This project was created for De Bijenkorf, a high-end department store in Amsterdam, as part of a summer promotion where they were giving away a beach vacation. De Bijenkorf had an iPad app that was essentially a native wrapper for an HTML/CSS/JS CMS so we were able to build this project using web standards. The…
https://prayingmadness.github.io/killerloop Clothing brand Killer Loop’s mission was to celebrate and supply a new generation of passionate authentic filmmakers and photographers – modern day adventurers if you will. Well, what better way to do this than with a ‘high-adrenalin, downhill bigfoot pursuit (on skis)?’ The idea behind this interactive film was to throw camera control over…
adidas.com/adidasrunners adidas Runners is one of the most ambitious attempts at building communities adidas has ever taken before. The goal was to not only set up groups of like-minded runners in cities around the world but to also empower the natural leaders within these groups to self-organize and build their own calendar of different events…
Chekhov Is Alive – An online character quiz and audition with 28 custom illustrations of Anton Chekhov’s classic character archetypes, all wrapped in a playful material design execution. This site allowed anyone to take a test to determine which character from Chekhov’s work they most closely resembled and then submit a video of themselves performing…
In 2012 I travelled to China as part of a team running the Volkswagen Pavilion at Auto Guangzhou, one of the largest car and auto exhibitions in the world. The agency I worked for at the time built an interactive video background wall for a fashion show as part of the presentation. Using 3 Microsoft…
http://24ways.org/2011/your-jquery-now-with-less-suck In late 2011 I had the incredible opportunity to write an article on jQuery performance techniques for 24ways.org, “the advent calendar for web geeks.” This was a great experience for me as a technical writer (something I hadn’t done much of up until now) and the positive feedback I recieved was overwhelming. I don’t…
The challenge was to build an holistic social media campaign that brought the playfulness of Rubik’s Cube, the fun of personalisation, and the technology of 3D interactivity to mobile, desktop and social touch points. As a topper, we had to bring the social media campaign to life in real events across North America where visitors…
http://cybermap.kaspersky.com With access to a wealth of real time data, we created an interactive WebGL experience that dramatically brings to life every detection made by Kaspersky software, happening at that very moment, around the world.We denoted different threats with colours and geometric symbols. Some show the point of detection while others show the source of…
http://4newswall.com In an effort to reach a younger target demographic, UK television network Channel 4 decided to turn to the one media format that all of the kids are using these days. Animated .gifs. Yep. We built this site on Tumblr, but in the process of doing so hacked Tumblr like it was attacking my…
http://karenina.withgoogle.com Google Russia wanted to demonstrate that it does more than simply understand local culture – it actively contributes to it. So we dreamt up a project that took one of the most cherished Russian literary masterpieces of all time and reintroduced it to a modern audience using Google technology. Together with Google we created…
http://selfdestructingbook.com For the launch of James Patterson’s new book Private Vegas, we took the inherent thrill of this novel to a spectacular, new height. We created the Self-Destructing Book. An integrated campaign designed to bring to life the most thrilling reading experiences ever. We gave people 24 hours to read “Private Vegas” before it self-destructed.…
Any time I’m in a position to have to learn a new technology platform, my “Hello, world” of choice is to build a fairly simple Now Playing widget for SomaFM internet radio – basically allowing a user to instantly see what track is playing on any of their stations at any given time. In the last couple…