dorian moore : (digital media) technologist

First Phase is Go.

I've been working on this one for a while - my appologies to Grizedale, but it's now live in it's first phase, and will be ramping up soon.

www.grizedale.org

Tags : cms development, flash, programming, website,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 12:10 GMT
Last modified Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 13:25 GMT

the anual reworking of SHOWstudio (god damn this CMS is getting complex)

After half a year of planning, designing, coding, arguing and generally putting our all into it SHOWstudio, with my help, have just launched a new version of their website. Lots of development on the existing CMS I built, lots of ideas from elsewhere (and in between) implemented, and a lot more to come...

Tags : cms development, flash, programming, website,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Thursday, August 24, 2006 at 21:47 GMT

Mixing Narrative

Elsewhere In Between is a project developed by Julie Myers which I helped her in the latter stages of, building a primitive video sequencer in Flash that uses a database of video clips to allow the user to make their own journey through the eyes of five film-makers in five countries.

The composer was originally developed by Julie in conjunction with BT's R&D facility with the intention of making an interactive DVD. At a late stage in the project it became apparent that a DVD would not be able to do what was desired.

This interface was built over 4 days to be given out on DVD to delegates to a conference organised by FACT, and used in a kiosk installations as well. Because it was built in Flash it was relatively trivial to create lower bandwidth video clips that could be played over the internet.

Tags : cms development, flash, programming, website,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Monday, June 19, 2006 at 23:31 GMT
Last modified Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 13:27 GMT

A sub 10k interface in Flash 6

This is the first part of an occasional series I've started on. It's a series of interfaces created using different metaphors and different environments. I like my site design. It's simple, clean, and minimal. Instead of re-designing it and getting rid of the old one I'm just going to keep adding interfaces.

Circles

When I first built my site I wondered how to organise the information on it. Time was the most obvious choice, then allowing people to filter that content. Over time I've added new content areas, and upgraded the navigation minimally, but in essence it has remained the same.

I wanted to apply the same degree of minimalism to a design created within Flash. This idea came around through thnking about weblogs and time. I saw my site growing over time, and each item adding to what was already there. The circles that mark the history of time of a tree seemed a metaphor not to be missed, and remembering a film I saw as a child, the idea was born.

It is by no means perfect in it's function and usability. But it's not supposed to be. It just is.

Tags : data abstraction flash, interface, re-presentation,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Wednesday, July 2, 2003 at 01:38 GMT
Last modified Friday, February 2, 2007 at 11:16 GMT