Interactive Telecommunications
Courses
Thesis Seminar
Education
MPS, New York University
BS, Northwestern University
Biography
Jake is principal of Local Projects, LLC, a design firm that creates media installations for museums and public spaces. Local Projects recent work includes Interaction Design for StoryCorps at Grand Central Terminal and Ground Zero, "Timescapes" the new three-screen introductory theater for the Museum of the City of New York, and the jetBlue StoryBooth at Rockefeller Center. He is a 2006 finalist for the National Design Award for Communications from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, and he has two gold,one silver and one bronze medals from IDSA. Before getting his master's in interactive technology from NYU and starting Local Projects, he worked as an exhibit designer for seven years with Ralph Appelbaum Associates.
