From Hand‐Crafted to Electronic: Designing a Digital Mural that Brings an Archive to Life Available to Purchase

This feature aims to demonstrate how an idea, enormous creativity and commitment and being able to integrate the emerging technologies to achieve such a political and social statement into a new format can be done.

Describes how a pair of artists, one of whom is a librarian, and an archive collaborated to produce a mural that includes images and first person quotes.

The final artwork exists only as a digital file. The artists have also collaborated to produce a web site that includes a budding online story‐telling community. Included are samples of the mural.

Provides a summary of an innovative idea of interest to information professionals.