First Folios Lighting Case
Client: The Folger Shakespeare Library
Studio: Bluecadet
Role: Lead Developer
Technology: Unity
Year: 2024
Touchscreen
The First Folios touchscreen experience allows visitors to explore the Library’s extensive folio collection through three distinct lenses — Detective, Storyteller, and Collector. I led development throughout production, architecting and implementing the app from early prototypes through on-site installation and launch. The experience features numerous custom animations and interactive elements, including question prompts that reveal community responses, magnifying-glass and UV-tool activities that uncover hidden details, and hotspots that highlight key elements across the pages.
Lighting
The First Folios Lighting Case acts as a sculptural data visualization, illuminating groupings of the folios. I oversaw the technical development of the lighting sequence, building a pre-visualization prototype and exporting the final sequence as a playable, data-driven timeline.