Category Archives: work

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 phone once [...]

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 all) [...]

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 of Google [...]

BarCamp New Orleans.

Written by Peter. Posted on January 28, 2008. Filed under business, design, dirty, interactive, internet, orleans, projects, technology, work. 1 Comment.
BarCamp New Orleans.
BarCampNOLA Conference Set to Gather Gulf Coast Technology Experts for a Good Cause BarCampNOLA, a technology conference that aspires to bring Gulf Coast digerati, entrepreneurs and those interested in them together in order to connect with the local community, socialize and learn, will be held on February 16th and 17th at the Voodoo Ventures, LLC [...]

Email Standards Project.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 30, 2007. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, email, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface, work. No comments.
Email Standards Project.
The Email Standards Project is about working with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email. The project was formed out of frustration with the inconsistent rendering of HTML emails in major email clients. UPDATE – Microsoft is listening!  Take a look – it sounds as though [...]

NOLA BarCamp.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 27, 2007. Filed under business, fauborg, interactive, internet, orleans, politics, projects, technology, trend, user interface, work. No comments.
NOLA BarCamp.
There’s talk of organizing a BarCamp here in NOLA this coming January. Details to follow! BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. The name “BarCamp” [...]

Faub.org Meets the Public.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 6, 2007. Filed under design, fauborg, guerrilla, katrina, orleans, pranks, projects, trend, work. No comments.
Faub.org Meets the Public.
We had a launch party last weekend for the creative group we formed about a year ago here in New Orleans. Lots of fun, see some of the pix going up here. Thanks to all who came out and signed in to keep the independent creative community talking. Special thanks to Andy at Barrister’s Gallery [...]

Highrise Hijinks.

Written by Peter. Posted on June 10, 2007. Filed under clorox, pranks, work. 2 Comments.
Highrise Hijinks.
Kind of an inside joke – my sister and I both worked at The Clorox Company in Oakland, at their corporate highrise on Broadway. While I was there, working in the Creative Services department, I’d done a photo shoot with a lot of Pine-Sol product, and ended up with a few gallons of it that [...]