


A project’s interactive elements often underscore or mirror its themes. Interactive design borrows a little bit from all kinds of other disciplines: designers integrate music, visuals, text and narration, and create various ways in which users can explore or interact with the work. Presented with several essays on local change by prominent Canadian writers, they were most intrigued by Will Ferguson’s Garrison Woods and Heather O’Neill’s The Red-light District. Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons are the dynamic creative duo known in the back alleys and coffee shops of Vancouver as “The Goggles.” They are the creators behind the NFBs wonderful interactive documentary about a vanished Canadian town, Welcome to Pine Point, and were brought in by the NFB and Hyperlocal co-creator Sean Embury to lend their design expertise to two of the project’s interactive pieces.

This is a guest post from NFB Interactive producer Jennifer Moss.
