I was commissioned by the Arts Council of England to contribute to a children's art based CD-ROM called artExplorer. I designed the shell and several of the projects.

This product allowed children to view the computer as a tool as opposed to a means to an end. All the projects resulted in a final paper based product.

The UI was conceived of as a pseudo 3D space where the projects were floating in an undersea world and the "cursor" was a context sensitive 3D hand. Here is an image of this main space. Where ever one traveled in this world on was accompanied by a suitcase where you could collect images from the library that one could then use in any of the projects. There were 100 "boxes" each of which contained 10 images of a particular type. The projects themselves could also be stored in the suitcase.

As well as implementing the two section above, I also designed and created the puppet project. This allowed the user to design a story as an animation of stick figures (dressed up with the images), add speech (either using text to speech with selectable computer voices or by recording their own voice) and play back the animation (pausing at point where there was speech). All the characters developed could then be printed out at a very large size in such a way that one could assemble real puppets from them.