Iowa Farm Experience



Role:Creative Direction
Experience Design
3D Animation

Collaborator: Molly Carrick, Developer
Lakin Jenkins, Developer
Miguel Kunkle, 3D Modeler
Luke McDermott, Project Manager
Clara Schaff, Project Manager

Duration:Jun - Aug 2024
Project Overview:
The Iowa Food and Family organization partnered with our team to create an engaging experience for visitors across the 11 day Iowa State Fair. We created an interactive Color-and-scan experience that let visitors color in an animal/crop of choice. They could then scan their coloring sheet into a digital farm world. We additionally worked on an web experience that visualized the farm-to-table process of select Iowan farm industries.





Web experience
Segment of digital farm 



Process  Given an open ended prompt, the project was initiated with a broad exploration phase. The team and I pooled together references across various design aspects. Refined concepts were put together using those reference bits along with continued idea development. Our concepts were represented to the client with diagramming and digital visualizations.

Some of the inspiration across various design aspects
Site inspection of the atrium space 


Various experience idea visualizations


Visualizing concepts in space
Visualizing concepts in space



Color-And-Scan Experience Design The client was strongly interested in moving forward with the Color-and-Scan station experience. Instead of centering around a story, our focus switched to making that experience the focal point of the space. 

Color explorations


Coloring sheet designs 

Mockup of coloring station and TV setup



Farm-To-Table Web Experience  The Farm-To-Table mobile webpage was designed to complement the client’s branding as well as the Color-And-Scan experience. Each farm had five different animations representing five main steps of each farm process.
 






In Action Where everything comes together. An enriching project where I got to nurture an idea and see it come together with our team across a physical and digital experience.