Bluecadet Interactive

At the end of the revolutionary period, George Washington answered a letter written by Moses Seixas of the congregation Jeshuat Israel. This letter, which was carefully crafted and considered by our first president, offers rare and telling insights into Washington's views on religion and religious freedoms.

This letter, now considered one of the nation's most important historical documents, stands at the center of the National Museum of American Jewish History’s (NMAJH) special exhibition "To Bigotry No Sanction: George Washington and Religious Freedom."

NMAJH approached Bluecadet with the challenge of bringing to light the biblical allusions, sociopolitical context, and subtext woven into these important artifacts. To this end, Bluecadet designed an interactive touchscreen experience. This experience allows users to explore an annotated version of the letter, to see in-line transcripts, to view associated imagery and media, and to reveal the through-lines of Washington and Seixas' historic communication. An elegant and intuitive interface draws users into the content and elucidates this careful, measured, and artful correspondence.

Further, Bluecadet developed an online version of the in-gallery experience. This experience, built in HTML5, CSS3 and custom JavaScript, is similarly fluid and intuitive. The experience has also been optimized to run on the iPad.

Watch the video of the interactive

Credits

Creative Director

Josh Goldblum

Designer

Troy Lachance

Producer

Aaron Miller

Lead Flash Developer

Jason Grandelli

Lead Website Developer

Steve Hurwitz

Website Developer

Putra Roeung

Website Landing Page Designer

Doug Noe

Production Designer

Dana Mulranen