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.

Steve Jones, creative director here. I have decided to start using Twitter because I just liked it from the first moment I saw it, in the same way as I instantly hated Facebook.

First thing I noticed was that the API situation for Flash was pretty woeful, so I’m writing a bunch of new “TwitterService” classes right now – starting from scratch – and will “tweet” the URL to the ZIP of AS3 files when I’m done. If anyone else fancies jumping in to develop them, that will be cool.

G-RAFF ON TWITTER

Manically busy at the moment, hence the sorry lack of updates. Moving into a new office next week, writing a killer PureMVC/PaperVision3D app for a big company you all know, working on a lovely trio of sites for Nigerian superstar Dare Art Alade, microsite for Orion Books, a great new community-funded film site, new stuff for Suburbia Media as they launched LOVE magazine, just about to go live with Bermondsey 167… the list goes on.

We’re also looking for freelance Flash developers if anyone is around. Familiarity with PureMVC will be a good help. Please don’t even launch your email client unless you are serious.

EDIT: Now 00:10 on Sunday night (no, its not Monday morning until I wake up) and I have just launched FlashTwitter as an open-source beginning to a decent Flash API for Twitter. I’ve had fun during the day, and hope this will be of some use.

Suburbia Media are celebrating 20 issues of their seminal fashion magazine Pop. They asked us to deliver a simple Flash intro which shows all the covers from the issues. So here it is.

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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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