Project:
This pilot project represents a first attempt to explore the potential of this idea through an online, multi-media publication, including text, images, documents and sound files, and to suggest a framework for presenting a more rounded portrait of Mozart, both personally and as a musician, in his time and place(s). Among the topics a future iteration of this site may include are Mozart’s library, his traveling tea chest, an eighteenth-century blood-letting device and Mozart’s sticking plaster, a window from one of Mozart’s flats in Vienna, an executioner’s sword from Salzburg, Mozart’s watch and his telescope.
Process:
I worked closely with Cliff Eisen, Harold Short and other members of King's Digital Lab as the designer on this project. The project started off with a very simple brief with a simple content, and an initial design was implemented. Content was slowly added over time and new features were requested to be added, like a data structure. I realised that the initial design would not work and it had to be redesigned near the end of the project. I translated the design into a prototype to create the base framework for responsive design and interactions, and continued working on it on the staging server alongside a developer to produce the final website.
