This is the resulting timelapse of the 2 and a half day project.

Equipment and Software:
Canon 60D DSLR
Gorillapod
Digital Timer Remote Control
Quicktime
FinalCut Pro

Music:
Penguin Cafe Orchestra : Signs of Life

Written and Directed by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson, the film is a Polaroid snapshot of New York influential creatives (advertising, design, fashion and entertainment) who are shaping today’s pop culture.

Enjoy

Here is a technical demo (dont expect it to look too good yet) of the top 300 pixels or so of the new Sugar website. You can rearrange the magnets in any way you want and, when you hit the save button, it will save it so the next person on the site will see how you left it. There are also a couple of presets in there if you get in muddle. Dont forget to type you name in too.

http://www.sugarcs.com/fridgemagnets4.html

You can throw them around to but dont be too fierce..they will fall off the fridge never to be seen again!(until you hit the refresh button). Its been built in Flash using PHP and MySQL to save and load the locations of the magnets and the TweenMax Actionscript framework for some of the subtle animations.

Let us know what you think and leave us a message…

Based on the successful completion of the PDR website for UWIC, Sugar CS was asked to undertake a brochure site for the Creative Leadership and Enterprise Centre (CLEC)’s ’20 Twenty Leadership Programme’, based out of their Colchester Avenue campus.

Our role was to produce a website that would compliment the existing literature and add functionality, including an online registration form.

We’re so excited to see another site go live, and what’s more our customer is really pleased with the result.

If you’ve been following us on Twitter recently you’ll know that we’ve been really excited to see this new campaign come to life.

But that isnt to say that we think we have it all sewn up!

We believe that everyone can get creative! Thats why we’ve been sending out these little gift boxes to our existing clients and prospective clients inviting them to get creative too…!

As you’ll see below, some people have already been busy creating – and have sent us their results from what they found inside.

If you havent receieved one yet and would like to get creative, get in touch and we will get one to you as soon as we can.

Some of the creations we’ve had in already…

“Sugar Mouse” by Fran

“Panda” by Lisa

Thanks Lisa, this must be the only Panda of its kind.

“Decorative Hat” by Kate

Kate, this must have taken a while! Thanks for the effort though.

“Pint of the Black Stuff” by Eryl

Guess Eryl is a ‘glass very full’ kind of guy.

“Humbug sweet” by Helen

Helen, thanks for describing what this is, we were initially going for a snail in a road accident… sorry.

“Abbey Road” by Jason.

Thanks Jason, I don’t think we will offer this up for use on The Beatles Rock Band game however…

“White Sheep” by Chris P

Note the clever use of paperclips to support the legs! Nice work Chris, can anyone send us a Black Sheep …?

If you would like to recieve a pack, get in touch!

After several consultations with Applied Torque, we were able to them produce a set of conceptual logos for them to consider. Once we had feedback on the concepts we then produced a single working concept which became the new identity for Applied Torque and its online shop Tools 4 Torque.

Since then Sugar CS has been commissioned to produce two websites for the company as well as a set of stationery for office use and order fulfillment.

Here are some concepts that didn’t make the grade.

Funnily enough, there are several campaigns out there to rid the world of IE6. StopIE.com, Bring Down IE6 (by .Net magazine)to name but two. There are also the pro IE6 campaigners at SaveIE6.com providing us with some (sometimes laughable) arguments to keep the browser alive.

But as firm followers of web standards, we put a great amount of weight in the opinions of standards gurus’ such as Jeff Zeldman who has recently been quoted:

“IE6 is the new Netscape 4. The hacks needed to support IE6 are increasingly viewed as excess freight. Like Netscape 4 in 2000, IE6 is perceived to be holding back the web.”

Clients sometimes pressure designers to ‘force’ sites to work in IE6, and designers, not wanting to lose business, comply, using hacks and workarounds. This wastes time and money. Microsoft needs to fix this, designers need to unite, and we all need to move on to bigger and better things.

This IE6 problem has become an issue in a current development at Sugar, where a once beautiful design and interactive experience  is in danger of being diluted to fulfil its duties on the IE6 platform.
The question we are asking ourselves is ‘how far do we go?’. Do we say good bye to IE6 users with a detection script to warn them of their shortcomings or do we spend additional time and money on workarounds that have the potential to hold back the development and have a negative impact on the end result?

Additional reading at BringdownIE6, Wired.com and the Facebook campaign.

Quality illustration by robotjohnny

Over the last couple of years it has been maintained by a large london based agency and has established itself as one of the best in the country.

Its a huge undertaking and one that we are very scared excited about.