Our aim is to create digital niceties that are a little different to the norm, create an impact and give consumers a bit of a nudge.
Founded by Greg Danford and Euan Millar in 2007, disturb is based in Clerkenwell, London. We're a london-based digital design and production resource who are growing fast and have literally decades of collective experience and know-how in pretty much all things digital, especially when it comes to engaging users online.
Our specialism is Flash. We design for it. We develop with it. We illustrate and animate.
We are 2D and 3D. In short, we build lovely sites and games.
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We tend to spend most of our time either:
a) Working direct with smaller, cooler, niche brands, delivering the quality and experience of agency giants but on a more personal level and without giant overheads. We're as passionate about your brand as you are. We love helping your brand to market your product, communicate with your users, and be represented online in a suitably original way.
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b) Working with larger agencies and their larger brands to provide a niche resource for concepts, solutions, ideas, then we take these through to delivery of cracking digital niceties. disturb get involved at all stages of digital projects from helping to win pitches and running projects all the way through to delivery, to acting more like a digital production house and taking control of projects with confidence. You may need us to provide a fresh take on things or to plug a gap in your in-house capability.
Whichever way we do it, the end results are the same - imaginatively created digital solutions that actively encourage users to interact with brands and enjoy the whole experience. And part with some of their precious time, maybe even their money.
We do it with an eye for design, with control of code, with a sprinkling of style, and with a little bit of love.
We design and develop, and lots in between. If it can be done on screen and done online then the chances are disturb do it. We work with both visual solutions and the behind-the-scenes bits that enable online promotions to flourish.
disturb's core skills are:
We're a team that's well-balanced between design and development. Even the jobs that come to us visualised and ready to be built in Flash need a designers eye. We enjoy producing well-designed sites whether we've lovingly designed them or someone else has. But we do love designing them ourselves.
disturb eliminates static
Everything we do is animated. From bespoke video players to lively little characters. We even craft the odd banner now and then. If it moves, we're up for it ;)
Disturb conduct code
There's pretty much nothing that relates to Flash that we can't do. Here's some geek-speak to let you know more:
Our skills offer total project cover. We produce our own IA and Tech Spec documentation in the planning stages of a project. This includes: Wireframes, User Journeys, Use Case scenarios, hardware spec, and 3rd party application integration spec.
During the build stage, all of our Flash projects are constructed using an internationally established and fully documented Model View Controller framework (the ASAP Framework).
This allows us to integrate seamlessly with any other development team so that another developer can quickly understand the project if required - greatly improving our workflow and client satisfaction. This framework supports both AS3 and AS2 versions of Flash ActionScript. We also create bespoke Content Management Systems for most of our projects.
We have extensive experience with Flash Media Server and WebServices, Shared Objects, PHP, MySQL, Flash Remoting, XML, Papervision 3D (and other Flash 3D engines), on-demand High Definition Flash video, Twitter API, Facebook Connect, YouTube API and even a wee bit of Flex!
We continue to provide support after a project launches, offering industry-standard hosting (supplied by Rackspace with a big fat pipe!) Flash Media Server hosting, Search Engine optimization, and monthly reports on analytics.
We also produce our own Flash components and extensions for sharing with the Flash community and we always keep up to date, attending the monthly London Flash Platform Users Group meetings - plus we're always at Flash On The Beach.
We continue to provide support after a project launches, offering industry-standard hosting (supplied by Rackspace with a big fat pipe!) Flash Media Server hosting, Search Engine optimization, and monthly reports on analytics.
We also produce our own Flash components and extensions for sharing with the Flash community and we always keep up to date, attending the monthly London Flash Platform Users Group meetings - plus we're always at Flash On The Beach.
We love the opportunity to create and develop characters and animations, usually as elements within games and sites that we're building.
We have designers, illustrators and animators in our ranks, helping to add more character to our work.
Play With Disturb
We build any type of Flash game and love it when these opportunities come along. We're currently building a 3D Flash game, which is keeping us entertained, and have created a variety of game formats in the past. We can't show the commercial ones, but we often create little games for our clients to win prizes or for the readers of Web Designer Magazine, to which we regularly contribute.
Sites for Socialites
We help brands to embrace Social Networks by integrating their sites with various 'API's' from the most popular networking and sharing sites.
As you may know, an 'API' is an Application Programming Interface, which is something that many sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Google) create, in order for other software to interact with it.
What this means is that we can build branded Flash sites and promotions that, for example, enable users to log in to their Facebook account and we can retrieve information on their friends. We can enable users to upload their movie clips to YouTube via the brand's site rather than needing to visit the YouTube site. Or we can be gathering statistics on what the World's Tweeting about and enable the brand to react to it.
The possibilities are endless and, done well, can enable brands to get so much closer to their audience.
We don't publicise most of what we do.
This may seem odd, but the big brands are often blissfully unaware of our involvement as we're 'white-labelled' by the big agencies. Plus, we sometimes integrate with agency teams so the end result is collaborative.
We don't mind at all - it's a bit like being a secret agent with loads of successful hits under your belt, or a script-writer for a public speaker. Well, it is if you try and inject a bit of humour and imagination into everything you do.
We like to get involved, add twists, and create solutions that make our clients smile - usually leading to their customers engaging with their brand in a similar way.
Some recent projects we've created are:
Twigital
Woolworths Ideas Machine
Cushe.com
Do disturb
If you think we might be just what you're looking for, we'd be happy to share some of our top-secret work with you. But keep it under your hat.
We're situated in Clerkenwell Workshops, a few minutes' walk from Farringdon station. A lovely part of town with quite a lot going on.
Most of it bad for us.
Our contact details are in our Flash site. You need the Flash player to view this content and have javascript enabled.
We love what we do and we think it shows. Anyone who joins us obviously has to tick all the usual boxes but we're not keen on repeating the buzzwords.
Above all you'll be someone who cares about the work they do, cares about us and our clients, and cares about going the extra mile to turn good briefs in to great work.
If you're a Flash Designer, Developer or Animator and fancy joining us, then we fancy hearing from you.
No agencies, thanks
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