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Nation at the Crossroads


Conference: 
MW2009
Institution: 
New-York Historical Society
Designer: 
Ducat Media LLC
Why: 

Excellent contextual material to make a potentially dry exhibition of documents come to life. This is achieved through the use video of very  enthusiastic and human scholar interviews right on the site. The design of the site in that plays up time as a factor by weaving the entire site into the context of a timeline from which all other pages and information formed was also a clever way of underscoring the importance of time as a key element in the story told by the site.

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Year: 
2009
Jeremia's picture

I am an exhibitions designer and thought just how interesting your topic is. i could conceptualise the exhibition coming to life. It appears that you can come ip with a great object from nothing.... only if you think about it and believe in yourself.
thanks for the inspiration
Jeremia Machingaifa

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