A for the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s education program. MESH designed and built a site that includes online “classrooms,” online “studios” for each student and teacher, dynamic, user-selectable galleries, and a library of resources (including lesson plans) which is automatically augmented by teachers and students as they use the site. This site will allow classrooms anywhere to participate in the program and share their thoughts and results with other classes.
The Crossing Borders website was designed in conjunction with the Crossing Borders exhibition, an exhibit of exquisite medieval manuscripts at The Jewish Museum. ). MESH designed the exhibition plan, the custom steel, walnut, and acrylic vitrines, the lighting, the graphics (with Karlsson Wilker). The material embodies the crossing over of cultural influences among Jews, Muslims, and Christians at a rare time of relative harmony among the European religions.
Mesh designed and built an interactive portfolio to showcase the work of Mott Hupfel, director of cinematography. The site promotes video work with an intuitive interface allowing visitors easy navigation to Mott’s showcase reel.
http://www.motthupfel.com/
Two basic concepts, targeting the synergy of physical and digital-networked space: 1) enabling visitors to the exhibition to feel the exhibition extends into a dimension beyond the museum walls, offering both deeper information about works/artists and further space for exploration. 2) enabling visitors to the web site to feel they are visiting the exhibition not as a simple iteration or ad hoc collection of works, but an event, participating in the event. Exhibitions are events, not architectural designs. They are extended events, in a highly programmatic space. But what is the event? What happens there? Visitors view artworks and think about them. They have thoughts triggered by the artworks. Visitors talk to each other about the art and about other topics. Meanwhile, those who cannot attend the exhibition view it through the Web. More than simply view a collection of images, these visitors should experience the energy of the exhibition itself.
Build a Better Burb is an urban design competition for Long Island sponsored by the Long Island Index. We designed the site to evoke the horizontality of Long Island while remaining simple to use. The site is simple in appearance but is functionally sophisticated. We built a content-management system to administer the text and graphics, a full submission module to receive competition entries and store them in a database, a gallery to display the entries separately to the judges and later to the public, a voting module for the peoples choice competition, and a set of mode switches to determine what components of the site appear as the competition phases elapse. The site is built on the Ruby on Rails framework.
http://buildabetterburb.org/
For seven years MESH designed the Web sites for the Independent Feature Project’s annual Film Market. IFP is the major support organization for American independent film. Each year featured a different design motif.
The new site for Tribeca Entertainment includes the various activities of the company – Tribeca Film Center, the new Tribeca Film Festival, and Tribeca Productions. We wanted to make the distinctions clear while unifying the constituent elements. The site needed to reflect devotion to both the neighborhood and the culture of film. MESH developed a site that enables visitors to navigate across panoramas of Tribeca streets. Built almost entirely in Flash, the site reveals layers of information as one browses through these streets, suggesting a parallel between browsing through the site and wandering around the neighborhood.
http://mesh.nyc/tribeca/
Random Access Memory is a backup archive for personal memories, for recollections important or trivial. Contribute your memories, and they are automatically stored by date. Visitors can browse them, by date, by subject or by name. RAM is a demonstration of what happens when personal information is compiled into a database that is accessible on a pseudonymous basis. Thus it performs two roles simultaneously, private and public. It stores information for the personal use of its member-visitors and it aggregates and indexes this information to amuse and enlighten all visitors. As more people use the system we will see what patterns emerge — we can observe what kinds of memories characterize certain years. You must enter a date, a person or a subject to view the memories. From any set of displayed memories, there are hyperlinks to the people and dates in the list. As with human memory, you cannot simply dump the database — you must seize upon a thread and free associate from there.randomaccessmemory.org
Ten Times was called on to launch an interactive web experience for Imperial Woodpecker, an exciting new production company recently founded by director Stacy Wall and producer Doug Halbert. The Ten Times approach features an intuitive interface with a navigation that recedes into the background allowing video content to take center stage. Ten Times hopes to assist Imperial Woodpecker in their lofty ambitions of producing the last ever TV commercial. A tongue in cheek testament to the evolving media landscape.
http://www.imperial.tv/
food52 is a hybrid recipe site, crowd-sourced cookbook project, sophisticated food blog, boutique, and community of serious home cooks. Accomplished food editors/writers Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs came to us with a daring, brilliant idea. We designed their branding, gave structure to this complex mix, and over a period of five months designed and built the food52 web site. Recipe contests run every week for a year, and the winning recipes are included in an actual cookbook. We filled it out with features so that along the way you can post your recipes to facebook and twitter, cook from your laptop without smearing egg on the trackpad, and follow your favorite cooks. food52 is a place to keep your favorite recipes, try new ones, and follow some exciting talk about food and cooking.