3 8/03/2010 images/news/maze.swf Surely there must be some kind of predictably obvious 'a-maze-ing' pun to put here? Picture the scene: you're on the tube passing through Warren Street. The maze motifs on the wall grab your attention and you fight the urge to jump off and draw on the wall. Instead, like a true geek, a quick snap on your phone, a lo-fi animation on your laptop, and your curiosity's satisfied. Apparently, Alan Fletcher (of Pentagram fame) designed it as a visual pun on the station name. Funny. 4 22/02/2010 images/news/lo-res-shoe.jpg ohhhh yeah I saw these shoes a while ago and im still thinking about buying a pair. Im not the kinda guys that likes to wear girls shoes but would make an exception for theses. They are titled Lo Res by United Nude, apart from looking absolutely banging they have a pretty neat concept behind them. They were designed through the process of scanning a typical high heal shoe in a 3D scanner and lowering the bit rate, a simple but awesome concept. Mens size 10? ** United Nude - Lo Res ** 1 03/02/2010 images/news/terry09.jpg Who says Terry's all bad? Our third annual Xmas game proved a resounding success, until a drummer from Brighton entered and wiped the floor with the rest of the entrants. 'Steve Q' won by a country mile and received his choice of Nike iD trainers (with 'disturb' emblazoned on the side!). We were also very pleased to make a donation to his chosen charity, Macmillan Cancer Support. you can still play the game for fun here ** terrychristmas.co.uk ** 2 26/01/2010 images/news/australia.jpg Tie me sponge cake down, sport In celebration of the day that Australia was born / saved / ruined, every expense was spared when Jace was commissioned to bake our resident bogan a cake. Big respect to Budgens for their involvement. Chris thought it was 'heaps awesome'. 2 21/12/2009 images/news/xmas_party09.swf Is that real snow? There's not too much photographic evidence of disturb's Xmas day out - not the indoors stuff anyway. Suffice to say that we enjoyed ourselves a lot more than other people enjoyed our company. And we didn't want to go back to that comedy club again anyway. Still, we'd definitely recommend a bite to eat at ** The Garrison ** 1 16/12/2009 images/news/twitter.jpg right up the Twitter If you enjoy following inane Tweets then you're in the right place. Whether we're documenting smelly people on the train who you're never likely to meet or we're remarking on exactly how cold it feels when you already know it's cold - there's always a dull moment on our Twitter. ** Still not been dissuaded? Follow us here ** 2 14/12/2009 images/news/workshop_party.swf Lady in red... was dancing with me... The Clerkenwell Workshops Xmas Party brings together all the talent from the area and invites them to show what they've got. Sometimes you just don't know where to look. And sometimes you most definitely do. Ollie. 3 10/12/2009 images/news/glove.jpg if the glove fits... We've all been in this situation... the soup looks so good but the bread's too hot to touch - what to do? Well, Ollie's got the solution - the Hot Bread Glove. Also ideal if you'd like to ingest al the germs that you picked up on your glove from the Tube on the way in to work - always good for a couple of days off. 3 20/11/2009 images/news/photosynth.png check out our office We have recently come across a new tool that looks pretty good from Microsoft, Its called Photosynth and can be used to stitch together a collection of photo of say a room or an area in build a walk around 3D type environment that runs in Silverlight. Pretty good stuff, very intelligent. 1 02/11/2009 images/news/turner.swf A bonus point for naming all 5 We've now got ourselves a Jason, or a 'Jace' to be more precise. He shares his surname with the other wonderfully successful people pictured above so we've no reason to think that he won't follow in their footsteps, which would the perfect blend of everything we look for in a Junior Designer. With the possible exception of the wife-beating. 1 30/10/2009 images/news/visa.jpg Man those wrists have been working out since he left England After 4 months of pain, and 6 weeks waiting (read: drinking himself fat) in Australia, the UK Border Agency has finally succumbed to Chrisinator's charm and let him re-enter the country on a 3 year Tier 2 Sponsorship Visa. SUCKERRRRRRRS. Now to survive the 24 hour flight back from Sydney. Squeek. Clap. ALAN. 1 13/10/2009 images/news/twigital_china.jpg That's what SHE said Having nurtured Twigital in our collective womb (belly) for an elephantine gestation period, we pushed it out in to the world and it seems to have found a home in China. As of this week, our London-centric site has been visited by more users from China than anywhere else, due to being featured on a few Asian design sites. Oh, and we also one an award on Moluv - thanks for that. ** moluv.com ** 2 24/09/2009 images/news/punching.swf Not the kind of Brighton fisting we were expecting For the 3rd year running, disturb 'de-camped' to Brighton(!) for the 4th annual FOTB gathering. 3 days of not-as-geeky-as-it-sounds inspirational design / development / life -based sessions that left us feeling mentally invigorated and physically, er, rubbish. And we found a punching game in a nightclub. 2 10/09/2009 images/news/knowhere_article.png At London Digital Week, together with Iris Digital's User Experience supremo, Umesh Pandya, we gathered some industry colleagues together for drinks and idea sharing. We will hold a session in tandem with a cultural event and use that event to inspire digital ideas. The next Knowhere event will coincide with "Playful", London's game extravaganza. ** register here ** 1 01/09/2009 images/news/iulia.jpg The 'Best Dressed Developer' competition just hotted up A big warm disturb welcome to Iulia who's just joined as a (self-titled) Social Developer. Iulia brings many things to disturb - we've now got double the amount of Romanians that we used to have, and an infinite increase in stylish ladies. 4 06/08/2009 images/news/twitter3D.jpg A mugging on tower bridge, yesterday To celebrate London Digital Week we thought we felt it would be cool to help spread the word, in digital format, by using Twitter, so we came up with Twigital (clever word usage, eh!?). It's basically a 'Virtual Event' based in a 3D world where you can go round the 'stweets' of London meeting Twitter users who are tweeting about LDW or a word of your choice. ** try it here ** 4 25/08/2009 images/news/stuntman.jpg Smell my thumb...Go on I dare ya! We were recently asked by Web Designer Magazine to write a tutorial for a simple flash game. Here at disturb we love making games, so we put our heads together and came up with a nice looking and rather playable little blighter called 'Stuntman Joe'. ** play it here ** ** or see the tutorial here ** 2 18/08/2009 images/news/japan_article.png oooh Euan met up with a couple of Flashers in Tokyo, Japan recently. He was shown some great stuff, including a 30ft high steam spitting, Gundam robot, which is what life is all about! Maybe we will all be invited over to Adobe MAX Japan, all expenses paid, in the not too distant future...then again, maybe not.** Shunsuke Ozaki ** and ** Yukio Sato ** 2 12/08/2009 images/news/fantasy_09.jpg Could this be the winning squad? Probably not. After a long 'Summer' without it, the Fantasy Football season (and the real football season) is upon us once again. We've been trying to create a London Agency Fantasy League which has so far been a roaring failure. If you like to join our league the code you'll need is 85624-46035.** Register here for free http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ ** 3 07/08/2009 images/news/qr_code.jpg Cross your eyes and tell us what you see? What?! OK, it's not quite cutting edge but we've been playing with QR codes for a potential project this week. Aren't they fun. 2 26/07/2009 images/news/wembley_cup.jpg 2 - 0 to The Hoops and the Cup was theirs The Celtic corner of disturb enjoyed himself on Sunday at the Wembley Cup. The Tottenham corner decided never to go to a 'friendly' tournament again. The impartials who came along were glad they supported neither team in real life. 3 20/07/2009 images/news/lazyboy.jpg George has been busy in his laboratory George has created a very useful tool for the Flash IDE called 'Lazyboy'. Basically, it scans the currently opened movie clip for anything with an instance name, and then outputs some handy code to target your stage instances, saving you the bother of doing it all manually. This tool was featured in Web Designer's Top 50 Pro Flash Techniques...ooh get her! ** download it here ** 2 26/06/2009 images/news/bowling.swf The Good, the Bad, and the Coat Thursday night at disturb was bowling night. All Star Lanes in Brick Lane was the venue. 'Arex' and 'Awesome Chris' battled it out for top spot. But it wasn't really about the bowling, it was about that tiny jacket. See if you can spot it. Oh, and someone here scored a record low total of 29. No names. 1 17/06/2009 images/news/moluv.jpg Hooray etc! As the image says, moluv consider their featured sites to be 'the world's best web design', so who are we to argue that they have decided to feature us on their front page. If you're having trouble finding it, we're the (rather unflattering) red and black circle image about half way down the page. At this rate we'll all be driving Bugatti Veyrons and hanging out with A-listers before long, or more realistically driving Lada Rivas and chilling with early Big Brother failures. Either way, we're happy. 4 22/05/2009 images/news/OFFF.jpg This is me in my hostel rool at Lisbon, the guy that looks like a thumb was sharing my room! Recently I (Chris) went to OFFF in Lisbon with lots of other geeks. There was a giant Space Invaders game where you threw balls at aliens, unfortunately miniature servings of beer, and about 75,000 cans of Red Bull. There were some fairly awe inspiring presentations from people like Aaron Koblin doing amazing things with data visualisation, PES and his stop motion movies and Joshua Davis with a fresh, no bullshit approach to design and code. Plus, Lisbon was sunny, London is cold. Lisbon > London. 2 21/05/2009 images/news/euan_bball.swf Magic Millar The time: Lunch time The place: That park up the road The challenge: Show the locals how to shoot some hoops Mission accomplished?: No, not quite 1 14/05/2009 images/news/web_designer.jpg A site in a mag in a site Web Designer magazine gave us a glowing review in this month's edition, calling us "an emerging star of the digital underground". Which was very nice of them.** There's a copy of the article here ** 2 08/05/2009 images/news/in_off.jpg Loser has to stick their head in a hole In an extended lunchtime 13 frame warm up session for this month's pool challenge, Alex (who's now known as "in-off") lost by the narrowest of margins. "In-off", with his 20/20 vision, notched 6 frames - Greg, with uncorrected poor eyesight, cruised to 7. 2 01/05/2009 images/news/justice_2.jpg Size isn't everything Every year, the worker's May Day demo starts off down the road in Clerkenwell Green. We heard that all were welcome to take their banners along and join the procession. Turned out they all had bigger banners than ours (which were nice little ones we'd done for Nokia recently). 4 30/04/2009 images/news/engine.jpg You cannot imagine what i can do with this flute We've come in to contact with the Engine-Earz guys, and love what they're doing - Indigenous sounds of the world fused with screaming guitars and Asian dubstep.** Check it ** 1 27/04/2009 images/news/n85image.png I said; "have you seen my tail?" Together with our agency client "Work Club", disturb produced these cute banners for Nokia’s new N85 handset. Dogs selling phones? Whatever next. 2 20/04/2009 images/news/pool.jpg Let's play 'spot the tit' Euan (not pictured - that's George) managed not only to win April's Pool Knockout Tournament but also to walk nose-first in to a big glass door. Both things were unexpected. One was much funnier than the other. But we shouldn't laugh, it hurt. (tee hee). 4 22/04/2009 images/news/omg.jpg "Excuse me, I'm looking for The Chrisinator" Today's FWA site of the day was quite nice. It's the kind of stuff we like to do: a polished looking Flash site with some nice 3D but, more importantly, it gave us the chance to put a scantily clad young lady on our site. Why don't we get projects like this?!** www.kendaperez.com/ ** 3 15/04/2009 images/news/breakfastGrab.jpg "Quit breaking my blocks" I had the chance to have a play with the brilliant ** Box2D physics engine **Just got my head around the basics and with Greg's supervision and Chris' sleek graphics we got a nice little game. Have fun demolishing huge pixel block structures in as few shots as possible. George.** Play it here ** 2 14/04/2009 images/news/fantasy.jpg Jumpers for goalposts George came from nowhere to win March's Fantasy Football prize (actually that's unfair, he came from Romania). He's yet to select his prize but if previous months are anything to go by (Feb - Greg - £20 worth of Noodle Express meals / Jan - Alex - £20 to spend at The Griffin) he's in for a treat! 3 14/04/2009 images/news/spacerUsage.gif Extend your Flash a little with a free download from disturb. Our compliments. We developed a handy little extension for spacing things out in Flash. If you have a lot elements crammed on the stage like in step 1, all you need to do is run the Spacer from the Commands Menu (step 2) and set your spacing (step 3). Result is illustrated in step 4.** Click here to get the extension ** 1 09/04/2009 images/news/banner_heaven.jpg Some people click them In addition to the beautiful sites and games we create, we sometimes can't resist the urge to immerse ourselves into Banner Heaven. We just produced a very involved campaign for a TV channel and the result was almost double the industry standard click-through rate. Hooray for all involved. 2 27/03/2009 images/news/winners.jpg What an ugly bunch... Alex's team overcame being labelled as underdogs to produce an excellent performance and lift the Hove and Worthing Cup, winning the game 1-0. Alex was quick to stress that although he didn't score, he did hit a 30 yard screamer with barely 5 minutes gone that the keeper tipped onto the bar. He was also involved in most of the good play that his side produced. (Alex is writing this in the third-person as if you didn't guess) Well done Alex, you're the best! 2 25/03/2009 images/news/jalaram_cup.jpg Alex's dream last night Alex takes part in a very important football match tonight. It's the Jalaram Express South-East Regional Cup Final (or something like that). Let's hope Alex can add to his paltry 2 goals this season and help them lift the cup. 1 Monday 23/03/2009 images/news/pravda.png What a lovely picture, don't you agree? Come and see us in Clerkenwell - London's little Italy. We'll be in either the Three Kings, or The Crown on Clerkenwell Green; where Fagin inducted Oliver into pick-pocketing and Lenin and Stalin once played scrabble. 2 13/03/2009 images/news/scrabble.jpg Girls love guys who play scrabble, ask Stephen Hawking Since disturb media have started to play scrabble on random lunch breaks/evening pub sessions, no one had achieved the holy grail of making up a 7 letter word by using all their tiles. That was until up-n-coming talent Alex did so. Greg wasn't there to see it, just as well really as he would have no doubt cried and made his excuses and left. In case you're wondering, the word was 'reunify' as seen at the top of the board.