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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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Garage Studios ~ Studio Lighting Course
I attended this 2 day lighting course at Garage Studios in Brighton back in May and it was fantastic! It really helped me understand lighting and different effects that can be achieved with fairly simple set ups. It was run by the very excellent DarkDaze who was a really inspirational teacher and uber lighting geek. I’d definitely recommend it to any creatives like myself who want to extend their knowledge of studio and location lighting.

Also the first time i am aware of being blogged about, by model Sally Reynolds. Super.

For more images from the pick of the bunch please visit my Flickr stream.