Arcade Console is a project commissioned by Carleton College for the exhibition State of the Art: Maps, Stories, Games and Algorithms from Minnesota, curated by Steve Dietz. The piece is a fully custom-built arcade cabinet created to mimic the look, feel and experience of a real arcade machine and includes virtually every arcade game ever created. It is at its core an archival project, one that allows the user to look back at a history of gaming they may never have otherwise been allowed to, with an experience that is true to arcade gaming's roots.

When I joined the Walker in 2002 there was a push to move from their old static website to one that was dynamic. At the time they had minimal experience doing this and even less experience in building an admin system to support it. In doing the design and implimentation of the Walker's admin I took keys from my past admin work for clients such as American Express and Macromedia.

The admin was structured much like the website would end up being, around the concept of "neighborhoods" and "canopies", which can be thought of as an extended folder/file metaphor. The admin also had approval steps for editorial, event entry, person relationships, link lists and a media manager. This admin served the Walker until their eventual redesign in 2011.