With the Twocultureclash shop, Dug worked closely with YR Media's Mark Panay to really push the white-label application.
Mark's semantic markup allowed Dug to build a design around CSS selectors acting on most parts of the site without need for specific class definitions.
For client YR Media, Dug designed a set of skins for the company's white label graphics and ringtones store.
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An impossible brief: a set of website templates that could repair themselves and shield the user from design mistakes.
Dug has worked with Cognima for a number of years. Over this period, he has developed
The Lecture List was launched in May 2004. Over the twelve-month design and development phase, Dug was responsible for the entire user experience, from functionality specification through to application design, human interaction and control of the final coding of the site's interface.
Web designer: Lorenzo Sprenger
Some links to matrix solution sites:
The client asked for interactive ideas that would allow millions of people around the world to experience the 007 lifestyle.
Dug spent two years developing assets and strategies for Glidrose Publications Limited, the owners of the James Bond intellectual property. One of Dug's favourite projects is the Ian Fleming Encyclopedia.
The site contains every word written by Ian Fleming, organised in a flexible, resilient and easy-to-use database. Designed for academics as well as amateurs, the search-and-comparison facilities will be cross-referenced with relevant course data provided by rss feed from university publishing resources.
While Dug produced mock-ups of search-and-compare web pages to add the film resources of Danjaq, LLC. and MGM to the site, the IP owners are still in legal consultation and this element of the project is temporarily on hold.
Designed standards-compliant version of the Guardian Unlimited website to satisfy accessibility/usability requirements of UK educational charity (The Lecture List).
White label design templates to merge AMP bank financial services into M&S ‘Unicorn' financial product.
Web designer: Daniel Harman
Dug ran an audit of the client's publishing methodologies and described a creative position. This enabled the new Discovery Health website to gain credibility among viewers and establish the channel it supported as a free-standing editorial offering.
Accessibilty consulting for interesource.com on a brief from US legal giant Lawtel.
Dug designed skins for a number of the applications pages.
As part of the brief, Dug also developed a methodology for the internal team to follow to protecting usability / accessibility during both the initial design and final implementation phases of the project.
Dug directed the design of the UK version of street.com
He paid particular attention to UK journalistic idiom so that the site was truly native as opposed to a ‘port' of the US offering.
Dug designed the xhtml templates for the magazine which allowed multicolumn layout to function correctly at all seven browser font-size settings.
Dug has been developing advanced CSS-based design techniques since 1997. Donkey is the developmental test-bed for these techniques.
(Read ALA article for position-based n-column layout)
The brief was for an interactive campaign that would engage an adult audience with Shrek and encourage DVD purchases.
Dug consulted on accessibility / usability for Gibraltar-based gambling site.
I'm currently hunting down the pages and pages of work I did on the new James Bond logos, brand position and editorial strategy (including the design of a Bond magazine contract title)
Dug designed and specified an Ian-Fleming-based online lifestyle shop.
Corporate site design. First attempt at creating Javascript objects that generate fluid transitional and typographic effects.
For Blueberry interactive, Dug designed an interface for Gemstar's VideoPlus online user guide.
Dug was asked by Strawberry Frog's Brian Elliot to help out on the OM Group virtual stock exchange project.
The Dutch advertising agency had worked as a team with the client's business analysts, the Boston Consulting Group, to establish the feasibility in business terms of running a web-based virtual stock exchange.
Missing from the equation was a team member with expertise of large, complex, web-based projects who was able to act as a bridge between the offline advertising team and the technical team at OM Group.
Dug's advertising experience, coupled with his managing of pan-European data-distribution projects for Offworld Industries made him an ideal candidate for the job. Dug ran a creative and technology audit which he presented to the board of OM Group in Stockholm.
Dug is unusual in that if the project demands it, he can act as a technology consultant as well as a creative director. He has consulted on xml-based publishing initiatives for The Discovery Channel, Cataloguing for GE and Acer Computers among others.
Dug designed a site for Irish streetwear designer Electronic Sheep.
Dug designed white-label templates for the Vauxhall SkiNet microsite (system was implemented by IBM UK). The system used a design infrastructure established by Dug as part of the Ski Club of Great Britain's European information-distribution system.
Dug designed site for luxury country-house hotel
Dug designed online shop for multimedia publisher Primal
Designed search and retrieve interfaces for three large trade associations.
Dug created the PIM components to be reused by all three companies. Each component was built from a neutral palette that allowed juxtaposition with each company's web interface. Dug also designed the three web interfaces (but the PIM is the really cool part).
Dug designed the award-winning Ski Club site for four years.
Dug designed this independent Jazz label's online shop and listening booths.
Shopping service. First magazine that allowed visitor to purchase directly items featured in the editorial. Dug designed the launch issue and the shopping interface.
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