A Journey Through
The World Geographic Atlas
Designers Involved
Miles Ainsworth
Tanesha Taylor
Isa Davis
Mark Robinson
Emma Harlan
Gabriel Rodriguez
Tools
Overview
This project was a pop-up museum centered around Dr. Benjamin Benus's book "Herbert Bayer's World Geo-graphic Atlas and Information Design at Midcentury." The museum aimed to highlight both Dr. Benus's work as well as Herbert Bayers work on the World Geographic Atlas. Our exhibit displayed mutiple interactive exhibits including AR elements, interactive data visualization made from pages of the world geographic atlas, a VR recreation of Benjamin Benus's original exhibit created for his book and more!
Key Elements
Virtual Introduction to the Book by Dr. Benjamin Benus.
Dr. Benjamin Benus's Book Display
Virtual Tour Guide
AR Virtual Curator
Interactive World Geographic Atlas
AR Planetary Model
Video Introduction to Herbert Bayer
VR Recreation of Benjamin Benus Exhibition at The Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies
AI Recreation of Herbert Bayer
My Roles
In this project I worked on the Interactive World Geographic Atlas, the AR Planetary Display, the VR recreation of Dr. Benus's exhibit, and the AI recreation of Herbert Bayer
The Interactive World Geographic Atlas
I created two pages for our Interactive World Geo-graphic Atlas out of 6 made. Our team chose to select 6 pages, each one falling under a different study that the atlas explores, and create interactive elements for the page as well as add interactivity to one major data visualization from each of our pages. The 6 areas of study are Geography, Geology, Demography, Astronomy, Climatology, and Economics; I worked on the Astronomy and Demography pages.
The AR Planetary Model
I made the AR Planetary Model using adobe Aero. This model is based off of a page from the atlas that shows the relative size of each planet within a larger circle that represents the sun. The AR model shows each of the planets in the orbit they make around the sun at both their relative size to each other and the relative speed. The display is started by a proximity trigger that uses targets the page from The World Geo-graphic Atlas that this section is based off of.
AI Herbert Bayer
Our class worked together to train an AI program to respond to users as if it was Herbert Bayer. This AI was set up next to a photograph we printed and framed of Bayer to create an experience where you really feel like you are talkign to Bayer. I also created a motion piece to be projected overtop of the photograph.
VR Recreation of Dr. Benus's Exhibit
To honor Dr. Benus and his book our class worked together to create a VR recreation of his original book exhibition. We did this using spatial.io and our class worked together to insert every photo or poster that was in the original exhibit and add the description for them.
Gallery Setup
