About the Program
Zero One Design is a design company based out of Victoria, BC. We work
exclusively with culture - primarily museums and galleries and count some
of the best of these as our clients. We are firm believers in giving back
to our community and for the first eight years of existence donated often
to a number of institutions. We decided in 2004 that what we really wanted
to do, what really put a fire in our belly, was to take a smaller museum
or gallery under our wing and help them out with their technological and
web needs. We run across too many institutions that have amazing collections,
but no money, staff or technological skills to present them in the online
world.
We decided to offer our services each year to a Canadian museum or gallery.
No charge. Really. We will put this offer out each year in the summer
and choose an institution to work with by fall.
What this program offers:
- advice, skills, grunt work to help you either improve or create a website
- assistance with technological issues
- communications assistance if required (we have an MA in Communications on staff)
- the breadth and depth of our knowledge of museums and galleries and technology gathered over nine years of working in the field, attending and presenting at conferences aimed at culture and technology, reading about culture and often just geeking out about it.
- our charming personalities
What we want:
- no money
- an institution who will work with us to improve what they have - and have a little bit of time to put towards this project
- an institution that is open minded and willing to be cutting edge
- an institution that has passion for technology or will allow our passion for the field to rub off
- any benefits that you offer current sponsors
- A Canadian institution. As a company we aren't limited by geography, so this relationship shouldn't be.
- We also prefer a smaller institution, we most definitely don't want to put any IT people or contractors out of business.
We have had a few museums ask if this is for real … in fact, we get this quite often. It is definitely for real. We are not out to:
- sell you something you don’t want (a museum asked me if I was with a cell phone company once)
- make a relationship with you for some nefarious reason
- offer to help you and turn around and laugh at you