YTV: The Next Star
YTV came to Pixelpusher with a question: What can we do to migrate the excitement of the show into the online space? Pixelpusher added a number of different features to Next Star’s site to encourage fans to interact with the brand. The first was a “Star Booster” section, where fans could post user generated content to improve their favourite star’s standing in the competition. Now, we know what you’re thinking, “I wonder if anyone from Pixelpusher posted video of themselves singing and dancing?” The answer is... uhm... no.
- Graphic & site concept, design, implementation
- Flash interactivity creative and programming
- Moderation & CMS design
- Pixelpusher client: Tricon
- Agency client: YTV
Nissan: Good Decisions
Calling out the name of your high school girlfriend while you’re in bed with your wife? Bad decision. Designing and building a website that uses Augmented Reality to project a customized 3D environment onto a piece of paper? Good decision. This site garnered ooohs, aaahs and was awarded a Website of the Week award from thefwa.com. (Good decision on their part.)
- Augmented Reality design and implementation
- Graphic Design
- Web-cam programming
- Virtual environment conceptualizing
- Pixelpusher client: TBWA (Toronto)
- Agency client: Nissan
Versa: Bounce
The Versa doesn’t drip testosterone like a ’72 Gran Torino. Nor does it possess the T-Pain bling of a Maybach 62. Even better - it has bounce yo! At least its website does. This innovative site uses a webcam to capture user movements. As they bounce their head up and down, the Versa bounces right along with them. Hey-yo!
- Flash implementation and programming
- Graphic Design
- Web-cam programming
- Bounce game conceptualizing
- Pixelpusher client: TBWA (Toronto)
- Agency client: Nissan
Honda: Pilot
No, it’s the name of the SUV so get your goggles off, no flying today. What we’ve got here is a slick, little flash site with lots of pretty pictures and graphic finery but without the fuel consumption of other SUV’s.
- Flash video implementation
- Flash animation creative and programming
- Pixelpusher client: Grip (Toronto)
- Agency client: Honda
Vespa: Enviro-vespa
This is a little different from your classic vehicle-style websites. Think Lord of the Rings with a lot of bees. Like A LOT of bees. Vespa Bees!
- Site conceptual design
- Flash video implementation
- Flash animation creative and programming
- Pixelpusher client: Dentsu (Toronto)
- Agency client: Vespa
Staples: Staplesville
You’ve never searched for a job like this before! Designed from the ground up by Pixelpusher, this makes those tedious hours looking for job opportunities more like walking through a weird village in spring with lots of crazy shit all over the place. Have fun, but watch out for that dude on the bike, we don’t trust him.
- Site conceptual design
- Flash video implementation
- Flash animation creative and programming
- Pixelpusher client: Lovebird (Toronto)
- Agency client: Staples
MINI: Incubator
Have you always wanted to simulate your old, crappy car being turned into a hot little MINI? Now is your chance! This unique and engaging flash piece takes you on a wild 2 week ride that will make you wish you could jam yourself into a radiation tube and mutate your ass into someone handsome!
- Flash video implementation
- Flash animation creative and programming
- Pixelpusher client: Taxi (Toronto)
- Agency client: MINI
MINI: Minimalism
Sick of being forced to view a flash website at someone else’s pace? Got no time for fluffy bloated flash animations? Minimalise with MINImalism. Save precious seconds of your life by choosing how fast YOU want to view it. 1 second? 6 seconds? 60 seconds? Whatever suits your fancy! Stop wasting your time reading this. GO!
- Flash video implementation
- Flash animation creative and programming
- Pixelpusher client: Taxi (Toronto)
- Agency client: MINI
Nivea: Richmedia banner
Don't like banners? How about one that is awesome, like this award winning Nivea banner! Sexy women, buff dudes, bathrooms, implied nudity -- this banner has everything!
- Banner conceptual design
- Flash video implementation
- Flash animation creative and programming
- Pixelpusher client: TBWA (Toronto)
- Agency client: Nivea
RBC Centre site
See that real tall new building added to Toronto's skyline. No, not that one. Not that one either. To the left. No. No. No. Those are all condos and that's a tree. Oh for goodness sake! Just check the site we created, it has some nice flashiness and lots of high-flying views!
- Flash animation creative and programming
- Pixelpusher client: Taxi (Toronto)
- Agency client: Cadillac Fairview
Nissan: Versa nights
We hear you like to wear short skirts and party till the break of dawn. You're a dude? Well not according to this picture. Don't worry bro (416-591-6660), we promise not to tell anyone. Anyway, we took the Nissan Versa up to the clubs and partied till the break of dawn, or rather we hunched over our computers and worked till the break of dawn to get this awesome video/flash game site up in some ridiculously short amount of time.
- Site conceptual design
- Flash video implementation
- Flash animation creative and programming
- Pixelpusher client: TBWA (Toronto)
- Agency client: Nissan
MINI: Dominatrix
Sex sells. In MINI’s case it was a little S&M. Working with custom video footage of a dominatrix whipping a car into winter shape we created an interactive website to highlight MINI’s handling capabilities. We spent long hours on this and it hurt. It also paid off. The site won a Gold Lion at Cannes.
- Flash video implementation
- Flash animation creative and programming
- Pixelpusher client: Taxi (Toronto)
- Agency client: MINI
MINI: Black sheep
Sex with sheep sells. Just kidding. It sure as hell doesn’t! This site compared MINI’s lineup with the “black sheep” in every family. Using flash, music and a wry but friendly voiceover, this site garnered a lot of attention for the client - MINI, and the agency - TAXI.
- Flash animation implementation and programming
- Pixelpusher client: Taxi (Toronto)
- Agency client: MINI
MINI: Convertablizerometer
Who doesn’t love/want/drool to have a convertible? Well, now anyone can have one with the Convertible-izer-ometer. Again working with TAXI, Pixelpusher developed a fun site that got people, not us, taking off their tops. We’re pasty web developers, not buff Speedo models.
- Flash animation and programming
- Pixelpusher client: Taxi (Toronto)
- Agency client: MINI
AMP'D: Pinata
Hmm. We need to sell some cell phones. I know! Let’s make a phone piñata that you can bash with a stick. Instead of candy, we’ll have things like kick boxers and cowboys drop out. Perfect! Let’s hire Pixelpusher – they can build anything!. (Excerpt of an actual conversation at TAXI before briefing us on what turned into a very unique flash based site to promote Amp’d Mobile’s entertainment features.)
- Flash video implementation
- Flash animation and programming
- Pixelpusher client: TAXI (Toronto)
- Agency client: Amp'd
Honda: SUV
Trucks are awesome dude. This site uses flash, sound and an interactive interface to highlight the superior awesomeness that is the Honda Unibody Truck system. We didn’t get any free trucks from the agency, but that was ok cause we got to work with images of trucks all day and that in itself was totally awesome.
- Flash animation creative
- Front-end flash programming
- Pixelpusher Client: Grip
- Agency client: Honda
Canadian Tire: Outdoor Room
Nobody was happier about Canadian Tire’s decision to ditch their “every-goddamn-tool-in-the-book wielding, perfectly-trimmed-beard-sporting, smiley-guy-spokesperson” than we were. It gave us an opportunity to work on this successful and fun flash site that integrated photography and flash animation to help set a tonal departure for the brand.
- Flash animation creative
- Front-end flash programming
- Pixelpusher Client: TAXI
- Agency client: Canadian Tire
Konami: Gaming Machines Site
What designer/programmer wouldn’t want to work on the website of the company that introduced the world to 1981’s hit game Frogger? Seriously. It was an honour. Granted, this site had nothing to do with Frogger, but it is a good example of a fully integrated CMS (content management system) site.
- Site conceptual design
- Front end HTML coding
- Integrated content management system implementation
- Pixelpusher Client: Marshel Fenn
- Agency client: Konami
Sims: Snowboard Site
The great thing about a project like this one is that it’s an opportunity to be creative for creative’s sake. Snowboard companies, skateboard companies and the like have strong traditions in trendy graphic design. They wanted something that looked cool and that’s what we gave them.
- Flash animation creative
- Front-end flash programming
- Backend content management tool integration
- Pixelpusher client: Apparatus Inc.
- Agency client: Sims Snowboards
9Story: Skyland TV
Pirates eking out a living in some crazy distant future. The earth shattered into a million pieces. For reals?! Skyland is the place to be. Actually, Skyland doesn’t exist. It’s a TV show. This website, designed with innovative interactive elements, back-stories, flash games and high intrigue gets kids psyched to watch the new show.
- Flash animation creative
- Front-end flash programming
- Backend community integration
- Pixelpusher client: Liquid
- Agency client: 9story
Hidden Connections
Question: What do you get when Ma Bell, in her unending benevolence, hands out an arts grant?
Answer: If you’re us, you get an opportunity to work on something really cool. This unique flash site was essentially a conceptual art piece developed with a local designer who won said grant.
Advice: Pray that you receive a Bell-fund Grant. It’s where your phone bill money goes.
- Flash animation creative
- Front-end flash programming
- Pixelpusher Client: Bell-fund grant