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20 Jan 2012

Christmas Aftermath

Now that we’re well into January it seems like a good time to do a quick round up of what we got up to towards the back-end of last year. While the 3 months from October through December were our most productive to date, we made sure we had plenty of fun working on some Christmas campaigns to keep us in a festive mood.

The Rizla Advent Giveaway was a resounding success attracting more than 20 times the amount of web traffic we’d usually expect to see in an average month. We reached 20,000 twitter timelines within 12 hours of go-live and in a single month increased Rizla’s subscriber database by 75%.

In amongst this, we also managed to

  • Launch 3 websites for a global leader in the manufacture of animal nutrition additives: Anpario, Optivite & Kiotechagil.
  • Develop a flash-based Christmas card for a prominent Manchester design agency
  • Pick up a brief to develop a series of mobile apps for a high-profile Northern Utilities company
  • Convince York St John University that we are the right web design studio to support their 2012 marketing activities

All in all we had a, great finish to a successful year which has lead on to a very promising start to 2012

14 Dec 2011

Rizla Christmas Buzzwords Game

Rizla Christmas Buzzwords Online Game

We’ve just launched Christmas buzzwords – a Christmas re-hash of a game we did back in October. This time you have to reveal a series of snow-topped scenes and correctly guess the famous Christmas songs they relate to.

Rizla Christmas Buzzwords Online Game

This flash-based game is the latest feature of the Rizla Advent giveaway which launched at the beginning of the month to get Rizla’s audience coming back to the site in the run-up to Christmas.

Have a go and see how you do: www.rizla.co.uk

 

15 Nov 2011

Rizla Desktop Widget App

Rizla Online Application Design and Development

Following the success of the music player we built into the Rizla home page, we developed a standalone player so Rollers can enjoy the exclusive tracks and image galleries from the comfort of their own desktop.

Rizla Online Application Design and Development

By using Adobe’s Air application we were able to take a good chunk of the Flash code base we developed for the website and generate a cross-platform app for use on both Mac and PC.

Rollers can download the desktop app from the Rizla website giving them free unbridled access to years of exclusive festival tunes and image galleries.

Rizla Online Application Design and Development

 

 

12 Oct 2011

Rizla Buzzwords

We’ve been busy again with Rizla – this time creating a Flash game competition to win one of 5 limited edition prints of an original Rizla advert!

It seems the ‘Rizla Rollers’ love anything with the Rizla logo on it – only last month they ran a competition giving away 300 Rizla branded tents that went down a storm! So this time we were asked to come up with some ideas for an engaging competition entry mechanism that would give the user a real sense of what the competition is all about.

We’re all about coming up with fun ideas that really engage our clients audience and keep them interacting with their brand time and again.

Go check out the Rizla Buzzwords and try your luck

We’ve got plenty more exciting developments with Rizla coming up so watch this space…!

Rizla Buzzwords

Rizla Buzzwords

Rizla Buzzwords

10 Jul 2011

Annual review animation for The Health Foundation

This week we completed an online review animation for the Health Foundation. The challenge was to pull together all the different ways the Health Foundation continually helps to improve healthcare across the UK.

Our Friends at Thompson Brand Partners took the lead on the ideas and creative and brought us in to deliver our animated interpretation of their carefully crafted storyboard.

The result is a punchy, engaging animation that introduces the Health Foundations core areas of work and then allows the user to click around and explore deeper into the website.

Health Foundation flash animation 01

Health Foundation flash animation 01

Health Foundation flash animation 01

27 May 2011

Rizla welcomes the summer with a brand new website

The New Rizla Website

We’re proud to announce a brand new addition to our growing portfolio – the all new Rizla website developed in collaboration with Original Online, Third Rock and Khanh Tu.

The focal point of the website is the Rizla Player which pulls together hours of exclusive tunes, video interviews and photography gathered from years of Rizla parties and festivals into an innovative media player featured on the home page. Current Plump favorites are Greg Wilson (Rizla Riverboat Shuffle 2009) and Gruff Rhys (Lovebox 2009).

Have a look for yourself »

28 Jan 2011

A blast from the past

We we’re just having a crawl of the web as we often do on a Friday and we stumbled across the very first commercial project we ever did together. It’s still online after 10 years!!!

a blast from the past

In our second year at uni, our former lecturer and friend invited us to have a crack at translating his design consultancy’s printed brochure into an interactive presentation to feature on his website.

This was back in 2001 when flash was coming of age as a tool for creating engaging websites and pushing the boundaries of interactivity and user experience. Designing websites was all about experimenting with new ways to navigate and interact with content and it was this aspect of the digital communications revolution that hooked us in.

With inspiration drawn from the nokia snakes game and the dot-com-boom poster-child agency Deepend, this project was a playground for us to develop our skills in flash, get some commercial experience and some extra beer money. It’s nice to think it’s still out there on the web.

To have a look for yourself, click here and then on to “02. Open to View”. Enjoy!