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.
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:
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.
Venice For Two - Design
This project is currently in it's infancy, but still worth putting up here for the time being.
Venice For Two is the website for a superb apartment in (you've guessed it), Venice. Their current website is in dire need of updating, and the client came to me requesting this very service.
At the moment, two designs have been submitted to the client, after a detailed briefing meeting. The client requested a very clean and user-focused design, that reflected both the style and feel of the apartment. These are the designs as they stand:
Personally I prefer the white design, as I feel it reflects the serene nature of the apartment well, but we'll see what the client decides! Watch this space!
Venice For Two is the website for a superb apartment in (you've guessed it), Venice. Their current website is in dire need of updating, and the client came to me requesting this very service.
At the moment, two designs have been submitted to the client, after a detailed briefing meeting. The client requested a very clean and user-focused design, that reflected both the style and feel of the apartment. These are the designs as they stand:
Personally I prefer the white design, as I feel it reflects the serene nature of the apartment well, but we'll see what the client decides! Watch this space!
Schadenfreude - Design & Build
This has been such a fun project to work on. Schadenfreude are a superb duo of minimal-tech producers, and have recently had a few tunes and a remix signed to some big-named labels in the tech scene. I highly recommend checking them out.
I was commissioned to create a website (in Flash) that reflected the dark and minimal nature of their music, so I began doing a few sketches, and after a few consultations, a final design was decided upon.
At the time, I was also getting to grips with making the move from AS2 to AS3, so this was a prime opportunity to throw myself into the deep end. After getting quite excited by AS3's new computeSpectrum feature, I coded a spectrum analyser for the client, which was deemed too busy (!), so I cut it down to a simple quasi-3D beat detector.
I also made the content dynamic through XML and simple text files that the client can update as and when they need.
Design:
Due to be launched in the next few weeks after bugfixing and further XML integration.
I was commissioned to create a website (in Flash) that reflected the dark and minimal nature of their music, so I began doing a few sketches, and after a few consultations, a final design was decided upon.
At the time, I was also getting to grips with making the move from AS2 to AS3, so this was a prime opportunity to throw myself into the deep end. After getting quite excited by AS3's new computeSpectrum feature, I coded a spectrum analyser for the client, which was deemed too busy (!), so I cut it down to a simple quasi-3D beat detector.
I also made the content dynamic through XML and simple text files that the client can update as and when they need.
Design:
Due to be launched in the next few weeks after bugfixing and further XML integration.