http://www.mini.co.uk/xmaspaper

Sick of the standard, twee greetings messages on Xmas wrapping paper? Then accept Mini's invitation to tell-it-like-it-is when you're giving. Choose from a pre-programmed list of witty dryness or enter an uncensored one of your own.

The app also let's you choose paper colour, place decorations on the paper to your heart's content, print out your design or save a bitmap of it if you want to take it down to your local print shop to tile an print out at a larger size.

Brief

A vehicle for Mini's pre-Christmas competition, and an interest harvester, with a little it of fun thrown in. It's Christmas after all.

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!

http://www.mini.co.uk/born1959/

Retro video and swf player built on MVC framework with XML driven for localisation. Has 'send to friend' and competition submissiion functionality. I also had the joy of  compiling and editing the tongue-in-cheek 'Other firsts from 1959' video clip. Now, if I hear that music track one more time...

Brief

Mini wanted something to celebrate their 50th anniversary, and gather entries for their 50th anniversary competition. So, here's an irreverent look back in time to the news of the day around the launch of the first Mini.

http://www.mini.co.uk/html/model_range/mini_graphite.html

An image gallery for Mini's graphite model. As usual, fully localised text and font libraries.