Today Michelle Obama hosted the spouses of UN leaders at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. Local Projects produced a short film about Stone Barns for the event that the First Lady herself watched. See it here:
Earlier this week, Jake gave a talk for Creative Commons Salon SF, Check it out below!
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“But what to do with those unresolved feelings? Go to the World Trade Center site and take pictures? Watch the somber annual remembrance on TV? Just in time for the ninth anniversary, the design firm Local Projects, working under the aegis of the 9/11 museum-to-be, has come up with a much more satisfying option. And it comes, of all things, in the form of a free iPhone app.”
“It’s been nine years now since September 11th became more than just an average transition day between summer and fall. Mobile device users can now remember and even learn a bit about that fateful day via some iPhone apps.”
Box scoured photo archives of the National 9/11 Museum and the memorial’s website, which allows users to upload photos from 9/11 directly to the site. After searching one night for more than five hours, Box went to sleep, physically and emotionally exhausted. The next morning, his wife, Helen, called him into the living room as he was eating breakfast. She showed him a photo of a firefighter running through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel toward the Towers alongside cars stuck in traffic. This time, it was Gary. “I was out of out control, emotionally,” Box said. “Thanking God, being so happy that I had something to see.”
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
“We understand it takes thousands of people to make history, and we are building a museum that acknowledges that,” said Jake Barton, founder of the media design firm Local Projects, which made the iPhone app and is a lead exhibition designer for the museum. “This is one thing that digital technology does exceptionally well, and it’s literally something you could not have approached 20 years ago, 50 years ago.”
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!
“Visitors will then pass a number of impressionistic exhibits designed by Thinc design with multi-media by Local Projects, which evoke the experience of 9/11 around the world–which more than 2 billion people saw on TV.”
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
“…the Sydney-based Arup designer and urbanist Dan Hill describes soft infrastructure as a way to “bend the physical city” and rescale it to what he calls “walkable urbanism.” Hill could have been referring to Bike It, an initiative by Jake Barton of Local Projects, a design firm focused on public space. Bike It takes advantage of underused infrastructure–in this case, New York’s bike lanes–by layering them with an interactive network. In brief, said Barton, Bike It is a “super-charged iPhone app that calculates time and money saved, as well as calories burned plus locations of other cyclists” that could be broadcast on LED panels already embedded in bus shelters around the city.”
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