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Harlan & Weaver - Process

Harlan & Weaver is a fine art publishing company in New York, NY.

The site is built in Squarespace, with lots of custom CSS added to meet their unique requirments for their webstore.

They wanted to give their website an updated minimalist look, and add e-commerce functionality to the site. They wanted a e-shop front that could serve as a gallery of their works, while also allowing customers to purchase directly from the online gallery.

We also added "artist profiles" for their newest artists- including process photos and the artist's writings about their work. This way guests to the site could get a more well-rounded view of the artists' work.

Santa Rosa Multicultural Museum - Process

The goal of this project was to create an educational game about Native American art & culture that could be played on-site at the museum while viewing the exhibits. Our primary target audience was 4th-5th graders.

We brainstormed many different ideas for integrating the physical and online space, but we ultimately decided on a scavenger hunt style game, that encouraged kids to look for clues in the artifacts on display.

This project presented more than a few challenges, including creating an art style that was colorful & engaging for kids while remaining faithful to the Native American art and cultural objects on display.

Another challenge was migrating the museum's current educational materials (paper print outs) to a digital format. The client had so much wonderful content that she wanted to include, that our scavenger hunt started to look incredibily cluttered - featuring dreaded walls of texts (no good for adults, much less 4th graders). So we opted instead to make a much longer game, featuring more artifacts to find, and several mini-games users could play. This way we were able to spread out our educational content in a more digestible fashion, including integrating it into the mini-games and "fun facts" that pop-up when you answer a question correctly.

We approached the project using Agile Scrum methods, focusing on user stories. Click here to see a visual plan of our user stories.

This site isn't publicly available :( Unfortunately, it is only accessible on the SRJC network. But you can view the github repository here.