I’m the designer of today’s MIT homepage image (http://www.mit.edu). This is super exciting for me, as I’ve been a fan of the MIT homepage for quite some time, and to get to do a homepage design myself frankly makes me a little giddy.

The design promotes our new site for the Transportation @ MIT program, which is built on the same design foundation as the MIT Engineering site with some tweaks.

Once today (Wednesday 3/4) is over with, I’ll post a screenshot for posterity.  I’m also planning to interview Rebecca Macri, the MIT homepage team leader, about what I’m sure is a fascinating and crazy job.  More on that later.

Update:  Here’s the screenshot (click to view full size).

The birds on the right edge belong to this photo from Flickr user freshelectrons.  (MIT didn’t include the credit because the birds aren’t visible on smaller monitors, and they didn’t want to get a million “what birds??” emails.)