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My Girl Friday ~ Identity and Website

A fifties inspired branding project for a client setting up a freelance PA service. Once the identity was formed, we created a simple site that they would be able to update and add new features to when necessary. As always, technical wizardry was provided by one of my trusted crew of hardworking geeks.

To view the full site please visit: www.mygirlfriday-pa.com

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Creative Nation ~ Website design

I was approached by this newly formed creative production agency and asked to design them a simple and quirky site.

I created large monochrome and red image backgrounds which expand to fill large monitors. The content sits in layered boxes on top. The idea behind the backgrounds was to give the site some visual richness at a stage while this fledgling business is still collating the first pieces for its portfolio. Each page has a background image relating to the content, the site can be easily refreshed by creating new images.

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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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The British Museum Online Styleguide ~ This is the cover of the styleguide I created to accompany Cogapp’s redesign of The British Museum’s web site in 2007.

For more information in this project please visit the Cogapp web site

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The Jewish Museum Kid Zone ~ Part of the web design project i worked on with Cogapp for The Jewish Museum in New York. They needed imagery to support the families section, especially in the Kid Zone area. I created some roughly cut silhouettes of traditional Jewish objects and of childrens craft materials to add visual interest to this area of the site aimed at young children.

For more information please visit the Cogapp website.

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Tindersticks Gig Poster ~ Poster designed for Melting Vinyl in Brighton to promote a rare Tindersticks gig. The band all loved the poster, which was a thrill for me since i have been a huge fan for about fifteen years.

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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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Prudential Eye Video ~ A ‘making of’ video i edited together from film and photos collated during the project. The short showreel shows the process from initial test through to installation of the cutting edge art installation provided by Cogapp.

For more information please visit:

http://www.cogapp.com/home/prudential-eye.html

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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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Icons of England ~ Icons was a project commissioned by the Department of Culture, Media & Sport offshoot Culture Online. Launched in 2006 by Cogapp, the site was designed to provide ‘A portrait of England’ where users could vote for their favourite English icons. The site recieved coverage in every national newspaper, many local papers and on national TV and radio.

Pictured here are a few of the silhouettes i created to represent the official Icons that were nominated and voted for by the public.

For more information please visit:

http://www.icons.org.uk/

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