDx Portland had p…
You hear these phrases so often in design and development circles they have become clichés—”get real fast” and “fail early, fail fast, fail often.” As ubiquitous as these sayings have become, there is a reason for this: They’re true. Here, we’ve f…
Last year, when I wrote about the future of the interactive book, I had read books on smartphones. But now I have an iPad, and it’s been an entirely different reading experience. Man, do I love it. The Kindle may be light, use e-ink, and have insa…
In December of 2011, I traveled to Atlanta to help install 12 interactives for the new Vault of the Secret Formula at the World of Coca-Cola. I was deeply involved in this project for about eight months, and watched it grow from feverish conceptua…
By popular demand, we’ve posted Julie Beeler’s talk on multi-disciplinary design collaboration delivered earlier today at the HOW Interactive Design Conference in San Francisco. The slideshow is posted here. Large-scale interactive projects often …
We recently completed a project for the National Library of Medicine called Native Voices. The project prominently features an interactive timeline that charts the history of Native peoples’ healing traditions. The time-line however, became more o…
