http://www.rampagestudio.co.uk

Showreel and news site for an up-start video production company, sporting an  AJAX navigation menu system and bespoke portfolio CMS tied in with a Wordpress backend for News and Blog sections

Brief

Rampage wanted to keep their site minimal and let their work speak for itself, so the site is quite muted and only takes colour from actual video content or stills. A very fine line walked between minimal an un-indexable as at one point the client was about to remove almost all text content.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/hse/hiddenkiller

Site built for The Health and Safety Executive, far from being the Nanny State Government department that everyone imagines, they've got a lot of salient points to get across. In this case, be extra careful working with any kind of  asbestos, it's going to kill you.There's a wealth of information here for builders and contractors of all kinds,  some very sad case studies and an AJAX powered 'do you know the facts' game for builder to play.

The site is all nice clean CSS/XHMTL(Strict) and nice and  dirty AJAX (jQuery), and validates to WCAG AAA standard.

Brief

Site is a refresh of an earlier basket case of a site with only case studies and factual data being retained. The look and feel is supposed to appeal to Brickies, Chippies,  Sparkies and the like.

http://www.thefrontroom.info

AS3 Flash site for high end home entertainment/automation company based in London with a full-on XML driven, liquid layout, . Currently in soft launch,

Brief

The Front Room wanted something that looked as slick and expensively shiny-shiny as the systems they sell. Et volia!

Project:

planetrapido.com was the extension of the bizarre world of Rapido into cyberspace. Always entertaining, oft-times shocking, never knowingly tasteful. For two years I lived and breathed smut, sauce, wierdness and curios.

In design terms planetrapido was a huge amount of fun to work on, though it's surprising how much work goes into making something look that tacky!

The site itself is huge in scope and literally leaves no stone unturned in it's search for the underside of european life. From the innocent ministerings of the 'Furries' to the depths of perversion plumbed by the fetish family, planetrapido has never faltered in its mission to probe the soft underbelly of Europe's sexuality and culture.

Being extremely graphics and media heavy you'd expect the return rate of visitors to be atrocious and it yet still enjoyed healthy amounts of traffic, with many visitors returning again and again, I suppose they just couldn't believe their eyes the first time around.

Several proprietry systems were built to handle the dissemination of the site's media including the site's own online currency (the ribbit) and it's video postcard and cheap thrills systems. Every story contained at least one streamed clip and the emphasis was very mcuh on making as many things as possible clickable and in this vein moves were also being made towards the development of pay-per-play flash games and subscriptions systems in an attempt to cash in on it's loyal user base.

During the time that I worked on planetrapido.com I had the opportunity to learn many media skills and technologies from both an internet and a televisual standpoint and was lucky enough to have had several pieces of work broadcast in the company's flagship 'Eurotrash programme.

Audience:

Who knows, and who can tell? Just about everyone from all walks of life. As soon as I started work there, thinking that the hey day of Eurotrash had passed, viewers and fanatics started to crawl out of the woodwork. must be some sort of