Bluecadet Interactive

Stretching from City Hall, past the Barnes Foundation and the Rodin, to the world-famous Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia's Ben Franklin Parkway is proudly hailed as the "the most artistic mile in the country." The Greater Philadelphia Tourism and Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) sought a website that would showcase the museums on this mile for their "With Art Philadelphia" campaign.

It is no great secret that the best sources of inspiration for digital work can often be found offline. Recently I took a trip to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and got inspired. Here is Multiverse, Leo Villareal’s 2008 instllation, shoved into the rubric of interactive design.

Truth from the outset, I've never completely understood the allure of the duck boat. To orient the uninitiated, the duck boat is a giant military-style transport vehicle built to drive on land or sea. Built in 1942, this giant waterproof jeep was apparently quite a hit with General Patton and Eisenhower. Having outgrown its military usefulness, and in the proud tradition of the Hummer, the duck boat was brought stateside for civilian use.