Mon 22nd Sep 2008
After having a flash-based site for some time I thought it would be better if I had something much easier to update which would also double as my design blog; and this is the result. Actually, not quite the result yet as it’s still being worked on, tweaking this and that, making it easier for people to strip out the blog content and just see the work, that sort of thing.
So bear with me while The Tickertape Room is being polished off, hopefully with the help of the rather fantastic Greg Annandale all will be as its supposed to very soon!
Mon 22nd Sep 2008
In the late 19th century, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka made glass models of plants and animals in their Dresden studio. They’re just beautiful - I saw one or two of these when I was visiting Aberdeen University Museum of Zoology, and just re-discovered more of their work on the web recently. How on earth these were made is beyond me, but there’s some incredible craftsmanship gone into their creation. I think the results transcend their original purpose of pure documentary and teaching.
You can see more of their work at the Design Museum and their amazing collection of glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Atmospheric long-exposure photography from Alexey Titarenko, City of Shadows
Lastly, to promote a local project, I have to mention 4mations. A resurrection of the old Channel 4 animation strand, it’s a project produced by Aardman’s new(ish) digital department which aims to provide a community for budding animators to show their work. It’s also got a tasty new logo produced by Play Nicely, another rather good Bristol design studio.
Fri 29th Aug 2008
Yes it’s true - more Speedo! This time it’s the sports and lifestyle website which looks more closely at the Speedo-sponsored star swimmers. This set of designs undertaken for Enable was a deliberate attempt to get away from the very technical nature of a lot of the Speedo assets, and focus on the excellent photography of the personalities and some bespoke illustrative elements.
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Wed 20th Aug 2008
Speedo80 is the navigational hub for all of Speedo’s digital campaign activity over 2008. With Enable Interactive, I produced a design which utilises some rather clever 3d flash (nicely realised by flash dev York Gibson, with no papervision in sight!) and can accommodate further items as more promotions are run throughout the year. Promotions have their own ‘takeover’, changing the feel of the hub as each promotion is run whilst keeping the same architecture.
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Wed 20th Aug 2008
Some logo concepts which were unused but I rather like.
Tue 19th Aug 2008
Designs for video viral campaign site to promote the Nokia E61, produced by Rubberductions
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Sun 20th Jul 2008
In readiness for the Beijing Olympics, Speedo created a new high-performance swimsuit for their top athletes. Called LZR Racer, it’s been amazingly effective to the point of controversy. It’s about as high-tech as swimming gets, and even had a helping hand from NASA in its development. Working with Enable Interactive I designed a microsite to showcase the product as part of Speedo80.com, their ongoing digital campain for the coming year.
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Sun 20th Jul 2008
The challenge was to design a website for group procurement company Spikes Cavell which was rich in imagery but didn’t have to rely and lots of stock photography (as financial companies so often do). My response was to create an illustrative approach based on the existing ‘light and dark’ creative, bringing in a suite of icon-like ‘flare’ images.
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