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The Museum of London has launched an iPhone app that enables users to access its extensive art and photographic images of the streets of London
Developed in conjunction with Brothers and Sisters, the free StreetMuseum app utilises the iPhone’s geolocation technology to allow users to hold up their phones to London landmarks and overlay a historic image of it on the real-time image.
This is a great new use of Augmented Reality.
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. Do not be intimidated by the wall of text that you encounter when you visit their site. Instead focus on the many 5-10 minute video lessons available, and more are coming. An outstanding resource.
via khanacademy.org
Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker began smARThistory in 2005 by creating a blog featuring free audio guides in the form of podcasts for use in The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Soon after, we embedded the audio files in our online survey courses. The response from our students was so positive that we decided to create a multi-media survey of art history web-book. We created audios and videos about works of art found in standard art history survey texts, organized the files stylistically and chronologically, and added text and still images.
A beautifully designed website full of comprehensive information on art and art history. A must resource.
Identity design, for any organization containing more than three people, is the act of diplomatically negotiating personal egos, tastes, and aspirations of various invested individuals against their business needs, their pre-formed expectations, and the constraints of the market place. Making something formalistically beautiful, while desirable, is a more private part of the process, something that the designer needs to achieve incidentally, not something that can appear to be an overt motivating cause. (This is because form is subjective, and not an easily argued position when a designer is trying to get their client to feel comfortable assuming a new identity.)
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