Category Archives: work

UI Realism.

Written by Peter. Posted on January 22, 2010. Filed under advertising, annunciation, consumer, design, interactive, internet, technology, user interface, work. No comments.
UI Realism.
I was a huge fan of Marvel Comics growing up, and love Scott McCloud’s books on comic art’s ability to communicate across languages via symbology, etc.  Found an article recently by Lukas Mathis of ignorethecode.net that applies cartoon principles to User Interface (UI) design.  Not quite ‘less is more’, but rather ‘just enough is correct’ [...]

Come On, Apple.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 3, 2009. Filed under annunciation, brand, business, consumer, design, flash, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface, work. No comments.
Come On, Apple.
I saw this described as passive aggressive warfare this morning.  Adobe’s taking the gloves off re: Apple’s mobile Flash support (or lack thereof).  Seems they’re taking a lead from the ‘Death to IE6′ shame campaign also being waged very publicly.

CSS Fu.

Written by Peter. Posted on July 6, 2009. Filed under advertising, annunciation, business, design, interactive, internet, projects, technology, work. No comments.
CSS Fu.
Our friend Travis in Breaux Bridge has released CSS Fu – a batch CSS Gallery submitter. It’s still in beta, and submissions are currently free – check it out!

Bon Voyage, Jonah.

Written by Peter. Posted on July 2, 2009. Filed under annunciation, business, interactive, internet, orleans, work. No comments.
Bon Voyage, Jonah.
My business partner of more than two years, Jonah Langenbeck, is making a big career move, recently accepting the Interactive Media Manager position at the National WWII Museum. We partnered back in 2007 and spent the last two years working (sometimes frantically) on dozens of websites and interactive assets for various local and national [...]

Ramen Profitable.

Written by Peter. Posted on April 13, 2009. Filed under brand, business, guerrilla, interactive, internet, projects, technology, trend, work. No comments.
Ramen Profitable.
Interesting article on Time.com titled The New Internet Start-Up Boom: Get Rich Slow that makes some good observations about new breed small businesses. I particularly like the concept of Noodleconomics. The term ramen profitable was coined by Paul Graham, a Silicon Valley start-up investor, essayist and muse to LILO (little in; lots out) [...]

Wearable Sixth Sense.

Written by Peter. Posted on March 17, 2009. Filed under consumer, design, interactive, technology, trend, user interface, vids, work. No comments.
Wearable Sixth Sense.
Wow. Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech at the 2009 TED Conference. Takes the Microsoft Surface concept from a couple years ago and frees it from any particular substrate for a truly portable system that the speakers claim could be at cost parity with an average cell [...]

Erik Below Sea Level.

Written by Peter. Posted on March 7, 2009. Filed under brand, business, design, fauborg, flash, guerrilla, interactive, internet, katrina, orleans, projects, trend, user interface, work. No comments.
Erik Below Sea Level.
Our friend Erik ‘the k is black‘ Kiesewetter has launched an updated portfolio here, and it’s (as he’d say) ‘bangin’. He’s a great talent and we work with him often. Ask him about his Bike® Shorts.

Worst. Host. Ever.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 8, 2009. Filed under business, interactive, internet, technology, work. No comments.
Worst. Host. Ever.
I believe that over these past two weekends, I’ve experienced the worst technical / commercial service in my lifetime. Myriad Network, a web host used by my company and hundreds or thousands of other technology providers and resellers, was apparently surreptitiously sold off in parcels to various companies recently – unbeknownst to hundreds (possibly [...]

Applevolution.

Written by Peter. Posted on January 5, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface, work. No comments.
Applevolution.
This really brings it back for me – way back to the days of the rainbow-hued Apple, and the pre-GUI days… Click the image to see the big exploded view.

Sucré Launch

Written by Peter. Posted on November 1, 2008. Filed under design, flash, interactive, internet, projects, user interface, work. No comments.
Sucré Launch
We’re excited at Annunciation Interactive to have launched the Sucré website today. Sucré is a spectacular New Orleans-based chocolatier, bakery and confectionary shop, and we’re really pleased with the richly visual and deeply functional e-commerce site. The site’s Magento-powered commerce engine is highly feature rich, with an amazingly powerful client admin panel reminiscent [...]