Academic Multimedia

Top 50 multimedia packages of 2011

It’s always fun to revisit multimedia projects at the end of the year when I create my ‘top 50′ list. As I do each year, I must stress that this is my list and not a definitive ‘best of’ list simply because I have not seen all multimedia created and thus cannot create a comprehensive list.

Therefore, below are 50 projects that have inspired me most in 2011. A reader suggested last year that I better organize the sites, so I decided to pick 10 each from the five sectors: journalism, advertising, student work, philanthropy, and documentary.

Thanks to everyone for the overwhelming inspiration and happy holidays!

Journalistic Multimedia:

• Portraits of grief – NYTimes.com
• How does your income compare? – WashingtonPost.com
• The debt crisis: What should Congress do? – NYTimes.com
• A week on Foursquare – WSJ.com
• The death of a terrorist: A turning point? – NYTimes.com
• Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests – Guardian.co.uk
• Empty cradles – JSOnline.com
• Victims of gang violence – LA Times
• Japan earthquake – AP
• Battles and casualties of the Civil War – WashingtonPost.com

Advertising Multimedia:

• Holidays without internet
• How does it feel to be in love
• PNC Christmas price index express
• Spent
• The unstoppable tour
• BMW Activate the future
• The GE show
• Skittles Gif rap the rainbow
• Volkswagen Think blue
• The Google puzzle

Student/Training Multimedia:

• Coal: A love story – UNC Chapel Hill
• Soul of Athens: Our dreams are different – Ohio University
• The ration – Berkeley
• A parent’s quest – Northwestern
• Reframing Mexico – UNC Chapel Hill
• Under the influence – USC
• Mountain Workshops
• MediaStorm Advanced Media Workshop
• Four seconds by Margaret Cheatham Williams – UNC Chapel Hill
• In Place by Brad Vest – Ohio University

Philanthropic Multimedia:

• Urban survivors
• All is not lost
• A girl story
• OECD better life initiative
• Slavery footprint
• 50 milligrams is not enough
• Gold’s costly dividend
• The lottery of life
• Skateistan: To live and skate Kabul
• Team V – Food poverty

Documentary Multimedia:

• One millionth tower
• Africa to Australia
• Mindstorming
• A matter of decency
• Brain games
• Half-Lives: The Chernobyl workers now
• The Denali experiment
• Surviving the peace
• Almost there – the Muir project
• Balloons of Bhutan

Let me know what your favorite site was from the past year in the comments below!

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