CCS Taubman Center Microsite

We just recently launched a microsite for the College of Creative Studies to introduce their new Taubman Center. Renamed from the old historic Argonaut building and renovated in 2009 this new addition to the college campus not only provides an amazing new facility for the students, but also offers great promise to extend the renaissance that Detroit is currently undergoing.

The site is pretty bare as of now, though the gallery documenting the construction process over the past year is pretty interesting, this is just a phase one and we will be adding videos and other more interesting content over the next several weeks.  For the most part the sites primary function is to raise donations to help fund the reconstruction.

For me it’s pretty cool to be involved with this as it is one of the top design schools in the world, and certainly up around the very top of the list nationally. It’s well known in design circles and I am lucky to have some good friends who are talented enough to have graduated from there.

From a technology standpoint it’s been kind of cool, I got to run jQuery alongside MooTools and I also finally figured out the best way to implement a modal overlay (will talk about this in an upcoming post). It’s also cool how the overlay launches automatically if the anchor tag is present in the URL, I can’t remember the last time I did something like that.