ASEU Trading Store

14th of Mar, 2005ce* in: websites

ASEU needed a site to contain their huge catalogue, with an e-commerce programmer already onboard - and countless iterations of the site left to gather dust by designers past, we set to work on something stable, good looking and accessible to all browsers / platforms.

In all I produced 4 (ASP~HTML) templates for this site. From these 4 templates the e-commerce programmer was able to cover every eventuality in the site, add new elements and keep product image sizes constant. The old website featured product shots taken by the factory staff in China, these weren’t re-sized for the internet. The client (ASEU) was very trusting of my direction, and we had a very quick turn around from a broken, ugly shop; to a fully functioning, pretty shop within a very short space of time.

I’m very proud of the outcome, on what I think is an attractive e-commerce website. (most are thrown together with little concern of form, just function.) Pats on backs all ’round. When I handed over the templates, they parsed as w3c compliant (no tables used, also). I’m not sure about now, as site like this often change to incorporate new ideas or features.

Mobile faces

10th of Mar, 2005ce* in: animation, illustration

small test for a mobile chat system devloped by a guy called DC over at jgram

Nissan create Cube screensavers

ce* in: diary

Wow!
Nissan have really impressed this time with their decision to hire three of Japan’s top interacive designers to do something special! As the site is in Japanese, I’ve linked these fantastic screensavers here for download:

Kenji Sanro: cubeman
windows | Mac OSX | Mac OS9

Koichiro Tsujikawa: cube clock
windows | Mac OSX | Mac OS9

Groovevisions: GRV2213 (my favorite)
windows | Mac OSX

The first two are 3d screensavers made in director and the third is done in flash. Cube Man is a couple of cute little cubes bouncing around, which you can map your own pictures onto. Sugar cubes is a little more entertaining and very original, little ants come out of a hole every minute to rearange a clock made from sugar cubes. The third one is amazing. Seeing a car being driven around from a Spy Hunter perspective, with seemingly random simple yet wonderful terrain.
(Nissan Cube)