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It never ceases to amaze me how the power of digital can turn amateur footage and perfectly captured calamities into a global phenomenon in the space of a few hours. Take the unfortunate owner of Benton (or Fenton as he’s now been revealed), a cheeky deer chasing Labrador, who, on a stroll around Richmond Park, became an overnight internet sensation at the hands of someone with a smart phone and access to YouTube.
Archive for the ‘Creative’ Category
Becoming a viral celebrity
23.11.2011 By: emily">emily Under: Creative, General, Just for fun, Social, Trends Comments: 1
Soak Pumpkin Carving Competition
28.10.2011 By: admin">admin Under: Creative, Just for fun Comments: none
Our Pumpkins
The Soak team have put togther a collection of pumpkin carvings, please take a look and vote for the one you like best, to vote simply Facebook like or Tweet the one you want to win!
Inspiration round-up
12.09.2011 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Creative, General Comments: none
A brief selection of links from the past month
Keeping spiders out of the studio
02.09.2011 By: adamcollison">adamcollison Under: Creative, General, Just for fun Comments: none
We were recently faced with a minor studio dilemma, a massive hairy house spider had found its way into our development area and caused havoc (well, more minor disruption than havoc but still a frightful experience). After we had tracked it down to the back of our only filing cabinet (we pride ourself on being a 90% paperless studio) it was safely removed from the premises and we could resume our daily activities.
Adobe Muse: holding back the web
16.08.2011 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Creative, Industry News Comments: 1
Adobe are gearing up to release their new “code-less” website creation tool, Muse. The target audience seems to be designers or small business owners who have a design and are reluctant to invest time or money into developing an effective website.
Inspiration from July ’11
08.08.2011 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Creative, General Comments: none
While preparing for our weekly innovation meetings, I come across examples of brilliant web design and development. As something I’ll try to keep as a regular feature on the Soak blog, here are some interesting links from the past month:
CSS3 Scalable Background Images
12.04.2011 By: adamcollison">adamcollison Under: Creative, CSS, Technical Comments: none
CSS3 Comes with a range of nifty new features allowing the modern I-Dev to push the boundaries of what is possible within website presentation. Although a lot of the CSS2/3 features may have been around a while it’s only recently that support has been good enough to warrant using some of the many new features.
One of my favourite tricks is the scalable background image, I’m sure you have already started to see this on a few sites and in time I think more and more people with look at adopting this approach. The below example is based on pure CSS, there are ways to include JavaScript to support older browsers but personally I think the idea of progressive enhancement is that a website should render better for users with capable browsers therefore encouraging users with older browsers to upgrade.
Licensing and webfonts
15.02.2011 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Creative, Industry News Comments: none
Even though I’m almost literally bursting with excitement about the advances in typography online, I’ve yet to start gushing about it on here mainly because, despite lots of interesting articles from designers across the world, it’s still early days for webfonts and it’ll be a while before we see them universal adopted.
Creating your dream Christmas
08.12.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Creative, Just for fun, Soak Related Comments: none
Christmas may be just around the corner, but at Soak we’ve been feeling all festive for quite some time as we’ve been working on a Christmas themed mini-site called Where’s your dream Christmas? The idea is to allow people to plot their fantasy Christmas escape, free from screaming kids and dozing grandparents.
Terms of use for Social Media logos
12.10.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Creative, Technical Comments: none
Everyone these days is into social media. Gone are the days when clients would um and ah about whether or not it was just another trendy marketing buzz-word. Now we often get requests from clients, sometimes half-way through a project, asking where we can position their Twitter feed. In fact, the term ‘social media’ may be coming close to jumping the shark, with developers like Ryan Waggoner washing their hands of developing apps for Facebook, and Twitter introducing a new site which aggregates the information from the third party apps that helped make Twitter so ubiquitous.
