Next Tuesday, March 12th, Jake will be speaking at the SXSW Interactive conference about “Change By Us,” an open source application that gives community organizers simple tools to effectively coordinate with their neighbors and constituents and offers a bridge between large-scale government initiatives and community-led improvements for city residents. Click here for more information.
Last week we had the pleasure of hosting the Cooper-Hewitt DesignPrep Teen Scholars at the studio. Local Projects’ designers shared the studio’s newest work with the budding designers and talked about the process of creating meaningful interaction design.
Fast Company praises Local Projects’ work on Gallery One as a case study in blending the physical and virtual worlds. Click here to read the full article.
Local Projects has been selected to curate a week’s worth of entries on the AIGA blog Design Envy. The studio was asked to contribute five examples of envy-inducing design. Check out the site throughout the week to see the studio’s selections.
AIGA interviews Jake Barton as part of “Defining the Studio of 2015,” an initiative by AIGA and Adobe that seeks the insights of visionary design leaders who are poised for the future.
Local Projects designers Angela Chen and Erika Tarte lead an interaction design workshop for teens as part of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s DesignPrep program. Students were asked to design and prototype an interactive exhibit around objects in the museum’s collection. Read more about the workshop here.
On April 11, 2013 at 8:15pm Jake Barton, Principal of Local Projects, will speak at the 92 Y on Technology and the Future of Museums with Seb Chan, Mark Robbins, and Cara McCarty. Click here for more info.
Fast Company profiles Gallery One. Read the full article here.
WSJ Magazine calls Gallery One and ArtLens, “a suite of cutting-edge digital interfaces that together transform the 100-year-old museum into one of the most technologically advanced art hubs in the world.”
On January 19, 2012 Jake Barton participated in the “Learning Environments in the Digital Age” panel as part of the Edgeless School Symposium. Click here for more info.