Jake Barton
Jake Barton
Jake Bartonis an American designer, and the Principal and Founder of Local Projects, an experience design and strategy firm for museums, brands and public spaces based in New York, NY. His work focuses on storytelling and engaging audiences through emotion and technology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth7 November 1972
CountryUnited States of America
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Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.
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Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.
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Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.
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People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.
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As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.
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A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum's.
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You don't want to pretend that 9/11 ended in 2002 with the first anniversary. So how do you frame the post-9/11 world and play a productive role in discussing it?
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It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
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It's hard to make something feel like it needs to exist.
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I often say to prospective clients, 'Nothing will age faster than your hardware.' Even the thinnest touch screen will look like a toaster oven in a number of years.
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The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design.
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The Memorial Finder covers the gap. It tells you the specific panel and number where you can find an individual but begins to reveal the connections between the names themselves. As you move around the site itself, a smartphone app will reveal adjacencies as well as the stories behind the names.