Tangible Places

Menveo.com

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:32:48 +0000

Led User Experience strategy, concepts and information architecture for the launch of two medication websites for a major pharmaceutical company.

Conceptualized and documented UX design for a branded and unbranded website for a major new pharmaceutical vaccine product. Analyzed user profiles, developed use-case scenarios, extensive competitive research and produced high-level site architecture based on strategic models.

• Role Led Competitive Analysis, Strategy, IA & User Experience.
• Launched in 2010 for the medication site.
• Launch pending in 2010 the condition-based site

• Product Highlights: Crafted business case for creating an immersive, audience-based experience. Expanded target audience range to encompass many new user groups. Proposed “sticky” and “viral” tools to expand consumer awareness of the condition and medication.

National September 11 Memorial and Museum

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:37:53 +0000

Pentagon Exhibit - schematic visualization by Thinc Design

Job Captain at Thinc Design

National September 11 Memorial and Museum

Math Midway

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:52:37 +0000

Exhibit Designer with RAA

“The Math Midway exhibition provides an interactive, hands-on tour of mathematical concepts, using a carnival style. The individual exhibits include exciting and surprising activities that relate math principles to games and events you would find at a typical carnival, fair, or circus.”

-Math Midway is a traveling exhibit, shown here at the World Science Festival 2009 in New York.

High Speed Rail USA

Sat, 09 May 2009 12:40:48 +0000

Online education portal to promote and advocate for high speed rail in the USA.

http://www.highspeedrailusa.com

High Speed Rail USA seeks to catalyze a grassroots movement of concerned citizens who promote the development of a national high speed rail system at 220 mph on separate dedicated tracks. This advocacy organization is committed to sharing accurate and current information about high speed rail through recommending published books, quality media and providing links to other advocacy organizations and disseminating facts from our numerous contacts around the country and the world in the design and transportation industries.

Sky and Space Wing

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:03:32 +0000

Senior Exhibit Designer at Ralph Appelbaum Associates

A major new expansion upholds the institution’s role as a leader in space education with the addition of the new 160-seat, state-of-the-art Sudekum Planetarium and a 13,000-square-foot exhibit hall, the Sky and Space Wing. The the latter features the Solar System Survey, where visitors may follow the Planet Walk by tracing orbits embedded in the floor; exerience size relationships among planets; and interact with Worlds of Wonder, a sphere displaying 360-degree color images of the Sun, planets, and the major moons of our solar system. The new wing also features Testbed, where visitors may experiment with space exploration tools in a spectacular two-story-high astronaut training and technology center. While discovering what Newton’s laws mean in space, visitors experience reduced gravity, as if on the Moon, learn what it takes to launch a rocket, and find out what happens to different substances during “free fall.”

“In this 15,000 square foot addition to Adventure Science Center, you can discover the wonders of the universe through a variety of hands-on, interactive exhibits.

On the first floor of the Space Chase exhibit hall, visitors can experiment with space exploration tools in this spectacular two-story high astronaut training and technology center. Through hands-on, interactive exhibits, you learn what it takes for a rocket to launch, what happens during “free fall,” and how Newton’s Laws mean a lot in space.

Take a walk through our solar system and discover the relationships between the planets and their moons, how much you weigh on Jupiter or Saturn, and why we have seasons. Visitors will have the solar system at their fingertips through interactive stations. “

-Adventure Science Center, Nashville, TN

American Indian Cultural Center & Museum

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:00:16 +0000

3D Exhibition Designer at Ralph Appelbaum Associates

“The AICCM’s core exhibits combine exceptional design, architecture, collections, living culture, and powerful multi-media experiences to deliver a one-of-a-kind educational and entertaining experience. Permanent exhibitions complement the dynamic educational and public programming while changing exhibitions offer a truly evocative, stimulating, and inspirational experience to Native and Non-Native visitors.

Through Native voices and perspectives, the permanent core exhibits reflect upon the history, shared values, and contemporary culture of Oklahoma’s diverse and vibrant tribal community. Interactive elements allow visitors to listen to poignant oral histories and to share their own voices and experiences. Poetic but powerful multimedia experiences invite visitors to explore the spirit and ethos of Native cultures, imparting a message of integrity, respect and universal values.”

-AICCM website

National WWI Museum

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:11:49 +0000

3D Exhibition Designer at Ralph Appelbaum Associates

Permanent Exhibition, National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Missouri

The RAA concept for this new national museum makes it the first to identify the Great War as the defining, transformative event of the twentieth century, presaging World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, and reverberating today in the Middle East. The museum’s massive artifact collection, second only to that of Britain’s Imperial War Museum, is used to illustrate an in-depth analysis of WWI’s continuing impact. Exhibit features in the 30,000-square-foot space include a re-created field of 9,000 poppies, a recreated trench environment, and a panoramic media/diorama event exploring America’s entry into the war. Also installed are a replica of a bomb crater, multiplayer interactive tables, and oversized graphics in the style of the period. Whenever possible, the story is told through eyewitness accounts of those who were caught up in the conflict.

Awards

International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) Environmental Design 2008
Graphis Design Annual Gold Award 2009
Society for Environmental Graphic Design Honor Award 2007
COMMARTS Environmental Graphics and Education for the Great War Tables (Shared with Second Story)
American Institute Architects Honor Award 2008 - (Shared with ASAI Architects)

Press

The permanent exhibition of the National WWI Museum was reviewed in the New York Times, featured as the cover story for ArchiTech magazine (April 2007), and appeared in numerous other international, national and trade publications in late 2006 and early 2007.

Credits

Principal in Charge

Ralph Appelbaum

Design Team

Project Directors

Joshua Dudley
Scott Simeral

Content Developer & Writer

Mary Shapiro

Art Director

Fabio Gherardi

Exhibit Designers

Tana Green
Luka Kito
Jande Wintrob

Senior Graphic Designer

Josh Hartley

Graphic Designer

Aki Carpenter

Content Coordinators

Kate Cury
Judy Vannais

Editors

Nikki Amdur
Christine Valentine

3D Visualization

Jan Pietruska
George Robertson
Scott Shepard

Modelmaker

Don MacKinnon

Initial Concept

Chip Jeffries
Tim Ventimiglia

Singapore Discovery Centre

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:19:01 +0000

3D Exhibit Designer with Ralph Appelbaum Associates

In a recent renovation of the Centre, which introduces visitors to Singapore, RAA acted as facilitator and catalyst for a client-led media and interactive package. Its aim is to help visitors (especially young people) to under stand the country’s security (“Total Defense”), economics, and social issues in a new, interactive, and entertaining way. Features include “Spectacle,” a dynamic A/V show about the aspirations of the nation; “Visionarium,” the world’s first and largest team-based interactive design studio to “transform Singapore”; “Portals,” a midway of futuristic interactive stations with scenario -based simulation games; and “Build-It,” a hands-on construction site for preschoolers, for the city of the future.

25 Broadway

Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:38:41 +0000

Project Designer while employed by Suben | Dougherty Partnership, Architect of Record and Interior Design.

25 Broadway is the address of over 100,000 square feet of complete interior renovation of the tri-state corporate headquarters for an international consulting firm.

Anatomical Travelogue

Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:51:39 +0000

Project Designer employed by Suben | Dougherty Partnership, Architect of Record and Interior Design.

Anatomical Travelogue is a 25,000 s.f. proposal for a unique medical imaging company to inhabit and transform the top floor of a Brooklyn warehouse.