{"id":2,"date":"2009-02-10T18:38:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T01:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manacsadesign.com\/info\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-04-21T08:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:43:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manacsadesign.com\/info\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/manacsadesign.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/profile-gm-graffiti-150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gerry Manacsa\" title=\"profile-gm-graffiti-150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-190\" \/>Gerry Manacsa is a designer, multimedia artist, and technologist living in Boston.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As an engineer working on the Space Shuttle program, he was a pioneer in using the web as a medium for data dissemination and communication for geographically dispersed&nbsp;workgroups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He later broke ground in mixed-media storytelling in the early days of the social web, anticipating the rise of blogs, photo sharing, and social media nearly a decade later. The award-winning personal multimedia journal that was the canvas and playground for much of this work ran for over eleven&nbsp;years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As creative director and technologist with an innovative, early-stage tech startup, he helped to create entirely new learning methods that took full advantage of the web medium, helping that company become a successful leader in its space. Gerry later joined another young company, where he helped reshape the world of books for the digital era.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today, he works on wide-ranging projects, including UI\/UX design and data visualization to optimize K-12 learning, architectural graphics to help create innovative physical spaces for education, and visual design and photography to amplify efforts toward social and climate&nbsp;justice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In his off hours, Gerry is a photographer and explorer, busy traveling the world with his wife, Karina, and their scruffy pup, Albert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry Manacsa is a designer, multimedia artist, and technologist living in Boston. As an engineer working on the Space Shuttle program, he was a pioneer in using the web as a medium for data dissemination and communication for geographically dispersed&nbsp;workgroups. He later broke ground in mixed-media storytelling in the early days of the social web, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PuJVT-2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manacsadesign.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manacsadesign.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manacsadesign.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manacsadesign.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manacsadesign.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/manacsadesign.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/manacsadesign.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manacsadesign.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}