Project Role

Animation Programmer

Project Description

Concept and Vector Design by Jonathan Petersen

Animation by Tommy Dalton

Future Fork is an interactive multimedia design project that was featured in the Starts/Speculations: Graphic Design in Chicago Past and Future exhibition June 12, 2014–September 30, 2014. I created this piece with Chicago artist, Jonathan Petersen for the exhibition. The animation functions are developed with GSAP animation library in ActionsScript3 and it's mathematically impossible for Future Fork to repeat itself once it is launched. Click on the icon in top right to reveal a control panel used to set params for animation and test the application. 

Museum App Build (Windows. exe) Github Repo

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Excerpt from chidm.com:

Inspired by the past century of design achievement and looking toward the future with insight and creativity, Starts/Speculations represents an anthology of work from Chicago’s graphic design legacy and a glimpse into how the tools we use to design and communicate could evolve and influence our interactions in the future.

Beginning with a letter that articulates visual design standards for the 1909 Plan of Chicago by Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett, the exhibition is a broad overview of the past century of graphic design in Chicago with a particular focus on the influence of European modernism through the establishment of the New Bauhaus in 1937. As the Chicago Design Museum evolves and grows, we look forward to exploring and sharing more of Chicago’s design legacy by unearthing the stories that make our city unique, as well as highlighting dynamic influences from across cultures, borders, and disciplines. We consider this the start of something more—more ideas, more conversations and more discovery. The glimpse into the future includes work from Chris Eichenseer, Jonathan Petersen (with animation by Tommy Dalton), Matt Wizinsky, Other Forms, The Post Family, Plural and Studio Blue

^{Organized by the ChiDM Curatorial Committee: Robyn Paprocki, Morgan Walsh; Exhibition Director: Matthew Terdich}

ChiDM
Chicago Design Museum
Block Thirty Seven
108 N State St, 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60602