Spy photography at your finger's end
I never got this close at feeling a real spy as today. This app about the thirteen days of the Cuba Missile Crisis (from 16 oktober 1962), accompanies the exhibition in the JFK library, 'allowing people unable to visit the exhibition to experience one of the most defining moments in American history'.
It is an educational app giving a very clear view on the chronolgy of the happenings and facts, but as well presents the main characters in a varied multi-media approach.
What fascinates me in this app, which has a nice and simple structure design, are the White House audio recordings, combined with the - at that time - highly confidential espionage photographs.
Being able to hold these, enlarge en decifre those, brings you close to being in the Oval Office and feeling the stress around the escape from the wrestle stage of a nuclear war.
The educational character combined with the simplicity, and the layered lay-out with photography, text, audio and video makes this app a showcase of multi-media design. The navigation and UI may be a bit simple and traditional, but it was a refreshing experience between all the Boxes of Pandora that fill the Apple store.
Into The Brink by The National Library