Level Collaborates with Express Newark, Rutgers-Newark

Level Group
Sun, 03 Mar 2019 23:33:00 +0000

Image: Screens from the expressnewark.org website

Express Newark (EN), located in the historic Hahne & Company building in Newark NJ, is dedicated to a collaboration between community partners and Rutgers University-Newark in which community and university work together and communicate on equal footing in what has been called a "third space."

For the last year we have been working closely with Express Newark leadership and community partners to create an appropriate platform that represents the organizations’ powerful mission. Expressnewark.org, which will launch in early March, is a mirror of the Express Newark community: eleven partnerships and over eighty contributors spanning diverse disciplines, who collaborate and engage in public work and creative practice.

The website aggregates each partnership and contributors’ work and activities, whether exhibitions, events, stories, or video series. The dynamic color palette of the Express Newark logomark* is used to categorize these different types of content which are seen separately on the Exhibits archive page, or Events archive page, but are combined into one “feed” on the Express Newark Home page, and each partnerships’ page.

In this way, the website emulates the real-time activities and happenings of the entire Express Newark community and ecosystem – a “third space.”

Level lives and breathes collaboration and they evidence this in the careful and caring way they perform their work…What we have seen throughout the process has inspired, surprised and touched us! Level understood our complex program: they listened with respect, they considered our concerns and they guided our deliberations always with a laser focus on achieving the optimal result.

– Anne Schaper Englot, Co-Director, Express Newark

Because of the extensive process for design and development of this website, we also created a temporary site for the official opening of Express Newark, which was on January 6, 2017. We hope you will find out more about our collaboration with Express Newark by visiting the project page on this site.

* The Express Newark's brand identity was created by the Design Consortium, a Resident Partner at Express Newark).
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