The Boulder Project (2017)

Independent Film 

A group of 5 friends, a mixture of woodworkers, electricians, photographers and designers, built a workshop and photography studio in two disused units on a local Hertfordshire farm.

Being a group of keen rock climbers and living at the furthest point in the UK from rocks, mountains and climbable coastline, we thought we’d club together and have a go at doing something about it. So we designed and built our own personal boulder, planted it in the local woods and got all our friends down for a session at our own home made cragg.

www.theboulderproject.com

Channel 5 Refresh

Prototyping / R&D

Channel 5 recently relaunched with an updated on-screen identity based the theme of illumination.

Initial renders to develop the look suffered slightly from feeling too obviously computer generated, so we decided to prototype a physical model that we could light up and manipulate to explore the correct physics of illumination and diffusion.

Interestingly many of the characteristics that made CG renders more believable were taken from subtle mistakes or inaccuracies in the production of the physical model – Inaccuracies that I would have tried to correct if I were to have built another model.

Blood

Campaign key art

A visual treatment I developed for the ‘Blood – the truth will surface’ campaign for channel 5. There was no opportunity for a bespoke shoot so we pulled together what we could form a mixture of talent stills and Getty imagery.

This ran as a newspaper double page spread plus a range of digital reinterpretations for HPTO’s, banners and stand alone media units.

Vevo world premiere 

Exclusive to Vevo, world premiere opening title sequence 

Working closely with the Vevo team in the US we developed a reductive art direction that tied in with vevo’s confidently minimalist rebrand.

Part of the task was to also deliver an automated way of processing clips with our visual theme so that the teams in the US could replicate the treatment for future artists & promotions.

Essential

Digital product design

Working as a team of about 7 designers we developed a number of interaction models, themes, interfaces, icons, motion conventions and user responses for a new product that centralised control for connected devices in the home.

A circular screen meant this was a really interesting and unique project to be a part of, allowing us to develop some really novel approaches to UX / UI.   

Some Kinda Tribe

A collaborative platform / action-culture company

“It’s a long oll story, but at the core of it all we are a bunch of challenge seekers, creators, daydreamers & non stop fidgets! & We’re really stoked on all things outdoors, from digging trails, sliding rails, jumping around on rocks & climbing mountains.

Were particularly interested in the awesome things people can do when they bump heads and work together, so this brand is a collaborative platform for us to launch a few ideas & projects with some of the great people we can call friends that we’ve met along the way”