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Great news to hear that Cogapp recently picked up a BIMA award for the interactives produced for the Great North Museum. The category was ‘the best Offline: Kiosk, Installation or On-Site Application’. I lead the design and produced all the creative on the Medieval Case Study interactive (featured on my site) and assisted on the design of the Set Works Bench, an interactive guide to an extensive display of taxidermy animals.

Reported in the Cogapp blog here

Cogapp case study on the project here

Read up on Great North related Cogapp news stories here and here

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Great North Museum ~ Medieval Case Study Interactive

This interactive was part of a set of digital installations provided by Cogapp to the Great North Museum : Hancock in Newcastle upon Tyne for their launch on 23rd May 2009. I was lead designer on the medieval project, coming up with the concept, handling all design work and overseeing the build by Joshua Routh, Cogapp’s in-house flash resource. Cogapp developed the installations in conjunction with The Great North Museum, Casson Mann and Nick Bell Design.

I collaged images creating a touch-screen table top environment where children can explore the three sections of the interactive, finding out about people and objects from Medieval times and about archaeology.

To read more about the projects and see other interactives please visit Cogapp’s website and portfolio site or view images from the launch on Flickr (all photos taken by Eleanor Rudge)

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SCIE E-Learning Interactives ~ The project was to produce 6 e-learning resources to help people working in care learn about dealing with Children of Prisoners and Challenging Behaviour in Children’s Residential Care Homes.

I was lead designer on this project and designed the immersive environments used in the final interactives. The environments i created were built up from stock and custom made imagery. The backgrounds and characters were designed to illustrate the content and help engage the workers using these tools who have varying levels of literacy.

I consulted with staff who worked in relevant care homes and with subject matter experts who were writing the content, then created environments that represented typical residential care homes, family homes, notice boards and table tops. Users are guided around these areas when using the learning tools and shown photographs, interactive diagrams in text books, video shown on tv screens and interactive filing cabinets! All intended to make the educational experience more engaging and fun.

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V&A Museum ~ The brief from the V&A was to produce a simple and elegant interactive in keeping with the V&A brand. I was lead designer on this project.

The museum had high resolution photos of all of the collection which were stunning, my main objective was to keep the pages as simple as possible to allow the jewellery to be the main focus. I worked from wireframes which were provided by the production department and arranged regular design reviews with the client and Cogapp’s Interactivity Specialist throughout the project.

The result is a beautiful and simple interactive, now on display in the V&A’s Jewellery Gallery.

http://www.cogapp.com/portfolio/html/VandA_Jewellery.html

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Westway Climbing Wall ~ A small microsite designed for Westway Development Trust. Lead designer.

This fast turnaround project was done whilst working with Cogap, the designs were built by Martin Edwards their in-house Front End Web Developer. http://www.cogapp.com/home/index.html

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Centre for Research & Development

University of Brighton ~ Faculty of Arts & Architecture

Project: Branding and web design for CRD, the department supporting research in the Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton. After leading a branding exercise with key figures in CRD and the University to ascertain CRD’s brand values and stakeholder goals, i worked with other members of the design team on a series of design approaches which were developed and refined with regular steering group reviews from CRD. Limitations of the brief were that the identity did not conflict or compete with the Universities existing branding.

Brand: The final approach focuses on the ‘R’ for research in CRD refreshing and changing across applications. A set of Rs from different fonts were selected, the fonts were selected for the place in design history that they reflect. There was such an amazing body of work to bring forward from the researchers practice at CRD that we decided to keep the colours of the identity simple, black and white, so as not to compete with the work. The deliverable at the end of the intensely paced branding stage was a styleguide for the new identity (pictured above).

Web site: The website stage of the project kicked off with user testing CRDs existing site with the clients observing. I then proceeded to implement the identity we created using wireframes provided by Cogapp’s production team. Leading this part of the project on design the process involved frequent review meetings with the client. The resulting designs were handed over to the technical team who developed the site in Plone. The site launched in November 2007.

Professor Jonathan Woodham, Director of CRD: “Working with Cogapp has been a highly beneficial experience. We learnt, through observation of user testing, just what was missing from our old research website and, working with the young and flexible Cogapp team, have been provided with an excellent, original and efficient design solution that signals the imaginative research ethos that we required.”

To read more about this project please visit:

http://www.cogapp.com/portfolio/html/CRD.html

http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/

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Project: To create an identity for a newly renovated boutique B&B, camp site, holiday cottage and yurts. Then to follow on with stationery, other marketing collateral and a web site with a CMS.

Brand: The identity created was made to be flexible, built up from illustrative silhouettes taken from elements of the landscape and nature surrounding Graig Wen. I then applied this to letterheads, business cards, invoice templates, signage and adverts.

Web Site: A simple, phase one web site. My designs were implemented by two technical freelancers.

To visit the web site go to: www.graigwen.co.uk