I’d been asked by the beautiful people at Fronteers to present a 10-minute talk at their “Jam Session,” which takes place the evening before their annual web development conference. Rather than present yet another technical-oriented talk as all of the other presenters would be doing, I decided to take a different tactic and actually present…
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…