Recognition
Second Story has collaborated with many of the world’s outstanding organizations, cultural institutions, and brands to create compelling projects that have been featured in the popular press and in dozens of books. The studio’s work has also garnered many of the industry’s top interactive design awards and accolades.
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Communication Arts, Interactive Design Annual, Experimental, 2010 (Body Collective)
“A nice blend of design and technology, this experience does an excellent job of immersing the user in the content of the museum exhibit in a unique and wonderful way. Simple, yet engaging in its approach, it does one thing extremely well.”
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Communication Arts, Interactive Design Annual, Experimental, 2010 (Design Your Own Ballpark)
“You immediately know that any kids who love baseball will spend as much time playing with this as their parents will allow. Mission accomplished”
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“The Best Tour Guide May Be in Your Purse,” The New York Times, Keith Schneider, March 18, 2010
“Since the 1960s, when tape recorders and audio tours were first introduced, art museums have embraced technology to provide more engaging ways for patrons to interact with exhibits. In 2002, art museums began delivering audio tours on cellphones. Later in the decade, interactive producers like Second Story, a Portland, Ore., design company, delivered multimedia kiosks and online programming to museums.”
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“AIGA Relaunches Design Archives Site,” Graphics.com February 18, 2010 (AIGA Design Archives)
“The redesign, by Second Story Interactive Studios, addresses these shortcomings by providing easier and deeper searches, faster results, live filtering, improved navigation, new presentation modes and the ability to share inspiration on social networking sites.”
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“AIGA Design Archives Site Relaunched, Digital Annual Released,” Designtaxi.com February 18, 2010 (AIGA Design Archives)
“Long a source of inspiration for designers, researchers, educators and students around the world, the AIGA Design Archives has just launched with a redesign by Second Story Interactive Studios. While still the largest online collection of design excellence, the upgraded system now features easier and deeper searches, faster results, live filtering, improved navigation, new presentation modes and the ability to share inspiration on social networking sites.”
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“AIGA Relaunches Online Design Archives,” Stephanie Murg, Mediabistro.com February 16, 2010 (AIGA Design Archives)
“Get ready to lose yourself—or at least many, many hours—in design excellence, because AIGA has relaunched its storied design archives. Thanks to a complete overhaul by Second Story Interactive Studios, the faster and more user-friendly site features roughly 20,000 records (and more than double that many images) encompassing design specimens ranging from books and logos to typography and motion graphics.”
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“AIGA Design Archives,” Cultiva Studio February 16, 2010 (AIGA Design Archives)
“Earlier this month AIGA launched their revamped Design Archives. It is a vast archive of 300 different collections and growing. The archive is very flexible in how it can be viewed or searched.”
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“AIGA Archives,” Emsdot.posterous.com February 12, 2010 (AIGA Design Archives)
“The recent design of AIGA's new archive section is pretty ingenious. It's simple interactions and transparent display of data would make Edward Tufte proud.”
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“Case Study: AIGA Design Archives,” Michael Neault, aiga.org February 4, 2010 (AIGA Design Archives)
“AIGA and Second Story have collaborated on the website since it first launched in 2005. Featuring special collections and works from AIGA’s competitions since 1924, designarchives.aiga.org is a growing source of inspiration for designers, researchers, educators, students and the public.”
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Communication Arts Advertising Annual 50, January 2010 (The Marion Davies Guest House)
“The interpretive installations at the Annenberg Community Beach House capture the legacy of 415 Pacific Coast Highway.”