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01/17/2014 |
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The team behind Local Projects, a multimedia design firm, explains the development process behind some of their most high-profile projects, including an installation for the 9/11 Memorial Museum. |
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Local Projects is a media design firm for museums and public spaces, which aims to create projects that endure. Local Projects reinvents public spaces through media, designing projects from memorials to art installations. Their work focuses on emotion, sharing, and technology. Local Projects gathers stories through collaborative storytelling projects, and between StoryCorps, the 9/11 Memorial Museum, and Change by Us, it has shared over 100,000 individuals' stories and memories, touching millions of lives. Local Projects has won every major design award, including the National Design Award for Interaction Design, Fast Company Masters of Design, Webby Gold, MUSE Gold, and AIGA Gold. They were second on Fast Company's 2011 list of most innovative design studios and were named—alongside Bill Clinton and the Knight Foundation—to the 2012 Public Interest 100, a list representing 100 individuals and teams working at the intersection of design and service globally. |
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Local Projects makes innovative multimedia designs for schools, museums, and public spaces. They aim to translate complex ideas like physics, art, and history into experiences that both educate and inspire. In this Creative Insights, founder Jake Barton explains how their unique cross-disciplinary workspace and prototype-first methodology lead to innovation—and installations that age well. His team also explains how they developed projects for the Cleveland Museum of Art, the New York Hall of Science, and the 9/11 Memorial Museum. |
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