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Florrie Arnold - Drummer Singer Songwriter
  • IDENTITY
  • DESIGN
  • BUILD
Florrie - Singer, Drummer, Songwriter

Singer, songwriter, drummer and international starlet Florrie and Xenomania Records asked us to develop Florrie's branding and identity as she officially launches an already accomplished music career. We created a strong look and feel to reflect her music and helped deploy this across a range of social media sites and florrie.com, powered by Square Space.

  • TRAINING
BBC pervasive media training

In October 09 we hosted a training session for the BBC's newest and brightest design recruits in the heart of Bristol's creative and technology community - the Pervasive Media Studio! The session involved talks from some of the studio's star residents and we looked at the importance of designing for context.

  • STRATEGY
  • MARKETING
  • COMMERCIAL
  • COPYWRITING
igfest 2009 with Simon Games

Bristol's world-renowned Interesting Games Festival hit the streets on September 11-13. From paint fights to brain-teasers, games were played out across the city in multi-storey car parks, shopping centres and candle-lit band-stands. Besides playing hard over the weekend, Thought Den were commissioned for their gaming and marketing experience to manage the commercial development of the festival which involved raising the festival's profile as a platform for engaging with consumers.

Fire Kills game
  • CONCEPT
  • CREATIVE
  • FLASH
Fire Kills

As flash gaming experts we were asked to develop a game that would deliver the 5 key messages of the government's new Fire Kills campaign. Under the guidance of Team Rubber we conceived a game of quick reactions that is racking up the hits equally quickly...

Parashoot - online risk assessment software, like Base Camp but better
  • CREATIVE
  • ANIMATION
  • CSS XHTML
  • FLASH
  • BACK-END
Parashoot

The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice commissioned us to produce a fully comprehensive online tool for creating risk assessment forms. The project required extensive planning and prototyping and continues evolving and improving to this day. The quirky training animation is the jewel in the crown of what is a remarkably diverse piece of work. A major UK television broadcaster is trialing the software...

Bournemouth University's Virtual Tour
  • CONCEPT
  • DESIGN
  • FLASH
  • BACK-END
  • AFTER FX
Bournemouth University's Virtual Tour

After over 5 months in production Bournemouth's Virtual Tour finally launches! The project combines 3D renders, images, video & some great copy to give new students a taste of things to come at this fantastic University. It was a challenging brief not least because of the sheer amount of content we were dealing with but the results speak for themselves.

Preview of Jack Daniels Site
  • CONCEPT
  • FLASH
  • BACK-END
Jack Daniels - JD Set

Kerve Creative hired Thought Den to help rebuild the new JD Set site alongside their creative team. We were responsible for designing the interaction process, organising the wealth of rich media content and, finally, building the Flash engine. It was the start of a healthy working relationship and Thought Den continue to advise Kerve Creative in all things Flash.

soco social with kerve

Kerve Creative re-assembled the dream-team for the re-design of this popular party site. We were aiming for high-energy, rich media and that's what we delivered in a site oozing flash, bang and wallop.

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soco mardi gras with kerve

A Kerve Creative client who wanted to go viral for Mardi Gras. A lengthy pre-production brainstorming period on this project involved throwing around hundreds of ideas, reward mechanics, themes and varying levels of naughtiness until we settled on the conga concept. We worked in-house with the Kerve team on the Flash build, illustration, animation and ASP/XML back-end

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jack's birthday with kerve

Another collaboration with the team at Kerve Creative and TD Creative Director Ben Templeton working on site to help pull all the parts together. The deadline was tight, expectations were high and tempers flared but in the end the final product was a roaring success - over 10,000 competition entries and an extremely happy client. Plus some nifty After Effects integration.

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My Abodo

A neat little identity design and Wordpress skin for this new sales training business. Their limited budget required some quick thinking from the team, who delivered a well-polished site with full CMS

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A small but well formed job for life coach Julia Pritchett. This job started with the brand development, which went through a number of phases from initial concepts to final delivery of print ready assets. The site was kept clean and clear, in line with the philosophies advocated by mindturn.

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baobab garden design

A product we're very proud of, built using our unique Wordpress-to-Flash engine. This is the first incarnation of the translation engine and there will surely be more great things to come. Full CMS control with front-end flash wizardry all at a very reasonable rate...what more could you ask for?

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ntt fundraising

It was high time their site was overhauled but NTT also wanted to refine their online strategy and really make the site work hard for them. They operate in a competitive industry and it is essential the site stands out but also meets the strictest compliance guidelines. We developed a new tone, streamlined the navigation process and designed their marketing material to boot!

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Peugeot campaign with E3 Media

A banner campaign, but a really good one, we think. And no portfolio is complete without one. The Peugeot 407 campaign was premium stuff. E3 Media brought us in to create a range of rich-media ads using their beautifully shot and mastered photography.

  • WEBSITES
  • FLASH
  • WORDPRESS
  • CSS
  • XHTML
  • PHP

beerdoku with clock

The classic pen and paper game reinvented for the digital youth! This game was built for Clock, who look after all things JD Wetherspoon. There are 3 levels, and you've gotta rack up beer logos instead of numbers. Whose round is it?

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myabodo with teamrubber

An environmentally switched on brief from DEFRA manafged by Team Rubber, who brought TD aboard to build the gaming engine for the interactive house widget. The game is a take on SIMS, encouraging kids to engage with the consequences of various household choices.

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jvc euroball with teamrubber

Team Rubber were lucky enough to win this great contract with JVC and brought Thought Den on board to build the Flash engine for the main game and a promotional widget. We were involved from creative through to final delivery, including a bespoke PHP back-end to run locally for the offline touring edition.

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booty juggler with robin davey

A very successful collaboration between Thought Den and the talented illustrator and animator Robin Davey that first aired over 4mations.tv. The game harks back to the good old days of hand drawn, scratchy, tactile graphics, avoiding the current fad for slick vector graphics. Beautiful sound design too.

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gi joe with team rubber

This complex game-build for Paramount, another big Team Rubber client, was a small part to huge international campaign for the new GIJoe release. Strong work from star Flash programmer Tommy, who built a solid, XML dirven engine with full language support to Paramount's tight tech-spec.

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suitcase skittles

Star Flash-man Corin stepped into the breach here and delivered a great game engine in hand with the Team Rubber. It required a quick turn-around with all hands on deck at the final hour. Seems a shame to only use it once!

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race doggles with teamrubber

Another Rubber job that required a Flash engine build. "If dogs could fly, they'd chase hares in the sky" was the surreal starting point. We built a faux-3D engine with 3 flying levels that ended up as an extremely successful viral campaign for the Greyhound Association.

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  • GAMES
  • FLASH
  • ACTIONSCRIPT
  • CREATIVE
  • VIRAL

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