Cade Jorgensen

Beginning in the 1920s, Otto Ege, a respected book historian and collector, began dismantling incomplete or damaged medieval texts. Attempting to preserve the knowledge of medieval lettering and writing, and spread the limited resources around, Ege sold individual leaves to museums and collectors. Later in his life, Ege expanded to putting leaves from a variety of rare illuminated medieval books in portfolios, to be sold together. This collection contains leaves primarily from medieval religious texts, including missals, hymns, and poetry. Also included are pages from a portfolio originally intended by Ege to show the evolution of black letter types.

For a new and improved campus calendar, we created a prototype with the goal in mind of connecting students to events on campus that they otherwise would miss due to lack of visibility. We wanted to make an application that people would want to use in their daily lives, rather than a throw away app that wouldn't see any use. Customizable filters, integration, and showing which events were available were key components in our development of this application.