Tobias Schmidt
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Kidai Shoran - Excellent View of our Prosperous Age

Award winning CD ROM about a japanese picture scroll of 12 metres in length, experience a busy shopping street of Tokyo in the beginning of the 19th century

>Cover (pdf, 320kb)


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package/cover of the CD ROM

intro(ducing the picture scroll)

the scroll picture has a length of about 12 metres, a height of 40 centimetres and is "read" from right to left.

thousands of objects on the scroll are linked to comprehensive information

scientific information is structured hierarchically (detail view, scaled up)

groups of similar objects can be displayed (detail view)

five guided tours enable the user to view the scroll picture from different social perspectives (detail view)

all textual information is searchable (detail view)

the history tool allows users gotten astray in a turmoil to go back to a "safe place" (detail view)


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CD ROM, german/english, mac/windows, 2000

Context
freelance project

Principal
Büro Simmen for Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz

Team
Ralph Ammer (concept, design, code),
Stephan Huber (code),
Prof Joachim Sauter (concept, project management),
Tobias Schmidt (concept, design, code, package)
and many more (see cover)

Awards
2001 Red Dot Award 'Best of the best' (with distinction)
2001 German Multimedia Award (DMMK), category content/publishing
2001 Design Preis Schweiz, interaction design award

Buy
ISBN 3-88375-466-8


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The Scroll Picture

The Museum of Far Eastern Art in Berlin got from a legate a previously unknown emaki (scroll picture) of 12 metres in length. Till this day the artist who drew the Kidai Shoran scroll in the beginning of the 19th century is not known. With more than 1000 figures and scenes, different shops, markets, restaurants etc the scroll picture is a unparalleled documentation of the everyday life in Japan around 1800.
The Museum has no space to show the emaki in its complete length. The Content of the scroll is very multifaceted of a enourmous quantity. An interactive Application was self-evident and could be realized based on the excellent research results of a group of japanologists from the University Cologne around Prof. Franziska Ehmke.

The CD ROM

The CD ROM offers different approaches to information. An image of the scroll picture can be navigated by drag and drop and by selecting a position on a small overview image. Every detail can be enlarged.
More than 1000 areas of the image are sensitive and offer first information by mouse rollover and more comprehensive information after a click. Groups of similar objects can be displayed.
The blue area on the right offers five Guided Tours, which show the scroll picture from different sociological perspectives. A dog - a samurai - townsmen etc. The green text-area offers very detailed comprehensive information on all aspects of the scroll. The texts can be navigated by a hierarchical structure or by following the numerous hyperlinks. These texts include links to scenes on the scroll and vice versa. Translations of the japanese characters on the scroll picture are accessable with the help of the turquoise translation tool. All texts can be searched and are available in german and english.


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