We briefly mentioned this new gig in a recent post, but here are all the details on our contract with the Avataq Cultural Institute. An exciting project on Nunavik that is both a content-related challenge and a technological one. We also called on our friends at TP1 for the Google Maps component; their expertise will greatly improve the final result.
In the end, we aren’t thinking that we’ll necessarily be speaking fluent Inuktitut, but it’s a step in the right direction!
A First in Nunavik for Toast!
Montreal, May 14th 2009 – In the next few months, Toast Studio will do a complete website overhaul for the Avataq Cultural Institute, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the protection and the promotion of Inuit language and culture in Nunavik.
This important contract – the first collaboration between Toast Studio and the Avataq Institute – has several components, including the revision of the content architecture, the integration of the organisation’s new graphic identity and that of thousands of items from the Institute’s collection online, comprised of 500 360° views. Following the major overhaul, the website will be available in three languages: French, English and Inuktitut.
Alexandre Gravel, senior partner at Toast, says that, “the new website will give access to the most comprehensive online map of Nunavik. With over 17 000 precise points labelling villages, rivers, or heritage sites identified by Inuit Elders, this map will be the most important toponymic, archaeological, and museum-related reference on Nunavik.” And thanks to the Google Maps technology and the expertise of the Montreal-based firm TP1, it will also be an interactive map. The new site launching is planned for early summer.
Among the first so-called ‘new media’ firms, Toast began in 1999 with interactive and web development. Over the years, the studio improved its range of services to include all other media. The team’s 360° approach has proven its worth: from strategic development to production, Toast takes into account every distribution platform during the project’s progress. Its team of seven ensures the creation of interactive, printing and advertising tools.
Source: Alexandre Gravel, senior partner, gravel@gotoast.ca, 514-844-2647 e.401
(source photo: Wikipedia)
