www.adobemagazine.com | June 2007 | read full article

"Jake Barton loves a good story. For him, that's the heart of successful user-generated content, which he prefers to call "participatory projects." Many of his studio's clients are non-profit cultural institutions like museums. Whether they have ethnic heritage of geographical history in common, the communities these projects serve have authentic stories to share..."

Postopolis! | June 2007 | read full article

"Thanks to an earlier project, the now well-known StoryCorps, Local Projects is in the position of having helped create an almost iconic example of how to obtain user-generated content in physical space... "

Forbes | June 2007 | read full article

"Award-winning Firms Form Collaboration to Create Place of Pilgrimage, Healing, Memory, Inspiration at Site of Ground Zero NEW YORK, April 17... "

Metropolis Magazine | December 2006 | read full article

"As ambitious as the city whose growth it will document, PIE will focus on future development in New York; it will solicit professional and community feedback, and in the process create a database on how the twenty-first-century metropolis evolves in the footprint of the old city... "

EMERGE | November 2006 | read full article

"Traditionally, design is rarely narrative in nature, yet Local Projects have developed an approach and aesthetic that makes their work about so much more than the presentation of a story or message... "

Adobe Think Tank | October 2006 | read full article

"Thus, the best interactive exhibits are open-ended. They encourage visitors to be active participants in the experience rather than passive consumers of information..."

Cartographic Perspectives | March 2006 | read full article

"Esteemed author Denis Wood, who wrote the groundbreaking The Power of Maps, collaborated with John Krygier to write "Jake Barton's Performative Maps: An Essay," a profile on Local Projects' map-based art projects, in the latest issue of Cartographic Perspectives.

The Washington Post | StoryCorps at Ground Zero | July 2005 | read full article

"She joined relatives of other September 11 victims to record some of her memories at a newly opened oral history booth at the World Trade Center Site..."

New Yorker Magazine | Timescapes | June 2005 | read full article

"Four hundred years of New York History are compressed into a twenty-two minute presentation of morphing maps, images, and narration in the new three-screen..."

NY Arts Magazine | Timescapes | December 2004 | read full article

"This is how you organize a cartography installation; this is how you map a map..."

Metropolis Magazine | New York's Moynihan July 2004 | read full article

"You wander into a little media gallery with video clips and his speeches and television appearances. Here at last the full flavor of the man comes across..."

Metropolis Magazine | Metropolis in Motion | ICFF Directory 2004 | read full article

" 'Functionally the structure works like a magazine,' Local Projects' Jake Barton says, 'Outside it has a cover to attract attention. Inside the actual content is represented through physical broadsheets and interactive stations...' "

USA Today | StoryCorps | October 28, 2003

"StoryCorps—a national oral history project in which ordinary Americans are interviewed by relatives or friends—opened its first recording booth Thursday in New York City's Grand Central Terminal..."

I.D. Magazine | StoryCorps | October 2003 | read full article

"The quiet interior space is connected to the outside world through a low slung window, where passersby can glimpse the interview in process, or hear recorded interviews at a listening station..."

Metropolis Magazine | StoryCorps | January 2004 | read full article

"Glowing, beaconlike soundproof recording booths will be deployed in public spaces..."