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50 Great Voices

About the project:

In January 2010, NPR will launch a year-long exploration of 50 great voices in recorded history. The series isn't an attempt to catalog the so-called "greatest" singers. Instead, we hope to discover and re-discover awe-inspiring vocalists from around the world and across time. We asked you to nominate artists for the series and we received thousands of options. NPR and a panel of experts are in the process of whittling them down to about 100 singers -- a mix of familiar names and surprising discoveries. Explore some of the nominated voices below, choose five favorites you think should be included in the final 50 and tell us why.

I collaborated with fellow NPR designer Paulo Lopez and the NPR Music team to design / build an interface that would allow users to browse a grid of music artists, sample the artists' work and then vote on their favorites. This was my first big project built in Flash ActionScript 3, so many thanks as well to Nelson Hsu for answering my innumerable AS3 questions.

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