The Audit Commission’s Oneplace website goes live today.
Oneplace, designed by S8080 for the Audit Commission, lets you compare the quality of life in your area with the rest of the country.
It has been a crazy few weeks for us. Good crazy though.
We won two major (and fascinating) contracts at the end of August and we are off to London later this week for a kick-off meeting for another big win for a brand new client.
I can’t talk too much about it just yet, but it’s one of those career defining projects that our team will talk about for years to come.
We are incredibly pleased and proud to have won it and look forward to showing you later this year 
Nice to be having some decent weather at last too.
Damien Hirst has customised a ‘finish line’ bike design for Lance Armstrong using real butterflies.
I’m not really sure how I feel about that, but it sure is pretty.
I wanted to use real butterflies and not just pictures of butterflies, because I wanted it to shimmer when the light catches it like only real butterflies do, and we were trying not to add any extra weight to the bike.
http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/stages/hirst/
I would love one of these for the back of my Delica.
From Diesel Sweeties via notcot.
We have been itching to tell you about this, but it’s been under wraps.
The Audit Commission will give delegates at this week’s Local Government Association (LGA) conference their first look at the new ‘oneplace’ website we have been working on. To be launched in December this year, Oneplace replaces the working title of Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA), giving independent information on the performance of local public services throughout England.
Visitors to the site will be able to access jargon-free, easy-to-read summaries of how local public services are doing in their area and around the country. There will also be links to detailed information from the independent inspectorates behind CAA – the Audit Commission, Ofsted, Care Quality Commission and Her Majesty’s Inspectorates of Constabulary, Prisons and Probation.
You can read more here and try out the prototype of the site. We’ll be able to show you more once the site is live.
An interesting collection of pretty clever logos.
My favourite for the Guild of Food Writers…
Our creative team have been working on a series of Flash designs that have been commissioned for Adobe’s Acrobat 9 release.
The model in the designs above is our very own eMarketing project manager, Sali. The guys have also just completed a double page spread for Men’s Fitness magazine and just about the whole team appear in it (in various states of undress!) – you’ll have to wait to see that one.
You can take a sneak peek at the Adobe work here.
Picked up this amazing little book for my sons in the National Gallery last week.
Pretty incredible stuff using a new technology called Scanimation, take a look at the video to see what is achievable. If you have kids, they will LOVE this book.
About the book
There’s never before been a book like Gallop! Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. It’s impossible not to flip the page, and flip it again, and again, and again.
A first book of motion for kids, it shows a horse in full gallop and a turtle swimming up the page. A dog runs, a cat springs, an eagle soars, and a butterfly flutters. Created by Rufus Butler Seder, an inventor, artist, and filmmaker fascinated by antique optical toys, Scanimation is a state-of-the-art six-phase animation process that combines the "persistence of vision" principle with a striped acetate overlay to give the illusion of movement. It harkens back to the old magical days of the kinetoscope, and the effect is astonishing, like a Muybridge photo series springing into action—or, in terms kids can relate to, like a video without a screen.
To find out a bit more about the book, take a look here.
