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charles street_website

downstairs
first floor living room
_what
site for a new york townhouse.
_how
once again thanks to michael bolla for granting us the chance to make a website for another fine new york property. this time for a new york town house in the west village. after much discussion as to how to create a fast loading, comprehensive and immersive website in a very short amount of time, we decided upon the interactive slideshow or 'myst' technique. it was also important that every shot of the building appear almost fake, as if it had been rendered in 3D, so a great deal of photoshop work was involved. the end result is a rather simple but enticing experience that gives you a chance to wander through the house whilst the owner is out.
_features
  • flash driven navigation system
  • original photography
  • streaming mp3 audio
_link
www.versionindustries.com/archive/33charles
_tags

michael bolla_website

intro
exclusives
_what
site for the new-york-based property broker, michael bolla.
_how
this has been one of our more long-form projects & much like thomasnewbolt.com it has really tested our abilities on a number of new design fronts. the brief was to translate into website form everything that michael bolla & his company luxury lofts & homes have come to stand for during their 15 year existence. michael showed us the kind of sites he was into & we ultimately chose to design the site in flash in order to capture the company's very personal & non-corporate approach. furthermore his passion for yoga, beautiful spaces & subtle, elegant design have all come to the fore on this project in a manner that's translated very well into some satisfying web design. much like the stationery set we designed for him, this site has a lightness, grace & elegance that contrasts well with the world of luxury realty.
_features
  • full screen flash technology
  • flash driven GUI
  • streaming mp3 audio
  • coordinate driven property location mapping system
  • mailing list
  • contact form
  • database driven content with html & php driven backend
  • vector graphics video based introduction
_link
michaelbolla.com
_awards
gold medal in the july 2005 american design awards
_tags

essence communications_website

home page
who we are page
_what
site for the london-based PR agency, the essential essence.
_how
it's hard to define exactly what the brief was for this job. the essential essence wanted a website & they wanted it to be great. the moment their team sat down in our offices we knew we were all thinking on the same level. they handed over some wallpaper & magazine clippings & from that point onwards every idea we had they ran with & visa versa - it was wild. the resulting website, we would all agree, speaks for itself. thanks to all involved, this project was a blast from start to finish.
_features
  • full screen flash technology
  • flash driven GUI
  • streaming mp3 audio
  • original score
  • daily random 'cool quote' mechanism
  • CMS driven client section
_link
essence-communications.com
_tags

deadsy.com_website

home page
band page
_what
website and street team site for the los angeles-based, rock band, deadsy
_how

deadsy got in touch with us after our work on the experimental fansite, deadsy.tv. they wanted us to overhaul their existing site in a fashion that was as true as possible to their new record phantasmagore and to everything deadsy had come to represent. knowing full-well we were fans of the band, they gave us free reign to do what we wanted as long as the site was, for the most-part, information first and looks second.

secondly they wanted us to put together a forum to accompany the site that also doubled as a street team hub and organization platform. the vanilla forum was perfectly made for the task given the level to which it can be customized. we built into it various sign-up forms, promotional item request forms, dynamic events forms and an integrated live chat system.

_features
  • flash driven navigation system
  • basic, menu based user interface
  • easy to update database-driven site filing system
  • mp3 player
  • flv flash video player (with smoothing)
  • mailing list form
  • vanilla driven street team forum 
  • javascript based live chat system 
  • multiple contact forms
  • individual and state-based user accounts 
_link
deadsy.com
_tags

65daysofstatic - destruction website_website

home page
releases page
_what
website for the sheffield-based band, 65daysofstatic.
_how
65 wanted a new website for the release of their third studio album 'the destruction of small ideas'. in terms of looks, they wanted the loose hand-made feel that matched the band's long-running visual aesthetic, but also to add another element. the kind of element that only a website could add but again something you'd not typically have experienced before. we exchanged various ideas and settled on a design and concept that we felt captured all of this in one. the end result is a site that lives and breathes as much as it feels hand-made. a site that changes as the light fades.
_features
  • adapted wordpress-based news blog
  • javascript driven time-based selection style-sheet system
  • CSS / xhtml / javascript design
  • custom .flv player
  • custom 'ejectable' mp3 player with 'resume' cookie system
_link
www.65daysofstatic.com
_tags

kaleidoscope pr_website

homepage
clients page
_what
website for the new york-based PR firm, kaleidoscope consulting.
_how
miki higasa was after an elegant, refined and minimalist website to mark her internet debut. taking the company name and experimenting a little with the visual potential of it, we produced the 'kaleidoscope camera' that forms the core of the site and presented it to miki. she loved it, sent us the information she wanted to surround it and soon after the site was born.
_features
  • flash driven user interface
  • webcam snapshot technology
  • original music
_link
kaleidoscopepr.net
_tags

passionate music_ecard

big blue ball ecard
charlie haden ecard
_what
ecards for the new york-based agency, passionate music
_how
ben kosman wanted us to create an ecard template that would help him promote his varying clients in the music industry. the cards had to provide text, photographs, video and music in a fashion that was clean, elegant and adaptable to the aesthetic of each project.
_features
  • xml based adjustable content
  • interchangeable graphical slices
  • video player
  • mp3 player
  • slide viewer
  • email a friend form
  • multiple share / purchase / link menu options
_link
passionatemusic.net/ecards/charliehaden
_tags

protomen_website

home page
_what
revamped website for the nashville-based band, the protomen
_how
the protomen are on the eve of the release of their new album, act 2. recruiting the powerful drawing abilities of john delucca, we created an open-ended flash website that would allow us to introduce as much exciting new content as we liked, during the build-up to the album's release.
_features
  • full-screen flash interface
  • original music by the protomen
  • original hand-drawn graphics by john delucca
  • new protomen logo
  • countdown clock
_link
theprotomen.com
_tags

perry danos_website

bio page
music page
_what
website for chicago-based big-band jazz singer, perry danos
_how
grand vista wanted a very simple, elegant, compatible website that would deliver perry's message, music and imagery irrespective of the system, connection or screen size you might be viewing it with. they also wanted to be able to connect it to perry's various social networking connections. the resulting site's look is based on the artwork from perry's forthcoming album & it's minimal flash technologies mean it works well on all hand held devices to date.
_features
  • flash mp3 player witth 'resume play' functionality
  • javascript slideshow with flickr-based content
  • xml-based mp3 playlist player
_link
perrydanos.com
_tags

here_website

home page
lead actors page
_what
informational website for the forthcoming feature film, HERE.
_how
director braden king contacted us with an interest in providing a very straightforward, clean and organized source of information about his forthcoming feature film production. we suggested customizing the wordpress.org source code and the result is a search engine friendly, easy to update, cross-platform compatible website.
_features
  • 'resuming' mp3 player with 'eject' mechanism
  • custom contact form
  • custom javascript menu
_link
herefilm.info
_tags

daft punk_website

album slash page
offer page
poster page
source code
data capture page
_what
website for the tron legacy soundtrack by daft punk
_how
understanding that we were enormous fans of the original film and the forthcoming sequel, our new collaborators topspin, asked us to create a site gather emails for the forthcoming soundtrack release. given the soundtrack has been created by daft punk, we knew the site would get a vast response online from music geeks to film buffs alike. as such, we took full advantage of some of the latest web technologies (with help from mr. doob) and produced a site that works on iphones, ipads as well as regular machines. the end result is a very streamlined data collection / e-commerce site with many secrets (for those fans that love secrets as much as we do).
_features
  • html5 / javascript UI
  • keyboard input based triggers
  • ascii art source code
  • topspin E4M integration
_link
versionindustries.com/archive/tron
_tags

big black delta_record sleeve

IFUCKINGLOVEYOU
betamax
_what
artwork for the singles off of big black delta's debut LP, BBDLP1
_how
after signing to nerve management, big black delta have been set to release a series of singles both on vinyl and digitally. challenged with a way of making these releases unusual in some way, given some of the songs have been out for a while, we suggested that perhaps each release's artwork tesselate with the next. this way all the singles can form a larger image once they've all been collected. at the time of writing two releases have been put out, IFUCKINGLOVEYOU and betamax, which you can see here.
_link
bigblackdelta.com
_tags