Exhibition Critiques

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Exhibition Critiques

Let’s review your exhibition critiques!

Project Workshop

Today we’ll be breaking up into our groups and working on our projects.

Assignment

Design Notebooks

  • Continue working on your project individually or with your team if you have one
  • Individually (in each of your own Design Notebooks), create a new page in your design notebook and title it with today’s date
  • Write a brief paragraph outlining your team’s project goals for this week
  • Come to class next week prepared to present your progress, what your goals were and whether or not you were able to achieve them

Submitting Your Work

This week’s homework assignment is due next week before class. When you’ve completed them, post a comment on this page (Exhibition Critiques), including a link to your Design Notebook.

Civil War Flags Digital NFC Tour

My Files

Team

  • Matthew Cherry

Concept

Civil War Flag Digital NFC Tour

The Civil War Flags exhibit captured my attention when we first initially visited the New Jersey State Museum. I have spent the past month designing a new website to display the many different flags along with their the title, the regiment it belonged too, and the year it was created. I have also included a page for the Museum staff to add other flags in their collection. I also plan on using NFC tags to keep track of all the flags, and also link to each flag and it’s detailed information when scanned.

Message and Content

The Flag exhibit was really cool, it had some really amazing history around it. I feel the current website is doing a poor job of showing all this exhibit has to offer, and the history surrounding it.

NFC Technology

NFC (near field communication) is the use of is a set of short-range wireless technologies, typically requiring a distance of 4cm or less to initiate a connection. NFC allows you to share small payloads of data between an NFC tag and an Android-powered device, or between two Android-powered devices (android).

I’ll be using the SparkMarks high capacity tags for my project since they are more durable then simple NFC stickers.

Architecture

Mobile App Wireframe

 

New Mockup 1

Final Presentation

Nipper the Dog and Other Advertising Icons

Team

Concept

My project will be an interactive slideshow and timeline about Nipper, the Victor Talking Machine Company logo, other advertising conventions from the time period, and how these advertising methods changed over time. I want to add an extra layer of context to the existing Victrola and phonograph in the Pretty Big Things Collection by putting this interactive slideshow on a tablet in a cabinet. This way, visitors can go through the show at their own pace using a natural user interface.

You can view my final presentation here.

Final Presentation