Joshua Jeffery

Current Stuff:
• Mind Tools – A company striving to enhance the creative process amongst actors, designers and other creative people. We've just released our first product line: the Drama Series, available online or through The Drama Bookshop. I'm the product and graphic designer for this company.
• Evil Genius Designs – A company I started with some colleagues from grad school. We are a boutique design firm that brings video game technologies and principles to places like theme parks and museums.

Past Projects and Stuff:
• Thinkwell Design and Production– I worked here as an intern in the summer of 2008. Thinkwell is among the leaders of the design of theme parks, resorts, museums and other amazing entertainment experiences.
• Robot Hall of Fame– A project I worked on at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. Along with a team of five colleagues, I'm creating a themed installation for the Carnegie Science Center's new Robot Hall of Fame. The experience will feature a photo-souvenir station with R2D2 and C3PO from the Star Wars saga.
•Simply Cheesecakes – A friend and the wife of one of my undergrad professors makes THE BEST cheesecakes in the world. Seriously. She can ship them everywhere too! Get one now!!!

Academic:
• SUNY Fredonia– My undergraduate college
• Department of Theatre and Dance– My undergraduate program
• Carnegie Mellon University– My graduate school
• Entertainment Technology Center– My graduate program
• Building Virtual Worlds– Foundation course at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, where students work in four-person team in two-week cycles, rapid prototyping virtual experiences on multiple non-traditional platforms.

Environment/Design:
• Gigapan– The ultimate camera, allowing you to zoom almost infinitely and discover details you never knew were there.
• National Park Service Image Archives– A repository of amazing nature photography from America's National Parks. Great for research or meditative surfing.
• Sears Kit Home Archives – A great archive of Sears Kit Homes from the early part of the 20th century. Here you can view home and blueprint ads from the period. I often research this site and identify the homes in my neighborhood and other cities.
• National Geographic Images – The source of a lot of research and inspiration.
• MoMA – The only museum I know of where the environment is just as compelling as the art it holds.

Art:
• John Singer Sargent Online Gallery– My favorite portrait artist.
• Andrew Wyeth Online– Another of my favorite artists and a pioneer in the genre of 'Magic Realism'.

Theatre:
• The Utah Shakespearean Festival – A fantastic theatre company with which I've worked as a scenic artist.
• The Texas Repertory Theatre – A Houston, Texas-based theatre company I've worked for as a scenic designer.
• Mount Washington Valley Theatre Company – A North Conway, New Hampshire-based theatre company I've worked for as a properties master.

Dance:
• Troika Ranch Dance Company – Interactive Digital Dance Theatre...the name says it all. I've had three amazing experiences with this dance group, who create some of the most compelling, technically advanced stuff around.
• VIA Dance Collaborative – Innovative dance out of NYC. Performed with them as a guest artist in 2005.
• NYSSSA School of Dance – A summer program run by the New York State Summer School for the Arts. A highly selective dance program for high school students in NY. I was selected for two summers and worked with some amazing companies here.

'Other':
• Peggle – an insanely addictive physics-based game...no matter how overly-themed it is.
• Google Earth – Fascinating and also addictive.
• Sansepolcro, Italy– Homepage of a town in Italy where I was a foreign exchange student in 2000.

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Photo Credits | Jennifer Gilbert and Joshua Wright in I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change | Clinton Area Showboat Theatre
Scenic Design: Joshua Jeffery | Lighting Design: Jarrod Bainter | Costume Design: Kristi Agee
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