Creation records

28th of Mar, 2000ce* in: kleber, websites

I made 3 microsites for Creation records before they pulled the plug in 2001. Creation was home to bands like Oasis and Super Furry Animals.

Microsites I worked on were: LeTone, Guided By Voices and Kevin Rowland.

BabyBird (Stephen Jones)

ce* in: kleber, websites

‘you’re gorgeous’
No really, you are.
Babybird’s most famous song, a legacy that he seems be trying to forget. His latest album is called Bugged.
Echo approached Kleber in the past to produce the Moloko site, and favouring us to do a good job they wanted Babybird to have the same treatment.

We devised a PHP system for the site to run on and I took the artwork and ran with it. End result? A website that meets all the fans needs and more; all the sections are colour coded and are pulled together on the front of the site into a timeline, clever stuff. (edit: kinda like what wordpress does now!)

When we replaced the doddering old Babybird site with our new one some people did complain at the forum (people are always gonna complain, let face it) but after a while they got used to it. You can tell a good forum by how busy it is, if people start to complain or praise down the line then you know its been over designed. Well no-one is complaining now!

Moloko

12th of Mar, 2000ce* in: kleber, websites

With hits from new to old, Moloko are not new on the scene, unfortunately, neither was their doddering old website.
When Echo records came to us to ask for the makeover, we at Kleber were delighted to take on what could only be a good project.

I spent several weeks on the design, which seems like such a long time, but I had it down to work on all browsers *with* lots of added features for newer browsers too, the site was then given the php treatment to make it work well. The site also included some trickery to make it seem to take up all of the browser window whatever size it was set at, not just a fixed width… kind of a trademark technique in Kleber at the time.

The site generated a bit of press and won some sort of award I belive… Although whoever gave it, we didn’t receive it, that was the duty of Moloko (the band) who probably didn’t even know they had a website in the first place. I went on to write a few articles for web magazines about the reward scheme on the site (whereby you collect items scattered around the pages to unlock a secret page which held goodies.