Insert clichéd LOVE pun here…

Oooh look. Much toil, blood, sweat, tears and seemingly never-ending meetings have finally culminated in the all new LOVE. site!

A lot of people really didn’t like the old one, but sod them – we did. After all, it was funny, it won awards, it got us the business we were after and acquitted itself admirably, now bowing out gracefully for the new generation to take over.

And this time, we’ve taken a different tack. Firstly, the work’s all there up front. Big, bold and colourful. Then there are loads of new videos and web walkthroughs, not least of which is LOVE’s brand new retro brand film, made by our very talented video elves. And thanks in no small part to very recent advances at Vimeo, all this should look as pretty on your iPhone or iPad as it does on your big work screen.

Oh, and of course this covers BLOG, SHOP, Vimeo and Twitter too.

Computer Arts Tutorial Online

Now it’s out of print, Computer Arts have stuck my first AS3 tutorial from Feb up online, so it’s all yours for free. You lucky people.

U+262E: Two Fingers To War

Oh look, I’ve made a little video showing some of the best pics from our interactive photo booth/wall thing at United Underground 2 the other week for Ctrl.Alt.Shift.

Here’s me shepherding a couple of delightful young ladies into the booth. Then Me, Jamie and Jim signing off on the big screen. You can see there how it builds up a fullscreen wall of images and gracefully scales to take as many as we throw at it.

Photo Wall AIR App!

Off down to That London tomorrow with our video camera, a brand new iMac and a lovely AIR app by Jamie. Will report back. Looks like it works!

PS3 The Game

1 year, 2 teams, 18 countries, 22 languages, 40+ flash games, thousands of quiz questions, thousands of players, billions of points, 1 summer, lots of workers (cheers) and lots of fun.

For Sony PS3, LOVE’s biggest digital achievement to date: The Game.

Look at the pretty games!

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Here’s a little sneak peek from my first Computer Arts tutorial on how to make proper freaks. Warped with AS3, of course. Six fingers crossed it should be in there sometime next month.

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Carrier

Quite how I forgot to mention this huge project on here, I don’t know. That’s most of last autumn unaccounted for.

Carrier are a high-end holidays company, so they wanted a high fashion feel to permeate the site.

We at LOVE. tried to make a silky-smooth flash site as easy to navigate as your usual information-rich xhtml, with gorgeous full bleed photos, smooth fades aplenty, nice image galleries and easy text scrolling. And it all sits within a browser-height stretchy interface that adapts all text boxes and search results to fit snugly to the footer.

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The Flash was built with the Gaia Framework for its built-in templating, SWFAddress, google analytics and so on, which worked like a dream once I’d dug into the forums to “get” Gaia and figured out pulling all the data out of Mark’s enormous backend through CakePHP. So to speak.

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