The official trailer for our latest project, is now live! Xtreme Xrunch Kart is a completely bespoke 3D game for the iPhone, to promote the almighty baby carrot. Available in the AppStore from September 2010. For our friends at Crispin Porter + Bogusky Miami.
A website that can be visited not just online, but in the real world. A website made up entirely of webcams pointing at murals. For our friends at Creature Seattle.
FWA Site of The Day 23 August 2010
The Adobe museum will showcase and preserve groundbreaking digital work to illustrate how digital media shapes and impacts today’s society. Born from a close collaboration between Goodby Silverstein & Partners and Adobe, the virtual museum will feature exhibits from video artist Tony Oursler, RISD President John Maeda and Japanese artist Mariko Mori.
The lovely people over at Channel 5’s The Gadget Show make a racket with unit9’s Air Tennis. Click below to see how Pollyanna and the team get on in this summers hottest Wii-inspired multiplayer tennis app!
As a technical proof of concept, the dev team at unit9 created an experience to link a mobile device to a shop window.
A project born from insight into users behaviour on the Facebook platform. We created a Facebook app to place and tag your friends to promote the new film by hotshot director Noel Clarke. Which one of your friends is most likely to end up in situations from the film 4.3.2.1?
A website to premiere five short films commissioned from Ridley Scott’s RSA Associates to launch the Philips Cinema 21:9 television. We crafted a sophisticated online media player that recreates the effect of Philips’ Ambilight TV technology and incorporates additional interactive elements enhancing the narrative experience.
Pepsi launch 3 competitions featuring user generated content. The site kicks off with an appropriately timed Football challenge. Prove you have the cojones, and you could win £50.000 smackeroons to bring to life your very own legendary experience.
Is there any limit to your imagination? Find out when you visit Imagination Springs, a town where anything is possible. Together with Fallon Minneapolis, we’ve created this limitless city to help illustrate the Sci Fi channels new name, ‘Syfy’.
Stella Artois invites viewers to inherit Jacques D’Azur’s weekend at the Cannes Film Festival 2010. The site uses Facebook Connect technology to integrate images and information from a users profile seamlessly into the film.
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Earth is facing a relentless asteroid bombardment – You are the only one that can control W.A.R.P, The Wayward Asteroid Redirection Program, designed to defend the planet. Use your skill to exploit gravity to your advantage and unlock over 25 achievements. Developed using unity3D the app uses open faint to allow you to compare scores with friends all over the world.
We are very proud to announce the inclusion of a number unit9 projects in Taschen’s Internet Case Study Book edited by, Julius Wiedemann and Rob Ford of the FWA.
As well as introductions from Jeff Goodby, and Lars Bastholm amongst others.
Yates Buckley, technical director of unit9 will be an ongoing contributor to Cat Scan – A new blog for the creativity & Technology section with special focus on digital production. Read his first post
Creativity have recently released the video footage from the CaT London 2009: The New Creative Rock Stars session. Yates joined the Heads of Technology at some of the most innovative creative companies, to talk about how best to best bring technology and creativity together in the creative process. See the video here
Movies and popcorn are a natural combination, Diamond Foods‚ and PopSecret popcorn wanted to to make the process of organising a movie night, easier. PopSecret goes one step closer to advertising as a utility.
Pick your mood, film genre and audience, the kernels compute and offer up suggestions. Set a date and the site quickly creates an event of Facebook.
In the interest of continually improving the process of digital production Acne, B-Reel, North Kingdom, Perfect Fools and unit9 shared experiences and best practices to put together a basic Master Services Agreement for digital creative production. The MSA can be used as is, or added to an existing contract.
We approached advertising agencies and have already incorporated some great feedback. We hope folks will use it and add to it, agencies and production companies alike are encouraged to make their own additions via the open source site. Stndrd.org
The latest project from Roxik for the Japanese market – A sophisticated transformers inspired game for Verbatim Jp, picked up an FWA Site of the Month award.
A Finalist at FITC in the 3D Flash Category – please vote here for the peoples’ choice
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Guinness have partnered with Google for their recently launched ‘Bring It To Life’ campaign. The website Integrates the Google Earth api, Facebook connect and Flash to allow visitors to ‘Bring to Life’ their own planet.
Anrick Bregman shares the things he loves in Going to THE SOURCE a double page in SHOTS’ February issue N.119.
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A quiz that makes the Questions relevant to the user by pulling information from several of the user’s social network sites. FWA Site of the Day 1 jan 2010.
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This year Boards created one list. All the best production companies digital and TV in one big mama of a list. A great honour to rub Pixels with such greats.
We are very proud to announce that we have been listed in The Digital Natives: Creativity’s top digital production company roundup for the second year running.
The Flavourhood is a pledge of allegiance. It’s a line in the sand. It’s where you say what your favourite food is at McDonald’s and say it loud. Bringing some Love to the McMasses on Facebook with our friends at Razorfish.
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The Dodgeball Challenge was AMV BBDO’s way of launching Doritos’ brand new flavour, Flamin’ Cheeseball. unit9 created purpose built dodgeball cannons and set up a month long live event. The online audience was able to fire real Dodgeballs at 70mph with pinpoint accuracy at amateur dodgeball teams, competing for the chance of a lifetime, making it big in Vegas.
Finally there is Air tennis. An awesome 2 player tennis game for the iPhone. With your phone as the racket, waiting for that conference call to start has never been more fun.
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We just received a great review from the folks over at iphone alley. “Air Tennis Brings Wii Goodness To The iPhone…”
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A little something to remind us of Help the honey Bees and “Twitch” the adorable little helper in Simple machines. Both projects by Fredrick Aven.
unit9′ers are particularly fond of pink lovelyness and breasts, proud to wear it Pink for breast Cancer yesterday. wearitpink.co.uk
unit9 principals Piero Frescobaldi and Takayoshi Kishimoto will be contributing to two panels at Creative Review’s Click conference in London. Kishi will be exploring the role of brands as the new entertainers. Piero will be debating the future of the agency, in our evolving digital landscape.
Creative Review has been bringing together Europe’s creative leaders to showcase, spar and demonstrate how to make your digital creative work bigger and better than ever before.
The Click agenda.
The new season is starting for the Clissold Rangers aka the london football club unit9 is proud to sponsor. See them in action or follow their progress at clissoldrangers.com
Yates Buckley technical director of unit9 will join the Heads of Technology at some of the most innovative creative companies, to talk about how best to best bring technology and creativity together in the creative process. The CaT London Agenda
A handy iPhone app made with LBi that allows you to calculate your salt level per serving size based on the salt/sodium amount on the label. So go easy on the Soy Sauce!
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A pixel style animation for our friends at Albion, to launch giffgaff, a people-powered mobile network. Read about it in Contagious here
The Toshiba “What Next” project, an experiential website enabling users with gesture navigation directed by Anrick Bregman for Grey London has been shortlisted in the Best interactive website of 2009 category.
The .net Awards celebrate the best in web design and development. The esteemed jury of have done their bit and trawled the web to compile the shortlist – Now, it’s up to you to cast your vote and pick the winner. Er.. Please vote for us!
Audi Q5 – We’ve unboxed the box. A very striking and technically challenging “page peel” format ad, in which the character appears to start from a corner of a website and fold it over to reveal the ad. Shortlisted for the National Newspaper Advertising Awards, The ANNAs.
The healthcare system is broken. Costs are skyrocketing, quality is uneven, technology is underused or misused, and too many people are uninsured. An interactive experience, to provide consumers with knowledge and tools that will allow them toparticipate in the movement to reign in health care costs.
Double the coverage in this months issue of .NET magazine. Roxik makes the top 20 web designer list and the Simple Machine’s project is picked up in the .NET showcase.
unit9 will be speaking at Creative review’s Click New York event, presenting some recent creative work and discussing the production behind it. As traditional agencies embrace digital and digital agencies restructure to offer a 360 approach the role of the interactive production company has never been greater. the agenda +44 (0) 20 7970 47
unit9 is very happy to get involved in London Digital week and contribute to this great initiative.
London Digital week is an annual festival with a program aimed at promoting the understanding of digital, sharing knowledge within the industry and showcase the best work in the UK to the rest of the world.
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Play with a hairy monster, record and share the clip for others to see. A great example of an engaging augmented reality piece.
Some sweet live action packed into these banners for Visa. Check out the making of video.
Meet “twitch” and his Simple Machines. We blend intuitive interaction, realtime physics simulations and storytelling to create an educational experience that will make you want to go back to school. Check out the review on Adverblog.
Click on the screen and Fire dodgeaballs at people via remote controlled cannons. The Doritos Dodgeball Challenge, an entertaining way to launch the new “Flamin’ Cheeseball” flavour of potato chips.
The Carphone warehouse X-Factor challenge 08 web experience directed by Alex Jenkins for CHI & Partners was awarded a design lion at the 2009 Cannes festival.
Congratulations to Goodby Silverstein & Partners for the The Häagen-Dazs ‘Help the Honey Bees’ campaign. One of the fastest-moving media and PR stories of 2008.
The June edition of Rob Ford’s ‘The Edge of Flash’ column for Adobe, features eight great sites from recent months. Comcast Town for Goodby is in there. Take a look
unit9 is featured in the Worldwide Creator’s Archive of the June issue of Japanese Magazine Web Designing. We introduce 7-8 projects over 5 pages, by our roster of Interactive directors.
Masayuki Kido - AKA Roxik, an innovator in the world of 3D and interactive director at unit9, is intervewed by .NET.
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Got Milk.com earned a Gold pencil at the 2009 One Show. (For Goodby)
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The Haagen-Dazs ‘Help the Honey Bees’ campaign earned 3 pencils including the One Show’s first Green Pencil. (For Goodby)
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And a merit for the awesome AMC ‘Breaking Bad’ Teaser in the Microsites Section. (for Mono.)
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The season is finally over and the players, parents and coaching staff are enjoying a well earned rest. Congratulations to the under 9 side, for ranking first of their league (ELE Blue League Champs U9s 2009) and for reaching the semi-finals of their cup. Well done also to the under 11 side, ranked 4th of their league.
unit9 are proud to sponsor Clissold Rangers. To find out more and Keep up with the rangers visit clissoldrangers.com
The UPS widget Character created for McCann Erickson has won the BB category of the new media age Effectiveness Awards 2009.
The Carphone warehouse X-Factor challenge 08 web experience, directed by Alex Jenkins for CHI & Partners, is one of the Best in Book of this year’s Creative Review Annual.
Samsung Music – For WPP agency Mather in London – has been shortlisted for best website in the Consumer Electronics Category of the 2009 Webby Awards. Taking the Japanese Zen Garden as a reference, we imagined a minimal, interactive music tool enabling you to compose and create personalized music. view the making of
The Heineken ‘Know the Signs’ website experience for Red Brick Road / Ruby has picked up a MEGA award in the Brand reputation category of the Media Guardian Innovation Awards 09. The project was also highly commended in the best website category of the Revolution Awards
Anrick Bregman, Interactive Director at unit9 explores the process of making the Toshiba website for Grey London. Check out issue 187 of .NET magazine. Get it here
The Carphone Warehouse X-Factor challenge ‘08 project for CHI & Partners has been shortlisted in the “Most innovative digital campaign” category of Creative Circle view shortlist. The project has also been included in the Creative Review Annual 09.
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A banner campaign turned TV commercial to show how Häagen-Dazs facilitates shared moments of closeness on Valentine’s Day.
Three unit9 projects in feature in this recent publication by Taschen, part of their Web Design series focusing on very carefully crafted navigation systems. Featuring over 90 projects from more than 20 countries, this book illustrates a collection of ingenious solutions to one of the most difficult and important aspects of web design.
The Art Directors Club Annual honors the year’s best work in design and advertising around the globe through print, illustration, photography, broadcast, interactive media, and cross-disciplinary hybrid campaigns. The Art Directors Annual 87 includes “Philips – A Simple Switch” a global consumer campaign for Tribal DDB New York.
unit9’s interactive video player streams video full screen and lets you click through videos seamlessly. The beginning of a new genre of website.
Influential Japanese Web Magazine “Web Design Note 09“ spent a few days at unit9 soaking up the vibe for a feature in their January issue. The concept of the Design Note series is to introduce creators’ design notes and show the design process from rough sketch to completion.
The D&AD Awards are the most internationally respected and prestigious creative awards for the design and advertising industries. Top creatives from around the world are invited to judge at D&AD. Piero Frescobaldi, MD/ CD at unit9 joins a great cast of 12 angry men judging the Viral Category at the awards this year.
2008 was a great FWA year for unit9. We collected 8 of their FWA awards over the course of the year. Rob Ford, FWA Principal has put together a list of the best 50 websites of 2008. unit9 have 4 Projects on the top 50 list. The Eco Zoo site by Roxik has been awarded FWA Site of the Year 2008.
A ridiculous holiday e-card site for our friends at Mullen. Visitors can upload a picture, choose from a variety of outfits and then drag their tongue with the mouse to various metal objects on a ski slope.
Those nice people from Boards Magazine listed us in their end of year “Best Interactivist 2008″ roundup.
Part of the “Enjoy Heineken responsibly”™ marketing plan. Keep an eye on a crowded bar via CCTV camera. The ‘Know the Signs’ campaign has been called the ‘Most Contagious’ by Contagious magazine. Read the news story here FWA Site The Day (SOTD) Award 24th December 2008
The Creative Social went to Shanghai in November. Patrick Burgoyne of Creative Review kept a tab on things. Read his final thoughts here
The Carphone Warehouse X Factor 2007 Campaign unit9 produced for CHI & Partners, won the website category at the 2008 BIMA (British Interactive Media Association), awards.
This experiential website engages users through gesture navigation, allowing them to spend time with Toshiba’s innovations and products in a new and innovative way. The website detects patterns, and the user can interact with it by ‘drawing’. Awarded Site of The Day (SOTD) Award 19th November 2008
By Piero Frescobaldi and Matt Groves of unit9. Campaign 14-Nov-08
Piero Frescobaldi, Managing Partner & Creative Director at unit9, presented at Creative Review’s CLICK:LONDON event, the 4th Annual European Online Creative Advertising Forum.
Is your desktop a complete disaster? Try Anastasia’s Balloons – The first in a series of wallpapers carefully crafted to help you organize your workspace. Easy to Customize. Take a look
unit9 are proud to sponsor the under9’s at Clissold Rangers FC. A bastion of excellence the under nine’s are undeniably a team to watch. We congratulate them on their recent 4-1 victory over Eclipse.
Results posted here
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Sing on your mobile or pc, then draw your own animated performances that might be turned into TV ads to be shown during the X Factor ad breaks. Site Of The Day (SOTD) Award for 15th Sept 2008. Check out the review on www.adverblog.com
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Taking the Japanese Zen Garden as a reference, we imagined a minimal, interactive music tool enabling you to compose and create personalized music. Samsung Music Site Of The Day (SOTD) Award for 22nd October 2008. view the making of
Our very own Takayoshi Kishimoto and Yates Buckley contributed to a Creativity Report on the changing state of interactive production. Creativity approached major players from Agencies and Production Companies. It makes for an interesting read.
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unit9 has been rated one of the Top interactive production companies by Creativity Magazine.
unit9 has signed Japanese director Roxik to its roster of interactive directors. Unit9 will represent Roxik exclusively for all territories outside of Japan. The Eco Zoo site by Roxik has recently been awarded FWA Site of the Year 2008.
Dofl Yun’s Ensemble piece won the Experimental/Art category at Flash Forward 2008 San Francisco. Participants play music using different interactive instruments. The resulting combination explores the possibilities of enhancing group communications and multi-player experiences. Dofl is interactive developer at unit9.
The AMC- Breaking Bad Teaser site we created for our friends Mono in Minneapolis is included in the Communication Arts Interactive Annual 14. The more you interact, as well as how you interact, dictates what facets you get shown of this teaser site for the AMC series. “Clicks greatly affect the experience”. The director’s cut includes The Mighty Vegetarian bacon scene and the uncensored final shot.
“As you’d expect from Goodby and unit9, this site offers high levels of production, incredible creativity through interactive games, and a sense of style that is sure to impress both young and old. If you enjoy point-and-click adventures, such as the original Monkey Island series on the Amiga, you’re guaranteed to love this. ” Rob Ford – Principal FWA
unit9 and Outsider have set up a special team, coming together to deliver productions of the highest standards in web and broadcast. The best of both worlds in a one step solution.
Piero Frescobaldi, Founder of unit9, was the Creative Social president for 2008.
The Creative Social tackles the ins and outs of the industry. The event was held in Florence, mixing the latest motion graphics, modern architecture, music, art and winemaking.
www.creativesocial.com
The last supper – (Photo by Pablo Marques)
