Content Design Collaborative

08/25/2023

Featuring the exterior interpretive program at the Shaw elementary school in Millbury, another dazzling learning environment created by T2 Architecture and Dodson Flinker. The topics are the playground, a colorful meadow, rich wetlands, and waterpower. Along with Sarah Morris, content developer and writer, CDC developed and designed these stories and others. Playground physics remains a favorite, brightened by the illustrations of Christina Trapanese, a Naples, Italy-based illustrator.

08/15/2023

You never know who you will run into at History Camp. For instance, here I am with Mrs. Washington, yes, that's right, the wife of our founding father, George. She set the standards for first ladies by organizing a sewing circle to repair soldiers' uniforms.
Re-enactors like Sandy Spector can connect us with stories of the past through their humanity in a way unmatched by any other media.

The next two photos feature Judith Kalora's company, "History at Play," another re-enactor we have seen many times, and finally, Jeff Howry, Phd informs us of the importance of preserving our colonial agricultural fences, or rock walls. A colonial fence viewer, still a position in towns, surveyed these barriers to ensure they were bull-strong, sheep-high, and hog-tight.

07/23/2023

An incredible gathering of MassArt alumni at the Untold Brewery in Scituate. This event was co-hosted by President Mary Grant and Ed Malouf ’85, both Scituate residents, and orchestrated by the Alumni Relations Department. Well over 55 people attended, and Photographer Kylie Menos did an excellent job capturing the energy of the evening.

06/23/2023

Southie protects their Plovers….we hope. The Shorebird Protection Program is installed for the season at Carson Beach and local photographer Judy West took photos of our panels at work informing and evoking love.

06/16/2023

A recent visit to the Martha’s Vineyard Museum (Oudens Ello Architecture) was a delightful experience, the family space made me wish I had young children in tow! It is generous in experiences with the comfort of the parents considered as well.

06/09/2023

The Mish Michaels Hall for Scientific Discovery will be opening in July, and includes the Henry LaPrade image of the Worcester tornado during its 84-minute touchdown. Today is the 90th anniversary of this tragic 1953 event, it prompted the reorganization of the Storm Prediction Center and implementation of our very effective nationwide radar/storm spotter system.

04/28/2023

In its fourth year the Roxbury Heritage State Park and Dillway-Thomas House are in full swing. Interpreter Ena Fox of the Department of Conservation and Recreation hosted two buses of students from the 9th grade Carlisle school. The apple trees planned by Martha Lyons Landscaping are blooming (Roxbury Russets?). See the photos for the diversity of objects on display, from a chamberpot to a Satsuma Vase. Visit soon!

04/21/2023

It is Plover season! The little birds will be arriving soon to a beach near you. The graphic program Content•Design and Object Idea developed will roll out big; 25 locations along the Massachusetts coast, Canada and other seaboard states are utilizing the designs as well. A QR code allows you to see the panel content in 4 other languages beyond the two on the panel.

04/14/2023

PATRIOTS’ DAY IN ROXBURY
Join the Roxbury Historical Society on Monday April 15 at First Church in Roxbury, 10 Putnam st., Roxbury
free breakfast 8-9AM
See Dawes off to warn the countryside that the"regulars" are coming--be outside by about 9AM so as not to miss him.
Visit the re-opened Dillaway Thomas House, 183 Roxbury Street.(That’s the yellow building in the background)
Trolley Tour of Roxbury's history at 11:30AM

04/14/2023

Next week the history of the Syrian community in Chinatown and the South End of Boston will be presented at the Massachusetts Historical Society and I will be on the panel. My ancestors lived at 30 Hudson Street in the early teens of the 20th century before moving to West Roxbury (and after a short trip to Utah!). Please attend the reception at 5:30pm, Wednesday, April 19. An evening at the MHS is always elegant.

03/24/2023

Visited the Forbes House Museum in Milton, (Historic New England) to view O***m: The Business of Addiction. The metal poppies lining the pathway to the front door introduce visitors in a understated way to the tragic history described inside. In spite China’s strictest protocols for trading with Western countries, the o***m trade blew it all up. The effects are with us today. This capable house-museum exhibit, with no digital interactives, shared a powerful story.

03/17/2023

Our exhibit at Highfield Hall & Gardens will include the people who cooked, cleaned, gardened, hauled, chopped wood, to feed, keep warm and maintain the “House of Dreams” for the Beebe family in Falmouth. Most of these people were from Ireland. The first two photos are from Highfield Hall, the third is my grandmother, Nora Parker, as a domestic in Brookline, MA, shown here on the right in the circa 1930.

03/10/2023

A dream education EGD project! CDC collaborated with T2 Architecture to create wayfinding and placemaking graphics at the new Raymond E. Shaw Elementary in Millbury Massachusetts. The sports teams are known as the “Woolies.” Note the inclusive restroom pictographs and color-coded class portals. Photos by Clark Linehan

02/24/2023

Last Thursday the Executive Director Suzy Buchanan of the Shirley-Eustis House in Roxbury gave a presentation of the research conducted into the enslaved lives on the plantation. It is hard work uncovering this information.

Zoom recording of the Shirley-Eustis House's talk, "Recovering Enslaved Lives Through Historic Preservation," presented by Executive Director Suzy Buchanan o...

02/14/2023

I heard an exhibit opened in Philadelphia last week! The Museum of the American Revolution held its largest exhibit opening ever with Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia last Thursday. CDC collaborated with the MoAR team, headed by Aimee Newell, with Matthew Skic, curator, Kathryn Babbs Miller, project manager, and Rebecca Phipps, art director. The Museum arranged for works by composer Francis Johnson to be performed by local musicians. Johnson was a talented fiddle player, a keyed bugle virtuoso, and a friend of the Fortens.

02/03/2023

Sarah Morris, Rebecca Migdal, and Content started up the Period Room and History Gallery with the team at Highfield Hall & Gardens in Falmouth, MA. Please share any memories you might have if you have been! James Madison Beebe envisioned a “House of Dreams,” where he and his family would escape from the Boston bustle and recapture the western Massachusetts pastoral of his youth in Pittsfield. But dreams are made from money ; the Beebe name can be found in several Boston financial district locations.

01/07/2023

Looks like Pac-Man but aimed for the stars; this siderostat installed at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory analyzed sun and starlight to measure nitrous oxide and airglow. Installed in 1962, it was soon made obsolete by satellites. However, it will be featured in the equipment exhibit this spring as an example of Observatory innovation.

05/10/2022

It was a bright afternoon on March 28 when workshop leaders and participants completed the Recommendations Workshop for Big Cypress National Preserve in the Florida Everglades. Faye Goolrick and Edward Malouf are now working on the final draft of the Long Range Interpretive Plan. Learn more about the staff and community engagement. https://contentdesign.me/future-planning-for-a-swamp/

An Interpretive Plan for Big Cypress Preserve is nearing completion. The Preserve is a successful experiment at human-flora-fauna interaction. Creating a new Interpretive Plan brings all the community stakeholders together to renew the mandate to protect this special place.

04/17/2022

Lieldienas pie Juras

04/11/2022

The estimable James Forten (1766-1842) of Philadelphia—seaman, sailmaker, businessman, property owner, and abolitionist will be featured in a new Museum of the American Revolution exhibit early next year. Content•Design is honored to be the exhibit lead for this project.

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04/11/2022

Everything is better in Vermont

04/02/2022

Anukriti Kaushik and George Malouf they are my favorite emerging artists https://anukritikaushik.com/ https://georgemalouf.com/

03/31/2022

Design process

03/23/2022

If Content•Design had an office in Beijing this is how our name would appear. The second phase of the Audubon/DCR Shorebird Protection Program rolls out this spring in four languages, among them Mandarin.

02/25/2022

All of the cool people are at the Baltic Film Festival

02/18/2022

Last week Content•Design kicked off a design workshop at the Boston waterfront offices of Interactive and the Hill Observatory and Science Center, Inc. for the restoration of their west room. BHMO has the longest weather record in North America, containing over a hundred years of data of the local climate. Currently, the exhibit is in its final infrastructure stages, led by Architecture. Here you can see an image of a rangefinder used at BHMO to determine the necessary height of weather instruments flown by kites.

12/22/2019

Amazing photo

Without this walkway it would be difficult to get to the beach. The clouds and the light made it memorable!

04/13/2019

Simple inter-actives, open the cupboard to learn about Colonial lifeways. What is for dinner? Photo by George Malouf

04/11/2019

Colonial period, revolutionary war headquarters for General Thomas on the path of Dawes ride which parallels Paul Revere taking the route through Elliot Square photos by George Malouf

04/10/2019

Once an orchard with Bartlett pears and Roxbury Russet apples, native cultivar‘s , DCR

04/09/2019

Chickering piano 19th century reproduction DCR

04/08/2019

19th Century inter-actives

03/16/2019

presenting Parker’s Revenge with a very knowledgeable audience historians, re-enactors, history lovers

09/20/2018

Don't miss our new exhibit at the NPS site in Lexington, MA. We really enjoyed working with Howell Golson Illustration and Mystic Scenic Studios . https://www.nps.gov/mima/learn/news/parker-s-revenge-exhibit-opens-at-minute-man-national-historical.htm

Parker’s Revenge Exhibit Opens at Minute Man National Historical

05/23/2018

20 Years Along the Blackstone River -

With the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Museum of Work and Culture, part of the Rhode Island Historical Society, director Anne Conway knew what was needed to complement the existing exhibits. Well-represented in the Museum is the story of French-Canadian immigration, life on the mill floor, and th...

04/15/2018

Parker’s Revenge reenactment at Minute Man National Historical Park we live in an area with so much history
thanks to the Friends of Minute Man National Park.

02/06/2018

Staying ahead of the current -

Home to the most significant number of first magnitude springs in the world and the Current River, the Riverways has been a National Park for 53 years. Before that, there were several Missouri State Parks, Big Spring and Round Spring for instance, that had been serving the public since the 1920s. ...

11/21/2017

Illuminating the Luminaries -

Innovation was a key ingredient in our exhibit which harnessed the power of interactives to extend the WPI Hall of Luminaries brand identity to exhibit graphics, awards, and multi-media. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) alumni have made outsized contributions to the world of scientific innovati...

11/17/2017

our build partner shot this video of the interactive created by which tells the stories of the contributions that have made to the world of scientific innovation with as the design lead https://youtu.be/TiQmWMqQ_2A

Our team, lead by Trivium Interactive with Content•Design as the design lead, and 42DesignFab as our build partner developed The Wheel of Luminaries an inter...