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August 30, 2007

Talking Design Heads!

The newly launched Smithsonian Networks produced a series of videos in connection with the 2006 National Design Awards. This video shows clips from the Awards Gala, held last fall at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.

Local Projects’ Jake Barton was a finalist in the Communication category in 2006. He is shown throughout the video, along with other top designers, discussing design and interaction.

You can watch the video here. It uses the newish Brightcove player, by the by.

June 11, 2007

Jake speaks at Postopolis!; describes Local Projects’ principles

Jake gave a presentation for Postopolis! at the Storefront for Art and Architecture about the driving concepts behind Local Projects. His presentation included his method of mapping personal stories to physical locations and how that will relate to the design of the upcoming World Trade Center Memorial Museum.

You can see the video here.
You can read an article about it here.

June 6, 2007

Thinc with Local Projects awarded World Trade Center Memorial Museum

Hello Friends and Colleagues–

We’re very honored that Thinc Design in partnership with Local Projects have been named as the designers for the World Trade Center Memorial Museum. Details are below.

We are also in the midst of a number of other projects, including media design for the National Museum of American Jewish History in a new Polshek Partnership building on the Mall in Philadelphia, and the new Museum of Chinese in the Americas, in a new Maya Lin interior.

Not surprisingly, we are hiring, see below. Since last July we’ve also had some nice additions to our team, including Burak Arikan and Bryan Ijeoma.

We hope all is well with you, and look forward to hearing from you.

All the best,
Jake Barton and Local Projects

Local Projects identified as exceptional candidate for World Trade Center Memorial Museum

World Trade Center Memorial Museum Director Alice M. Greenwald said, “In Thinc and Local Projects, we believe we have identified an exceptional partner to help us deliver an extraordinary museum, one that can not only meet, but perhaps even exceed, the high expectations for the Memorial Museum dedicated to telling the story of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993 that we are honored to create.”

You can read the Forbes news story about it.

Three media pieces in “Slavery and the Civil War”

We launched three media pieces for the groundbreaking exhibition, “Slavery and the Civil War,” at the New York Historical Society. We created a series of monologues with Danny Glover as James McCune Smith, as well as two interactive experiences: an interactive voting theater based on the first African-American Political Conventions, and the Freedom’s Journal, which allows visitors to guest edit the first African-American newspaper in America.

You can see the New York Times Review here.