A small website for a TV / technology company for them to showcase their work and keep news updated.
I designed the site based on their pre-existing identity. A straightforward static XHTML build.
http://www.wiretown.tv
I have worked on various sites for the iRB (through Lovelywork) over the years, building templates for their content management system, usually to designs by Will Richards.
The irb build always presents an interesting challenge, requiring an easily adaptable, modular site build, while maintaining the design and keeping the code simple and valid.
I built the the html templates for this site, following designs by Will Richards, to integrate with the back end content management system.
I also developed the various Flash elements across the site, again following Will’s designs.
A blog about design for the garden for the lovely Carole & the estimable Ross. The blog is aimed at showcasing interesting and useful design for the house and garden.
I built templates to designs by Will, but this time going mano a mano with Moveable Type, which actually proved to be reasonably flexible and very useful for easily setting up a blog that Ross and Carole can maintain for themselves.
This was a pilot for an interactive soap for the BBC. The audience would have a mocked up ‘desktop’ and would receive video messages from the characters, each containing a segment of an episode’s plot. Occassional ‘instant messages’ would allow the audience to interact with the characters, altering plot outcomes by making decisions.
I was heavily involved in the development of the concept and the eventual show. I helped structure the interactive segments of the drama and how they fitted in with the main plotlines.
I also built the Flash application for the pilot, using Flash video, XML data and components to create the desktop effect (to a design by Will). The interactive sequences required the video to seek and jump to different cue points depending on the audience choices.
An HTML site build for lovelywork to designs by the ever brilliant Will Richards. A fairly straightforward static site build.
http://www.daviesmckerr.com
A website for the Association with some basic editing tools that allow them to keep the site updated. I built the HTML for the site and integrated it with the editing tools.
Scalextric Sportworld is a new development that allows people to link their Scalextric sets to the Internet, entering tournaments and even racing against each other online.
I built the HTML templates for the website.
Well, yes, FightBox.FightBox was an interactive TV show for the BBC. Players could download a PC game from the BBC website and use it to create and train their own FightBox warriors. The most successful players won a place in the televised competiton.
BBC technology allowed us to film what was essentially a televised gaming tournament as, effectively, a live virtual sporting event as the players brought their warriors into the arena to face each other and our created characters, the Sentients, to fight to the death for the title of champion.
I helped develop the basic concept and did a lot of work on defining the look, feel, world and characters of FightBox. I helped design and develop the PC game and elements of the TV show. I built and helped run the FightBox website. I worked on the commentator’s scripts and wrote some segments of the TV show. I’ve even got a t-shirt.
FightBox aired on BBC 3 and eventually crossed over onto BBC2 where, after a reasonably strong start it suffered slow death by scheduling shuffle. It was very popular with the online audience, especially the ones that thought they might get on TV. My five-year-old godson loved it.
Bomb had designed a new site for Henson’s Creature Workshop which I implemented in Flash in conjunction with a suite of back-end editing tools that I wrote in Perl.The tools meant that Hensons would be able to update the site easily while still keeping the swish flash front end.
Sadly although the site was fully completed and functional, it never went live due to issues at the Creature Workshop.