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Sierra Club Angeles Chapter
Sierra Club Angeles Chapter
2019
Client: The Sierra Club
The Angeles chapter of the Sierra Club serves Los Angeles and Orange Counties, and this Drupal CMS site is developed within a multi-site configuration with a wide variety of custom content types, views, and functionality, and delivering complex content that serves a large number of editors and branch webmasters via Drupal Organic Groups. Zumwinkle.com planned, designed, developed, and managed the production process for this project.
Go for a hike at https://angeles.sierraclub.org
CA Diversified Services
CA Diversified Services
2019
Client: CA Diversified Services
Join the spirit of cadiversifiedservices.com
Angeles ICO
Sierra Club Angeles Chapter ICO
2019
Client: Angeles Chapter
Join the hiking spirit of angelesico.org
Pro-GTL
Global Trade & Logistics Consortia
2018
Client: Los Angeles Southwest College…
Join the Global Trade spirit of pro-gtl.org
Digital Tech & Entrepreneur 2018 Career Expo
Digital Tech & Entrepreneur 2018 Career Expo
2018
Client: Los Angeles Southwest College
Los Angeles Southwest College sponsored a student-focused Career Expo with speakers, workshops, and presentations. Zumwinkle.com branded the WordPress site and print materials with dynamic visuals under a tight deadline.
Sign up for the free career expo at dtec2018expo.enetla.org
ENETLA
Entrepreneur Network Los Angeles
2018
Client: Los Angeles Southwest College…
The Entrepreneur Network of Los Angeles is a new organization, coordinating events for young business leaders. We assisted with branding elements for their social media accounts and designed and developed a new mobile-centric WordPress web site with membership features.
Join the entrepreneurial spirit of enetla.org
JANM Enemy Mail
Enemy Mail: An American Story Of Wartime Separation
2018
Client: Japanese American National Museum
We worked closely with the Japanese American National Museum to present this poetic story about a Japanese-American family during WWII, programmed for a middle-school audience. We assisted with content selection and editorial organization, and designed and developed this WordPress site that includes dynamic questions and answers, resources, and a timeline map.
Read the letters at enemy-mail.janm.org
Cerritos College
Cerritos College
2018
Client: Cerritos College
Cerritos Community College wished to revamp their college website on the OmniUpdate Campus10 platform. We provided visual and interface redesign, information architecture strategies, and final markup templates. Our team also compiled requirements for Level AAA of Section 508 accessibility compliance, and continue to maintain the site as needed.
Sign up for classes at cerritos.edu
Experience Talks
Experience Talks
2017
Client: EngAGE
We developed a weekly Radio Show storytelling WordPress site with Podcast features for Experience Talks, a KPFK broadcast radio show. The client received reorganized site architecture and data delivery that included custom PHP and Javascript coding.
Listen to the voice of experience at experiencetalks.org.
Exploring America’s Concentration Camps
Exploring America’s Concentration Camps
2017
Client: Japanese American National Museum
This fully customized WordPress site contains unique PHP templates with a creative dial interface on the homepage featuring graphics by zumwinkle.com team. We worked closely with our museum education clients in providing a re-architecture for the entire user experience, emphasizing student-friendly and practical classroom experiences.
Special thanks to Gábor Berkesi and Wheelizate
Explore America’s Concentration Camps at eacc.janm.org
Da Vinci Schools
Da Vinci Schools
2017
Client: Da Vinci Schools
Working with the client’s contract designer, we provided a WordPress site with customized global menus, mega-menus, a blog, press release features, and an integrated event calendar service for this unique high school. We also assisted the staff with editorial training and fulfillment of Section 508 Accessibility Compliance.
Explore the worlds of davincischools.org.
Los Angeles City College
Los Angeles Community College
2017
Client: Los Angeles Community College
To create a new web site for Los Angeles City College, we conducted extensive user testing through surveys and focus groups, which informed our visual and architecture site redesign. We coordinated the migration and editing of thousands of previous content pages into robust templates within a new Kentico CMS framework. We assisted the building of a complex information architecture to support the needs of 90+ academic and administrative departments, including Section 508 accessibility compliance requirements. Our production team worked one-to-one with designated LACC department editors in creating new content and media, editing archival resources, and provided training and documentation support in the form of on-site workshops and how-to manuals. We also provided on-location photographic services.
Register for classes at lacitycollege.edu
Taxonomy Strategies Infographic Poster & Comic
Taxonomy Strategies Infographic Poster & Comic
2016
Client: Taxonomy Strategies
We illustrated and published a print poster and a booklet handout in comic book format for this client’s conference marketing materials.
Asteres
Asteres
2016
Client: Asteres, Inc.
Working with their contracted designer, we provided a practical WordPress site for a medical prescriptions delivery business.
Fill your prescription at Asteres.com.
Black College Tours
Black College Tours
2016
Client: Educational Student Tours
The Educational Student Tours organization needed a new WordPress site with complex eCommerce bookings that includes subscription payment features, customized registration, customer tracking and custom notifications.
Book your students a tour at blackcollegetours.org/
Faraday Foundation & Studios
Faraday Foundation & Studios
2016
Client: Faraday Foundation
Our client Faraday Foundation offers on-line science activities as a non-profit organization promoting science education communities. We were excited to be part of the ground floor creation of two new WordPress sites which required strong web architecture design, and included full editorial and SEO and SEM services.
Get a charge out of Faraday Foundation & Faraday Studios
Angeles Chapter Foundation
Angeles Chapter Foundation
2015
Client: Sierra Club Angeles Chapter Foundation
The Angeles Chapter Foundation of the Sierra Club chose WordPress for their content management system. We incorporated features for donations and a private Board of Directors section.
See the new Foundation site at
angeleschapterfoundation.org
Band of Artists
Band of Artists
2015
Client: Band of Artists
Band of Artists illustration group needed a robust portfolio site specifically designed to be easily updatable by multiple users. We ensured that visitors can easily find what they are looking for by building, in Drupal, taxonomy-based searches and sortable views. Special masonry-based portfolio pages were created for each artist.
Look at the pretty pictures!
http://bandofartists.com/
International Studies at West LA College
International Studies at West LA College
2015
Client: West LA College
International Studies at West LA College, built with the Kentico CMS framework, is an adjunct site to wlac.edu, tailored specifically for international students and their needs. The site includes a dynamic course list and class selection tool, is fully responsive and includes Google Translate integration.
Sign up for International Studies at
international.wlac.edu/International/
Bermudez Projects
Bermudez Projects
2015
Client: Bermudez Projects
Bermudez Projects WordPress site supports an art gallery and special events and art programming. A custom blog delivers the organization’s newsletter journal, The Review.
Get introduced to the artists repped by bermudezprojects.com
UCLA Doheny Eye Institute
UCLA Doheny Eye Institute
2015
Client: UCLA Doheny Eye Institute
UCLA Doheny Eye Institute is a responsive WordPress site, with customized accordion menus and rollovers.
“See” the “site” at Doheny.org
Safbaby
Safbaby
2015
Client: Safbaby
The Safbaby project had a strong pre-existing audience and needed to retain that value, and requested an updated, responsive site with more complex editorial control. Zumwinkle.com built a the new site in WordPress, and helped coordinate Japanese and Chinese language versions.
Los Angeles Valley College
Los Angeles Valley College
2015
Client: Los Angeles Valley College
Los Angeles Valley Community College redesigned and developed their primary site on the Kentico CMS. We designed their new web presence, developed new responsive templates, implemented new calendaring and blogging features, and assisted with content production and migration.
Sign up for classes at LA Valley College.
Classical Chops
Classical Chops
2014
Client: Creative Kids Education Foundation
An extensible XML site designed to encourage young people to participate in the world of classical music. Features include the ability for users to upload videos of their own performances as well as interviews and features geared toward getting young musicians started in the business.
Pfaffinger Foundation
Pfaffinger Foundation
2014
Client: Pfaffinger Foundation
The Pfaffinger Foundation’s new WordPress site is designed with clarity and legibility in mind, easily accessible by potential non-internet-savvy and older visitors, as well as visitors with mobile and other devices.
Explore the Pfoundation site.
Ryman Arts
Ryman Arts
2014
Client: Ryman Arts
The redesign for Ryman Arts web site reflects the educational mandate of this wonderful visual arts school that supports Southern California high school students. This new fully responsive Drupal 7 site includes a filterable events calendar, tiered members pages, artwork gallery slideshows, and customized admissions form.
Pick up a brush at Ryman Arts
West Los Angeles College
West Los Angeles College
2014
Client: West Los Angeles College
West Los Angeles Community College is redeveloped their site within the Kentico Content Management System. Zumwinkle.com assisted with visual and site architecture redesign, and developed responsive ASP.NET Kentico templates with full functionality.
Sign up for classes at West Los Angeles College.
Simms Mann Institute
Simms Mann Institute
2014
Client: The Simms/Mann Family Foundation
The Simms/Mann Institute for Education and Community Development is a non-profit organization whose initiatives span Health and Wellness, Education, and Art and Culture projects. We designed and developed a responsive Drupal 7 site that includes multiple slideshows and a robust members section.
Go Classical
KUSC Go Classical for Kids
2014
Client: Creative Kids Education Foundation
We created a variety of educational Flash games and apps revolving around Classical music for KUSC Classical Radio and the Creative Kids Education Foundation.
Explore the fun world of classical music at classicalkusc.org/kids/
UC Irvine MIND
UCI-MIND
2014
Client: UC Irvine
The Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders at UC Irvine (UCI-MIND) needed a redesign to support their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC). Developed in conjunction with Lentini Design, this WordPress site features responsive CSS styling and is fully accessible-compliant.
Dr. Dan Peters
Dr. Dan Peters
2014
Client: Dr. Dan Peters
Author Dr. Dan Peters needed an imaginative site for his self-help book for children and parents, “Make Your Worrier a Warrior.” The WordPress site we designed uses the book’s delightful illustrations to create a layered, playful experience. The site features calendars and the ability for readers to submit their own Warrior Stories.
Become a Warrior with
Dr. Dan Peters
ICM Talent
ICM Talent
2010 and 2013
Client: ICM Talent
One of the entertainment industry’s top three talent agencies, International Creative Management (ICM) requested three integrated sites: a main site (developed primarily in Flash), and two dynamic sites devoted to Concert artists and Lecture speakers. We created a .NET solution utilizing a web service to populate the dynamic site with ICM’s internal data.
Visit the ICM talent database
The Big Draw LA
The Big Draw LA
2013
Client: Ryman Arts
The Big Draw LA is a month-long series of events throughout Los Angeles related to all things Drawing! This new Drupal 7 site includes a filterable events calendar and public submission form, scrolling panoramas of completed artwork, and annual updates.
Draw draw draw with The Big Draw LA
NCGS Video
NCGS Video
2013
Client: National Coalition for Girls’ Schools
The National Coalition for Girls’ Schools requested a typographic-centric sales video, highlighting statistical advantages of girls’ K-12 schools. We designed and animated the motion graphics, exported to video, and assisted with their annual conference presentation.
EarthFest LA Expo and Concert
EarthFest LA Expo and Concert 2013
2013
Client: California Greenworks
For the annual environmental festival and concert EarthFest LA, we created a WordPress site with customized slideshows, feedback forms, video, audio, and contests! The server file pathing is structured to easily allow for archiving each successive year.
Come groove to Ambrosia at EarthFest LA 2013
LA Southwest College
LA Southwest College
2013
Client: LA Southwest College
This local community college requested architectural re-organization and a quick visual redesign. Working within the OmniUpdate Campus 7 CMS, we created a web-accessible dropdown, produced several new departmental sections, updated section sub-navigations, and delivered a new graphical look, all delivered in time for an impending accreditation review.
Sign up for classes at LA Southwest College.
Environmental Research Associates
Environmental Research Associates
2013
Client: Environmental Research Associates
For the ERA organization, Zumwinkle.com developed a Drupal 7 site with capacity for expansion into a community platform and science research “clearinghouse.” The site includes blogs, multiple aggregated feeds, and a back end for scientists and Science Advisory Board members with uploading, publishing, rating, and filtering tools related to an international science challenge award.
Follow current events in the world of environmental science at erascience.org
Frostig Collection 2013 Auction
Frostig Collection 2013 Auction
2013
Client: The Frostig Center
The 2013 Frostig Collection consisted of a selection of beautiful and significant photographic prints, curated by Jamie Lee Curtis. We developed a customized online auction with complex reporting, managed within WordPress.
Going, going, SOLD! at thefrostigcollection.org
Yoginis
Yoginis
2012
Client: Margaret (Saraswati) Kruszewska
This WordPress site is designed for ease of update.
Explore the history of yoga at yoginis.org
California Alliance for Arts Education
Arts Ed 411
2012
Client: California Alliance for Arts Education
For our longtime clients the California Alliance for Arts Education and in conjunction with designer Ronni Kass, we redeveloped their artsed411.org site within Drupal 7. The site utilizes the Drupal Organic Groups module to deliver localized education blog-posts, event calendars, and resource materials to Advocacy Coalition member groups throughout California.
Advocate for the Arts at artsed411.org
The California Environmental Legacy Project
The California Environmental Legacy Project
2011
Client: The California Environmental Legacy Project
The National Science Foundation-funded California Environmental Legacy Project connects humans with their natural heritage through education, research, media resources, and a complex online portal. Zumwinkle.com designed a site that reflects the beauty and complexity of the natural world, and developed with an eye toward future integration within Drupal 7 CMS in near future. The site includes custom navigation panels outlining the project’s extensive features.
Gifts of the Sultan
Gifts of the Sultan
2011
Client: LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Gifts of the Sultan e-card was created for online use and in-gallery use (laptops as kiosks). Visitors’ data is retained and reported on via PHP scripting. Zumwinkle.com repurposed this e-card application for use by organizations who are hosting the travelling exhibition such as the Museum of Fine Art in Houston and Qatar Art Museum Association, and completed an Arabic version that delivers Arabic left-to-right content.
Give a gift fit for a sultan at giftsofthesultan.com
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Inner City Outings
Inner City Outings
2011
Client: Sierra Club
The Sierra Club requested brochures and web site for their Inner City Outings committee. Redesigned monthly newsletters, informational brochures, bulletins, and web site needed new branding via new logo and type specs. Created display advertising to recruit volunteers. The new informational, educational, interactive web site is WordPress, and includes online forms and photo slideshows.
Visit angelesico.org and then powerdown your computer and go on a hike.
Little Hikers
Little Hikers
2011
Client: Sierra Club
This WordPress site includes a calendar to easily add hikes and trips, and is designed for ease of update.
Come take your inner kid for a hike at littlehikers.org
Kids Science Challenge Year 4
Kids Science Challenge Year 4
2011
Client: Jim Metzner Productions
Kids’ Science Challenge is an annual contest for 3rd to 6th graders. The site features special contests, a blog for kids, downloadable activities, PHP online registration system, customized Flash interactive games that can be emailed to friends, video players and video and audio podcasts, and client-editable Flash text, and are revamped each phase of the project year. Zumwinkle.com developed the branded identity, and assisted with COPPA compliancy policies as well.
Take the Chimp Challenge at kidsciencechallenge.com
Water Detectives Game
Water Detectives
2010
Client: West Basin Municipal Water District
The West Basin Municipal Water District wanted to teach about recommended water conservation measures. This replayable Flash game determines a culprit character randomly and delivers customied clues with educational content to help identify the monster water waster!
Catch the monster water waster and click on PLAY GAME at http://www.westbasin.org/education/games.html
[requires Flash plug-in]
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
2010
Client: Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
The Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy’s redesigned site features all new content and images, a password-protected branch, and an interactive homepage map.
Visit the preserves at pvplc.org
West Los Angeles College Schedule
West Los Angeles College Schedule
2010
Client: West Los Angeles College
The West Los Angeles College Scheduler/Planner is a proprietary .NET application that allows potential and current students to search and filter class schedules, view the results in weekly calendar format, and save summaries of results for registration.
Continue your education at webapps.wlac.edu/
Kids Science Challenge Years 1, 2 and 3
Kids Science Challenge Years 1, 2 and 3
2010
Client: Jim Metzner Productions
Kids’ Science Challenge is an annual contest for 3rd to 6th graders, and this site consists of a set of Flash pages for kids and HTML pages for adults. The site features special contests, a blog for kids, downloadable activities, PHP online registration system, customized Flash interactive games that can be emailed to friends, video players and video and audio podcasts, and client-editable Flash text, and are revamped each phase of the project year. Zumwinkle.com developed the branded identity, and assisted with COPPA compliancy policies as well.
Learn how to make a mud battery at the kidsciencechallenge.com
[requires Flash plug-in]
PVJOBS
PVJOBS
2010
Client: PVJOBS
PVJOBS, a job referral, advocacy, and support agency for underserved individuals, wanted a clean, legible site for their clients and collaborators. The board of directors can log into their own network pages and slideshows document PVJOBS programs.
Visit PVJOBS online at pvjobs.org
Youth Justice Coalition
Youth Justice Coalition
2010
Client: Youth Justice Coalition
The Youth Justice Coalition requested an easily updateable WordPress site with custom illustrations, feedback forms, navigation, and slideshows.
Specialized L.A. Tours
Specialized L.A. Tours
2010
Client: Specialized L.A. Tours
This privately owned tour company’s site is a highly visual Flash solution utilizing dynamic text and images, with a customized HTML page for non-Flash visitors.
Book your own tour at specializedlatours.com.
Hansel and Gretel Interactive
Hansel and Gretel Interactive
2009
Client: KUSC Classic Radio and Creative Kids Education Foundation
Build Your Own Opera with our online educational module Hansel and Gretel! Players can control interactive elements in every scene and watch the play unfold. Music listening guides and four embedded music games assist with exploration of the elements of orchestral and opera music and theatre. At the end of the story, additional information and resources can be found Backstage at the Opera. Teachers and educators can download lesson plans featuring music education information and cross-curricular activities on fairy tales.
Design your OWN opera! at classicalkusc.org/kids/opera/
[requires Flash plug-in]
USC Pacific Asia Museum
Pacific Asia Museum
2009
Client: Pacific Asia Museum
Pacific Asia Museum’s site design includes a filterable events calendar listing, exhibit information, development updates, and site-wide search application. The new dynamic homepage Flash animation promotes upcoming programs and exhibitions. The Digital Lounge incorporates various audio and video podcast multimedia. And the searchable online catalogue is “curated” with category groupings of 6,000 artworks by style and locale.
Chinese Rank Badges
PAM Chinese Rank Badges
2008
Client: Pacific Asia Museum
Rank and Style: Power Dressing in Imperial China is an online exhibit exploring the fabric emblems worn by China’s rulers for centuries, and includes in-depth essays, teacher resources, glossary and the ability to zoom into detail views of 97 artworks.
Custom Film Effects
Custom Film Effects
2008
Client: Custom Film Effects
Video reels and custom slideshows highlight this film effects house’s astonishing services, from digital facelifts to altering the weather. This Flash site includes Client Login section.
UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
2008
Client: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Built in the Plone framework, the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology’s homepage highlights a specific project, easily customizable by staff. Site also includes an interactive world map that displays images and descriptions of current Cotsen’s international projects geographically.
Kokeshi World
Kokeshi World
2008
Client: Japanese American National Museum
This hilarious Flash game teaches about the unique cultural Japanese doll sculpture called Kokeshi. Visitors can create and customize their own doll and background with other cultural elements and unique illustrations, and email the results to friends.
Brahms in 1890s Vienna
Brahms in 1890s Vienna
2008
Client: KUSC Classic Radio and Creative Kids Education Foundation
Brahms in 1890’s Vienna is an online educational experience featuring the Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor Opus 114 and setting the music in a story about him, and his city, Vienna, Austria. Music listening guides and music games explore the elements of chamber music and the characters move through the historical sites of Vienna and are introduced to the art of the famous Gustav Klimt. A separate resources teaches more about musicians and architecture, and at the end of the narrative, kids can enjoy three related experiences in Prater Park. A standards based lesson plan is available to teachers, complete with downloads about art and history/architecture.
Help young Ferdinand gather all three musicians at classicalkusc.org/kids/brahms/
[requires Flash plug-in]
Old Pasadena
Old Pasadena
2008
Client: Old Pasadena Management District
Old Pasadena Management District needed a modern revamp of their site to highlight their many resources. Their earlier database searchable, browseable merchant directory application was redeveloped to more easily display results. Additional features include events slideshow galleries and a WordPress blog.
Creative Kids Education Foundation
Creative Kids Education Foundation
2007
Client: Creative Kids Education Foundation
Creative Kids Education Foundation’s web site focuses on the creative wealth of the Foundation’s music-oriented, content-rich commissions.
Explore music at creativekidseducationfoundation.org
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Fowler Museum at UCLA
2007
Client: Fowler Museum at UCLA
We designed two separate projects for the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Intersections is an online version of the museum exhibition highlighting key objects in the Fowler’s collection. Video, audio lectures, and audio tour podcasts can be accessed in the site’s Media Gallery. We also redesigned the interface for their searchable Online Collections application, partnering with the ever resourceful Systems Planning development team.
Japanese American National Museum
Japanese American National Museum
2007
Client: Japanese American National Museum
The Japanese American National Museum wanted a modernized online presence that focused on highlighted events and exhibitions. The new site’s homepage presents a custom illustration upon each new visit to the page, and inside pages include slideshows of images and quotations.
Explore JA past, present, and future culture at janm.org
LACMA French Oil Sketches
LACMA French Oil Sketches
2007
Client: LA County Museum of Art
A module highlighting scholarly essays and research into 20 intriguing artworks from LACMA’s European Paintings Department. The “What is a French Oil Sketch?” section illustrates five functional types of these particular “Sketches” by matching other comparative images, and allowing interactive zooming in to view comparative details.
Compare the Modello with the final work at lacma.org/Additional/ep/fos/fos_home.asp
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Pulse of the Planet
Pulse of the Planet
2007
Client: Jim Metzner Productions
For the popular unconventional NPR radio show with short spotlights on nature and culture, we selected a creative color scheme and strong narrative features. Includes thousands of database-delivered Audio Programs and Feature Stories, 16 scientist blogs, e-commerce features, downloadable programs and curriculum, and a Flash animated “audio adventure” exploring the Australian Cloud Forest.
Come listen to Jaguar ringtones at pulseplanet.com
Stanton Macdonald-Wright Mural
Stanton Macdonald-Wright Mural
2007
Client: Santa Monica Public Library
The historically significant Macdonald-Wright mural located at the Santa Monica Public Library was conserved and re-installed into their new main library. Our web site explores historical documentation, conservation data, past and current installation images, and an enjoyable and informative “Explore the Mural” Flash application.
Hunt for Sir Isaac Newton at smpl.org/mural/
[exploring the mural requires Flash plug-in]
Dinah Berland
Dinah Berland
2007
Client: Dinah Berland
Author Dinah Berland’s beautiful site includes excerpts from her book of Jewish prayers for women. The site is illustrated with the colorful spiritual work of Judith Joseph.
Antelope Valley Map and Timeline
Time Trails Map and Timeline
2006
Client: Antelope Valley Indian Museum
Time Trails: Peoples of the Antelope Valley and Southern California is an interactive Flash timeline of seven maps displaying natural and human migration patterns and commercial growth of the Antelope Valley in California. Includes kid-friendly rollovers, audio voiceovers, and morphing topography.
Explore more than 12,000 years of human history in the Antelope Valley with Annie the Antelope at avim.parks.ca.gov/flashmap.shtml
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The Frostig Collection
The Frostig Collection
2006 – 2011
Client: The Frostig Center
The Frostig Collection is an annual suite of artworks for sale. The site’s stylesheets are customized yearly to match the year’s selected extraordinary artworks.
Collect the whole set at thefrostigcollection.org
Scheherazade Interactive
Scheherazade Interactive
2006
Client: KUSC Classic Radio and Creative Kids Education Foundation
Scheherazade Interactive is a music education experience based on the beautiful music of Rimsky-Korsakov and includes a metaphorical narrative of the 1001 Nights story, a separate resources section with activities related to art and geography, and four embedded games that teach rudiments of music and listening skills based on the National and State standards of music education. A standards-based lesson plan is download-ready for teachers complete with printouts and quizzes for students. We assisted with extensive user testing, and created a customized module.
Make sure you keep your head at classicalkusc.org/kids/sche/
[requires Flash plug-in]
LACMA Collections Online
LACMA Collections Online
2006
Client: LA County Museum of Art
We designed the look-and-feel and information architecture of LACMA’s online image and library database. Site includes a customized Flash homepage, departmental “highlights” pages, access to deep data relating to specific artworks, educational components, online exhibition modules.
LACMA Families in American Art
LACMA Families in American Art
2006
Client: LA County Museum of Art
An educational module introducing several of LACMA’s seminal works of art in a kid-friendly manner. Players search for obects listed in an “I Spy” manner, and then can drag-and-drop dialog boxes onto the artwork’s characters (and write their own dialog as well!) Feedback on all user-driven decisions delivers art historical and critical info to kids. Zumwinkle.com created customized background music for each work as well.
Can you find a baby’s toe? Search for it here
[requires Flash plug-in]
DataWorks Research Department
DataWorks Research Department
2006
Client: DataWorks Educational Research
Educational consultants DataWorks needed a robust intranet with some public-facing features. We worked with their in-house IT staff and designed a flexible front-end with video-sharing functionality.
JANM Kids Bento Box
JANM Kids Bento Box
2005
Client: Japanese American National Museum
Eat your lunch! Our Bento (Lunch) Box metaphor works perfectly for JANM Kids, a fun introduction to Japanese-American culture and history. The site is a mix of Flash activities and games, and informational HTML pages.
PAM Nature of the Beast
PAM Nature of the Beast
2005
Client: Pacific Asia Museum
Nature of the Beast is an online educational module depicting animals, both real and imaginary, in Japanese art throughout history. Module includes in-depth artwork essays and ability to zoom in on 40 highlighted artworks, an interactive timeline of Japanese and world events, downloadable desktop wallpapers, a “Random Monster Generator” game, a “Pick Your Fave” form allowing visitors to comment on their favorite works, teacher resources and downloadable curriculum, and starring the cutest little beetle ever!
Aviation History Archive
Aviation History Archive
2005
Client: City of Downey
The Aviation History Archive is a proprietary application by Systems Planning, allowing visitors and historians to upload essays, images, and other data related to the aeronautical industry located in Downey, California. Access is through kiosks placed throughout the city.
Math Goodies
Math Goodies
2005-2009
Client: Mrs. Glosser’s Math Goodies
We created several Flash modules that taught basic math skills and concepts in fun ways for Mrs. Glosser’s Math Goodies online tutorials. We also designed and generated web banner ads and print materials such as CD labels and inserts, bookmarks, and downloadable PDFs.
Play some Integer Football and roll some Probability Dice and build a Factor Tree at mathgoodies.com/games
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CSU Fresno Biomedical Physics Program
Biomedical Physics Program
2004
Client: CSU Fresno
The Biomedical Physics Department at California State University Fresno asked for a departmental site that explored the potential of medical professions impact upon humankind, in an imaginative narrative fashion on the homepage, and in new and fascinating animations, slideshows, and videos throughout the site.
Travel through the inside of a brain at fresnostate.edu/MedicalPhysics/
Sandra Lee SemiHomemade
Sandra Lee SemiHomemade
2001-2008
Client: Sandra Lee
In conjunction with Lentini Design, design and development of cooking/entertaining advice site for Food Network star and Lifestylist Sandra Lee. Site includes protected membership area, subscription form, and HTML email announcements. Supervised development group that implemented subscription database. Includes Semi-Homemade web magazine, updated with new issues and articles, built and organized with a consistent infrastructure for easy templatizing; well-documented, easily maintained and archived.
UCLA Main Gateway
UCLA Main Gateway
2004
Client: UCLA
Built templated pages for UCLA’s main entry site and Spotlight Archive, with heavy emphasis on Server Side Includes for ease of maintenance. Designed custom header graphics, designed and scripted embedded Flash components such as custom EventsScroller and Flash “Spotlight Teaser” on front page. Assisted with integration of RealMedia, Flash, and audio multimedia solutions.
LACO Kids
LACO Kids
2003
Client: Creative Kids Education Foundation and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Several Flash interactive games were developed for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Family Concerts. They featured music from upcoming concerts, facts about the compositions and the composers, and fun innovative activities related to classical music.
Listen to music with youthful abandon at
zumwinkle.com/work/laco/html/activities.htm
LACMA Legacy of Genghis Khan
LACMA Legacy of Genghis Khan
2003
Client: LA County Museum of Art
Picked as Yahoo! Site of the Day in April 2003!
This exhibition module highlighted 28 works of art from The Legacy of Genghis Khan museum exhibition presented by LACMA’s Islamic Art Department. Each object was presented with didactic text and close-ups of object details, illustrating themes, patterns, and workmanship. Eight objects were selected for special presentations in FlashMX format; the visitor clicks on a highlighted number to access didactic text and close-ups in narrative order. Site includes a downloadable PDF curriculum for teachers.
General Genghis Khan commands your presence. Come study Islamic Art.
some pages require Flash plug-in]
Visions of Enlightenment: Buddhist Art
Visions of Enlightenment
2003
Client: Pacific Asia Museum
2004 SILVER MUSE AWARD WINNER: ART EDUCATION
(American Association of Museums)
Yahoo! Site of the Day
Netscape Site of the Day
Design and development of base-Flash module with HTML resource pages. Site highlights 27 example objects from a recent Buddhist Art exhibit taken from the museum’s collection. Each object has larger versions of object, rollover details, text essays, and teacher resources. Included for delivery are a Flash-driven timeline/world map, PDFs of K-12 curriculum materials, an extensive contextual glossary, a Flash “Fact or Fiction” guessing game with feedback and rewards, a community forum, and four Flash photo essays by local photographers.
Taxonomy Strategies
Taxonomy Strategies
2002
Client: Taxonomy Strategies
We resolved the challenge of illustrating taxonomic structure by utilizing diagrams and a timeless tree-branch visual for this custom Dreamweaver site.
Categorize your thoughts at
taxonomystrategies.com
LACMA Explore Places
LACMA Explore Places
2002
Client: LA County Museum of Art
Picked as February/March 2003 Cool Art Site of the Month by the San Francisco Exploratorium!
How can a place inspire an artist?
How do artists represent places?
Why do artists represent places?
What do artists communicate about places?
This educational module for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents eight works from the collection revolving around the concept of “location” and includes Flash elements, animated gifs, popup windows for object comparison, a fun Java Applet, and downloadable PDF teacher resources.
Explore places through art at
lacma.org/places
Chinese Ceramics
Pacific Asia Museum
2002
Client: Pacific Asia Museum
The Pacific Asia Museum has a wonderful collection of ceramic works, and we were involved with the design and development of these online K-12 curriculum materials. Site includes 31 example objects, section narratives for students, Flash elements, fact sheets, subject and object timelines, and extensive teacher resources.
Tell Me Your Stories
Tell Me Your Stories
2002
Client: Living Legacies Historical Foundation
Living Legacies Historical Foundation designs curriculum for middle school and high school Social Studies/English classes, teaching intergenerational and multicultural oral history interviewing and reporting.Teacher curriculum is delivered via HTML and editable Word documents.
Learn how to tell stories at tellmeyourstories.org