People Behind the Pixels was my senior capstone project at Northeastern University. In the Arts, Media and Design program, all the seniors double majoring in Interactive Media took a year long class together and spent that time developing a polished project together. Because of the diverse backgrounds of our “other” major (ranging from graphic design, to music, to computer science) we created a pretty realistic imitation of a start-up company.

With the five students in my capstone class (see below) and our instructors, we developed People Behind the Pixels, which was:

“A platform designed to make a comprehensive source of history and information taken from both previously existing databases and user entered data and display it all in a compelling interactive, web-based application”

What made this project unique were the stories that would be gathered from the user-entered data. Combining both that aspect and the factual information (mostly from existing information on the web) it would paint a fuller bodied picture of the history of computer graphics.

I was primarily onboard as a visual designer, but I also contributed in the early stages of designing the framework of the system. I worked on the timeline visualization as a search tool for viewers, and I helped out with the wireframing of the interface. 

In the spring of 2012 we entered our project in the Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo, and I designed this poster for it.