Tag: Museum
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
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.
Explore America’s Concentration Camps at eacc.janm.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
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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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.
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.
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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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
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
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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.
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.
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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.
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.