Re:collection
An award winning interactive digital experience that keeps the voices and memories of Canadian Holocaust survivors alive.
The Azrieli Foundation is devoted to publishing the memoirs of Canadian Holocaust survivors, memoirs that are rich with photographs, letters, home movies and other artifacts. Riddle Films was engaged to create short films as teasers to the memoirs including present-day interviews with survivors and animated storytelling. All of this material gave The Foundation a wealth of incredible content, but they needed help designing an experience that would keep the survivors’ voices alive for future generations of Canadians.
The digital experience needed to be engaging, emotional and accurate. It needed to connect with high school students, many of whom know very little about the events that took place in Europe in the 1930s and 40s. We based the design on a set of universal human themes, like family, childhood, discrimination and survival. We then mapped the videos, photo galleries and memoir excerpts to those themes to tie the content all together. Viewers can make their own personally meaningful collections of content that resonate most with them and support their school projects.
Winner of 2 Gold Communicator Awards
Awarded gold in Education and Not for Profit/Charity
Roles on This Project
research with educators
information architecture
user experience design
content strategy
research with educators
information architecture
user experience design
content strategy
Recent Portfolios
Kinaxis UX Leadership
Azrieli Foundation
