Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley required an online “dashboard” from which critical financial data could be exchanged with clients and between Morgan Stanley offices.

 

Challenges included designing an elegant, efficient interface capable of working with international connections of greatly varying speeds.

 

Media A’s interaction and visual design solution was derived from on-site observations of future users, interviews with customers and partners and an analysis of icon vs. alpha-numeric controls.

Projects in Transnational Design

Design projets are exceedingly collaborative and more often than not, take place in different places at once by people with radically varied backgrounds.

 

Screen-based tools at a casual level seem “easy”, but creating a successful collaboration over great cultural and physical distance is difficult, requiring large amounts of planning and experimentation.

 

Projects in Transnational Design is a five-year collaboration between the Master’s programs at Pratt Institute in New York City and AKV St. Joost in the Netherlands.

 

Directed by Tom Klinkowstein and Miriam Bestebreurte, Projects in Transnational Design creates a networked, shared ethos by using the principles (among others) of Martin Buber’s, “Ich und Du” (I and Thou), to produce speculative design investigations.

Jazz at Lincoln Center

For more than a decade, Wynton Marsalis dreamed of making Lincoln Center one of New York City’s premiere jazz centers. To generate advance excitement of the new $128 million Rose Hall at Columbus Circle, Jazz at Lincoln Center asked Media A to develop a video installation.

 

To evoke the era of swing (a Jazz at Lincoln Center theme) and to suggest the center’s dynamic future, Media A worked with archive photos, married them to a Marsalis soundtrack, and edited it all into a video stream displayed on a large plasma display.