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.

If all clients were as nice to work with as Fig Cashmere, the world would be a better place. When I first met them on the South Bank to discuss the project, I could not believe how open they seemed to ideas, how generous of spirit (they have a charity set up in Nepal to help the community that makes their clothes), and how relaxed they were. But as the project progressed, our complete rebrand and delivery of a cool-ass new e-commerce site became a true pleasure to work on.

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How do you cram a multi-layered works archive, full screen photo gallery, two channel music player, Yahoo Maps guestbook, RSS-friendly news engine and script-driven aurora borealis into a minimalist Flash website? Answer: Brendan-Perry.com.
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