The Ministry of Defence

A month ago the new website for The Danish Ministry of Defence went online. The progress of planning, designing, developing and implementing this new online presence has took almost 3 years. The project was art directed by me while working at the danish design studio Goodmorning Technology from 2007 to 2008.

The new portal features press archives, themes, information about conflict zones, video channel and a knowledge database about military units & departments. The main objective of the new website was usability and cross browser compatibility. Another unique task was to find a solution how to visually connect the many departments of the Ministry of Defence as well as show how these are related in the design. The solution was a detailed style sheet of all visible elements and information how to develop new sub sites in the same graphical grid and visual language. This has already been carried out on The Danish Marine Safety Administration, and we expect all of the administrations and departments to follow within the next few years.