We are excited to partner with The National Campaign to help them redesign their main website. They have national expertise in their field and their website is an important source of research data and practical information that is used by a wide variety of audiences. The redesign project will give us an opportunity to reorganize their content and develop new, dynamic ways to display data. The final product will be built in Drupal 7 and include a well-designed back end to allow The National Campaign’s staff a simple process for updating and adding new research data and other compelling content.

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum partnered with the National Museum of American History to create a new permanent exhibition titled Time and Navigation – The Untold Story of Getting From Here to There. Interactive Knowledge worked closely with the Time and Navigation team to design and produce a large-scale educational website, three computer interactives and four 3D animations. The interactives and animations, produced in partnership with Terra Incognita and Pixeldust Studios, are installed as part of the exhibition and are also included in the website.

 The educational website was built using Drupal 7 framework. It includes a mobile version that was built using responsive design techniques. As the Time and Navigation team continues to update and add content to the website, these revisions will flow automatically to the mobile version that’s viewable on smartphone screens. 

Max M. Fisher Online Archives

We plan to launch this extraordinary website in January. Max M. Fisher was a remarkable man whose life cannot be summarized. We were hired by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit to create an educational website that shares his accomplishments. The site includes over 900 photographs, videos and source documents. We also produced an extensive interactive timeline and 4 ten-minute original videos that highlight his life and the character traits he exemplified – Wisdom, Service, Leadership and Generosity.

The Duke Endowment
We produced a content managed main site using Joomla for the Duke Endowment in 2009 and revised their Board Communications site with Drupal 6 in 2010. In 2012 we began work on a totally redesigned site that integrates the current features and introduces new visual designs and content. The new Duke Endowment site, which is scheduled to launch early in 2013, is being built in Drupal 7. There will be a number of responsive design features that will make the site more accessible for tablet and smartphone users.

Time and Navigation
In the spring of 2012, we were chosen by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum to design and build three computer interactives and four 3D animation sequences for a new permanent exhibition that opens in March 2013. We are also creating an interactive website that will include the interactives and 3D animations as well as a lot more content in a searchable database. We are partnering with Bart Marable at Terra Incognita for the computer interactives and Pixeldust for the animations. This project has many moving parts but they are all coming together on time. We look forward to sharing the completed project in about three months.

Our clients at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian knew there was no Maya Calendar mystery. Maya scholars agree that the ancient Maya astronomers did not predict the world would end in December, 2012. The Maya have many calendars that count the days and reset for each new cycle. The Maya Long Count calendar records 13 periods of 144,000 days each. This December marks the end of the 13th period but there was never a suggestion that this was the end of the world. Like all of the calendars, this one resets and begins a new period. The Maya are tremendous mathematicians and astronomers and an important component of their creation myth is that they were created by their gods to correctly count the days. Living Maya Time is an interactive, educational website designed and produced by Interactive Knowledge for NMAI. The site has a great collection of photos and video. It's an amazing look at current Maya traditions and how they have been adapted from ancient times. There's a Maya math interactive and several sections that focus on how the calendar was incorporated into the stelas and all of the Maya art. This bilingual site is NMAI's response to all the misinformation about the Maya predicting world cataclysm at this year's winter solstice. We predict it's going to be a very popular and high traffic site for many years to come.