Project Mariupol Digital Memorial was designed by Adrián Gubrica from the Faculty of multimedia communications at Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín.
The project received number of special awards in the National Award for Student Design 2022: award of the dean of Ladislav Sutnar's Faculty of Design and Arts at West Bohemian Universtiy in Pilsen, of the dean of the University of Tomáš Baťa in Zlín, of rector of Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, Sutnar Foundation and Foundation of Czech Visual Arts in the National Award for Student Design competition, supported by Czech Centres.
Mariupol Digital Memorial
On February 24, 2022, innocent people began to lose their lives in the city of Mariupol, which was bombed by the Russian army. Without water, electricity, food and especially justice, in the least dignified conditions. The death of every single inhabitant carries an individual and painful story, many of which will never see the light of day.
The aim of the Mariupol Digital Memorial project is to search for them, preserving them, and use them to point out the horrific effects of the war on ordinary people. At the same time, the project tries to create an alternative memorial to the victims, which at the time of its implementation cannot be physically created in the city itself and will probably not be possible during the Russian occupation.
Web technologies HTML, SCSS, JavaScript and the library Three.JS (WebGL) were used for the implementation of the project. 3D objects of the destroyed buildings were created using photogametry (MeshRoom) from an available drone footage, from the destroyed Livoberezhnyi district in the east of Mariupol, then postprocessed in Blender. The prototype of the application was created in Figma.
Fonts used in the project were designed by Ukrainian typographer, Ivan Tsanko.
More about the project here: https://showcase.fmk.utb.cz/digitalni-design/mariupol-digital-memorial/
Project presentation here.
Adrián Gubrica is a second-year master's student of the Digital Design Studio at Tomas Bata University in Zlín. His main interests are interactive web design and development involving gamification, generative code, 3D graphics, physics and machine learning. He works as a freelance creative UI/UX designer and web developer - www.gubrica.com.
