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Interns React to…MoMA’s Audio+
I spent my summer as an intern in the Digital and Emerging Media department here at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Next week, I head home to San Francisco where I will return to the graduate...
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Interns React to…the Whitney’s Audio Guide
I spent my summer as an intern in the Digital and Emerging Media department here at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Next week, I head home to San Francisco where I will return to the graduate...
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Three adventures in universal design, or, what does a veggie peeler have in...
Though designed specifically for the arthritic, this product “appeals” to everyone. “The way to think about ‘everybody’ is not to think about the average person in the middle, but to think about the...
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Three adventures: a blindfolded visit to the Guggenheim (1/3)
This is the first in a series of three “adventures in universal design,” a design research experiment carried out by Rachel Sakai and Katie Shelly. For an introduction to the project, see our earlier...
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Three adventures: the Science Sense tour at American Museum of Natural...
This is the second in a series of three “adventures in universal design,” a design research experiment carried out by Rachel Sakai and Katie Shelly. For an introduction to the project, see our earlier...
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Three adventures: shadowing a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (3/3)
This is the third in a series of three “adventures in universal design,” a design research experiment carried out by Rachel Sakai and Katie Shelly. For an introduction to the project, see our earlier...
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A Timeline of Event Horizons
We’ve added a new experimental feature to the collections website. It’s an interactive visualization depicting when an object was produced and when that object was collected using some of the major...
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“B” is for beta
Without a whole lot of fanfare we released the beta version of the collections website, yesterday. The alpha version was released a little over a year ago and it was finally time to apply lessons...
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Rijkscolors! (or colorific promiscuity)
(Rijkscolors are currently disabled as we consider longer-term solutions for cross-institutional browsing and searching. It’ll be back soon!) Rijkscolors are an experimental feature that allow you to...
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Label Whisperer
Have you ever noticed the way people in museums always take pictures of object labels? On many levels it is the very definition of an exercise in futility. Despite all the good intentions I’m not sure...
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The API at the center of the museum
Extract from “Outline map of New York Harbor & vicinity : showing main tidal flow, sewer outlets, shellfish beds & analysis points.”, New York Bay Pollution Commission, 1905. From New York...
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Three adventures: a blindfolded visit to the Guggenheim (1/3)
This is the first in a series of three “adventures in universal design,” a design research experiment carried out by Rachel Sakai and Katie Shelly. For an introduction to the project, see our earlier...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Three adventures: the Science Sense tour at American Museum of Natural...
This is the second in a series of three “adventures in universal design,” a design research experiment carried out by Rachel Sakai and Katie Shelly. For an introduction to the project, see our earlier...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Three adventures: shadowing a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (3/3)
This is the third in a series of three “adventures in universal design,” a design research experiment carried out by Rachel Sakai and Katie Shelly. For an introduction to the project, see our earlier...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Timeline of Event Horizons
We’ve added a new experimental feature to the collections website. It’s an interactive visualization depicting when an object was produced and when that object was collected using some of the major...
View ArticleClik here to view.
"B" is for beta
Without a whole lot of fanfare we released the beta version of the collections website, yesterday. The alpha version was released a little over a year ago and it was finally time to apply lessons...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rijkscolors! (or colorific promiscuity)
(Rijkscolors are currently disabled as we consider longer-term solutions for cross-institutional browsing and searching. It’ll be back soon!) Rijkscolors are an experimental feature that allow you to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Label Whisperer
Have you ever noticed the way people in museums always take pictures of object labels? On many levels it is the very definition of an exercise in futility. Despite all the good intentions I’m not sure...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The API at the center of the museum
Extract from “Outline map of New York Harbor & vicinity : showing main tidal flow, sewer outlets, shellfish beds & analysis points.”, New York Bay Pollution Commission, 1905. From New York...
View ArticleHow re-opening the museum enhanced our online collection: new views, new API...
At the backend of our museum’s new interactive experiences lies our API, which is responsible for providing the frontend with all the data necessary to flesh out the experience. From everyday...
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