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Projects A selection of projects that members of our team have worked on in the past: |
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| National Museum of Natural History: Submersible Design created a full implementation plan for a multi-million dollar, multi-year online strategy for the Smithsonian Institution. The Submersible team developed plans for innovative media-rich online exhibits, created distributed content models, made staffing recommendations and created a customized content management structure to ensure evolving content and ongoing interaction design excellence that serves specific educational goals. |
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation: Submersible Design is redesigning and redeveloping a website for the museum of natural history in New York City that immerses visitors in media that expresses the breadth and depth of their biodiversity research. Our team is providing the museum with training and strategies to ensure that they will be able to keep the site up-to-date for years to come while upholding design and content standards. | Thinc Design: Submersible works with Thinc Design, the exhibit design firm, as Media Producers. Our team helps Thinc refine their exhibit concepts by providing in-depth knowledge of interaction design using new technologies. We work to design the exhibit experience, write RFPs and identify new media producers to implement exhibits.. |
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| New York Story Interactive Animation: This interactive animated exhibit is part of the current Water: H20=Life exhibition at the natural history museum in New York. The touchscreen interactive allows visitors to explore fly-through 3D animations explaining the complexity of the astounding New York City water system through engaging animation, music and narration. Created with Maya and Flash. |
Panel Presentations: Our team has spoken on panels about online marketing, new media, art, technology & sustainability. Some recent engagements in New York City include "Online Marketing Using New Media" at the Just Food conference, "Change Agents" for the American Society of Landscape Architects, and "New Media and the Environment" at the Trendsetters Conference. | Plantopia Museum: A plan for an interactive museum about plant life. The museum emphasizes full-body immersive experiences, narrativity, constructivist and intuitive learning, and tools to extend the museum beyond its physical walls. The plan serves as a tool to explore the possibilities of new media in educational settings. |
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| The Museum of Humor: In this proposal for an interactive exhibition full of new media installations, visitors cut loose and discover their innate abilities to make one another laugh. | The SnackFax at Sony Wonderlab: While instructing a robotic installation to make edible sculptures from multi-colored cake frosting, children at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab learned about future fabrication techniques like multi-material 3-D printing. Co-founder, Britta Riley, designed and built the SnackFax with fellow exhibit designer, Chris Kucinski. |
Floating Playground: A plan for an installation composed of large scale inflatable optical illusion objects that invite users to interact with each other and their environment. Utilizing custom projection systems and sensors to detect movement, the project is designed to engage hundreds in a festival atmosphere. |
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| EcoScore: A business plan for a website and product labels that inform consumers about grocery products' full environmental impact. The plan was a Finalist in the 2007 Stern Social Venture Business Plan Competition. | Imps Interactive Installation: This project allows users to interact with small animated characters through movement and sound. The project incorporates video, programmatic and frame-based drawn animation, projection, and video sensing. | Sustainable Table, Eat Well Guide: Award-winning web and design direction for these and several other non-profit organizations that seek to use new media to educate and inspire people about the environment. Involvement includes online strategy, illustration, programming, design. |
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| Botanicalls: Rebecca Bray, our co-founder, worked with three others to develop Botanicalls, a system that allows plants to call people to express their needs. The project, which uses sensors, an open source phone system and wireless radio modules to network the plants, is a fully functional and humorous approach to cross-species communication. The project has been featured on the BBC, Good Morning American and NPR. |
MobileGraffiti: Submersible Design is part of the MobileGraffiti team creating a user-contributed art application in the Nokia Mobile Rules! Application design competition. | The Gourdsac for Ipod: A portable acoustic instrument that feeds into an Ipod, allowing the listener to 'jam' with her MP3s as she walks down the street. |
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| Materialite: A business plan for a website that uses new media and social networking to promote environmentally-friendly products and services. The plan won a Semi-Finalist position in the 2007 Stern Business Plan Competition. | Live Video Performance: Live mixing of video and animation on inflated surfaces to create fully immersive experiences. | Informative Smart Green Office Buildings: This paper was published for the conference on Ubiquitous Computing in Austria. It outlines strategies for the development of dynamic, beautiful information systems that inform people about green buildings. |
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| The Meatrix: Rebecca Bray, our co-founder was the Executive Producer of The Meatrix, the most popular animated advocacy film of all time, topping 20 million viewers. She also won a Webby Award for her direction of The Meatrix website. |
Illustration and design: Logo, web and print design for a variety of organizations and businesses. | Data Visualization: Various basic games and interactive animations from the Submersible Team. |
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