Companies team with Google for Smithsonian exhibit
Digital Deployment CEO Mac Clemmens stands next to the website-powered kiosk at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City.Ever wanted to create your own doodle on the Google homepage? Three local companies — Digital Deployment, Fuel Creative Group and JM Design — teamed up to create two web-based kiosks enabling you to do just that. They’re located in the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City.
“Doodle 4 Google: If I Could Do Anything, I Would…” features the kiosks alongside 40 doodles from children whose art finishes the sentence, “If I could do anything, I would…” The winning drawing was featured on the Google homepage last month. The kiosks also debuted in the exhibit last month, allowing visitors to draw custom doodles and e-mail them to themselves or friends from the museum site, said Carol Davydova, Fuel’s business developer.
Google contacted Digital Deployment for help on the project because they had worked together before, said owner and CEO Mac Clemmens. Clemmens and his team of four sub-contracted a small design team from Fuel, which was led by Brent Rector, as well as Flash programmer Jason McWhorter of JM Design. Google also contracted a kiosk designer from the Bay Area.
