Eddie Izzard is running 1000 miles across the UK in aid of Sport Relief. As someone who once walked 400 miles for charity, I declare this to be a near-insane undertaking, but worthy of MASSIVE admiration. But what really matters is we get folk to donate money… As Eddie said himself, in response to some asking if he was “Forrest Gump-ing it” – “Forrest Gump didn’t know why he was running. I do. So please donate at [ Sport Relief ].

We decided to jump in and make it a bit more fun to follow Eddie by creating a Twitter / Twitpic / Google Maps mashup to follow him and hopefully over the next week or so start adding some sightings etc. via the twitter account @eddieizrunning. Lots to come!

Check it out – eddieizrunning.com

We are delighted that Tipping Point Film Fund (or TPFF as it is affectionately known) had a successful launch yesterday.

Deborah Burton, one of the head honchos, met Steve Jones during Walk Ireland ‘05 when SJ was walking the length of Ireland with his one of his famous mates, Ronan Keating. Fast-forward to 2009, and the incredible force of ‘Deb’ along with other some very inspiring characters decided to set up TPFF, and called us. It has been a pleasure to work for them, and the resulting site is chock-full of nifty stuff, but is ultimately a useful vehicle for them to voice their great cause – with plenty of style.

Built on a highly customised and bespoke WordPress backend, it is easy to update and control, meaning the reins of power are firmly in the clients’ hands.

A final feather in the cap came when they decided to use one of Steve’s tracks for their viral video – ‘Stars and Satellites’ (which can be downloaded for free at the Sayonara Deadweight Site).

You can also follow TPFF on Twitter

Just launched a minimalist 3D Flash showcase site for a lifestyle store in London – Bermondsey 167.

The idea was to use “tags” behind the scenes so that various “rooms” could be generated easily and quickly without any limitations. Tags can be visible frontside or hidden – for example, everything tagged *init appears on the homepage but that tag is never actually visible to users. This allows a more organic browsing experience that you would have if you went into the shop – one second you are looking at the beautiful shirts of Michael McGrath’s label M2CG, but you turn round and you’re looking at his equally stunning mirror tables and units. Similarly a bright top on the site tagged with “colour” can be clicked to generate a ‘room’ with just colourful items from bookends to photos to a cotton slipover.

Its a quirky shop, with quirky owners and a quirky little dog running around… but that is all part of the character, and it was a lot of fun.

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We are delighted to be working with Suburbia Media again, this time for the launch of their stunning new magazine for Condé Nast – LOVE. When we saw the artwork, it was such a joy. Yet again, it was a case of trying to create something that transparently presented the excellent work of Stuart Spalding and Lee Swillingham without getting in the way. The guys like Flash, so we just created a slightly more involved slideshow with a liquid layout and fullscreen option.

Just delivered the beta version of Animals Are NOT Rubbish for Orion Children’s Books.

The idea behind it is a competition where children have to make models of animals from recycled rubbish. They have support from Waterstone’s booksellers and the Born Free Foundation so it should be a good campaign.

It was mostly done in straight HTML/CSS, but we thought it would be nice to actually make the recycled animals idea in an intro sequence where rubbish was whipped up and moved around to make some animals. The end result is fun, and quite hypnotic. Thanks to Jack Doyle for the excellent tweening engine TweenLite which we used on the project and recommend.

The artwork all came from books by Lauren St John whose site we did last year. The artist, David Dean, has commanded great respect from all at G-RAFF for such lovely attention to detail, which made it easy to recycle the work for a website.