MTV Best Show Ever
Posted on 03. Sep, 2009 by admin.
I spent a couple of weeks helping a small agency called Publicreative develop a website for MTV in Flash. I needed to reverse-engineer the framework and adapt some of the content including the section transitions which were dynamically generated PaperVision animations. It also utilised some pretty complicated Deep-Linking and the back-end was done in AMFPHP. [...]
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Philips Floorcare Microsite
Posted on 03. Sep, 2009 by admin.
This website was created with Tribal DDB for Philips. The site was XML driven so the products could easily be updated. We also used an Excel XML parser as the CMS instead of creating a backend service to handle the translations. Unfortunately the site is now not live but here’s a version I kept to [...]
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Branding
Posted on 03. Sep, 2009 by admin.
While with Code I designed a bunch of logos for a suite of RIA’s they were planning on building.
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Animation for Grey London
Posted on 03. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Here’s an example of some After Effects work I did for Grey London. They wanted something to introduce their Cannes Showcase site and had a wonderful illustrator doing some vector art that needed bringing to life. I was happy to oblige.
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