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Note 10/10/08

Yes, we have, very busy. In fact, we’ve been pretty full-on all year, and over the summer it’s become quite frustrating sitting on all this awesome work and not being able to shout about it. Well now it does seem that the floodgates are metaphorically opening, and we’ve launched loads of stuff recently.

CSR360 Global Partner Network and Engage

A pair of very ambitious projects these ones, both are Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)-based, and needed to appeal and cater for varied audiences. Jamie and Phil (with a little programming help from Chronos and Swinfield) blazed these over a number of months and I think they're great. I know they were probably both sick of looking at them during the final stages, but I love the apparent lack of client interference/compromise on the design side of things; proof that if you nail the right design for the intended audience there's no need for any of that "pesky client" stuff people are always moaning about. Also if you're after a site that displays mostly "out of the box" features of ExpressionEngine, check this out.

WallSwaps

http://wallswaps.com

This is an experiment Collison came up with after we received a shit-load of Erskine badges from the lovely people at Pure Buttons. Basically, the concept is if you want a badge (button) with one of our cool Erskine Birdies on, send us some stuff! A chance for us to get our brand in all sorts of nooks and crannies, and a chance for the dirty public to get some personalised linkage on a site with traffic. I did the colouring in and Phil helped me out with the ideas for navigation and sourced the javascript gubbins from his endless list of bookmarks.

Frith Street Gallery

http://frithstreetgallery.com

This was a long project, but a good one. DouchebagSuperDeveloperOfTheUniverse and I worked mostly on this, and I'm proud of it - some nice artistic things on there too. It's pretty minimal with some decent use of white space and some lovely large images. A really impressive physical space to check out as well if you live in the big smoke that is London.

Coming shortly to a screen near your face..

The brand spanking, shiny new Erskine Design site, which is shaping up to take a healthy dose of inspiration from all the nicest things, not to mention a coolness all of it's own. Also a nice little magazine site, another massive employer-focused site and a whole load of other stuff. Hopefully, maybe, possibly even an idea for a website that cool people may want to use (douchebags call these things web-apps) might stick it's dirty little currently-undesigned face out of the ground before 2009; who knows.

Posted at 11:14pm on 10/10/08 - Categorised in Erskine, Design, Websites

There are 5 comments on this entry; nice. Post a comment

#1 // Reuben Whitehouse // 11/10/08

Very smart work indeed!
#2 // Greg // 13/10/08

Thanks Reuben
#3 // Wez // 31/10/08

Top stuff Greg - just about to alter my twitter avatar to dog form. :)
#4 // Steve Rydz // 23/11/08

Nice work Greg, you and the other Erskine lads have excelled as always
#5 // Ole Kristian Masdal Svendsen // 12/01/09

Looks quite good!