Number 6 of a series of Facebook Apps I worked on while at Exposure as part of the Bulmers ‘Experimenters Wanted’ Summer campaign.

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Number 5 of a series of Facebook Apps I worked on while at Exposure as part of the Bulmers ‘Experimenters Wanted’ Summer campaign.

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Number 4 of a series of Facebook Apps I worked on while at Exposure as part of the Bulmers ‘Experimenters Wanted’ Summer campaign.

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The Bulmers iPhone App I worked on while at Exposure as part of the Bulmers ‘Experimenters Wanted’ Summer campaign. As well as having a pub finder and the usual goodies found inside brand apps it also has three experiments built in! Here’s how Exposure describe it on iTunes –

“To celebrate the launch of new Bulmers Nº17 cider, we’re running a series of experiments this summer and we want you to join in!

With this app, you can vote for the friendliest pub, help us build the world’s longest, virtual cider bench and see how many friends you can squeeze in a bottle. You’ll also find out more about our special summer events and can search for your nearest Cider Garden with our pub finder.”

And here’s a little bit about each of the built in experiments:

Experiment #7 – ‘Can we make the worlds longest cider bench?’
“We’re building the world’s longest, virtual cider bench and need your help… Just download the Bulmers app to your phone, take a picture of your friends sitting on a cider bench and upload the photo to our gallery. We’ll then connect all the photos to see if we can make the longest bench in the world! And at the end of the summer, we’ll display the latest results at the Bulmers Cider Garden v.1.

Experiment #3 – ‘How many friends can you squeeze in a bottle?’
Celebrate new Bulmers Nº17 with us! Just download the Bulmers app to your phone and capture as many of your friends inside the bottle as possible. We’ll then add your bottle to our gallery so it can be showcased in the Bulmers Cider Garden v.1 at the end of the summer…

Experiment #10 – ‘What type of Bulmers drinker are you?’
We’ve come up with a few unusual tests to expose your sociability status! Buy a bottle of any Bulmers cider and look out for the QR code printed on the label. You can either download the Bulmers app to your phone, or use your current QR reader to capture the code. Then take our latest Bulmers Cider-metric test and find out what type of Bulmers drinker you really are…

You can download it from the iTunes app store here

Number 3 of a series of Facebook Apps I worked on while at Exposure as part of the Bulmers ‘Experimenters Wanted’ Summer campaign.

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Number 1 of a series of Facebook Apps I worked on while at Exposure as part of the Bulmers ‘Experimenters Wanted’ Summer campaign.

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Wim Crouwel alarm clock app by Spin and Large Blue. It even has three Crouwel themed alarm messages!

“have a nice and well designed day”, “keep your grid straight today”, and “a grid today keeps the doctor away”.

It costs 59p and can be downloaded from the app store here

A great little tool for generating your very own guilloche patterns. What would usually be a painstaking afternoon in Illustrator has been made simple (and quite fun to play with) by this, and with the ability to customise every variable you have total control. The only thing I’d say it was missing is the option to output your creation as vectors..

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Some of you may already be aware of this handy little tool (as its been around for a while) but I decided to write a post on it as it never ceases to surprise me with its accuracy. Recently I was working on a project where I was sent an existing design that needed a quick edit, but with only a jpeg to work from I couldn’t be totally sure what font had been used for the titles, which is where What The Font! comes in. You just crop out a section of the text you need to identify the font from, upload it (see above) and voila! It returns a selection of options based on analysis of each character. In the example here I’ve used my logo, and as you can see from the final image it returned the perfect match straight away! Also, if you’re not happy with any of the matches it offers, there’s a well maintained forum full of type-geeks to offer their suggestions, and not forgetting the iPhone App for those font queries when you’re out and about…

If you have a font you can’t identify, or just fancy testing it out, you can visit the site here.

As a way of adding a little extra touch to the L.K.Bennett iPhone App we decided that a nice intro animation based around their shoes could work quite well. As Flash wasn’t an option I opted for After Effects, which meant using the virtual cameras I could play with depth of field to add an extra dimension to the product shots I needed to work with. Other restraints were a capped length of 6-8 seconds and file size (so the App could be downloaded on 3G). With all those factors accounted for, here’s the final intro we chose, and those that didn’t make the cut.

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