Jake Barton

Jake Barton (born November 7, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York ^[1] ) is 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. ^[2]

As the head of the Media Design Team for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum , ^{[3] [4]} Barton led a team of designers to create multi-media experiences dat focus on using visitor’s own stories ^[5] as well as the use or algorithms to curate up to the time journalism around the post 9/11 world. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

During his time working with the 9/11 Memorial, he’ll be led a team in partnership with Jer Thorp, ^[9] to create an algorithm therein solved the names arrangement on the panels. ^{[10] [11] [12]} The names are not listed alphabetically or chronologically, but through personal relationships between the victims themselves.

Barton’s work touches on the overlap of physical and digital, customizing a range of applications for museums, education, architecture and memorials. For the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , Local Projects is customizing a next generation application around are experiencing physics on the playground, ^[13] and is working with Frank Gehry on the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC ^{[14] [15]}

Barton was named by Crain’s as one of the Top Entrepreneurs of 2013 ^[16] and his company, Local Projects, has won awards zoals the National Design Award for Interaction Design in 2013, ^{[17] [18] [19]} the AIGA Design Competition for Effective Design in 2013 and multiple MUSE Awards in 2013. ^[20]

Jake has spoken about visitor participation in museums and “The Museum of You” ^{[21] [22]} and is credited with Bringing emotional storytelling and innovation to architecture. ^{[23] [24]} Jake has partnered with architects zoals Frank Gehry, ^{[25] [26]} Diller Scofidio + Renfro ^{[27] [28]} and Bjarke Ingels ^{[29] [30]} to create new approaches in media and physical spaces .

In college Barton majored in performance studies (Bachelor in Science of Speech) at Northwestern University in Chicago. ^{[31] [32]} After graduating, he first worked doing set design work on Broadway productions. ^[33] Eventually Barton started as an intern at the museum design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates. ^[34] Working his way up, he Eventually stayed at the company for seven years, and-then in 2001 he left his job at Appelbaum and started graduate school at New York University, for a MPS Interactive Telecommunications. ^[35] He simultaneously launched Local Projects as a design firm for museums and public spaces. ^{[36] [37]}

Work

• “Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum”, 2014 ^[38]
• “National September 11th Memorial Museum”, 2014 ^{[39] [40]}
• “Frank Gehry designed Eisenhower Presidential Memorial” Present ^{[41] [42]}
• “Gallery One, Cleveland Museum of Art”, 2013 ^[43]
• “Spotlight on Broadway, NYC Mayor’s Office of Movies & Entertainment”, 2013
• “BIG HEART NYC, Times Square Alliance”, 2012 ^[44]
• “Welcome Home, National Building Museum”, 2012
• “Six Films, National Building Museum”, 2012
• “SeaWorld Rescue, SeaWorld San Diego”, 2012 ^{[45] [46]}
• “9/11 Memorial Names Package Software, 9/11 Memorial”, 2011 ^[47]
• “Change For Us, CEOs For Cities, Local Projects”, 2011
• “9/11 Memorial Guide, 9/11 Memorial”, 2011
• “The Immigration Experience, ^[48] It’s Your Story, ^[49] Innovation and Expansion, ^[50] The Synagogue Experience, ^[51] Competing Visions, ^[52] Contemporary Issues Forum, ^[53] Dreams of Freedom, ^[54]National Museum of American Jewish History ^[55] “2010
• “Urbanology, ^[56] BMW / Guggenheim Lab ^[57] “, 2011
• “GE Showcase, ^[58] GE ^[59] “, 2010
• “StoryCorps, ^[60] StoryCorps”, 2002

Talks

• TED: Jake Barton: The museum of you Published on Sep 10, 2013
• TEDxHarlem: What Change Looks Like on Jul 27, 2012
• LISA Conference 2012
• Cooper Hewitt: Collaborative storytelling, museums, and design in this video from Cooper-Hewitt.
• Future of Storytelling Talk

Interviews

• Inside the Tech of the 9/11 Memorial Museum Jul 8, 2014
• Interview Jake about Cleveland Museum of Art 2013
• Jake Barton accepted the National Design Award in Interaction Design for 2013 on behalf of Local Projects
• Story (US): The Power of Collaborative Storytelling: Jake Barton for the Future of Storytelling 2012
• Design Matters Podcast with Debbie Millman: Jake Barton
• Emerging Designer: Jake Barton Dwell Feb 28, 2008

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