Build Graphic Design & Art Direction

I really enjoyed looking at Build's showcase. I really like that they believe in producing beautifully crafted design which all are also really clean looking. For example they have applied this to the Pritt corrector pen advertising and the custom made typefaces.

Monoface website

This website is so much fun; you can change parts of the face by clicking on it! im not sure what its for I love it. You could use this kind of concept as an interactive piece of advertising. Maybe ambient media. http://www.mono-1.com/monoface/main.html

Agencynet

This interactive website is unbelieve. It is so detailed and so much fun to look around. Agency net produce amazing websites for very famous brands such as Bacardi and are based in America with a new office in New York. 

The home page is a pretend office, where the figures move and you go onto different sections by clicking on the different rooms. All the pages are so unique; the page with a list of clients on it has a clock that actually moves and tells you the time! The page with news(the last one) has a highlighter pen that comes up so you can do the crossword! They look like so much fun to work for and really talented. 

Knucklehead

I really like Knuckleheads simple design of it's website. I think the way you can view each directors work by clicking on their signature is really inventive and more personal to the viewer. The text that goes with each director follows in this theory by being very jokey and each piece ends with a sentence that describes how they are a knucklehead.  The directors are some of the most talented people around and have done some of the most well known and loved adverts. One of my favourite adverts at the moment was done by Johnny Green- The Mercedes Benz Ambition advert.  Here is an example of the text for one of the directors:

"Daniel went to st martins school of art and of course was a star and then went and did some title sequences which everyone went on and on about and won lots of things which made his mum happy and then of course commercials came calling and that was all great and he made about a zillion commercials and won tons of things which all sat in his office next to the picture of the naked man which we all know is art really and he claims he can play the trumpet though we've never seen it but he probably can because he's a knucklehead."

Red Banana Productions

I met the one of the owners of Red Banana recently when he was off to film a huge birthday party for Tamara Beckwith's cousins. Red Banana are based in London and take on a number of different projects, ranging from; music videos, documentaries and comedy shows. They have a team who can take on numerous jobs including; producers, directors, camera operators, sound engineers, animators and set designers, as well as post production work partially editing.  Clients include The young vic theatre, Sony, World Vision and V2 Music. They also do a lot of editing for GMTV. When I saw the show reel for their company I was so inspired, there were so many different effects or ideas that I loved. I would love to go into music video production and have always wondered about Charity Organisations' advertising, so I was so glad to have been introduced to them. I like how easy it is to move around their website and how you are able to view not only a collection of their work on the show reel but individual projects. They are an extremely easy going, dynamic and original company which comes across in their website and work.