Color Uncovered App

Organization: Exploratorium Museum of Science and Art

Project: Color Uncovered app

Role: Content developer, writer, editor

As editorial director for the museum’s Online Engagement team, I helped to develop and create two award-winning iPad apps; both used the iPad’s functionality to make the apps interactive and fun.

Color Uncovered shot up to number one in the Free Educational Apps category in the Apple Store with more than 1 million downloads. I wrote about using mummies as a source for black paint (shown here), color and food, and human echolocation.

Excerpt: The dead don’t always rest in peace; sometimes they rest in pigments. The Romans, for example, created a pigment called bone black from charred animal bones. They also burned ivory to make a black pigment. You can see ivory black in the background of some of Rembrandt’s painings.