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September 2, 2010

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

App Store 'Explore 9/11' Feature
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

August 28, 2010

Local Projects Ballot Re-Design Concept in The New York Times!

Local Projects' Ballot Design for NYT

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

June 17, 2010

Local Projects is a Finalist in the 2010 National Design Awards

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

January 20, 2010

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

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

January 5, 2010

GOOD Mag Covers BIKE IT!

BIKE IT!
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: