tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164977982012-01-31T03:55:08.899+02:00supersploosh is a mixture of personal and professional opinions written by Trevor Swart of sploosh. It may be sweeping, it might be informative, it is after all, a blog. Have a nice day! Visit sploosh.comsplooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.comBlogger881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-72632995051188626312011-10-14T21:58:00.000+03:002011-10-14T22:03:14.000+03:00

Toodu is a unique concept that allows users to create a to-do list which is broadcast to relevant local businesses. This allows users to find people really quickly, but also helps small businesses to pitch their services at precisely the right moment.In August we reworked the communication and brand identity, creating conceptual illustrations, in order to get their business concept across quickly

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There was nearly worldwide downtime on the Blackberry network this week. So RIM has taken yet another beating, so to speak. What's the point in a blog with out a topical YouTube post?

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And... we're back. We launched out latest and most ambitious project in a while just a few weeks ago; www.ncc-group.co.za. It has been a real pleasure to work with NCC Environmental Services a client we pitched for (twice), and whom we have assisted with the redesign of their website and communication. The site aims to properly showcase the scope of their work and service offering. The site also

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Great demo of someone building a track up from scratch with NanoStudio app for iPhone. Give it 30 secs to take shape, song starts peaking at about 2 mins. Makes me want to learn more. Mobile apps are the heat. This one is by Blip Interactive.

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We put together a video animation for this new initiative from Morewood Europe and Treems. The first 100 bikes from the 2011 range will also save and support 100 Ecuadorian rainforest trees.Check out the video here: www.morewoodbikes.com/save-a-tree/

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It is amazing how time consuming creating content can be. When you're a design business it take even longer, because it so easy to change the design. Every time we rebuild our website, which is not often, I'm amazed at how long it takes to get the communication and images together. We sympathise with all our clients. Part 1 of the Sploosh website update is done. Check it out.

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Here's a first look at the sticker designs we did for the Morewood 2011 product range. Nice work Ish!

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Brand manuals, brand guidelines, brand bibles, corporate identity manuals, however you refer to them, they are an essential reference to any corporate identity project. It's even more critical for designers to define the application and use of the logo when the brand needs to be shared with distributors. And, when those distributors are all over the world carrying a legacy of old branding with

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We created some sticky vectors about a month or so ago, and stuck them to the wall in the studio. When we created the artwork file for the sign-writer, we had to gather all the shapes together for cutting, and it made an interesting piece of final artwork. So, I thought I'd expand it a bit and get it out there. The one up top is 1920 x 1080. Feel free to take it.

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We thought you might like to see some visuals from Eurobike 2010, which happened last week. In these shots you can check out the product branding we have been working on, along with the updated morewood identity and various graphic design elements.We also added the rebranding project to our portfolio on the Behance Network, check it out, and give it some love.:)

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2010 has definitely been a good year for the studio. Here's why: We took a global brand and breathed new life into it. That's the new mark for Morewood Bikes and lower down you will find the new logotype, which has also been evolved to communicate the changes going on within the business and through the product-line.As the original designers of the Morewood identity, is was a unique opportunity

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We are super stoked to announce that Sploosh Digital has been nominated as a finalist in 2010 Loerie Awards. The logo we developed for POD last year was entered into the brand identity category with the hope of being recognised for its aesthetic qualities. As a studio we have worked hard to establish our reputation for good design. It's great to have entered a piece and be nominated. It feels

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Last year sploosh digital designed an identity and website for the boutique hotel called POD. Located on the Camps Bay foreshore, the hotels website was required to launch prior to the construction work being completed. Greg Wright Architects contracted Think3D to create stunning visuals of the finished interiors even though the hotel was still a building site.Last week we received some final

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Check this mash-up out. Admataz took the "1000 songs to hear before you die", and mashed it with Last.fm database - Nice.

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On Friday we knocked off early and began to compose our mural. This was a new experience for all of us; taking something digital and applying it to a wall. There is a cool vector quality to the mural. It has retained the stylised look of a digital desktop or printed material because it has been cut out of vinyl. Some refinement is still to come. Some words of advice for all you aspirational

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2010. Apparently there are 58 days to go until the Soccer World Cup starts - bring it on!It's quite amazing. We are only half way through the 4th month of the year and already we are opening our 50th job bag. Ok, I'm dramatising a bit because half of those jobs are done in a day, but still, it's a great indicator of how the studio and sploosh is performing. You may have read about the events of

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We moved to the other side of the building last year, so that we could have a bit more space. The office still needs a lot of finishing and organization, in-between a barrage of real work of course. Here's a sneak peek at the mural design we started yesterday.

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Hello. Long time no see. Tonight I post a mild conspiracy theory driven by the Google search algorithm. The company who famously did not remove a picture of a chimpanzee from its results when typing the words Michelle Obama, is (apparently) committed to the integrity of its search results being from all web users and websites. It's a mind field of business deals, industrial espionage and

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There is a lot to be said for dumbing-down tech talk. Off-the-wall or over the head? What do you think?

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Here it is. You may or may not know that we were appointed to develop a website for a luxury boutique hotel opening next year in Camps Bay. We developed the brand identity and website which has just gone live today. Hope you enjoy it.www.pod.co.za

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picture by Andrei - www.lightdesignworks.comIt's been a really busy year. So much has happened in our studio, let me try and summarise it for you: Finally, Morewood have produced two cross-country bikes which we created all the product branding for. We also built a microsite for their KENDA Morewood Racing Team. We employed another person for the studio. We won a pitch for a boutique hotel. We've

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For those of you who were wondering what our logo design looked like for POD, the job that we won by pitch in May, here it is. We're busy building the website at the moment. Look out.

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Someone here found this on Google today. By typing the words "Twitter is " the following suggestions came up under the top hit suggestion list. Industrial espionage or internet user rebellion? Go figure. It's a bit of a PR nightmare, that's for sure.Sploosh Digital

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I'm passing through the picture perfect country-side of Switzerland on a train which is bound for Konstanz. I'm heading to Eurobike for the 3rd year running to meet with 2 of our clients in the small town of Friedrichshafen. Not much else happens in this town during the rest of the year. Maybe a little bit of wine making or a bit of yacht sailing. But wherever you look people are riding bikes. I

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You dont have to be a rocket scientist to work out that sploosh will be one decade old this year. To celebrate we are going to offering everyone something related to 1999, just for fun. It could be a free millennium bug fix, or a free .com domain registration, or consultancy fees from our 1999 pricelist. Details coming soon. And, if you have any bright ideas, feel free to send them through to

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Last week I made this amazing discovery. I am still a teenager trapped in a man's body, and that teenager wants to fly. Over dirt jumps.When I was a kid I had a Raleigh Burner BMX. You may have had one too. There was not much choice back then. The Redline came standard with red mags (those plastic five-spoke type) and the Mongoose was the ultimate, from what I can remember, it had a beautiful

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There is some truly amazing computer technology out there at the moment. But right now is seems there is a big race to change the way in which we interact with our computer software. This pursuit of banishing the archaic mouse and keyboard to the museum is not surprising. Who could forget the interactive gestures Tom Cruise made at his computer screen in the Minority Report. That movie came out

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We have just been told that we won our pitch for new business. As you can imagine there was some loopin' and a woopin' going on in the studio at about 3pm when we got the news.Im normally against pitches. I think that an agency should be appointed for its design skills and reputation. But when I met the client and received the brief, it sparked something inside me, and I decided to take the risk.

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This is such a classic video, nice little twist in the tail.I first saw this video at RezFest in 2004 (i think) - its a classic track and cool video.In other news: I just bought some South African music for the first time in ages. Actually cant remember the last time I bought a cd: The Dirty Skirts - Daddy Dont DiscoBut I kept it real by downloading an album by Empire of the Sun - Walking on a

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A friend just sent me the link to this video. I have seen this mad man before; riding on chains and hopping on to rainway lines. The intro of him not quite maintaining the line he is one puts the whole thing in to context. Enjoy.

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The newest member to the studio has arrived. Say hello to Tentaclopse.When you use a computer to make things all day, its great to go back to paper and a craft knife. The hardest part about making Tentaclopse was finding the right glue and making him look like the picture on Readymech.com - I think he's a pretty good clone.

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-3760617320838725142009-01-12T08:08:00.005+02:002009-01-12T09:50:45.256+02:00

About a year and a half ago I wrote a post about Blackle.com, the black google that may reduce the carbon footprint of search. But now the results of an official study which has been released. Its quite surprising. Read it here

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-74028755698144928512008-11-18T22:46:00.004+02:002008-11-18T22:58:46.701+02:00

This really appeals to me. This looks so steep and so fast, I would definatey be in line for a trip down this slipway in Wales. Check it out.I guess that wont be surprising to some of you, especially since I went down this escalator at Angel in London at about the same pace. Only, I did it without skis, broke a knee-cap and lived to tell the tail.

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-60764051690071404282008-10-22T23:49:00.011+03:002008-11-05T23:42:09.066+02:00

Ok, so this is a shameless test of how a headline can affect the visibility of a post, I admit it. I do know a good card trick or two. They are just better in person. Saafi Brothers gets my vote today for their Mystic Cigarettes album.The superweed gets my vote for being shot in time lapse and being brought to the worlds attention on the bbc website. What a famous weed! Respect. But hold on

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-30788781205615003042008-10-20T22:01:00.006+03:002008-10-20T22:32:51.874+03:00

Im afraid this blog has been a bit off piste recently. Usually I blog about technology or design, or throw up some cool links, but today its all about bikes and the insanity of freeride.This is the biggest canyon jump I have ever seen. This would make Evel Knievel proud, because this is like turbo charging the stakes, cloning the legend, making him compete for best trick against himself, and

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-73354216796577390952008-09-29T10:57:00.005+03:002008-09-29T23:23:19.568+03:00

I woke up on Saturday in search of food and coffee. So I ambled down to Tina's coffee shop on lower main road called Queen of Tarts and ordered a cappuccino.It arrived with a small kiwi looking fern leaf embroyded out of smooth foam and espresso cream. It was the best cappuccino I have ever had.If you have been to our studio in Observatory, you will know that we love coffee. We have had 3

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Is this a joke?I have no idea who has that sort of cash for an iphone which will either, get nicked, be dropped or run out of storage space.[update] - turns out that Gary has that sort of cash.

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no need to apologise for brilliance, just nod your head and accept the compliment graciously. radiohead: a rock band that rocks has again open sourced under GPL (so to speak) their various stems from one of their tracks, Reckoner. I received an email from radiohead about this development personally, although it did not say "dear trevor" at the top, which was a bit of a let down, because they know

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Light-Paint Piano Player from Ryan Cashman on Vimeo.I am rediscovering VIMEO. I should be doing a proposal but the temptation of surfing started when someone sent me this link of two crazy guys riding their skateboards at incredible speed, in suits. Turns out it is a viral campaign made by the fashion designer Adam Kimmel. I downloaded the HD version without realising, and now Im too scared

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-20768329054202409452008-09-16T15:22:00.006+03:002008-09-16T15:52:52.221+03:00

I was in Konstanz Germany on my way to Zurich, when I stopped to use a WC. For those Canadians out there who dont know what that is, its a toilet. And look at the rad little icons I found on the doors. Makes a nice change from the standard icons that look like they were designed in days of shoulder pads and bad hairdo's.People are obsessed by the strangest things, I have stumbled upon an entire

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I got a little sucked up in the media hype last week about CERN, and as a result I went and ate a McDonald's burger because I thought that our earth space time would be sucked into a little tiny black hole. The LHC started up today, and it seems the earth is still here. I found a very interesting article as why the earth is still here today. Anyway, that's such good news because I had so much

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-73626621362493904002008-09-05T12:49:00.014+03:002008-09-16T15:51:46.705+03:00

What do you do when your supplier doesn't deliver the stuff you requested before a trade show? The one thing you really need at a trade show is business cards. When you're a designer you need business cards that are cool. This is a sheet of stickers. The plan was to pull them off and stick them to my plain white cards.I emailed a regular supplier some artwork for printing and asked for a cost.

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We very happy to announce the launch of the latest morewood bikes website. And we managed to do it the day before Eurobike started. Eurobike started today. It is the biggest bicycle expo in the Europe and probably the world. Its great to be here doing some research for the brand and to chat to the suppliers and distributors that we work with. There is plenty to blog about here at the bike show,

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-15011553686897862262008-09-04T13:35:00.009+03:002008-09-29T10:57:02.574+03:00

What makes us change our mind, or do something that we thought we wouldn't?For those of you who know me, I'm anti McDonald's. There's plenty of reasons why it might be a bad idea to eat it out there.But today, being on the road on the way from France to Germany, hungry and considering the slight possibility of a black hole swallowing up the earth on the 10th September when they start up the Large

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-68002864844591822762008-08-30T14:01:00.005+03:002008-09-16T15:54:15.296+03:00

Sorry, I have been on the move. I am in France and on my way to Germany next week to the biggest bicycle expo in Europe called Eurobike. It should be fun. It will all be revealed on the new Morewood website which is being launched next week. Our studio will posting pictures and videos everyday to keep the forums and traffic buzzing.It seems technology has been on the move too. Did you know that

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Isn't it great how the underdogs of this (virtual) world can stand up to the Goliaths by capturing the imagination and rallying the popularity of the people, even for something which most people don't give a second thought to, like your web browser. The browser wars have been going for well over a decade now, and finally we have a serious contender in Firefox. Please, lets support a world in

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It is products like this that make me feel like we are living in the future.When you watch batman ripping up the streets of Gotham City in his batmobile that can morph and change shape, and then you see a real car like this, its easy to wonder about what the future might hold.

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-32229867222142251512008-04-03T18:55:00.016+03:002008-09-10T15:32:06.757+03:00

Oh man, what a classic.I noticed this old tractor, which I had never heard of before, while riding my bike in Tokai. It's called a SAME. Which marketing genius named this product? How about a name like Atlas or Titan rather. But the real surprise came when I found the logo on the front of the tractor was different to the logo on the side of the tractor. Same same, but different.Its a marketing

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-26439919930141676482008-03-11T11:50:00.003+02:002008-04-03T19:35:17.328+03:00

In light of the recent writers strike in Hollywood, I felt it was necessary to express my own radio silence on our blog. Admittedly it was a strong mix of sympathetic writers silence and pathetic negligence for the soapbox.But I'm back. And I dare say that we have something rather interesting to post, right now.

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-1182950888385954792007-10-03T09:54:00.001+03:002008-07-24T09:54:21.266+03:00

When will this dream be a reality?

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-70651396285221413972007-09-21T10:11:00.002+03:002008-09-10T15:33:46.220+03:00

Do you know about this? Its a plan to mine the moon for the isotope called Helium 3. Its seems so far fetched, but then I have to remind myself that we are almost 8 years into the 21st century. A time when people predicted we would all be flying around in spaceships, living in near orbit.But it still comes as a surprise. We are going to mine the moon. Its not even a case of if, just a case of how

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-91634135834942804692007-09-10T08:30:00.000+03:002007-09-10T20:42:43.837+03:00

This is so 21st century, and I really hope that they find Steve Fossett soon, whether they use Google Earth to do so or not.Its interesting that the search needs to acquire up to date images for any sort of search to viable using Google Earth. And it makes you wonder how much of the data is live, and what is restricted. I thought I'd take a look at Baghdad one day, or hey what about the

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-4648452742612681892007-08-02T08:45:00.001+03:002008-10-06T21:37:57.912+03:00

Its funny. Not funny haha, but funny peculiar, that someone would turn a phenomenal website into a new noun. The other day a client phoned to ask if they were on the Google. "Yes, you're rated number one if you do a search for yourself." I said quickly typing the name into Google, just to check. I breathed a little sigh of relief as we made some small talk and then we said our goodbyes. Now

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-17283431468990637612007-08-01T00:41:00.000+03:002007-08-06T17:58:43.391+03:00

A little bit of humour from the tubes. Enjoy the weekend.

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Now I don't know about you, but this concerns me, just a little. I'll never forget reading about space junk in the newspaper for the first time in 2000. It felt like watching reality tv for the first time, there was something blatantly wrong with it. Transfixed at first, but then, a nagging feeling that I would see it again.Space junk is a near orbit phenomenon. Its so real that NASA have entire

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-56751348779086271702007-07-23T10:26:00.000+03:002007-07-31T22:55:55.962+03:00

Lets consider change, and the affect a small action might have on our environment and eventually the globe.I'm sure you have read about Blackle.com, the black screen search engine created by Australian company Heap Media. Yes, it was Heap not Google that put this small effort together in an attempt to reduce the amount of megawatts a pc uses from day to day while using Google.The initial

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-86523579162692142732007-07-19T09:16:00.000+03:002007-07-19T21:56:57.000+03:00

Every now and then something pointless and creative pops into someones head and somehow gets on to the net. Incredible! This is another one of those weird and wonderful videos from the tubes. Aren't hands great, they are so versatile!Where do your fingers go, when you sleep?

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-6438286747608980502007-07-08T03:35:00.001+03:002007-07-17T17:18:44.992+03:00

see what I mean?

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-127434075764668472007-07-08T03:27:00.001+03:002007-07-08T03:27:54.778+03:00

How many of you have actually surfed YouTube? Is it wonderful, or is it just weird?

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-19418334733325803572007-07-05T11:02:00.001+03:002007-07-05T11:07:11.642+03:00

In keeping with our theme of spaceships, spacejunk and creative work. Here's a little gem from YouTube, enjoy:

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-66517239108443690522007-07-04T02:21:00.001+03:002008-06-25T20:42:51.310+03:00

I wonder if William Hill are placing odds on peoples opinions changing towards the London 2012 Olympic logo. I would place my bets on people loving this logo in future and it being revered and looked back upon as iconic of our era.The logo has been fraught with controversy. Its been called a pigs ear, a wooden spoon, that it resembles a swastika, and just plain horrible. I was pretty surprised

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-82731275846564048322007-06-28T10:55:00.000+03:002007-07-05T13:51:40.586+03:00

I would like to elaborate on my post from last month Enter Web 3.0 by using a real-world scenario of identity revealed. Imagine that you had fought to keep your identity secret for years. That your livelihood depended upon it. That your work's popularity was fueled, partly, by the fact that you did great things under peoples noses and got away with it. Scott free. We run a small design studio

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-55118636068032501052007-06-18T10:12:00.000+03:002007-06-19T11:34:49.609+03:00

You may recognise this title, you may not. Either way you should realise that its a hint at what's going on behind the scenes at sploosh.We're rebuilding: If you were getting a little bored of the sploosh website take heart in the fact that it is changing. Sometimes the only way to speed up change is to take a small step, and then let the trickle turn into a raging torrent. Well, the trickle is

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-54553739670341027322007-06-18T05:30:00.000+03:002007-06-18T22:05:29.088+03:00

Apple breathed some new fire into the browser wars last week by announcing that they have ported Safari for XP and Vista.It's our business to know about internet browsers and all their versions so that our clients websites are tested and perform properly on popular versions, so naturally we downloaded Safari immediately.Our version is unusable on XP and we quickly closed it. Our illusion that

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-67025283697982268732007-05-20T06:43:00.000+03:002007-06-19T11:05:57.029+03:00

In this post I plan to break every unwritten law of blogging. I acknowledge David Bullard's post and revel in my sweeping statements and lack of point.As always, I will point you to a link. This is pure gold. I mean who hasn't been swept away by the story's of Treasure Island, or more recently by the Pirates of the Caribbean?Similar things are true of Google. They found gold, and are defending

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-66198637248765483492007-05-04T00:06:00.001+03:002007-06-19T11:07:38.583+03:00

So just as web two point oh is gaining momentum, web three point oh starts to pop into the news and cruely becomes the insiders upper hand in a tech savy conversation.It is strange living and working in Cape Town asking clients if they have heard of YouTube, and it definitely makes one feel isolated or disoriented when they haven’t. But that's not what this is about.I am now a new member of

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-1203718960239714182007-04-24T03:08:00.000+03:002007-04-24T15:35:26.551+03:00

Woah, stop the bus. Another free do-it-all-tool for net heads? You don't need a web development agency anymore, because now you have Terapad!Visit this http://studio37.terapad.com

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-27911515385021848072007-04-13T06:14:00.000+03:002007-04-13T18:36:43.967+03:00

It seems strange that consumer technology is often advanced by the military products first. It was true of cellular phones and the internet, among other things. So this is the obvious next step, to advance the internet into outer space. Will someone please radio the ISS and let the first nerd in space know about this please, I think he is still in orbit, and we know he'll be excited. Thank you.

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-26003258147574803292007-04-02T09:38:00.000+03:002007-04-02T10:32:37.814+03:00

Im going to go out on a limb here and call this Hotmail logo by a title which it truly deserves: The greatest animated logo ever.Look at it. See the little "H" swooping off to the side? See the animated globe, and the postage stamp? It really does give off a certain promise of something bold, and something new.Lets put it into context. On the 4th July 1996, when hotmail was launched, both

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-50622087317502696992007-03-25T10:06:00.000+03:002007-03-25T22:16:10.067+03:00

I stumbled upon this link today. Still haven't been able to reach the website to which it is referring.It seems that this website and the ufo's have something in common. Has anyone really seen them?

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-65722073648464133022007-03-22T08:48:00.000+02:002007-03-22T21:02:36.501+02:00

I had a conversation with a client yesterday who said that most South African's hadn't even heard of MySpace. Say it isn't so! I feel as though this client, who had spent the last year in the USA might be more in touch as to what Web 2.0 is, what blogging has become, and most certainly has heard of MySpace and YouTube. So, when I found this article on the BBC website, I am hope that you, my small

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-5508836583172867732007-03-19T09:16:00.000+02:002007-03-19T17:22:10.105+02:00

Someone once told me that an opinion is like a belly button; everybody has one. But when you meet a fanatic, they might also start to point out how much bigger their naval is.The debate in question was the colour of the Shova ST.The other week I met with a rather enthusiastic Warthog who was riding a pink Morewood Shova ST signed by Patrick Morewood. The Warthog, who shall remain nameless, was

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-19654993096814830872007-03-16T08:59:00.000+02:002007-03-16T09:14:26.198+02:00

Its a well know fact on the internet that choosing interesting headings and content links can increase your sites visibility. This taxi has nothing to do with the addictive tv series which is now in its second season.But I imagine that it would make a pretty good getaway vehicle. Its perfectly anonymous, a white Toyota taxi, with white wall tyres, that will have no trouble driving fast and over

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-27900774643690378142007-03-16T08:49:00.000+02:002007-03-16T08:57:36.481+02:00

We went on a recky down main road the other week. Oh the things you will find when you just get out of your car and walk.The car was at the mechanic for the 3rd time to fix the brakes. (I like old cars, I know they break, but I am paying for it) This forced us to catch taxis to meetings and walk or cycle if we had to go somewhere.Researching for interesting signage and something original, we

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-1153224999046629222006-07-18T15:09:00.000+03:002007-03-02T07:43:12.196+02:00

This article on BBC is simply astonishing. HP have created a memory chip that is about 2-4mm in size, can hold a 100 pages of text, communicates via wireless, and requires no battery.It about two years away from production, but those future versions are likely to carry more data and have about a million interesting product uses.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5186650.stm

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-1147331666317363482006-05-11T10:11:00.000+03:002007-03-05T12:53:48.723+02:00

Happy signs Originally uploaded by sploosh37. This is the happy sign at the corner of our street. If I were a sign, this is where I would live.

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-1145820325150346702006-04-23T22:17:00.000+03:002006-04-27T13:48:36.453+03:00

Finally, we have moved into our new offices. It has taken a lot longer to renovate than we had thought - but the wait was worth it. The paint is fresh and the pavement reminds me a little of the walk to Electronic Arts from the Langley train station. All this talk of moving and the texture of the pavement has nothing to do with Bart (my hero) sitting on a toilet.

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-1140592137150268432006-02-22T08:53:00.000+02:002006-02-22T09:08:57.160+02:00

Reading the news today, as you do at 8.30am in the morning avoiding work and deadlines, I stumbled upon this beauty.It was this tiny image on the bbc news page that attracted me to the article, and now it all makes perfect sense, because it seems that that is exactly what this news item is about. The attraction that people have to colour shape and branding.There's a campaign by the original

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-1134544204483913922005-12-14T08:56:00.000+02:002005-12-14T09:14:54.340+02:00

Hello people, anyone out there, the casual surfer or the late night listerner, we have news.Morewood Engineering launched their latest range of bikes for 2006, and we built the site. It's nothing major but some small improvements have been made to the flash, including a way to make all those bikers understand exactly how their frame angles are measured.More about their bikes: They have launched a

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We worked with Kaluma Development to realign the Mobilize branding and corporate communications. Mobilize is on-demand process software which is able to automate, manage and optimise various business scenarios.Their marketing material was virtually non-existant, so with only a logo in hand, sploosh worked with an illustrator to develop the look of the brand, and explain how the Mobilize platform

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-1132219269000284632005-11-17T11:20:00.000+02:002005-12-21T18:11:15.040+02:00

Another year is closing, and with it the great task of assisting Sithengi in publishing their website. The Cape Town World Cinema, part of Sithengi, runs from the 11-20 November, and ends this weekend. There are more films than ever before at this years festival. We created a lovely little movie module for them, so that you the public, can quickly see what's on at the festival this year.

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-1132139500010902652005-11-16T13:06:00.000+02:002005-11-16T13:11:40.010+02:00

We launched the Team Architects website last week, which is just a portfolio website, but we tried something new with the navigation.Adam Davis did the flash wizardry, and Trevor Swart did the conceptual navigation and design. The client, is a happy one.

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-1127974958449944412005-09-29T09:14:00.000+03:002005-10-03T17:40:03.996+03:00

Google is all over the news these days. It's going to be interesting to see where their core business will be in 5 years time. They seem to be spreading themselves all over the technology and connectivity sectors. Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Talk, Gmail, and now they have a joint venture with NASA to be in space research. Check it out here

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-1126683933267613122005-09-14T10:37:00.000+03:002005-09-14T11:32:37.110+03:00

We have a design position opening in the studio next month, for "talent web designer"... Mary has decided to skip off to London, and we can't hold her back, "London baby! London!" She will be missed.You can check out the biz community website for the full details of the job on offer...

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-1126246742461224662005-09-09T09:18:00.000+03:002005-09-14T10:09:33.406+03:00

No news on the pitch, but guess what, we're off to another. This time its really a high risk client, but has the opportunity to be really creative. A school website will no doubt be picked apart by some of students, inspecting the code and everything in between. This is one the of the students websites: http://www.chickenorbeef.za.net/ brilliant url if you ask me...

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-1126165964192721312005-09-08T10:48:00.000+03:002005-09-08T12:04:51.843+03:00

This is a good day. Sploosh was asked to do a creative pitch for an existing client last month. We put together a presentation two weeks ago after working ourselves pretty hard with other deadlines on the go. And today, is decision day for our client!We'll keep you posted..

splooshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06866777321548056161noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16497798.post-1126164923282795222005-09-08T10:29:00.000+03:002006-01-05T17:16:56.256+02:00

Ah yes, it's well overdue to have my own blog. From here I will rant and rave, wag my finger and ponder. I will join others on their soap boxes and have my say.Probably won't have much impact on the world, Im really doing it as a work project. But anyway, let's see how it goes..

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