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A list of my designs throughout the years, from websites to games.
RedBull Me
Published 6th of Apr, 2010. Stored under Design
Worked on the layout and illustration for this custom face-building for my good friends at USN
Check it out here: RedBull Me
Edvec Support site
Published 27th of Oct, 2009. Stored under Design
Site (design) template I did for Edvec Japan.
Facemakr
Published 21st of Sep, 2009. Stored under Design, design portfolio
Friday bore the fruits of my personal project; facemakr. An online service that creates a personalised illustration of your face for use on social networking sites.
Meat & Wool New Zealand Redux
Published 1st of Sep, 2009. Stored under Design, design portfolio
Meat & Wool New Zealand were looking to re-fresh their website, and rely on the great team at Eat Creative to make that wish a reality. The new website is born!
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JMEC
Published 14th of Jul, 2009. Stored under Design
JMEC (Japan Market Expansion Competition) needed a new website to communicate their objectives to a wider audience, as well as providing tools for their applicants. We delivered.
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21 foundation
Published 11th of Jun, 2009. Stored under Design
Travelling (and filming in) 9 different countries in 30 days, the 21 Foundation were after a perfect solution to showcase the adventure and spark debate.
Several months ago, we were approached to create a resource for distributing information about new ways of thinking – for teachers and students alike – following the notion that children studying now, will be using different tools in the future. Doing jobs that don’t even exist yet. 21 Foundation exists to be help children be taught in more flexible manner to help them better cope with the unknown. A kind of drive for “out with the old, in with the new”.
Currently the website offers such a forum for adding links to interesting content, the teaser trailer for the movie and a blog charting the adventure. Additional elements will be added in the none-to-distant future.
Programming by Erik Johansson.
TEDxTokyo
Published 12th of May, 2009. Stored under Design
The organisers of TEDxTokyo asked the company I work for (eat) to make them a website / blog to track the TED event being hosted here in Tokyo on may the 22nd.
Spectro Japan
Published 17th of Nov, 2008. Stored under Design
Spectro asked Eat Creative to re-design their website to bring it into line with the global relaunch.
Eat Creative
Published 24th of Oct, 2008. Stored under Design, design portfolio
Eat’s new website is released, with a focus on; simplicity, style & standards. It also comes in 5 fresh eye-pleasing colours!
Starting from today, Eat boasts a new website, where you can find out about Eat’s clients – the work Eat does – some insight into Eat’s previous life as a magazine and staff profiles. All without being bogged down by pointless flash intros and text you’ll never read. We separated the wheat from the chaff.
Fit for Charity
Published 12th of Sep, 2008. Stored under Design
A poster for a the annual FIT (Financial Industry in Tokyo) run
Fit for Charity
Published 1st of Sep, 2008. Stored under Design
Annual revamp of the FIT website, switched on!
FIT is an annual run, held in Tokyo by financial institutions, now in it’s 4th year. FIT is one of EAT’s pro-bono clients.
The website runs in both English and Japanese, we re-coded it to be more friendly.
Meat and Wool New Zealand
Published 15th of Aug, 2008. Stored under Design
We’ve had this one on the shelf for a while but finally it gets a release!
Although only in Japanese, this website uses some interesting incentives to explore the site fully. This is part of a much larger campaign we are organising in Japan.
Air Canada
Published 12th of Jul, 2008. Stored under Design
I was asked to revamp the air canada website in Japan, to bring it in line with the global look and feel
one, Japan
Published 2nd of Jun, 2008. Stored under Design, design portfolio
After producing the me too campaign – voice to help the worlds poor, ‘primarily’ for G8 in Japan this year – one approached Eat creative [where I am web-producer] to handle their Japanese localisation and filming / press.
As part of this we were asked to create a Japanese version of the one website, entirely built and localised by us. Myself and the programmer knew that we needed to untangle the site a bit so worked from scratch via my illustrator templates, instead of the existing code.
I guess the highlight of this is watching the “one” juggernaut at work, with celebrities like (dr) Bono and Antony Gormley coming to Japan to support the effort. The entangled limbs of the respective charities do serve to provide a powerful voice this year, effects are - noticeable – Japanese PM pledging more aid to Africa - already – and tanabata day is the pinnacle of this, when the G8 summit is held.
Pantone Shop Japan
Published 1st of Jun, 2008. Stored under Design
Pantone needed a new – unique – shop for their Japanese website.
The global website they have is labyrinthine at best, so my job was to simplify things for Japan, which is still an emerging market for Pantone. I was asked to come up with an art direction then take it to production level after approval from the client. To my amazement head office approved the design straight away [even though it's very different to the global site]. Needless to say, they are very happy with it.
A few features of the new site are:
- colour coding. Each area of the site is a pantone colour combination – with corresponding swatch at the bottom of each page – which helps users remember which area a product belongs to.
- Rounded corners. For browsers that natively support them. Currently IE6 and IE7 have square corners, which also looks nice!
- Full validation. Pantone shop Japan is fully standards compliant.
Along with some other spicy things like jquery drop down transitions, hopefully this incarnation of the shop translates pantones image better to the Japanese audience than previous incarnations.
additional programming by Erik Johansson
Webconverger
Published 13th of May, 2008. Stored under Design
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.
Logic Lingo
Published . Stored under Design
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 Techâ„¢ with a little bit of hand kerning.
In addition to the logo I delivered a simple bilingual website and business cards.
eat creative homepage
Published 1st of May, 2008. Stored under Design
As part of the may 1st reboot, we decided to create a new look for Eat’s homepage, which has been out of date for quite some time.
Although in need of a facelift to something more web friendly that reflects the type of work Eat do, and the web standards it preaches; time has been in short supply.
Sometime in late 2007 I was drafted in to come up with an idea, art direction and make it work. I picked up this hot potato and ran with it!
Features include:
- no menu. I wanted the sites content to be the navigation. Was hard to wrangle the idea of sitemaps and menus away from Eat, but eventually I think we all agree that it works well without pre-defined menu items.
- accessible. One of the major concerns was to get google to pick up on the content and let users bookmark articles and so on.
- basic, content driven interface.
As the site grows and becomes an archive of everything Eat produces, it will start to take on a life of it’s own.
me too
Published 14th of Apr, 2008. Stored under Design
me too is a campaign spear headed by 4 charities (oxfam, world vision, Joicfp & Africa Japan Forum) to raise awareness of the Japanese public about G8, which is being held in Japan this year (2008). Me too appeals to spark an education of global health problem targets, set by the G8 but not currently achieved. Final delivery will be a petition of 100,000 names delivered to the G8 summit in July.
