Here you can find a small selection of web and internet based projects that I've designed and developed. The majority come from my 6 years working as Interactive Desginer at Real World Multimedia, the interactive department at Peter Gabriel's Real World.
The chosen sites reflect the diversity of the work I've created, both visually and technically. The sites range from e-commerce sites with turnover in the millions of pounds, to smaller scale microsites to support the realease of albums by artists at Real World. Technologies used include: X/HTML, CSS, Flash, PHP, Lasso, MySQL, Filemaker & QuickTime.
My main interests are in the area of what is often called 'Web 2.0', utilising advanced CSS and Javascript solutions coupled with backend server-side technologies to move beyond the traditional model of the page-based web.
Pindices was a five-month project created as part of an interdisciplinary exhibition entitled Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany. Pindices or Personal Political Indices was a collaboration between sociologist Andrew Barry and artist Lucy Kimbell. The website is one part of the activity; the other was a gallery project presented at ZKM.
My main responsibility was to design all the visual aspects of the web site and integrate them with the PHP/MySQL backend created by George Grinsted. Probably the most important part of the design work was in creating the web badges that appeared on the main page and that users could include on their own sites. This project was one of the first occasions where I was required to work with another designers backend code, an experience which I actually found quite liberating despite my initial concerns.
Some of my favourite elements from this project are the badges themselves, the custom 'tooltips', and the form response error reporting which take the form of context based speach bubbles.
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