Toronto Earth Hour 2012: Before & After
Primary application: Adobe Flash CS4, Adobe After Effects Language: Actionscript 2.0 Client: In-house development Status: Launch Toronto Earth Hour 2012: Before & After Who left the lights on? Above: a screenshot of the Toronto Earth Hour 2012 visualization. Earth Hour presents a particular photographic challenge: how do you show the before and after on a […]
Messages from the Past
Primary application: Adobe Flash MX, NewTek LightWave Language: Actionscript 1.0 Client: In-house development Status: Offline Sometimes you need an interface right out of left field, something beyond mere HTML buttons and square grids. Enter Messages from the Past, a project born from the discovery of a childhood answering machine message tape. Above: not your traditional audio interface. […]
Strategic Coach UAW Demo
Primary application: Adobe Flash 8, Adobe Illustrator Language: Actionscript 2.0, XML Client: The Strategic Coach Inc. Status: Offline Reproducing the print world in an interactive medium. The Strategic Coach Inc., a Toronto-based entrepreneurial consulting and training company, eschews technology. Or rather, they love technology, but urge their clients to work with pen and paper in their workshops, […]
Bell Canada VEPR Client
Primary application: Adobe Flash 8 Language: Actionscript 2.0, XML Client: Bell Canada Status: Offsite, available to subscribers only Mixing a dynamic vertical animation engine with complex logic based on live data feeds, the Bell Canada VEPR client was implemented to help subscribers migrate their legacy channels into modern subscription packages in an intuitive and easy-to-use way. Above: […]
Horizons Beta
Primary application: Adobe Flash 8, Adobe Photoshop Language: Actionscript 2.0, XML Client: In-house development Status: Launch Horizons Beta Experiments in location-based photography. Born from a love of long-distance touring, Horizons is a fully dynamic location-based photo gallery displaying adventure photography within the context of its geographical location. Populated with over 50,000 map tiles custom processed from NASA’s Blue Marble project […]
Fishteroids!
Primary application: Adobe Flash 8 Language: Actionscript 2.0 Client: In-house development Status: Launch Fishteroids! An homage to the original 1979 Atari classic Asteroids, Fishteroids! was an in-house lesson to relearn geometry, vectors, and collision detection. Fishteroids! pits you as the indomitable Mr. Fish against an ever-increasing field of asteroids that split into ever-smaller and more numerous rocky offspring. Above: […]
Global Nuclear Testing, 1945-2005
Primary application: Adobe Flash MX Language: Actionscript 1.0 Client: In-house development Status: Launch Global Nuclear Testing, 1945-2005 Over the course of sixty years, world powers have detonated nuclear devices yielding over 500 megatons, more than 30,000 times the destructive force that devastated Hiroshima. Take a walk through the history of global nuclear testing, from 1945-2005, and […]