interactive & web

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This section contains personal and public sector projects, plus a few publicised projects from current and past studios I've worked with. Enjoy!

For more up-to-date details, please see my blog.



Wired FM website

Goldsmiths’ radio


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Goldsmiths' Wired FM was a project undertaken by myself and Ryan Barkataki, who thankfully was happy to do the coding whilst I designed the site as at the time I didn't have a clue about html, let alone setting up a live radio feed.... Read More

Posted on 10/12



RED blog

pulling together a wealth of projects and keeping the community vibrant


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Designing and launching the RED blog was a chance to get to grips with some finer html and content management system skills, but also a fantastic opportunity to learn more about the team I had recently joined and their project history.... Read More

Posted on 10/12



plusyou.co.uk

project concept and portfolio site in full Flash glory


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PlusYou was the umbrella concept which covered all the pieces of work I produced for my degree show, and this flash website was a quick way to give visitors to the show some more background on my work. PlusYou was the idea that all of the designs depended on the intervention of the user in the design process in order to reach their full potential.... Read More

Posted on 10/12



Mercury interactive dashboard

fully-interactive touch screen interface for concept car


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American car firm Mercury asked Imagination to create a personalisable, fully interactive full-dashboard display for its concept car. The response was a complex interface that was easy-to-use, and was demonstrated in three different 'skins' to show how the interface could be personalised by different drivers, say, in a family or hire car users.... Read More

Posted on 10/12



Land Rover website

jpeggery, digitalpokery and photoshopmonkey business


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Whilst at Imagination, one of the world's largest digital interaction agencies, I had a balance of work between learning fantastic new tricks in Flash and After Effects, and also Photoshop monkeybusiness for projects such as selecting and providing the artwork and assets for the Land Rover website.... Read More

Posted on 10/12



KeCrypt interactive tutorial

humanising the digital signature process


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As part of the Technology Campaign at the Design Council, I was asked to humanise the digital signature for KeCrypt, who aspire to have their product become ‘the next chip and pin’. They have patented signature recognition software for measuring the way you sign on a pda or laptop that makes it uniquely yours and unforgeable.... Read More

Posted on 10/12



Land Rover touch-screen

informative dual-language flash program for the Detroit Motor Show


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This was an interactive touch screen I produced at Imagination, with Action Script help and patience from the interactive multimedia team. It was launched at the Detroit Motor Show in 2004, but retained by Land Rover for other exhibitions such as Paris 2005.... Read More

Posted on 10/12



jaguar interactive control panel

interface elements for Jaguar’s website and in-car control panel


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During my time at Imagination I produced a fair old amount of jpeggery for websites and assets for interactive exhibition pieces and even, as shown below, a pixel-accurate interface for their in-car interactive software.... Read More

Posted on 10/12



Imagination animation report

motion graphic report on my internship at Imagination’s multimedia studio


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These pairs of stills are of a fully-animated report i made about my experiences working for Imagination, in the ever-expanding digital multimedia department. There I worked on a wide range of projects for clients such as Jaguar, Samsung, Mazda, Lincoln and Land Rover, producing artwork, interfaces, films and animations.... Read More

Posted on 10/12



handmade galleries

A DVD exhibition featuring the grimier locations of New Cross


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A fully interactive DVD explored my Goldsmiths work at the end of my first year - and provided a tour of some impromptu exhibitions I had set up in some of the grimier areas of New Cross, including the first exhibition I know of to be held in a telephone box.... Read More

Posted on 10/12



gift and exchange

non-material experiences and adding value and meaning


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A group research project at Goldsmiths explored value and the act of exchange in the public arena, exchanging a self-made product and gradually trading up to a final object, auctioned against other groups.... Read More

Posted on 10/06



design council website

11th hour help to launch the DC’s new site


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Following the disbanding of RED at the Design Council, I was luckily adopted by the Knowledge team, who were in the final frenzied stages of launching the DC's new website that had taken over two years to design and build.

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Posted on 10/06



Customiser interface

proposing three modes of interfacing with a new empathic technology


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Customiser had a new empathic web technology that provided incredibly accurate recommendations for consumers, and also could put people in touch with other like-minded people. Our challenge was to consider the form and function of this interface, and then to design a prototype Flash run-through of the process.... Read More

Posted on 10/06



Axontex website

green technology startup launched with the Design Council’s direction


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As part of the Design Council's Technology Campaign, myself, Nick Marsh and Alex Holmes formed a student task force to rapidly provide design services to a wide range of technology startups. One of those we spent more time with were Axon - now a successful company featured in New Scientist and branching out into the green automotive industry.... Read More

Posted on 10/06



CES energy

straight web design for more environmentally friendly energy


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As a freelancer I produced the branding and website design for this emerging CHP (combined heat and power) company, whose website is now up and running and providing socially and environmentally responsible energy... Read More

Posted on 10/06



agent provocateur

it’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to be lucky enough to do it…


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Wow. For just a few days I worked with Large Design as their Photoshop Monkey, producing the artwork and assets for the Agent Provocateur website. The placement wasn't paid, hence the duration, but it wasn't entirely painful to work for free with amazing photography of models in lingerie... Read More

Posted on 10/06



switchwall

interactive installation where users draw with light


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This interactive wall was covered with 4-way switches, so as you run your hand across each panel, you draw with light in a different colour depending on the direction... Read More

Posted on 10/01