www.dwell.com | February 2008 | see full video

"Jake Barton is designing a new breed of museum, one that favors local voices over curatorial authority. They are places for dialogue, not lectures."

www.poptech.com | December 2009 | see full video

"...excerpts from presenters Jake Barton (Local Projects) on the appeal of bicycling as alternative transportation..."

www.fastcompany.com | October 2009 (Fast Company video player works best in Safari/Internet Explorer) | see full video

"A sneak peek at GE's Healthymagination Showcase, a New York storefront envisioning the future of health care, as designed by Local Projects, Thinc Design, and Urban A&O and Hyperquake."

www.ny1.com | April 2010 | read full article | Watch video here

"[September 11th] was a moment of shared witness," said September 11th Museum Director Alice Greenwald. "We believe a third of the world's population actually witnessed the events transpire on 9/11 virtually in real time over the course of the day as the news reports repeated throughout the day and the evening. That's an extraordinary amount of the world seeing the same thing at the same time. So this was a moment when the world truly came together in the midst of a catastrophic event."

www.fastcodesign.com | August 2010 | read full article

"Visitors will then pass a number of impressionistic exhibits designed by Thinc design with multi-media by Local Projects, which evoke the experience of 9/11 around the world--which more than 2 billion people saw on TV."

www.archpaper.com | April 2010 | read full article

"...the Sydney-based Arup designer and urbanist Dan Hill describes soft infrastructure as a way to "bend the physical city" and rescale it to what he calls "walkable urbanism." Hill could have been referring to Bike It, an initiative by Jake Barton of Local Projects, a design firm focused on public space. Bike It takes advantage of underused infrastructure--in this case, New York's bike lanes--by layering them with an interactive network. In brief, said Barton, Bike It is a "super-charged iPhone app that calculates time and money saved, as well as calories burned plus locations of other cyclists" that could be broadcast on LED panels already embedded in bus shelters around the city."

weeklypress.com | March 2010 | read full article

"This custom-made technology will fill the exhibit with the dissent, passion and dialogue that embodies the American Jewish and American experience," said Perelman. "It's a level of engagement rarely found in public institutions."...The interactive exhibits are being created by Local Projects, a media design firm for museums and public spaces that creates a diverse range of installations, from large environmental interactives, websites, and mobile applications, to simple experiences composed of thumbtacks and vellum. Local Projects creates media projects that are integrated into architecture, that connect people with the world and each other, and that inspire awe and wonder.

forward.com | March 2010 | read full article

"The museum's survey of 350 years of American Jewish history ends with the Contemporary Issues Forum, wherein visitors can respond to a provocative question, such as, "Is intermarriage a threat to religious communities?" They choose a card color-coded to their response - "yes," "no," or "um." There's also space for messages. The card is then scanned and physically placed on a wall. In this way responses can be tabulated and visitors can read what others feel about the topic, forming a kind of conversation between past and present visitors."

nytimes.com | January 2010 | read full article

"The key is to use constraints," said Jake Barton, the lead designer for Make History. "Just giving visitors an open mike is the least kind thing you can do. We are asking for people's experiences, but that doesn't relieve us of the responsibility to share a narrative with the visitor."

miamiherald.com | March 2010 | read full article

The Miami Herald caught up with Local Projects' team recently: "Filmmakers for the National Museum of American Jewish History, scheduled to open in November on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, were in South Florida this week."

gdruk.com | January 2010 | read full article

"New York's new tourist information centre uses interactive technologies to help visitors create personalised guidebooks and itineraries to navigate the city. Five touchscreen tables each display digital maps on which users can place puck-like objects to mark destinations of interest."

mags.acm.org | January/February 2010 | read full article

"In a world where anyone can publish, and seemingly everyone does, what is the role of cultural institutions in curating our collective memory? Can "official" institutional versions of history coexist with this proliferation of constantly shifting personal expression?or is such a distinction growing increasingly meaningless in a networked world? Jake Barton of Local Projects has been wrestling with these questions for the past few years as he works with the National September 11 Museum & Memorial team to build Make History (http://makehistory.national911memorial.org/), a new site that allows individuals to share their photos, videos, and personal stories of the event." -Alex Wright

www.good.is | December 2009 | read full article

"But just looking cool and classy while cycling was one solution, said Barton. Bikers also need to know that they're part of a larger community. Barton proposed an iPhone app that could help connect nearby bikers who could ride together and also help explain the benefits of a biked-in commute, calculating not only time and money saved, but carbon saved as well. Interactive bus shelters that broadcasted the information of those biking by would serve as an effective marketing tool. The shelters could also recognize that you're riding by and flash bits of information, like how much gas money you'd saved, motivating cyclists even more."

www.mondoarc.com | October/November 2009 | read full article

"By working closely with Local Projects, we were able to closely integrate their sophisticated technology into the interior architecture, without impacting the integrity of our design."-WXY principal Claire Weisz

www.nypost.com | November 2009 | read full article

"The Web site, called Make History [Happen], was launched around Sept. 11 of this year as a way to collect images related to the World Trade Center. Memorial Foundation President Joseph Daniels said 9/11 is the most photographed event of our time -- perhaps in all of history -- and that collecting those still and moving images is an important part of understanding the historic event..."It meant more than words can describe for me to have access to what is probably the last photo taken of my son," Box said.

www.wnyc.org | September 2009 | read full article

On the new website, "www.911history.org" the National September 11th Memorial and Museum allows people to upload the images they captured that day, and in the days that followed. Jake Barton developed the website. BARTON: For every individual who watched something on television, who were at one of the attack sites, who attended a vigil, who volunteered in the days and months and years after 9/11, they are actually able to tell their 9/11 story. Listen to the podcast here.

www.observer.com | September 2009 | read full article

Just in time for the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11th attacks, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum launched a new online initiative, titled "Make History." Users can submit photos, digital video and personal stories at a special feature section on 911history.org that will become part of a permanent digital archive and help build an online interactive timeline based on the materials.

www.nytimes.com | September 2009 | read full article

The views of the terrorist attacks -- one of the most recorded events of all time -- are among hundreds of hours of amateur videos, images and stories gathered by the foundation building the memorial. The National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum launched a Web site Thursday -- at http://makehistory.national911memorial.org -- with its collection of citizen journalism of the tragedy and is appealing for more 9/11 stories from all over the world. ''They say that 9/11 was the most digitally documented event of all time,'' said Alice Greenwald, director of the planned museum. ''We're asking people everywhere to help us tell the story.''

www.ny1.com | January 2009 | read full article | Watch video here

People today anticipate some level of customization for their experience, so it's not so much going in and getting the same thing that everyone wants. They want their experience facilitated for exactly what they're interested in and that's what technology does particularly well,” says co-designer Jake Barton of Local Projects."

www.core77.com | September 2009 | read full article

The National 9/11 Memorial & Museum has launched Make History, "a world-wide initiative to gather any and every 9/11 story in an effort to understand history from the perspective of those who witnessed it. Using the website, visitors can search, group and sequence any number of histories, photos or experiences, creating custom sequences by time, geography or theme. Each photo is overlaid on a current street-view image of the present day, creating a 'double exposure' of past and present." The site was created by Local Projects. Visit 911history.org to submit photos, stories, and video.

www.infosthetics.com | September 2009 | read full article

Make History [national911memorial.org] is a collection of stories, videos, and photos submitted by people who experienced 9/11. Developed by interactive media firm Local Projects, the website visualizes user-generated 9/11 stories temporally, geographically and by overlaying Google Streetview images. The images create a "double-vision" contrast between the intensity of the past, and the banality of the present. An interactive timeline and geographical map allows users to explore how the attack impacted its environment over the time of the day.

www.fastcompany.com | October 2009 | read full article

The Vscan is a centerpiece of GE's Healthymagination Showcase in Midtown Manhattan, which will be open to the public this Saturday. We got a sneak preview of the space, which was designed by Local Projects, Thinc Design, and Urban A&O, and projects real stories about health onto real hospital elements like gurneys--and, cleverly, stacks of paperwork.

www.iconeye.com | April 2009 | read full article

WXY architecture has developed a new concept of information and way finding together with media design firm Local Projects and integrated the technology
into the design of the space for NYC&Co, the official marketing and tourist organisation for New York.

www.metropolismag.com | April 2009 | read full article

The idea, says Jake Barton, whose media-design firm, Local Projects, cocreated the visitors' center, is to deliver digital information that reflects the act of walking around town. "It's all about the actual experience of being in the city itself but collapsed into this interface," Barton explains. "It's all space based."

www.mygazines.com/issue/1016 | Spring 2009 | read full article

Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York narrates the city’s story through imagery and visual graphics.