A Brief History of \'Vine
Okay, so I promised I\'d update with details of an exciting project I\'ve been working on for Mother, the global ad agency. It\'s taken a fair amount of development and build time, but it\'s definitely been worth it.
The Brief:
Create an intranet-like, password protected website where all three factions of the Mother agency (Mother London, Mother New York, and Mother Buenos Aires) can share ideas, post updates on current projects; it\'s a central point of communication between the three agencies, designed to increase agency communication and aid the development of new ideas. In order to escape any possible repercussions from Mother, I\'m avoiding posting screenshots as their is a lot of \'classified\' information on the website. I\'ll update this post in the near future after I\'ve consulted with the client on what information I can post.
The Design:
After heavy consultation between the Creative and Insight departments at Mother London, a design was created in-house. It\'s a simple and clean, yet functional design.
The Build:
This main section is a custom Wordpress theme, built on the design created by Mother London.
The main function of this website, however, is to bring employees together, and an employee directory is the best way to do this. Inevitably, this required building a quasi-social network for the company, and the best way to achieve this in the timescale offered was to use BuddyPress, a fantastic extension to the Wordpress blog framework.
Continuing to follow the design created by Mother London, I set about creating a highly customised theme for BuddyPress. I used a large amount of jQuery (for the UI sections) and PHP (for the backend) to achieve this, with the end result looking drastically different from the original BuddyPress theme.
The project is now in a live beta stage, and is being populated with blog posts, and employee signups. Exciting times!
Skills:
PHP, mySQL, Wordpress, BuddyPress, jQuery, (x)HTML, CSS.
The Brief:
Create an intranet-like, password protected website where all three factions of the Mother agency (Mother London, Mother New York, and Mother Buenos Aires) can share ideas, post updates on current projects; it\'s a central point of communication between the three agencies, designed to increase agency communication and aid the development of new ideas. In order to escape any possible repercussions from Mother, I\'m avoiding posting screenshots as their is a lot of \'classified\' information on the website. I\'ll update this post in the near future after I\'ve consulted with the client on what information I can post.
The Design:
After heavy consultation between the Creative and Insight departments at Mother London, a design was created in-house. It\'s a simple and clean, yet functional design.
The Build:
This main section is a custom Wordpress theme, built on the design created by Mother London.
The main function of this website, however, is to bring employees together, and an employee directory is the best way to do this. Inevitably, this required building a quasi-social network for the company, and the best way to achieve this in the timescale offered was to use BuddyPress, a fantastic extension to the Wordpress blog framework.
Continuing to follow the design created by Mother London, I set about creating a highly customised theme for BuddyPress. I used a large amount of jQuery (for the UI sections) and PHP (for the backend) to achieve this, with the end result looking drastically different from the original BuddyPress theme.
The project is now in a live beta stage, and is being populated with blog posts, and employee signups. Exciting times!
Skills:
PHP, mySQL, Wordpress, BuddyPress, jQuery, (x)HTML, CSS.
Tune - Cough Drops
Before you chastise me for being so lax in my updates, I do have a very good excuse! I\'ve been whipped into shape by Mother, brought in to work on a very special project of theirs, of which I will blog about in the very near future. Somehow, though, in the past few days, I\'ve found time (mostly between the times of midnight and 4am, I might admit), to knock up a rough draft of a tune I\'ve been working on.
It\'s electro; was going for a Noisia - Raar sort of style and feel, but obviously I\'m so far off their production skills it\'s ridiculous.
It\'s here anyway. Done, and synthesised (yay, all my own sounds again, minus drum hits) in Reason, again, with a few edits and a brief master in Cubase:
320kbps MP3:
Drop us a mail at info@itslukemoody.com and let me know what you think. Ta!
It\'s electro; was going for a Noisia - Raar sort of style and feel, but obviously I\'m so far off their production skills it\'s ridiculous.
It\'s here anyway. Done, and synthesised (yay, all my own sounds again, minus drum hits) in Reason, again, with a few edits and a brief master in Cubase:
320kbps MP3:
Drop us a mail at info@itslukemoody.com and let me know what you think. Ta!
Overload Posters & Web Banners
My good friends, Schadenfreude asked me to make some posters and animated web banners for their latest show at Matter in London. So I came up with these:
![\"\"](\"/uploads/Overload@Matter---27th-June-09-WebPrevie...\")
![\"Overload](\"/uploads/Overload.jpg\")
![\"Overload@Matter](\"/uploads/gif1.gif\")
There\'s also a vertical GIF, but that\'ll take up too much space in this post, and it ain\'t too different from the one above.
Schadenfreude played a blinding set that night, absolutely fantastic.
There\'s also a vertical GIF, but that\'ll take up too much space in this post, and it ain\'t too different from the one above.
Schadenfreude played a blinding set that night, absolutely fantastic.
Tune: Low
Here\'s something nice and odd for you all. It\'s called \'Low\'. I\'ve been experimenting with really odd rhythms during the past few days, those kind of rhythms that really shouldn\'t work together but, weirdly, kind of do. Speeding up and slowing down arp and mod rates and things like that.
Did the writing in Reason, and made an effort to synthesise everything myself (getting bored of samples and patches), apart from the pad (thanks, BuddhaMachine). Whacked it into Cubase and did a bit of cutting up and brief mastering.
It turned out like this (there\'s about 5 seconds of silence at the beginning, and I\'m too lazy to trim it):
Did the writing in Reason, and made an effort to synthesise everything myself (getting bored of samples and patches), apart from the pad (thanks, BuddhaMachine). Whacked it into Cubase and did a bit of cutting up and brief mastering.
It turned out like this (there\'s about 5 seconds of silence at the beginning, and I\'m too lazy to trim it):