Works

About

Field:

Digital Experience

Type:

Academic

Year:

2025

ATLAS of ARTIS

The ATLAS of ARTIS is an immersive digital experience inspired by ARTIS, a unique institution based in Amstersam that brings together a zoo, aquarium, planetarium, botanical garden, and the Micropia museum (the only museum in the world dedicated to microbes).

With its blend of science, art, and nature, ARTIS offers a unique challenge: how do you make learning feel like exploration? This academic project allowed me to explore that question through creative UI, illustration, and interactive design.

ATLAS of ARTIS

The ATLAS of ARTIS is an immersive digital experience inspired by ARTIS, a unique institution based in Amstersam that brings together a zoo, aquarium, planetarium, botanical garden, and the Micropia museum (the only museum in the world dedicated to microbes).

With its blend of science, art, and nature, ARTIS offers a unique challenge: how do you make learning feel like exploration? This academic project allowed me to explore that question through creative UI, illustration, and interactive design.

In ATLAS of ARTIS, static photos are replaced with vintage-style illustrations that represent animals, plants, microbes, and celestial bodies found in ARTIS. These visuals are neatly organised and embedded in a scrollable, interactive canvas. This approach fosters slower, more meaningful engagement, reinforcing ARTIS’s identity as a historic and educational institution.

Nonlinear Navigation

This navigation system replaces rigid structure letting users explore ARTIS more intuitively, mirroring how people interact with nature. It uses visual and contextual filters like color, size, environment, and taxonomy to morph the canvas and spotlight related illustrations.

Nonlinear Navigation

This navigation system replaces rigid structure letting users explore ARTIS more intuitively, mirroring how people interact with nature. It uses visual and contextual filters like color, size, environment, and taxonomy to morph the canvas and spotlight related illustrations.

Dynamic Notebook

By clicking in the illustrated elements, the user is rewarded with a vintage-style popup designed like scientific journals, featuring facts, sketches, sound clips, videos and real locations within ARTIS.

Dynamic Notebook

By clicking in the illustrated elements, the user is rewarded with a vintage-style popup designed like scientific journals, featuring facts, sketches, sound clips, videos and real locations within ARTIS.

This project taught me how much design can shape how we explore and understand information. When you tell a story visually, people connect more deeply, making even scientific topics way more engaging and memorable.

Lumina Milia

Lumina Milia

Color for Miyazaki

Color for Miyazaki

Hochstatt

Hochstatt

La Seppia

La Seppia

Based in Amsterdam, available worldwide

Based in Amsterdam,
available worldwide