goto11 design

Paul Kenton time lapse movie

mat — Fri, 21 May 2010 09:24:07 +0000

One of our top clients here at goto11, Paul Kenton, has recently been asked to submit a painted elephant for the Elephant Parade London 2010. 250 leading UK artists and celebrities have been given blank elephant sculptures to decorate as they see fit. Paul was honored to be be a part of this fantastic endeavor and painted his own elephant in the style of his dripped mixed-media cityscapes, choosing to reflect the city in which the elephants will be displayed by depicting iconic London architecture and icons.

As part of our ongoing development of Paul’s website, goto11 created the following time lapse video of Paul painting his elephant. goto11 shot this film over one week in Paul’s studio. Many thanks to Richard at wavedreamer, who kindly loaned us a fantastic Sony EX1 HD camera to create the time lapse.

Unfortunately, time restraints on the editing process meant that we have only edited a standard definition version for now, but we will be uploading the full HD version soon.

Rhonda 3D Drawing Tool

mat — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:46:30 +0000

A 3D drawing tool (still in development) by Rhonda that lets you draw 3D objects with a tablet and trackball.

If anyone was wondering what to get us for Christmas, now you know….

xWorks website development

mat — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:47:33 +0000

This was a fun but challenging site, built on the WordPress framework using designs supplied by Phil Bridges, Design & Marketing Director for xWorks. As an accomplished print designer, Phil had a very clear and concise idea of how he wanted to the site to look & function, so it was mostly a case of working from supplied Illustrator files with Phil to help realise his vision within the browser environment.

The site uses jQuery to handle all carousels, page sliding & reveals, as well as the modal window popups. The site is also one of the first we have developed to extensively use the ‘Flutter’ plugin for WordPress, which allows us to modify the WordPress backend to customise it to the customers exact content requirements, rather than requiring too much knowledge of the WordPress admin from the client.

visit the site: www.wearexworks.com

Video: Fightpattern

mat — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:35:46 +0000

Pretty cool movie I saw on n.design studio, by Gwen Vanhee

Flightpattern from Gwen Vanhee on Vimeo.

Got to find that track somehow as well!

Cowshed Shapes – Logo / Decal design

mat — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:26:31 +0000

This was fun little logo project I undertook for old friend and Tom Curren surf-a-like Chris ‘Pob’ Robertson. Chris shapes boards literally in an old cow shed, so he wanted to keep that rootsiness in the logo he is going to use to add slightly slicker artwork and branding to his already slick board finishes.

We worked through about two dozen hand sketches of cows in various states of weirdness, abstractness & alertness, with many lengthy anatomical udder discussions before finishing with this version, which was tidied up in Illustrator.

check out Cowshed Shapes here

our favourite animation: Radioheads ‘Creep’ by MonkeeHub

mat — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:02:58 +0000

OK, so this is a few years old now, so many of you may have seen it, but now we finally have a platform to share our favourite things, so we’re going to start here!

This amazing animation, based on hand-drawn sketches, created keyframe by keyframe, (no auto-tweening!) was created by Laith Bahrani, of monkeehub animation. He is the creator of the great video for ‘JCB Song’ by Nizlopi, as well as the low morale series of animations, from which this ‘Creep’ character is taken. The low morale series is a must for any office based worker! Laith talks about his inspirations for low morale & the ‘Creep’ video in this post here.

This makes me wish I could pursue more projects like this, so anyone who needs a bit of character flash animation done, just get in touch! Or I suppose if you had the budget, you should probably ask monkeehub!

goto11 relocating to France temporarily

mat — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:47:40 +0000

With a move to new offices on the horizon, we have decided to make the most of our Summer and relocate the offices to the Midi-Pyrenee region of the South of France for a month. Sounds very glamorous, but in reality we’re just going to stay with my mum for a bit!

It’ll be business as usual, as we will be working from her home offices & will be fully available for anything you need. On our return mid-August, we will be posting full details of our new office, still based in Woolacombe, North Devon.

Oh, and for any scallywags thinking of burgling us now that I’ve announced our absence – don’t bother, the whole place is empty. Sorry.

Local Farm Box – photography

stillo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:03:15 +0000

As part of the branding and website project for Local Farm Box, we were tasked with producing a collection of photography for them to use for all future applications. We thought that as we had such fun taking them, that we would share some of them with you here.

These were taken at a couple of locations, mostly at The Great Field in Braunton, or at the Local farm Box warehouse, but there are a few that were taken in my own back garden!

goto11 meets Spinal Tap at Glastonbury – going to 11!

stillo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:08:28 +0000

After many years of admiring legendary rock band Spinal Tap from afar, I finally got to meet them backstage at Glastonbury this year, where Nicky & I take a little jolly each year working backstage production on the Other Stage dressing rooms. Not only does that get us a nice private camping spot behind the stage, with oak-panelled loos & showers, all-you-can-eat gourmet food & free booze, but also access-all-areas passes to the Pyramid stage. Result! I was more excited than normal this year when I realised that my heroes Spinal Tap were playing the Pyramid Stage on Saturday afternooon.

After their cracking set, I went to meet them, hopefully for a chat & a bit of a stalk on the way back to their rooms. Eagerly clutching my 1982 soundtrack album, I lost my cool and for the first time ever, approached a band to get autographs. Bass -master Derek Smalls was excited at the site of some vinyl for a change & was amazing, inviting David St Hubbins back for a chat, who then invited me to come through to their dressing room to meet Nigel Tufnel, the man with whom goto11 would have to be called something else!

The guys were amazingly nice & I was struggling not to crack up, as they stayed fantastically in character the whole time (me too, calling him Mr St Hubbins at one point).

The whole weekend was a blast, & we got to see dozens of bands, with a healthy dose of stalking backstage & in the dressing rooms. My highlights this year were, Fleet Foxes, The Whip, Spinal Tap (of course), VV Brown, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand & best of all, The Prodigy, closing up Sunday night on our stage with a belter. The guys went mental on stage & look completely alarming, but were as sweet as anyone you could hope to meet & while their entourage got through 3 cases of Veuve in the after party, Keith, Liam & Maxim went back to their room for a nice roast dinner then went to bed. Rock & Roll!!

Looking forward to next year already!

Native – North Devon Surf Hire

stillo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:28:57 +0000

We were approached by Vaughn Benniman , of North Devon Surf Hire, to work with him in updating his company image for the new season.

From the outset, we decided with Vaughn that although the existing company name was very descriptive, it didn’t offer a punchy, memorable & marketable identity for them. As North Devon Surf Hire is one of the longest established surf hire businesses in Devon, starting out in Saunton Sands in the late sixties, we knew that we wanted to play on this strength with the new branding. As well as this, it would be great to link into the ‘local’ and ‘established’ roots of the company. Ultimately, Vaughn wanted to create a ‘brand’ around the business, that then had the potential for future growth as surfwear, merchandise, etc.

goto11 were then tasked to put all these required elements together. Here’s what we came up with!