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Great news to hear that Cogapp recently picked up a BIMA award for the interactives produced for the Great North Museum. The category was ‘the best Offline: Kiosk, Installation or On-Site Application’. I lead the design and produced all the creative on the Medieval Case Study interactive (featured on my site) and assisted on the design of the Set Works Bench, an interactive guide to an extensive display of taxidermy animals.

Reported in the Cogapp blog here

Cogapp case study on the project here

Read up on Great North related Cogapp news stories here and here

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Great North Museum ~ Medieval Case Study Interactive

This interactive was part of a set of digital installations provided by Cogapp to the Great North Museum : Hancock in Newcastle upon Tyne for their launch on 23rd May 2009. I was lead designer on the medieval project, coming up with the concept, handling all design work and overseeing the build by Joshua Routh, Cogapp’s in-house flash resource. Cogapp developed the installations in conjunction with The Great North Museum, Casson Mann and Nick Bell Design.

I collaged images creating a touch-screen table top environment where children can explore the three sections of the interactive, finding out about people and objects from Medieval times and about archaeology.

To read more about the projects and see other interactives please visit Cogapp’s website and portfolio site or view images from the launch on Flickr (all photos taken by Eleanor Rudge)

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The British Museum Online Styleguide ~ This is the cover of the styleguide I created to accompany Cogapp’s redesign of The British Museum’s web site in 2007.

For more information in this project please visit the Cogapp web site

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The Jewish Museum Kid Zone ~ Part of the web design project i worked on with Cogapp for The Jewish Museum in New York. They needed imagery to support the families section, especially in the Kid Zone area. I created some roughly cut silhouettes of traditional Jewish objects and of childrens craft materials to add visual interest to this area of the site aimed at young children.

For more information please visit the Cogapp website.

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SCIE E-Learning Interactives ~ The project was to produce 6 e-learning resources to help people working in care learn about dealing with Children of Prisoners and Challenging Behaviour in Children’s Residential Care Homes.

I was lead designer on this project and designed the immersive environments used in the final interactives. The environments i created were built up from stock and custom made imagery. The backgrounds and characters were designed to illustrate the content and help engage the workers using these tools who have varying levels of literacy.

I consulted with staff who worked in relevant care homes and with subject matter experts who were writing the content, then created environments that represented typical residential care homes, family homes, notice boards and table tops. Users are guided around these areas when using the learning tools and shown photographs, interactive diagrams in text books, video shown on tv screens and interactive filing cabinets! All intended to make the educational experience more engaging and fun.

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National Archives Photography ~ I spent a day at the National Archives in Kew taking photos in their reading rooms and storage areas. The photos that i took were part of a web site refresh being undertaken by Cogapp and were used to help form a brief for the use of photography and how it is used to represent the organization.

It is a fascinating place, housing 1,000 years of historical documents. There are vast storage areas containing the archives, reading rooms for different types of document, restoration teams behind the scenes and other staff and volunteers scanning and digitzing areas of the collection.

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Prudential Eye Video ~ A ‘making of’ video i edited together from film and photos collated during the project. The short showreel shows the process from initial test through to installation of the cutting edge art installation provided by Cogapp.

For more information please visit:

http://www.cogapp.com/home/prudential-eye.html

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V&A Museum ~ The brief from the V&A was to produce a simple and elegant interactive in keeping with the V&A brand. I was lead designer on this project.

The museum had high resolution photos of all of the collection which were stunning, my main objective was to keep the pages as simple as possible to allow the jewellery to be the main focus. I worked from wireframes which were provided by the production department and arranged regular design reviews with the client and Cogapp’s Interactivity Specialist throughout the project.

The result is a beautiful and simple interactive, now on display in the V&A’s Jewellery Gallery.

http://www.cogapp.com/portfolio/html/VandA_Jewellery.html

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Icons of England ~ Icons was a project commissioned by the Department of Culture, Media & Sport offshoot Culture Online. Launched in 2006 by Cogapp, the site was designed to provide ‘A portrait of England’ where users could vote for their favourite English icons. The site recieved coverage in every national newspaper, many local papers and on national TV and radio.

Pictured here are a few of the silhouettes i created to represent the official Icons that were nominated and voted for by the public.

For more information please visit:

http://www.icons.org.uk/

http://www.cogapp.com/portfolio/html/Icons.html

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Westway Climbing Wall ~ A small microsite designed for Westway Development Trust. Lead designer.

This fast turnaround project was done whilst working with Cogap, the designs were built by Martin Edwards their in-house Front End Web Developer. http://www.cogapp.com/home/index.html