G.W.U Admissions CD ROM

THE CHALLENGE

While I was the Senior New Media Designer at Supon Design Group, the George Washington University Admissions Dept. requested we create a unique CD-ROM. The CD would be sent out to prospective high school students in place of the familiar VHS tape. The CD needed to include all of the information the tape and brochure does, and it needed to have something extra. That extra was what we delivered.

THE SOLUTION

We worked with G.W.U. to create a CD-ROM interface that would play the admissions video (produced by and outside video company), display a PDF of the application for that year, provide web links to frequently updated content, and allow the prospective students to download a screen saver to their computer. The CD was a cross platform effort that would check for the required Quicktime Player and Adobe Acrobat® Reader® Plugin before running. If the necessary components were not on that computer, the CD instructed the prospective student on how to install them. The CD-ROM was a great success among the students and won an ADDY in 2002. The project is also featured in Supon Design Group's book See Design, Hear Design, Speak Design