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    The Book of Hours

    Client

    Speed Art Museum

    Date

    October 2009

    Location

    Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY

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    Tags

    Exhibition, Storytelling, Touch, Web sites, Installations

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    • Narrative storytelling
    • Interactive installations
    • Enhanced artifacts

    The artwork within a 15th-century medieval masterpiece is revealed, enhanced, and interpreted in the enchanting interfaces of this Web site and installation.

    This interactive kiosk and Web site were unveiled as part of the Speed Art Museum’s exhibition A Book of Prayers: The Medieval Bestseller. An excellent example of one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages, the Speed’s Book of Hours represents late medieval painting at its best. With sixteen beautifully rendered miniatures, every page is meticulously decorated with painted flowers or birds and curling ivy vines accented in gold leaf. Through a unique astronomy-inspired interface museum visitors and Web site users can explore many of the pages within the book. Visitors can zoom in on every detail of the illuminated manuscript, and interpretive insight is displayed in the animated marginalia where visitors can link and learn about the artists, artwork, techniques, and iconography of a Book of Hours.

    Press & Awards

    Communication Arts, Webpick of the Week, March 19, 2010

    Unveiled as part of the Speed Art Museum’s exhibition A Book of Prayers: The Medieval Bestseller, this site’s enchanting interfaces reveal, enhance and interpret the content of a 15th-century medieval masterpiece. With sixteen beautifully-rendered miniatures, every page is meticulously decorated with painted flowers or birds and curling ivy vines accented in gold leaf.

    Credits

    Lead Designer
    Christian Bannister
    Production Artist
    Rebecca Rosen
    Technology Director
    Thomas Wester
    Developer
    Jeremy Brown
    Producer
    Heather Daniel
    Production Coordinator
    Michael Neault
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