Webconverger

13th of May, 2008ce* in: dadako, logos/fonts, print

A good friend of mine asked me to develop a logo and visual language for his startup company (webconverger) distributing an all-in-one linux based portable web browser. We mulled over a plethora of daisy designs, finally choosing the most vibrant one for it’s web 2.0 charm.

The daisy represents convergence.

Instead of going for a custom font on the type my friend wanted (or rather insisted) on using the open source font Gentium. It was a bit of a challenge getting this font to behave, and like Linux it is constantly being upgraded and amended by the community. A bit of kerning later and we have something we are happy with. We’re trying to use the logo in the open vector “SVG” format where ever possible.
This project is truly a logo in action and more about active presence than refinement. It’s interesting to see what happens when you hand over “the keys” to a project like this and watch it grow into t-shirts and so on.

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Logic Lingo

ce* in: dadako, logos/fonts, print, websites

A good friend of mine asked for a identity to support his new translation company. I settled on an optical illusion for the logo, with two L’s fused together a la M.C.Esher. The font is the wonderful Neo Tech™ with a little bit of hand kerning.
In addition to the logo I delivered a simple bilingual website and business cards.

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redbull flightlab

6th of Mar, 2008ce* in: dadako, illustration

My small part to play in this truly remarkable online game. I like illustrating in this style a lot.

update

This microsite picked up bronze at Cannes this year (2008)!

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CAG illustration

9th of Feb, 2008ce* in: dadako, illustration

Although we’re not using this on the final site build, I thought I’d add it to my illustration portfolio, I may even make some system icons from the controllers!

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Under the Sea - Diver Cubes

29th of Jan, 2008ce* in: dadako, girls, illustration

Starting from January the 28th, the National Maritime Museum of Cornwall will be holding an exhibition called “under the sea”.

I come from Cornwall, so I was pleased when a friend of mine contacted me to make a piece for the exhibition. The brief was to create a 1.3m high rotating set of cubes featuring 4 different types of diver: skin diver, deep sea diver, mermaid and Victorian era diver. Divers come in 3 parts, which when rotated combine with the other divers to create new, strange divers! Our “man in Japan” (me) also sneaked in some great hidden references, which you’ll have to snoop out for yourself.

The exhibition is open in Falmouth, closes at the end of the year.

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Ottoblog

1st of Sep, 2007ce* in: dadako, websites

Charged with making a blog for the German fashion brand Otto, and their Japanese brand Otto-Sumisho.
Developed wireframes and code base / design for this wordpress based blog.
Happy to see it being populated by the authors and learnt a few new wordpress tricks in the build, such as: author page, frontpage post styling.

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Salon Boutique Autumn 2007

10th of Aug, 2007ce* in: animation, dadako, illustration, websites

I decided to make a stalkers photography den for this seasons interactive web presence. More of an experience than a useful tool, this site is for playing and getting some information about the seasons upcoming collection.

the site is built in flash, using some fairly complex actionscript. I’ve never been much of a scripter but gave it a shot for this project.

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The Plant relaunch

20th of Jul, 2007ce* in: dadako, websites

I was asked recently by my friend Anatole to give his company homepage a complete make over, with some friendly illustration and colour.

It went live today, and works in Japanese and English.
Luckily, it was hands off for the coding in my part, just direction to the coders from my original templates. Based on Radiant CMS as I understand it. I chipped in at the start to get some of the basic styles coded.

Illustrations also by myself, based on the staff that work at “the Plant”.

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new projects of late

15th of Jun, 2007ce* in: dadako

well, nothing I can really talk about but have been busy these recent months. Still alive!

Designed 4 packages for something you eat, soon to be released here in Japan.

Did the layout and design on a 51 page guide to Tokyo.

Programmed templates for a large tourist board site.

Ah well, it’s all my secret work. Hush hush whispers in the back rooms of the dadako HQ.

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Western Australian Goverment

8th of Jun, 2007ce* in: dadako, websites

Working from provided images I created these templates with xhtml and css. Performs very well on all browsers, validates perfectly. Although when you hand over something like this and let the final client begin to update (all pages can be changed via a CMS) you have no idea what they might throw at it.

The site is aimed primarily at a Japanese audience, although it runs with bilingual content.

A very good project for all parties involved and glad to see it up and running. Felt a bit strange just doing the coding work, but nothing out the ordinary for me as a webdesigner.

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