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Learn about exciting new developments at Night Kitchen Interactive.
Featuring a complete redesign and reorganization by Night Kitchen Interactive, The National Constitution Center has launched its new website. After a thorough overhaul of the site’s home page, Night Kitchen Interactive organized the entire website to convey the NCC as a historic destination with a thoroughly modern, interactive visitor experience. The new, streamlined design targets four key audiences with “must see” message points and ensures visitors can find the information they need, quickly and easily.
The website redesign is just one of Night Kitchen Interactive’s projects with the National Constitution Center. Additional projects include the Sieze The Vote! online game, the award-wining interactive exhibit Abraham Lincoln’s Crossroads, the Centuries of Citizenship online exhibit, and the wiki-based Constitution Day website.
The Parrish Art Museum has launched East End Stories, a Night Kitchen Interactive-designed online exhibit that captures the art and stories of the historic Long Island East End artists’ community. To enhance the online tours of over 1600 images, Night Kitchen incorporated an innovative mapping feature to help visitors discover connections between the locations, artists, and their artwork. The result is a dynamic, informative, and captivating presentation of the people, the art, and events of this storied community.
The Night Kitchen Interactive-designed National Constitution Center website has been selected by EDSITEment as one of the best online resources for humanities education. EDSITEment, a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities, offers links to the highest-quality humanities-related educational content on the web, and typically gets more than 400,000 visitors each month. Night Kitchen Interactive’s work for the National Constitution center includes the Sieze the Vote! game, the award-winning Abraham Lincoln’s Crossroads, the Constitution Day wiki and the online version of the Centuries of Citizenship exhibit.
Innovation Philadelphia reached out to Night Kitchen Interactive President Matthew Fisher for its news story on Mayor Michael Nutter’s reopening of the Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy.
Discussing the Mayor’s announcement, Matthew offered his take on the potential impact the office could have on Philadelphia’s economic — and creative — future.“It’s not just about dollars and contracts … it’s about engaging the next generation of audiences and benefactors, and showcasing Philadelphia’s cultural riches to a young, talented pool of employees, artists and citizens.”
Night Kitchen Interactive will create a participatory, social media-based website for the National Museum of American History’s Star Spangled Banner exhibition. Designed to present this nearly 200-year-old flag as more than just a historical artifact, the new website will encourage visitors to contribute their own points of view about this symbol of American patriotism and identity.
Timed to launch with the re-opening of the Museum and the new, state-of-the-art Star Spangled Banner Gallery in November, the website will entice visitors to see this national treasure firsthand.
Just launched: The premier online resource and network for journalists, educators, and all citizens interested First Amendment freedoms in our public schools. Designed by Night Kitchen Interactive to bring home the very ideas The Five Freedoms Project celebrates – and targeting a whole new generation – the website features an online community where people from every background can discuss, debate, and create new connections a around the idea that "children should be seen — and heard."
Ever found your "first freedoms" challenged? Share your experience today.
A huge accolade for Night Kitchen’s work: The National Endowment for the Humanities has named the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary website, which includes Night Kitchen’s Franklin’s Interactive Lifetime, one of the best online resources for education in the humanities and has included it in its EDSITEment resource directory. EDSITEment serves as a gateway to the highest-quality humanities-related educational content on the internet, and typically gets more than 400,000 visitors each month. Panelists cited the project for its intellectual quality, content, design, and most importantly, classroom impact.
Designed by Night Kitchen Interactive for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary, Franklin’s Interactive Lifetime immerses visitors in the unfolding of Franklin’s story. For more, check out our one page overview of this project.
Night Kitchen Interactive is thrilled to be designing the website for Reach Out and Read Greater Philadelphia. This truly innovative non-profit works with doctors and nurses to give books to at-risk patients and advise parents on the importance of reading aloud to their children. Night Kitchen Interactive will spotlight RORGP’s proven results and growing reach in Greater Philadelphia.
We’ll launch the site in plenty of time for RORGP’s “Read and Romp”, the storybook-themed family event and benefit taking place this fall. Event details here.
In the meantime, for more about how RORGP is making books a part of a healthy childhood, check out the national website, reachoutandread.org.
Innovation Philadelphia puts the spotlight on Night Kitchen Interactive’s Matthew Fisher in their June newsletter. Matthew details his experiences with making the entrepreneurial leap, and the challenges and competitive advantages of living and working in Philadelphia. "Our national reach is growing," says Matthew, and being located in Philly "gives us a competitive edge that firms in other cities just can’t match." Read the full interview.
Night Kitchen’s Kara LaFleur has scored a Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant in support of her photography project, Work to Ride (a work in progress), which explores the interplay of poverty, opportunity, race, and class within a remarkable local program for disadvantaged kids. Congratulations to Kara from the Night Kitchen team! More more about Kara’s art, see her website.
