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…
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…
For two weeks in April 2012, Second Story creative director David Waingarten and his crew, Jefe Greenheart and Kirsten Southwell, set out on a whirlwind tour of North Carolina. Their mission: to capture stories of real citizens speaking about issu…
It began with a full-studio, open brainstorm and ended ten days later with a 40-foot-long, floor-to-ceiling interactive sculpture. The studio was alive with an interdisciplinary effort that combined the analog (sewing, model-making, silk-screening…
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…
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…
The iPad is a great bit of tablet hardware — it’s got a great multitouch sensor, a pretty zippy processor, built in WiFi, etc. No one thing is the kicker, but it’s the combination of all the things in one simple form factor that make it pretty com…
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 …
If you haven’t seen the 1952 movie Singin’ in the Rain, well, I envy you, because you can only see it for the first time once. Aside from being one of my favorite films, I’ve found that to be a great look at the collaborative creative process, esp…
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…
The final review for the summer design studio I’ve been writing about took place a few Wednesdays ago, at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland. The review event itself was enjoyable and engaging. The event was attended by jury members from…
