This motion project for the talented digital development company, Digital Cools, showcases their interactive web apps produced for the Telegraph.
Credits:
Web app design and development: Digital Cools
Motion design: Jason Kinouchihttp://www.vimeo.com/21917811
I was commissioned by Glyndwr University’s Marketing Department to Art Direct a team of four designers. Our brief was to produce the concept, design and template for the University’s Postgraduate & Professional Prospectus, 2011. The concept of ‘growth’ throughout University was conveyed through the Russian doll visuals, suggesting continual expansion and advancement through the various degrees which Glyndwr has to offer. Various booklets were produced for each department of study, with each requested booklet assembled into a personalised folder for the prospective student. This saved on printing costs compared to the traditional model of a thick ‘catalogue’ prospectus, filled with courses irrelevant to the student.
Vibe is a concept for a multi-layered digital platform of a city, showing the real-time energy, experience and interpretations of its residents.
Anyone can join the Vibe community and are then able to participate, by uploading their own ‘vibes’, ideas and experiences, using a variety of media such as video, photographs, audio, web links, and augmented reality. Staying true to the constant evolution of the city, the continual contribution of content ensures that Vibe is always changing and stays up to date. Older or outdated vibes disappear over time to be replaced by new ones. This makes each visit to the digital city fresh and engaging with new experiences ready to be discovered.
Each city can have its own unique open map that buzzes with a live network and community, sharing and expressing their personal vibes, and offering an insider’s perspective of their environment. This map can be accessed primarily through a smart phone interface, but may also be interacted with physically using an ‘Invisible Map’. This is based around a blank embossed map, embedded with RFID tags acting as triggers to allow real time interaction with the digital city.
Benches- A self-initiated project
Intimate thoughts; Shared spaces
Benches are curious phenomena; islands of solitude or community dispersed across the landscape, marking routes that we frequent.
This project aims to offer a fresh perspective on these familiar and commonplace objects.
St. Asaph’s community and the localities of North Wales were asked to share their stories and experiences of these benches and their origins.
These encounters have been documented in the form of an interactive map, allowing the story to continue.
Please feel free to add to this communal map from wherever you live.
See this set on Flickr
Locate them on Google Maps
A strong typographical approach was key to the Kinouchi branding, which was carried across to these self-promotional business cards. These square-cut cards offer an alternative to the norm of business cards and have a beautiful sturdy and tactile quality to them. They are double sided and have been hot foil stamped with both silver and black foil.
Credits: Bolland & Lowe, Daryl Higgins, Ryan Hill
This is a project from a YCN 2009 brief, to direct business students and graduates to the Financial Times website- FT.com and subscribe for free through their college/university network.
We wanted to produce something, initially from paper craft, either from the salmon-couloured newspaper itself or from paper money as it would bring a more playful element to the project for our target audience.
The origami butterflies are reminiscent of freedom and maturity after graduation, and can be applied across various media- through print, installations and web. Most importantly, the butterflies could, in essence, hijack a friend’s Facebook homepage via a sent link, and direct students to the free FT.com subscription. We thought that this would not be too intrusive because the link would need to be sent via a friend, and secondly, butterflies are one of the least intimidating of creatures!
The butterflies can also be applied across FT.com and be used to visually interpret live feeds from the stock market which are usually, a visually dry communication of data.
An Interactive flash piece. This brief required a form of infographics to display self-found data from Wrexham market. The cubes represent the percentages of coloured signs found on Wrexham market and were photographed in context, where the data was collected. The coloured cubes, once clicked on, display all the signs of that colour that were collected from the market, creating a highly visual, informative form of data communication without any dry numbers or graphs.
This was a live brief for the prominent American food company, Donatos, to sell British sandwiches to an American audience. My goal was to create something fresh and never before seen in sandwich packaging.
This piece came first place in the design competition and was one of the pieces chosen and flown to Donato’s headquarters in Iowa. Amendments would need to be made if it were to be manufactured, such as sealing the package but our client was very pleased. “It captures the freshness of the outdoors with a clear picnic look”. Hopefully it may actually get put into production after the credit crisis settles and the U.S. big-wigs sees the desperate need for British sandwiches in America.
