Online Exhibits, Resources, and a Publishing Platform
Online Platforms & Branding
Made for the The Exploratorium
A mobile first JavaScript port of a museum floor interactive, developed for the Exploratorium's Middle Ground exhibition throughout San Francisco's Civic Center. How easy is it to get ahead? Let's see what you think.
You can explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the areas covered by ice and snow, and the living organisms in all these domains. You’ll also get a sense of how scientists study natural phenomena—how researchers gather evidence, test theories, and come to conclusions.
A Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception
A custom built Drupal 7 CMS for the scientists, teachers, and students of the Exploratorium's community. Serving you from the world wide web since 1992.
Middle Ground / Making it in America
Javascript Interactive
Made for The Exploratorium
Middle Ground is an exhibition developed by the Exploratorium and funded by the National Science Foundation.
Located in San Francisco's Civic Center on the Larken Street Entrance of the Main Library. The public is invited to look within and consider how we think, feel, and behave in relation to other people. Perhaps shedding light on bias and stereotyping, humor and generosity, how we work together, and how we pull apart into tribes.
What we did
For the exhibition, we redeveloped a museum floor exhibit for the web. A home-baked Processing application written in Java was ported to JavaScript for all to enjoy, from mobile to desktop. For those that can't make it to the Public Library, fear not, pull up a chair, and enjoy Making it in America from afar.
Making it in America is a totally responsive 100% JavaScript application, developed on top of the wonderful Processing.js Library.
Reconsidering ourselves and others
Try this:
- How easy is it to get ahead?
- Let's see what you think.
What's going on?
Most people think it's much easier to move up than it actually is. People who call themselves upper class are especially likely to get it wrong. Since these are the people making decisions in our society, what are the implications?
Does knowing the facts change how you think about people and opportunity in our society?
Global Climate Change Explorer
Online Resource
The Exploratorium's Observatory Gallery with NOAA
Climate is the average pattern of weather over the long term.
The earth’s climate has warmed and cooled for millions of years, since long before we appeared on the scene. There’s no doubt that the climate is growing warmer currently; indications of that change are all around us.
Though climate change isn’t new, the study of how human activity affects the earth’s climate is. The exploration of climate change encompasses many fields, including physics, chemistry, biology, geology, meteorology, oceanography, and even sociology.
At this Web site, you can explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the areas covered by ice and snow, and the living organisms in all these domains. You’ll also get a sense of how scientists study natural phenomena—how researchers gather evidence, test theories, and come to conclusions.
Embracing the Long Scroll
This redesign brought a complex and convoluted micro-site of datasets into a clean, simple, and most importantly a navigable site.
We took over 35 separate climate related studies and datasets and cleanly re-organized them into five distinct pages. Each page, or column, of information embraces a long scroll approach with a breadcrumb sidebar to indicate where you are on your journey through the data.
It was a lot of information, and we decided to scroll.
The Exploratorium Online
Online Publishing Platform & Branding
The Exploratorium's Online Engagement
Collaborated with the On-line Media team to develop and design a responsive website built on a custom Drupal CMS. Brought the Exploratorium's main website through two major redesigns. We accomplished much in this, moving heaven and earth over the course of two years. In order to grant editors and scientists a way to manage their own content as it appears on the world wide web. The Exploratorium, serving you from the world wide web since 1992.
Some highlights
- From a static HTML site we moved to a completely dynamic and responsive publishing platform built on Drupal.
- Developed a highly customized and flexible framework for editors and content creators. Writing custom modules for Drupal to handle features such as page layout and the automatic aggregation of related content.
- Developed a bespoke video annotation resource for the Institute for Inquiry.
- Built a custom HTML5 multimedia play-list API for the variety of sources the museum utilizes, such as Brightcove, Youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud, and our own home cooked Web Media Database.
- Designed and produced a micro site for the Science of Cocktails event.
- Produced a micro site for Global Studios. Promoting the museum as a research-and-development institution.
- Produced a site for Museum Rentals, a vivid collection of photo galleries promoting Pier 15 as an event space.
THE EXPLORATORIUM A COMMUNITY MUSEUM DEDICATED TO AWARENESS
Webbys for our live stream of the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse!
Both the 2017 eclipse live stream video coverage and the Total Solar Eclipse mobile app were awarded the Webby Award and the People’s Voice Award for Best Film & Video — Events and Live Streams as well as Best Mobile Sites & Apps — categories in the 22nd Annual Webby Awards!
The Exploratorium won for / Best Film & Video: Events & Live Streams, and for / Best Mobile Sites & Apps: Events; / in both categories, the Exploratorium won both the / People’s Voice Award and the award chosen by a panel of internet experts. / The live stream and app comprised part of the Exploratorium’s large-scale education initiative, supported by NASA, around the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017.
Resonance
Designed and produced a micro site for Resonance, a cutting edge music program exploring the distant realms of musical possibility. A series that takes place within our Meyer Sound Constellation system.
Science Snacks
Built a framework for classroom teaching materials known as Science Snacks. Such as Falling Rhythm featuring yours truly.
Eclipse Graphics
Designed and illustrated educational mini sites for the 2012/13 Annular Eclipses.