Client
Coca-Cola®
Heritage Center
Year
2024
Location
Atlanta
(USA
Role
Digital Identity,
UX / UI
Category
Archive,
Database
The Coca-Cola Heritage Center maintains over one million archival records from its birth in 1886, preserving the story of one of the worlds most prolific brands in history. The archive consists of a multitude of material from advertising, commercials, artworks, prints, packaging, signage, legal documentation and more.
The purpose of their private SSO digital platform was not only to preserve heritage, enhance data and provide information, but also required creating a 'cart' system to allow the ability for all global Coca-Cola staff and collaborators to request legal permission to use digital reproductions of assets for internal and external commercial purposes.
Following initial remote workshops with Coca-Cola staff to draft information architectural structure, I attended a three day workshop in Atlanta to present our vision for the visual art direction of the new platform, along with a complete interactive wireframe prototype, refining collaboratively during the visit.
Focusing on enhancing staff workflows through streamlining inquiry systems and automating responses. We improved accessibility for specialist audiences through 'faceted searching' with boolean operators, and also targeted non-specialist audiences through narratively-driven content, utilising interconnected data for users to follow curated paths.
Client
Mi’kmawey Debert
Cultural Centre
Year
2023
Location
Nova Scotia
(CAN)
Role
Digital Identity,
UX / UI
Category
Collection,
Forum
The Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre is a native canadian historical site and archive in Nova Scotia. During my time working with them, they were in the process of a vast transformation and construction of a new cultural center.
I collaborated with the organisation as the sole designer over 12 months to provide the MDCC with a new digital direction. Their archive holds more than 20,000 records aimed to protect and educate the public on the culture of the Mi'kmaw through language, location, objects, history and practices.
The new construction of the physical center in correlation to the digital space meant that our collaboration on their portal had periods of intermediate pauses - requiring a strategy of ongoing workshops and user-testing to ensure continuity and progression.
Crafting the information architecture, wireframe prototyping and digital branding, I lead remote workshops and presentations with their senior board members from a variety of departments to help establish a consistent vision.
Client
Kemper Art Museum
Year
2023
Location
St.Louis
(USA)
Role
Digital Identity,
UX / UI
Category
Museum,
Collection
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, part of the Washington University in St.Louis, is home to the education and research of the university's growing collection, featuring a selection of contemporary art from world renowned artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Jackson Pollock, Theo van Doesburg and Josef Albers.
The museum had ambitious goals to enhance their web presence and online services, streamlining their public request systems for visiting and reproductions, as well as expanding on their scholarly research and educational resources. Aiming to not only engage with public audiences but also to become an educational hub for university students.
I lead the design of their new digital platform, iterating with key stakeholders from each department. We produced new strategies to engage with varied audiences through educational and research resources, online request forms and the ability to create personal accounts for university students and the public to save, curate and share material.
Their branding consisted of the font Akkurat and a few printed leaflets. I referenced this material to build out a consistent digital brand system, with a refined colour palette and minimalist grid systems for layout and interaction components, helping to create a subtle visual expression that allowed the artwork and editorials to become the central focus.
Client
Unilever Archives
Year
2022
Location
Port Sunlight
(UK)
Role
Direction,
UX / UI
Category
Archive,
Library
Located in Port Sunlight, the historic home of Unilever in the UK, the Unilever Art, Archives and Records Management team look after one of the most important collections of business records in the world. The team are responsible for the collection and management of Unilever’s archives which span several centuries – the oldest of which is a document that dates as far back as 1292. The collections contain original documents, printed sources, images and films, an example being the first advert that was ever aired on television for S. R Gibbs toothpaste.
The archive also contains minute books reporting on company board meetings, financial records, a wealth of advertising and examples of packaging, as well as architectural plans and maps of current and former Unilever sites. Well-known brands, such as Colman’s, Wall’s, Lipton, Persil, Pears Soap, Lux, PG Tips and Marmite, all feature in the collections.
My role was to lead the design of their new digital archive, I worked with their core team at UARM to iterate and produce architectural structure, wireframe prototypes and ensuring a consistent digital brand with their global identity. I managed the design from initial concepts, prototyping, workshops through to quality control during development build.
Key solutions included creating an intuitive hierarchical structure for folders and sub-folders in over 100 seperate collections, forms for accessing a specific selection of records to view onsite or requesting to reproduce commercially and privately, and the ability to create user-accounts to save records to custom folders, save search criteria and encouraging the audiences to contribute through sharing personal memories and images online.
Client
TexasGLO MapStore
Year
2022
Location
Texas
(USA)
Role
Digital Identity,
UX / UI
Category
E-commerce,
Archive
The Texas General Land Office, established in 1837, holds an archive of over 40,000 historical records consisting of land grant records and maps dating to the 16th century that detail the passage of Texas public lands to private ownership.
Many of these documents continue to be used even today by surveyors, land men and others researching land ownership. The rich primary source material also makes the Archives a haven for genealogists, historians, archaeologists and students. Where they can purchase reproductions online.
GLO's presence online was dated, and lacking in funcitonality. They approached us to help enahnce their digital output and migrate data over to our collections managament software - Qi.
We created a digital system to catering to their main user type - researchers, allowing them to favourite records and save searches. We also provided a modern shopping system that gave users the option for personal and commercial reproduction licensing for both print and digital. We also helped to create a platform to enagge with their audiences through onlin exhibitions.
Client
ArtUK Tagger
Year
2022
Location
London
(UK)
Role
Direction,
UX / UI
Category
Crowdsource
Tagger is a crowd-sourcing initiative in which users of Art UK are invited to tag artworks with descriptive words that help to make the artworks in the collection more searchable by subject matter whilst algorithms ensure the accuracy of the tags. As a result users of Art UK are able to search for themes and topics relevant to their interests.
Audiences will recall the old version of Tagger on the BBC 'Your Paintings' website which was retired before the launch of Art UK in 2016. Taggers purpose is to provide their audience with an incredibly satisfying and fun way of making a valuable contribution to improving Art UK whilst seeing some great art on the way, a similar concept to a CAPTCHA system.
Tagger aims to transform the searchability of artworks on Art UK, most of which still only have small numbers of tags, whilst many have none. The previous tagger version launched 10 years ago saw over 10,000 tags added by the public, all competing to be top of the leaderboard.
My role was to lead the design and oversee the production of the new Tagger interface. This included the complete user-experience and interface, collaborating with Art UK's core senior team. Producing dynamic diagrams for users to see contributions, a leaderbpard for (opted-in) users to participate and a simple, intuitive interface for adding tags, challenging existing tags and confirming pending tags.
Client
Keepthinking®
Year
2022
Location
London
(UK)
Role
UX / UI
Category
Mobile App,
Tracking,
Collection
Qute is the mobile companion of Qi for Movement Control of collection objects and adding content. Qi is the web-based, SPECTRUM compliant, Universal Content and Collections Management System for Museums, Archives, Libraries, Performing Art and other cultural organisations.
Qute enables archivists to scan a barcode or enter an accession number, in order to lookup essential object information and find the current location of any object in their collection. They can then enter a new location from the location authority (queried in real time) directly on their iPhone or iPad and save a draft movement to Qi, for later review and approval once back at your desk.
Qute is aimed at dramatically speeding up the process in collection management movement control, by enabling users to walk around their physical collection with only their iPhone/iPad in-hand to create movement records as they go.
I was tasked with updating the original Qute app with additional functionalities and tweaking the interface for a more contemporary design. This included giving users the ability to select multiple records and move them all at once, helping to increase productivity.
Client
Western Carolina University
Year
2021
Location
North Carolina
(USA)
Role
Digital Identity,
UX / UI
Category
Library,
Archive
The Southern Appalachian Digitial Collections Partnership is committed to building regionally oriented, historically significant collections of broad cultural and research interest, currently containing over 25,000 records of historical and regional significance.
The Partnership needed to provide a strong digital infrastructure in order to extend online access to unique resource materials of the natural and cultural history of the Southern Appalachian region.
I lead the design and oversaw the production of their new digital platform, aiming to communicate the breadth of content available through narrative-led content in online exhibitions, as well as strong search and filtering functionalities.
The library required being able to search inputs with boolean operators and the ability to combine filtered criteria. The 24 collections can be browsed individually or searched across multiple at once.
Client
Paul Mellon Centre
Year
2021
Location
London
(UK)
Role
Direction,
UX / UI
Category
Archive
Between 1964 and 1969 the Paul Mellon Foundation began to collate an internationally important collection of reference photographs of paintings, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts, as well as images of sketchbooks and exhibitions. At this point in history, “British art” arguably lacked a serious body of scholarship, especially in comparison to the art histories of its neighbours on the Continent, and dedicated research resources were scant.
A photographic archive was established to address this gap, providing access to art that was often locked behind the closed doors of Britain’s private country houses and collections. This practice was continued when the Foundation was re-established as the Paul Mellon Centre (PMC) in 1970, and maintained until 2013, at which point the collection contained more than 100,000 reference images.
The possibility to compare and contrast images of works taken at various points in their lifetimes, and to amalgamate the differing descriptive metadata records, is something that will affirm the relevance and vibrancy of these collections.
I worked with PMC to provide the complete UI for the digtial archive, based on the standard wireframe functionality provided by TMS software templates. A collection of approximately 100,000 reference photographs of British paintings, decorative painting, sculpture, drawings and prints covering the period 1500-1900 with some files into the twentieth Century. It has a particular emphasis on the eighteenth century.
Client
Keepthinking®
Year
2021
Location
London
(UK)
Role
Art Director,
Digital Designer
Category
Websites,
Mobile Apps
Since 2002, Keepthinking® has uniquely combined a digital design agency with software development for Museums, Galleries, Archives, Libraries, Performing Art Venues and cultural organisations. Offering standard compliant Content and Collection Management software as well as bespoke design, consultancy and development for web applications.
I joined Kt in August 2015, being scouted by the managing director at the end-of-year graduation exhibition for my BA (Hons) degree course in graphic design, which showcased a selection of my work. Interestingly, none of which were focused on digital design - my portfolio consisted of print, publication and typeface design.
My role naturally grew and required more senior involvement since joining the studio, but a consistent responsibility throughout was to be the studio's manager of all brand communications. This included everything from establishing brand guidelines, design of all printed material, banners for attending global conferences and signage within the office.
During the beginning of the pandemic, commercial projects were put on hold by clients, and new commissions were non-existent. I decided to utilise this time to learn frontend development (HTML, CSS and [a bit of] JS). My first code project was to design and build the complete frontend for the new Kt website.
Client
Menier Venues
Year
2020
Location
London
(UK)
Role
Branding,
Digital Identity
Category
Venues
Menier Venues offer a variety of high-end event and studio spaces in the heart of central London. Their services include a range of catering options partnered with local restaurants and experienced suppliers around Borough Market. Their venues are popular with the creative industries, being featured in commercial work for fashion magazines and music videos, as well as hosting spaces to high street brands and supermarkets for press releases and events.
Menier were the landlords of Keepthinking®'s office space, during the pandemic we were offered a discount of rent in exhange for a new brand and website. Their public identity was failing to communicate the quality of their spaces and services. I lead a new digital strategy aiming communicate their message and engage with their audience. This included creating a completely new brand identity and UX direction.
Client
The Family Archive
Year
2020
Location
London
(UK)
Role
Branding,
Digital Identity
Category
Archive
Due to a nondisclosure agreement, any details exposing the client are strictly (and legally) forbidden. A privately accessed, two factor-authenticated personal archive for a significant-business magnate's family history.
From two young brothers growing up in poverty during (...), to an empire of business and investments today, this archive acts as a digital photo album for a facinating families heritage, lineage, family and artifacts. I produced a narrative approach, utilising storytelling as a method of entry into the digital archive with personal timelines and family tree's.
The design incorporated and presented the entire digitised family archive. I created a visual identity with contemporary, readable and friendly typography, combined with a subtle colour pallete and border-radius rounded edges, giving a 'photo album' appearance.
To ensure users felt ownership of the archive, they were given the ability to create their own albums using archival content, upload new content as well as add comments on records, allowing for families of different generations to connect and share histories lost within the catalogue.
Client
Paul Mellon Centre
Year
2020
Location
London
(UK)
Role
UX / UI
Category
Publications
The Paul Mellon Centre is an educational charity that champions new ways of understanding British art history and culture. They publish, teach and carry out research, both at the Centre in London and through our online platforms. Their archives, library and lively events programme are open to researchers, students and the public. The Centre’s grants and fellowships programme supports institutions and individuals with research projects, publications, exhibitions and events.
Through all areas of their work, they promote activities that enhance and expand knowledge about British art and architecture. The Centre was founded in 1970 by the art collector and philanthropist Paul Mellon. It is part of Yale University and a partner to the Yale Center for British Art.
Since 2018 I've provided PMC with design services through their pre-existing wesbites, as well as creating and enhancing their newer websites launched as publication and archiving ventures. In 2020, this included partnering with their selected branding agency to provide a new digital identity and expereince, using the previous websites architecture and content to form a new, unique visual experience to align with their rebrand.
Their are many facets to PMC's projects, with a shared approach of always championing digital-first publications and experiences. Websites I've designed and made enhancements to existing structures include: British Art Studies, Art & the Country House, Paul Mellon Centre, Francis Towne and Thomas Gurtin.
Client
Paul Mellon Centre
Year
2020
Location
London
(UK)
Role
Digital Identity,
UX / UI
Category
Collections,
Essays
Art & the Country House, launched in autumn 2020, is an online publication edited by Martin Postle, Deputy Director for Grants and Publications at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Focused specifically on the collection and display of works of art in the country house in Britain from the sixteenth century to the present day, it contains eight case studies: Castle Howard, Doddington Hall, Mells Manor, Mount Stuart, Petworth House, Raynham Hall, Trewithen and West Wycombe.
Involving research by over forty authors, Art & the Country House brings together detailed catalogues, document transcriptions, essays, films and an abundance of specially commissioned photography.
I lead the digital direction and experience design for this fascinating series of online collections. Engaging with company directors and key stakeholders to ensure the web model fit the content structure.
Client
The Alamo Collection
Year
2019
Location
Texas
(USA)
Role
Digital Identity,
UX / UI
Category
Archive
On March 6, 1836, 189 Texians and Tejanos gave their lives at the Alamo for Texas liberty. In 2011, the Texas Legislature tasked the Texas General Land Office with management and preservation of the Alamo and today, it remains under the custodianship of Commissioner George P. Bush.
The effort to preserve and restore the Alamo began in 2015 and has undergone intense debate and discussion. In January of 2019, Alamo Plaza was finally reunified with the Alamo Church and Long Barrack, and efforts began to reclaim the historic 1836 Battlefield. The story of the Alamo is world renowned and represents the core of Texas’ identity today. The ongoing effort to restore dignity and reverence to this sacred historic site through the comprehensive Alamo Plan is underway.
The Alamo approached us to provide a new content management system and website. The project was split between two deliverables: migration, integration and ongiong software servies to hold their digitised collections; and to provide a new online presence for the presentation of their archival materials.
My role was to lead the new digital publication of their archive. Emphasising on narrative and curation (but with a limited budget), we played the contraints to our advantage and presented the collection as a series of stories to express that the collection's rich history is more than just the 'Battle at the Alamo'. With a variety of unqiue layouts and visual identity, the project aimed to push the 'traditional' archive into unknown territories. Scope included complete UX, direction, pitching and production.
Client
Art UK
Year
2019
Location
London
(UK)
Role
UX / UI
Category
Archive
Art UK is a cultural education charity who believe in democratising access to art through digital platforms, provided for enjoyment, learning and research.
Bringing together the nation's art on one platform for the world to see. They digitise artworks, tell stories behind art and create exciting opportunities for the public to interact with art. They play a major role in supporting public art collections, by improving their accessibility and sustainability.
The charity have entrusted myself and our team and have been working with us even before Art UK existed - when their organisation was known as PCF (The public catalogue foundation) over 10 years ago.
Over a number of years I've played a key role in maintaining and enhancing Art UK's web presence. Growing a friendly relationship with Art UK's key operators, including their director - Andrew Ellis.
A selection of enhancement projects undertaken included redesigning their homepage and landing pages, designing new forms for donating online, and helping with maintenance for ongoing support and bug fixing. A recent project inlcuded leading the digital product of thier relaunched 'Tagger' interface.
Client
Lloyds Register Education Centre
Year
2018
Location
London
(UK)
Role
Digital Identity,
UX / UI
Category
Archive,
Library
The Heritage and Education Center of the Lloyd's Register holds a vast and significant collection of shipping and surveying history. Their mission is to inform, educate, influence and inspire policy makers, researchers and business leaders as they meet these challenges. Leveraging our connections, heritage collections and creativity we will increase understanding across the world of the importance of maritime safety to a sustainable and efficient ocean economy.
Leading the new digital collection website, I designed the art direction and UI for the inferface. Over the years, we have ran a number enhancement projects to build futher functionality for the centre. This included enabling CSV exports for users, creating new editorial Stories section, Online Exhibitions and rebranding to fit the newer edition of the global Lloyd's Register identity.
Client
Sainsbury’s Archive
Year
2018
Location
London
(UK)
Role
Direction,
UX / UI
Category
Archive
The Sainsbury Archive documents the history of Sainsbury’s from its foundation in Drury Lane in 1869, but also provides a unique record of the transformation that has occurred in retailing since the mid-19th century, and the impact of these changes on society.
The core of the archive was formed at the time of the company’s centenary in 1969 and has steadily grown to more than 700 linear metres of shelving, including documents, objects (ranging from food preparation and testing equipment, to product packaging and staff uniforms), photographs and audiovisual material. The collection includes a large number of photographs and artefacts, and is particularly strong in the areas of product packaging, advertising and retail stores.
However, the archive also includes key company records such as reports and accounts and press releases, as well as material relating to all aspects of the business, including head office operations, food supply, production and distribution, subsidiary companies and staff records.
Collaborating with a creative director and UX designer, I provided art direction options and produced half of the user experience design of the product. Attending meetings with key stakeholders and iterating the design through each stage. Features include enabling the public to share personal memories attached to archival records, create and curate their own albums, a family tree and timeline sections and hierarchal archive tree structure.
Client
White Cube Gallery
Year
2018
Location
London
(UK)
Role
UX / UI
Category
Gallery
White Cube is a contemporary art gallery owned by Jay Jopling with two branches in London: Mason's Yard in central London and Bermondsey in South East London and one in Central, Hong Kong Island.
The gallery was undergoing a rebrand and as part of this, employed us to produce their new digital identity. A condition of pivotal importance was to transition the brand as an 'evolution' rather than a 'revolution'.
Under the careful direction of the gallery's branding agency (BAM), I collaborated with our in-house creative director to expand the brand vision to a fully functioning web presence.
The project included workshops with the branding agency to ensure consistency in viaul and functional communication across platforms, designing and iterating from sitemap, wireframe and visual design through to user testing the website during production.
Client
Media Majlis Gallery
Year
2017
Location
Doha
(Qatar)
Role
Digital Identity,
UX / UI
Category
Gallery,
Archive
The Media Majlis at Northwestern University in Qatar is a museum dedicated to exploring journalism, communication and media. Through exhibitions, publications, programs and online resources they engage with themes that connect audiences to an ever-changing media landscape.
The interactive exhibition space uses digital technologies to challenge standard narratives and provide 360-degree views on global, regional and local stories. The museum aspires to represent the diversity of voices, perspectives, events and people that contributes to the evolving media world that surrounds and affects us all.
We were approached by Media Majlis to provide SaaS in holding their digital collections within our CMS system, Qi. The project included data migration and cleaning, as well as a new online portal for users to view the collection and learn about past, current and future exhibitions and events at the museum.
Working remotely, I designed the digital art direction for the museum, ensuring consistency with their recent rebrand by Pentagram, creating a unqiue bilingual platform. The visual identity inculded a unqiue grid systems and layouts connecting with the logo, and mirroring the entire layout when changing language to arabic.
Client
Ashmolean Museum
Year
2017
Location
Oxford
(UK)
Role
Direction,
UX / UI
Category
Museum,
Collection
The Ashmolean's collection of art and archaeology spans more than ten thousand years, and contains over a million artefacts documented in paper records covering more than 330 years. The Digital Collections programme was established in 2015 with the aim of creating cross-searchable digital records.
Having met an initial target to make 25% of the Ashmolean's objects available online by 2020, the Museum continues to digitise the collection and prepare records for publication online. Major projects in progress include the digitisation of the Egyptian collection, the numismatic collection, and portrait prints from the Hope collection.
Collection Online consists of a selection of object records from across the Museum's curatorial departments. These range from basic inventory records with object type, image and accession number to catalogue records that are cross-searchable by date, place, material, person, period and dimensions.
The original collection was designed by studio Keepthinking long before I joined the company. The project scope included redesigning the UX for a more contemporary functional journey, along with ensuring consistency was met with the newer brand identity. Delivered within an intense timeline, the design was completed and signed-off within 5 days, and development started shortly after.
Client
Dia Art Foundation
Year
2017
Location
New York
(USA)
Role
UX / UI
Category
Museum,
Collection,
E-commerce
Dia was founded in New York City in 1974 by Philippa de Menil, Heiner Friedrich, and Helen Winkler to help artists achieve visionary projects that might not otherwise be realized because of scale or scope. To suggest the institution’s role in enabling such ambitions, they selected the name “Dia,” taken from the Greek word meaning “through.”
Today it consists of eight permanent sites across the United States and Germany, as well as three changing exhibition spaces in New York State: Dia Chelsea in New York City, Dia Beacon in the Hudson Valley, and Dia Bridgehampton on Long Island.
Committed to advancing, realizing, and preserving the vision of artists. Dia fulfills its mission by commissioning single artist projects, organizing exhibitions, realizing site-specific installations, and collecting in-depth work of a focused group of artists from 1960s and 1970s.
Since 2017, I've worked with Dia to refine and enhance the digital experience and capabilities of their pre-existing website. From smaller template additions to creating new layouts and sections to communicate key messages. The largest project included designing their new bookshop system with filters, carts and checkouts.
Name
PS Basic (1200)
Year
2016–2023
Role
Typeface system,
Digital identity
Category
Typography
(Work in Progress) PT 1200 is a typeface system designed for the studio standard font for my non-commercial, experimental design practice (coming soon). The typeface is a culmination of my love and research of mid-century modernist design values. A Neo-Grotesk font inspired by systematic principles (such as the font Univers, created by Adrian Frutiger in 1957).
PT 1200 is based on a custom 12 column grid of square units, each width, weight and italic style is precisely aligned to the grid system. This rational approach allows for a multitude of variations while maintaining solid consistency across each class.
Upon completion, the font will have 5 widths, each containing 6 weights and italics, allowing for a total of 60 styles. Including diacritics, punctuation and symbols, it supports over 100 latin based languages.
Over the course of 6 years, each individual character was carefully drawn using vector paths, later developed into different font formats and refined kerning and metrics using the Glyphs application.
Client
Asia Art Archive
Year
2016
Location
Hong Kong
(China)
Role
Direction,
UX / UI
Category
Archive,
Library
Art is knowledge. Asia Art Archive is a catalyst for new ideas that enrich our understanding of the world through the collection, creation, and sharing of knowledge around recent art in Asia.
With one of the most valuable growing collections of material on the recent history of art from Asia, freely available from their website and onsite library, AAA builds tools and communities to collectively expand knowledge through research, residency, and educational programmes.
Initially employed to lead the design of their digital identity to be consistency with their new print branding, I also produced the interface prototype during that time and have been working with them to enhance it ever since.
I travelled to Hong Kong with my managing director to support a series of workshops over three days, and to present the design for the art direction. The workshops included critiquing of the art direction and iterations, along with tech meetings for their collections.
Client
West Kowloon
Cultural District
Year
2016
Location
Hong Kong
(China)
Role
UX / UI
Category
Museum,
Collection
Governed by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority Ordinance and the Board, and led by an Executive Committee comprising experts from different sectors, their vision is to build a vibrant cultural quarter for the city, dedicated to bringing together local and international artists and audiences to be inspired and to celebrate the arts.
They aim to build a vital platform for young, emerging and established artists to experiment, create and collaborate; a place where people of all backgrounds come to explore, participate and be stimulated; and a home for imaginative world-class exhibitions, performances and other cultural events to take place.
Between 2016 to 2021, I helped enhance WKCD's digital engagement through additional website architectures and layouts. Including creating a timeline for the M+ Sigg collection, updating the design of their online collection, and general maintenance during those years.
The digital work we produced with WestKowloon helped serve their online presence while their physical sites were still under construction, this helped users access the collections and events, while keeping updated on the progress of this large scale cultural construction. In 2021, our website was discontinued and a new website has been built and maintained by an external agency.
Client
Diva Diamond Museum
Year
2016
Location
Antwerp
(BE)
Role
Digital Identity,
UX / UI
Category
Museum,
Collection
Enter the enchanting world of diamonds, silver and silversmithing. On the symbolic location which has been home to silversmiths, jewellers and diamond dealers since the sixteenth century, you experience the international diamond story of the past, today and tomorrow.
Antwerp and diamonds are inextricably linked, which is why DIVA is providing an unforgettable experience of the enthralling world of diamonds. Pioneering craftsmanship and creativity come into their own. DIVA sets great store by both high-tech expertise and innovative regional talent.
Liasing with key stakeholders at the museum, I lead the art direction and interface design for their new digital platform. Other than the pre-existing logo and primary colour (red), this included creating a new branding identity and design system.
To give visual references towards diamond and stone cutting, graphic patterns were emplyed to express the theme of the museum. While using a bold contemporary font (Avenir) and clean grid systems to allow for an accessible, contemporary tone.
Client
Charlie Chaplin Archive
Year
2015
Location
Bologna
(Italy)
Role
Digital Identity,
UX / UI
Category
Archive
Charlie Chaplin Archive the official catalogue and information site of and about Charles Chaplin’s very own and painstakingly preserved professional and personal archives, from his early career on the English stage to his final days in Switzerland.
From the first handwritten notes of a story line to the shooting of the film itself, stage by stage documentary evidence of the development of a film, or a project that never even became a film.
Poems, lyrics, drawings, programmes, contracts, letters, magazines, travel souvenirs, comic books, cartoon strips, praise and criticism all feature on the digital archive platform. Certain reserved documents may be consulted upon request.
I lead the design of the UX and Art Direction for the brand of the new archive, creating entry points through topics and stories to help engage passive users in exploring the archives exstensive content.
Client
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Year
2015
Location
Stratford upon Avon
(UK)
Role
Direction,
UX / UI
Category
Collection
The collection of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is among the most important Shakespeare collections in the world, with the aim to share William Shakespeare, his life, works and times.
The joint Shakespearian collections of the SBT together with the Royal Shakespeare Company have been awarded designated status as a Collection of National Importance by the Arts Council England.
The collections relate not only to Shakespeare and his works, but also to literary context, local history and the continuing evolution of theatre and performance.
With guidance from my creative director, I worked on their digital art direction and interface design system, ensuring accessible UX standards were met with our product designer wireframes.
Client
NYC Landmark
Preservation Commission
Year
2015
Location
New York
(USA)
Role
Direction,
UX / UI
Category
Collection,
Archaeology
The Archaeological Repository is a project of the Archaeology Department of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (the “LPC”). Opened in 2014, the purpose of the Repository is to curate the city’s archaeological collections and to make them accessible to archaeologists, researchers, teachers, students, and the public.
Located at 114 West 47th Street in Manhattan, in space donated by The Durst Organization, the Repository currently houses hundreds of thousands of artifacts from over 32 sites throughout the city and is open by appointment to researchers and scholars.
As part of this project, the LPC worked with the Museum of the City of New York from 2013-2016 to create a comprehensive database to make these collections available digitally to everyone. Currently, 15 collections have been integrated into the database and can be searched and accessed at this time.
I worked alongside the design team to produce the UX and UI of their digital collection. This included information architecture, wireframes, visual direction and specifying for development and user-testing. Of utmost importance was to ensure the design was consistent with their pre-existing govermental branding.