Given that the first one was a ridiculous runaway success, LOVE have just let loose from the gate the second stage of the mighty bucking internet bronco that is Dr Marten’s THE BRIEF. Create your own designs for their iconic boots by drawing, painting and spraying on them, adding your own pictures and all sorts of stuff like that. It’s dead good. Here’s my effort. It’s a hoof, in case you can’t tell. Could even be cloven for all I know. Awful design too, but then I should really be working. Hey, here’s an idea – why not have a go yourself?! You can even stick it on your blog, on your facebook and then get it tattooed on your own face if you like, so other people can vote your shitty hoof thing up the tables and you can eventually be some sort of a winner!
[I didn't do the flash, by the way, but it's damn good all the same]
So this is what I’ve been up to since I started at LOVE way back at the start of… oooh, it must be… when was it now?… March? Yes, March. It’s also the reason I’ve not put much up here for a while. Late nights into personal work won’t go.
For me personally it’s just good to get a project live. Darren here designed this one initially and had the crazy idea of actually making the blanket. For real. In the office. So it was made, it was photographed and at one point it was even filmed, but eventually we took a photo to The Neighbourhood (who live just round the corner in our office) and they weaved their crazy 3D hoodoo to throw down and lay out the blanket using simulated 3D cloth. And that was the 1 second movie you saw at the start. Go on, restart it and see. It’s very clever.
Prior to this place, I’d been riding a behemoth of a BBC project for a good long while at mN, that I still can’t talk about, whilst learning from AS3 prince Adam Todd. So I had a head chock-full of freshly-squeezed AS3 and was keen to put it to good use, essentially to cement and crystalise all these hot new concepts solidly in my mind. So this one’s all organised, ordered and classed-up, in nice, clean, event-driven, object-orientated AS3. It’s even got custom events, bubbling away in there. Oh yes. Hear me now. Enjoy. And please add all your picnics.
Every man and his dog’s remixing Radiohead at the moment, so I’ve had a go too. Everything you hear in this comes from the original, drums included. Live really can do some amazing things with audio. Please vote! Ta.
Great BBC “Penguins” spot for April fools, promoting the BBC’s marvellous iPlayer. But watching it on the iPlayer itself just highlighted something again that had really bugged me when it first appeared last year. Here’s the final frame as it appears at the end of all broadcast ads, screenshot from the iPlayer itself, hence the quality:
…and here’s the tagline as it appears in the top right of the site:
The comma-free (and all upper case) broadcast version makes the most grammatical sense, but the web version isn’t actually wrong, it’s just had its sense changed. So whereas on telly it says “Our content is unmissable and the iPlayer makes it harder to miss”, online it seems to mean “We make unmissable content – that fact is unmissable”, thus completely missing the clever wordplay element specific to the on-demand nature of the iPlayer. It’s a clever line without the comma.
My name’s Adam and this is palmerama.tv, my crib. By day, I ply my trade as Senior Interactive Designer/Creative Head for the good people at LOVE. in sunny Manchester. The rest of the time I spend doing all manner of stuff, a lot of it sleeping. Some of the other things I do can be found on these pages.
