Big Eye Deers

This track download was a key part of the high profile campaign for the launch of global clothing and music brand Atticus’ latest album, Atticus Presents: Volume 1.

We developed an efficient, appealing and easy to use data capture and download form, and hooked it all up to our custom content delivery system.

We also set up a dedicated cloud hosted virtual machine, with over 1GB of burstable bandwidth, which means consistently high download speeds – even under the extremely heavy loads.

Check it out for yourself here.

Google is gearing up for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market that will include a new, Google-branded handset and the first comprehensive Google phone service with unlimited free calls.

For the first time, a single company will control everything from the software in users’ phones to the services they use to make calls and surf the web.

The Googlephone promises to be one of the most advanced smartphones, with a large touchscreen display and a processor almost twice as fast as the one powering Apple’s iPhone 3GS. It will probably be the first phone to run a new version of Google’s Android software, codenamed Flan, offering high-speed 3-D gaming said to be as good as that of many handheld consoles.

Read more here.

Big Eye Deers created a dynamic and compelling brand, in addition to delivering a new website using innovative navigation, full-screen video/photos and blog posts with a bold use of full-screen photographic backdrops.

Syllabus develops and coordinates music programming and strategy for some of the world’s largest brands, so we created a strong, design-led homepage that accurately conveyed the creativity that’s at the heart of their business.

Making sure the design was right is only half the story – we have also built a custom CMS so they can update content and add videos to the site at their own convenience, with Vimeo integration to provide seamlessly integrated video content.

See it for yourself here.

During the Placebo Winter 2009 tour dates, fans will not only be able to watch the live gigs, but they’ll also get the chance to see a Short Film Festival that will be screened on the main stage screens before the gig and during the artist changeovers.

The ShortsTV Live Music Film Festival, launched at Placebo’s Paris show in October, features the work of eight highly talented international film makers for which the band themselves shortlisted. Fans have been asked to vote for their favourite, so Big Eye Deers created a subdomain on the Placeboworld site, complete with analytics,  Vimeo integration and a dynamic jQuery voting component.

A DVD of all eight films will be available to purchase in the PLACEBOWORLD store and all profits will benefit the SOMALY MAM charity, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting the $12billion per year sex-trafficking industry.

Vote for your favourite here.

To mark the 40th anniversary of the first stirrings of the internet, the Guardian asked its readers for their experiences of life online.

Hundreds responded – click on the link below to see the interactive documentary of their stories and videos, alongside the Guardian’s own research and interviews with key figures.

Read all about it here.

Once again, Big Eye Deers helps Placebo go one step further in reaching their fans across the globe. The band’s website now boasts an interactive ‘Gigs’ page, which enables fans to not only buy tickets for each show, but allows them to pinpoint the venue’s location on a Google Maps driven application, managed by an easy to use CMS.

And it gets better – a complete history of Placebo gigs can be found on the ‘Gigs Archive’ page, with the option for fans to leave comments and upload photos (a la Flickr) for each show. All the fan-submitted content is moderated by the Placeboworld team.  Using a combination of Google Maps, jQuery and Big Eye Deers own CMS system, we’ve delivered an easy to use and immersive experience that gives fans an opportunity to interact with and relive the live Placebo experience.

It’s just another way that Big Eye Deers and Placebo are building a strong community around the band by ensuring their fans enjoy a more rewarding and interactive online experience.

Check it out for yourself here: http://www.placeboworld.co.uk/gigs.php

It is the 21st century equivalent of word of mouth.

From mom and pop diners to cupcake shops to technology start-ups, small business owners across America have been thrown an unexpected lifeline in the midst of the recession by social networking sites.

Companies that have jumped on the Twitter and Facebook bandwagon are reporting a surge in customers while others struggle.

With minimal marketing budgets available to many small businesses, social networking sites offer a quick and, more importantly, free means of promoting their wares to a global audience.

In the face of stiff competition and a global economic downturn, it is a route more and more companies are going down.

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Specialist consultancy Pinstripe PR required a fresh website re-design and supplemental stationery to correspond with the new branding.

The new website utilised a bespoke CMS, allowing their team to add news stories as and when they happen – ideal for a company that deals with the press on a daily basis!

We at Big Eye Deers are really happy with the final results – check it out for yourself here.

Social media has become an integral part of modern society.

There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries.

There are niche sites for virtually every special interest out there.

There are sites to share photos, videos, status updates, sites for meeting new people and sites to connect with old friends.

In this article, they review the history and evolution of social media from its humble beginnings to the present day.

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/the-history-and-evolution-of-social-media/

It’s a sign of the times – the BBC have announced a radical relaunch of its website to include more social media.

BBC sources have told MediaGuardian that the new-look site will launch by March.

As soon as this weekend the BBC could add social media applications to its Strictly Come Dancing online coverage.

Anthony Rose, the BBC’s controller of Vision and Online, declined to reveal specific details last night at the launch of this year’s MediaGuardian Innovation Awards.

But he did say that social media will play a big part in the relaunch of the BBC’s family of websites. He explained that the BBC is not only working on a new homepage and the underlying hosting platform, but his team is currently researching “what the next generation in social media will be”.

He confirmed that the BBC is planning several innovations to the site: “Among them for example, is the plan to enable users to comment on particular moments while watching and see what other users said about the same moment or simply rate moments with ‘Boo!’, ‘Good!’ or ‘Gosh!’.”

The BBC is planning radical changes in the the navigation design of its news sites. As was pointed out at a recent BBC open day, the news site – which attracts 10 million users a week – needs to underline the fact that it is breaking news. Many users don’t recognise that the BBC is producing 500 stories a day as well as a lot of local content; the relaunch aims help them find this information more easily.

Read the article in its entirety here.