The Normandy Campaign
The Design Office, 2007
Description
The Normandy Campaign interactive map is presented on a 30" touchscreen panel at the new Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center in France. Its purpose is to inform visitors about the general progress of the campaign, while offering the enthusiast a detailed chronology and videos.
The three-month campaign starts on D-Day and is sequenced into 10 periods. Each period screen includes an overview, along with front-line and troop positions. Troop chronicles appear when a division patch is selected. A particular division may be followed throughout the presentation.
Government regulations mandated that the project be available in both French and English and be handicap accessible. The typeface Knockout was chosen for the display type because of its versatility in both languages. Essential navigation exists in the bottom half of the screen in order to accommodate the limited reach of wheelchair users.
Nearly one million visitors enter the cemetery and Center every year.
Credits
- Design firm
- The Design Office
- Designer
- John Caserta
- Illustrator
- John Caserta
- Production coordinator
- Shelby Frantz
- Production artist
- Jori Ketten
- Editor
- Mike Conley
- Writer
- Gen. John S. Brown
- Producer
- Max Lewkowicz
- Client
- American Battle Monuments Commission