Jul 21, 2009
Happy Island!
Posted by admin | Filed under Cool stuff
A nice bit of flash 3D. The site is a bit nuts though!
Posts Tagged ‘Interactive’
Oct 30, 2008
The First Long Tail President?
Posted by admin | Filed under Digital marketing
- Barack Obama on Facebook
Long Tail has been a buzz word in digital marketing and the broader economy for some time. We have seen its effect in both search marketing and e-commerce; Interrogation of a site's analytics will often reveal a large number of search terms collectively delivering a majority of site traffic over a few key phrases. Likewise, the bulk of sales at online stores such as Amazon come from a large variety of titles rather than a small number of best sellers.
We have also seen this effect in the success of Barack Obama in terms of his political appeal. Whilst Bill Clinton’s success in 2 presidential elections was largely attributed to attracting key swing groups such as ‘soccer mums’ Obama is maintaining the momentum of his campaign through the recruitment of a broad base of support. The same is true of his record breaking campaign funding:
Jul 1, 2008
DestroyFlickr new version
Posted by admin | Filed under Cool stuff
There's a new version of DestroyFlickr, an Adobe Air ap for browsing, uploading and downloading Flickr photos. It's pretty sweet, give it a go!
Jun 30, 2008
Huddersfield University Graduate Degree Show
Posted by Chrish | Filed under Where we've been
OK, so yes it was an excuse to head out to Huddersfield for some beers at Zephyr and a curry at The Nawaab, a town we frequent only once a year when the students of the multimedia and graphics are showing off their final projects.
This year was a bit special, as they have now moved from Canalside to the quite beautiful new Creative Arts Building; this space would certainly have inspired me as a young student. Check out Iman’s images on Flickr.
There was quite a bit of 3D work at the show, the two 3D pieces that I favoured were Pull by James Fleming, an animation inspired by George Méliès that included a massive amount of sketch work and prototyping for the final piece.
