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For those of you that missed it at the V&A our Dandelion exhibit is now on permanent display at Andrew Martin's Knightsbridge showroom.

London-based Andrew Martin International is a major distributor of antiques and home furnishings, including furniture, fabrics, statues, books and fine accessories. The firm searches throughout the world for prized antiques that will add a treasured element to any interior décor. It's annual International Interior Design Awards are described by the London Times as "the Oscars for the interior design world.

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We held a little soiree for the World Cup semi between Germany and Spain, and invited all our Sticker Swapping chums along. It was a great evening all round - good swaps, good company, good beers (Bitburger and San Miguel naturally)... It's just a shame for Christoph and the German crew that their young charges ran out of legs at the final hurdle (bless).

Now that the World Cup's over and your sticker books are almost finished, why not signup to stickerswapping.com (if you haven't already) to get your hands on those illusive neeeeeeeeeds!

More on the night here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sennep

and get swapping here!
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World Cup fever is ramping up and nostalgia for Panini sticker albums has kicked in. Here at Sennep we're painstakingly filling in our sticker books as if we are 12 years old again. Judging by the corner shop selling out everyday we have a sneaking suspicion that there is an online community of big kids indulging this guilty pleasure.

If you are similarly afflicted this could be your lucky day. We have made a super easy way of managing your Panini World Cup 2010 sticker album. The website allows you to communicate with other collectors to trade your 'doubles'. It's also iPhone friendly and is location aware so you can feed your addiction and find other swappers whilst on the move.

It has all the features you'll need: listing every player and sticker number, with the option to indicate those you have and others you want to swap.

All together now ... "Got, got, neeeeeeeeed!"

stickerswapping.com

We received our copy of the Creative Review Annual this morning and were delighted to discover that our project Dandelion (in collaboration with Yoke) had made it into the 'Best in Book' category.

The Annual is a "showcase of the year's best work in advertising, graphic design and visual communication" and can be viewed both in print format and as a nifty iPhone App.

We have developed a bold, fluid portfolio site that showcases the work of Simon&John across disciplines including Brand Communication, Brand Experience and Augmented Reality.

The full-flash site employs a subtle use of Papervision to create a folding 3D carousel to display the work. The purpose of this was to echo the physical nature of some of Simon&John's portfolio and to give the user a more tactile experience.

simonandjohn.com

Sennep have created a digital exhibition for acclaimed design director David James. The retrospective runs online for a limited period of two months before the full site launches in May and brings together over 300 images from James's illustrious portfolio.

Designed as a simple timeline, visitors can click through an archive that includes his work as art director for Prada, Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen as well as familiar pieces such as Soul II Soul's Club Classics Vol 1 and bi-annual style bibles AnOther Magazine and AnOther Man.

Each piece of work has its own unique web address and is accompanied by a written commentary, giving further insight into the makings of these iconic images.

Read more on the Independent website.

davidjames-outofprint.co.uk

We finally moved to our new studio in Shoreditch on Friday. After struggling with all of our equipment up two flights of stairs a lovely double rainbow appeared to welcome us to our new home.

Please note that our new address and telephone number is at the top of the page.

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We have just got back from our annual long weekend away. This year we had the pleasure of visiting the historic Italian town of Mantova.

Much merriment, delicious food, beautiful weather and fantastic Italian hospitality was enjoyed by all. Thanks to Lorenzo's family and friends for a great trip.

We've come back refreshed and ready to launch some new websites, all be it with the Eighties earworm Cheri Cheri Lady ringing in our ears (courtesy of our new Flash developer and 'Modern Talking' impersonator ChristHOFF).

Six years have passed since we started out working from the living room in Marsala Road, with nothing but a dial-up connection :-) And look at us now! A pending move to a new studio in Shoreditch, and our team has grown steadily over the years to reach the perfect size; small enough to retain flexibility and creative freedom, but big enough to take on any challenge!

Cheers! Here's to the next six!

Today we found out that we've won our second Webby!

This year our portfolio site for Seymourpowell won in the 'Corporate Communications' category.

Hailed as 'the internet's highest honour' by the New York Times, the awards received nearly 10,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide.

Click here for some work in progress images, concepts that don't see the light of day, general things of interest and the odd Sennep outing.

Sennep is a London-based design studio specialising in creating digital experiences for online and physical environments. Since our inception in 2003 our passion has always been to create appropriate, functional and beautifully crafted designs. With every brief we aim to expand upon our clients' vision and create something we can be truly proud of.

We don't believe in growth for the sake of it and feel that our team of ten enthusiastic full-timers is a great size. It means we can provide a range of specialist skills whilst maintaining a 'boutique' service.

As a creative studio we infuse design and technology with a human element. There's a strong sense of craft to the work we do. Our projects often have handmade, drawn, constructed and photographed components.

Our portfolio covers a wide range of websites, from highly illustrated and animated sites, to database driven applications and interactive installations.

Kantar Worldpanel is the world's leading provider of continuous consumer panel research.

The website launch introduces the new name; Kantar Worldpanel - formerly known as TNS Worldpanel - and the new logo, designed by The Partners. Central to the new brand is a visual device, which acts as a framing mechanism to zoom in beyond the obvious to gain insights.

The client gave us freedom to push the boundaries of what's expected from a marketing research website. Based around a full-screen park scene with a global mix of people, users will uncover interesting nuggets of consumer insights by panning across landscape. The main navigation lets you delve deeper into the nuts and bolts of the company.

kantarworldpanel.com

Our exceptionally talented friends at Peepshow Collective recently asked us to redesign their website. We designed the previous version in 2005 and although it was one of our old favourites we were delighted to take a fresh look at it.

Their impressive portfolio has gone from strength to strength in the last 5 years so we have developed a site that allows the user to feast on all the great work very quickly and easily.

http://www.peepshow.org.uk

We have launched a website for a new range of Feel Good Kids Drinks.

To support the 'How do you doodle?' feature on the back of the new packs, we have built a fun and easy to use drawing application. Doodles created online, by the kids, have the chance of being printed on the drink packs at regular intervals throughout the year.

The website also contains simple product and stockists info for parents, as well as a 'Hall of Fame' that displays doodles that have already made it onto the packs. Submissions are also posted in the gallery, where they can be easily shared with friends.

Useful Simple is an Employee Benefit Trust whose purpose it is to blaze a trail in the integrated, intelligent and ethical provision of the human environment.

The forms in the identity (designed by thomasmatthews) represent the collection of unique and dynamic companies within the trust. The trust (represented by the orange bowl) acts as a crucible for ideas and opportunities.

Sennep have brought this identity to life with a playful website and photoshoot of the trustees. The shapes in the website react to the layouts of each section, as well as the user (who can throw them around the browser and watch them bounce and collide to create new and random compositions).


www.usefulsimple.co.uk.

The Kantar Group is one of the world's largest research, insight and consultancy networks. Sennep were tasked with the challenge of bringing Kantar's high quality research to life as well as communicate the company's personality and diverse talents.

Working with their new branding (developed by The Partners) we created a navigation system that falls back into 3D to give users an overview of the content of each section. This device helps foreground ever-changing questions, posted by Kantar's endlessly curious staff. It also subtly implies a sense of Kantar's understanding of the global business community from different perspectives.

Sennep worked closely with Kantar and some very talented motion designers to create the first set of ongoing video commissions for the 'What we do' section. These were produced to illustrate key case studies in an accessible and visually rich way.

www.kantar.com

Design Partners are the brains behind a wide range of innovative and much-loved products created over the past twenty-five years.

Sennep created a flexible system allowing the background colour and horizon to change to compliment each product. Papervision was used to achieve a smooth transition from the 3D view of multiple images to a 2D close up.

We have also created the website for the digital arm of Design Partners who specialize in bringing products to life on screen.

www.designpartners.com
www.designpartnersdigital.com

We've just launched our second website for award-winning photographer James Day. Clean and elegant with amazing images.

www.jamesdayphoto.com

Heart disease is the UK's biggest killer, yet it is not in the Department of Health's 5 priority objectives for next year. The purpose of this website is to encourage the casual supporter to sign the CVC's petition to build support for a New Heart Health Plan.

The brief to Sennep was to create a unique and relevant visual representation of a growing number of signatories, that would engage with and encourage the casual supporter to sign up to the petition.

Our solution was to generate a crowd of origami people. After signing the petition form the paper folds into a person, representing you joining the rest of the petitioners.

www.newheartplan.org.uk

The Savoy hotel is currently undergoing a £100 million restoration to reaffirm its position as the premier hotel in central London. Sennep worked with branding and assets from Pentagram to tell the story of the Savoy since it originally opened in 1889.

Supported by stunning photography of London, by Richard Bryant, the website evokes a sense of nostalgia of past events at the Savoy, excitement of what London represents today and intrigue ahead of the hotel re-opening next year.

www.the-savoy.com

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is the nation's heart charity, focusing on three vital things; pioneering research, support and care for heart patients and preventative initiatives.

Sennep's first project with the BHF involved designing the online Annual Report 08. Supporting the financial information was a series of inter-related stories, demonstrating the reach of the BHF in the community.

The challenge was to display these linked stories in a creative and clear way, which resulted in a 'typographic heart' formed of the story titles. These titles animate fluidly to form a different page layout for each story, with the linked stories clearly identified.

The typographic heart was a hit with the BHF, so they consequently asked to us to create several similar wall murals in their London head quarters.

Advertising giant BBH was in dire need of a new website to showcase their impressive global output. With six offices worldwide and twenty five years of experience they really produce some of the best advertising on the planet!

Sennep has allowed BBH's work to speak for itself by designing a clean and elegant interface, adding subtle touches - like the strolling black sheep - to express the company's personality.

In addition to being a device to navigate BBH's different offices, the spinning globe - with its iconic land marks - shows that each office is autonomous yet connected, producing the same great BBH quality for the local region it represents.


www.bartleboglehegarty.com

With the mission of "spreading feelgoodness" the people over at Feelgood Drinks promise their drinks are pure and delicious, with no added nasties. We know it's true because they sent over a whole lot of drinks for us to enjoy :-) Not only do they make tasty drinks, but every member of the team is committed to 'doing their bit' for the community.

The website needed to be happy, energetic and in-keeping with their motto.

Sennep created a 'handmade' theatre made up of card wheels, each revolving to change the scenes, with other elements attached to lolly sticks and strings. We had a lot of fun creating the different environments and the site has been successful in helping the Feelgood community grow.

www.feelgooddrinks.co.uk

Renowned product designers Seymourpowell have undertaken over 1500 projects in the last 25 years, covering a broad spectrum of sectors. You may not have seen their spacecraft interiors, but it's likely you own one of their bars of soap.

Rather than displaying this huge body of work online, 12 carefully selected case studies demonstrate how Seymourpowell operates at every point in the lifecycle of a product.

With the pile of cards telling the story of Seymour-powell in 7 clicks, providing a flavour of the company, the website communicates slick professionalism in a casual and approachable manner.

www.seymourpowell.com

Checkland Kindleysides is a multi disciplinary design
consultancy, with a craft based culture, specialising in retail interior design.

CK loved our idea of folding objects out of a blank piece of paper, representing the emergence of ideas and the three dimensional nature of their work. The website has an intelligent CMS that allows them to easily update key content and create tailored websites with unique URLs for new business purposes.

Since finishing the website Sennep has continued to extend CK's digital identity by creating an interactive Christmas card, branded newsletter and an advanced 'Presentation Tool'.

www.checklandkindleysides.com

The piece was part of the exhibition Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the Victoria & Albert Museum, 8 December 2009 to 11 April 2010. The exhibition was co-curated by the V&A and onedotzero to showcase the latest developments in digital and interactive design.

The intent of the piece was to make a playful and magical experience with a simple and satisfying interaction for young and old.

The viewer uses a hairdryer to blow the seeds off by pointing the hairdryer at the projected dandelion on the screen. The seeds can be blown around after they have come off and the grass also reacts to the hairdryer. A speaker in the hairdryer plays an adaptive hairdryer sound and speakers in front of the screen play a soundscape that changes depending on where you blow.

The piece was developed in collaboration with Danish interaction designers Yoke.

Music: Goldmund / Ba

Sennep have created a physics based music sequencer as an online Christmas card for Checkland Kindleysides.

Drop a marble into a magical bell jar and watch it bounce and fall through a random and infinite landscape of wooden platforms, cogs and glass ramps, whilst playing a festive jingle.

Turn on your speakers and have a play here...

An installation for a wedding reception held at the modernist De La Warr Pavillion - the purpose of the piece was not only to act as an ever-changing backdrop for the festivities, but to encourage guests onto the dance floor and at the same time capture some more untraditional footage of the special day.

The installation tracks and displays only the moving body parts of the guests, to encourage and inspire some 'interesting' moves on the dance floor. This was simultaneously recorded as an alternative wedding video for the happy couple.

Designed for a student club night touring the UK, the installation acts as a surreal inky mirror for a new mobile network called Blyk.

Standing in front of the installation your body displays as an inky silhouette, where animated Blyk creatures start appearing when you stand still. They multiply until characters sit and hang off all available body parts. Moving or shaking your body causes the creatures to fall off, but only for different ones to appear in their place.

Strangely addictive.

Illustrations by Elin Svensson

Hailed as 'the internet's highest honour' by the New York Times, the awards receive nearly 10,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide.

Winner - 'Corporate Communications'
Seymourpowell (2009)

Finalist - 'Best use of Typography'
BHF Annual Review (2009)

Official Honouree - 'Corporate Communications'
Bartle Bogle Hegarty (2009)

Winner - 'Best Visual Design Aesthetic'
Checkland Kindleysides (2008)

Official Honouree - 'Digital Craft'
Fallen Vodka (2006)

Our work has been acknowledged in the Design Week Awards over the past few years.

Commended
Bartle Bogle Hegarty (2009)
Jacksons of Piccadilly (2007)
Peepshow (2006)

Finalist
Seymourpowell (2009)
Checkland Kindleysides (2008)
Horlicks (2006)

The Japanese magazine Web Design Note wrote a six page article about our work. The magazine focuses purely on web design and looks at the process as much as the final product. We don't understand what they wrote about us, but it sure looks pretty.

We've also been acknowledged with 3 New York Festivals Worldmedals:

Best business-to-business website
Checkland Kindleysides (2008)

Interactive & alternative media
Jacksons of Piccadilly (2007)

Interactive & alternative media
Horlicks (2005)

How do you showcase other people's artwork online? We were asked by .Net magazine to mock up an exhibition site and explain our solution.

Our website for Seymourpowell was also showcased in the gallery section of the magazine.

.NET magazine got in touch with Sennep and asked us to design a solution for the 'technique/makeover' section of their magazine.

This year our website for Peepshow made it into the D&AD Annual.

Sennep's work is featured in several of the Taschen books:

Web design: Studios 2 (2007)
Web design: Flash Sites (2006)
Web design: Music Sites (2006)
Web design: E-commerce (2006)

Written by Paul Wells, this educational book covers all aspects of animation, from music videos and films to websites. It features Sennep's website for Horlicks in the chapter 'Design as Concept'.

Published by AVA Publishing SA

Sennep was involved in designing a DVD named 'STÆRK', which promoted Norwegian visual art and design and was commissioned by the Norwegian Embassy.

The project was part of a series of cultural events in Norway and the UK, celebrating the Norwegian centennial of independence.

Our work is also featured on the DVD that was sent out with Creative Review - The Annual in May.

Our website for Horlicks has been selected for the prestigious D&AD Annual.

Cowboys Relish is a new gourmet burger brand coming soon to a festival near you.

www.cowboysrelish.com

Expedition Engineering is a creative engineering company with an impressive portfolio. Their experimental and educational projects include a wooden submarine, a walking building and an Egyptian shaft tomb.

This is not your standard engineering company and it was important to reflect this in the redesign of their website. Sennep designed a flexible grid of wires that bend and stretch to allow for different types of content to be displayed. The 'People' section has a physics engine behind it that makes the 'People boxes' react and bounce off each other when they come into contact. Behind the scenes the CMS allows the client to keep the content up to date and to organise their projects under various categories.

www.expedition-engineering.com

Sennep has designed 4 micro-sites for sporting giant
Oakley. The sites provide an irreverent look into the lives of Oakley sponsored athletes Ben Grove, Oli Adams, Vicci Miller, Scott McMorris and Tyler Chorlton. Hand-puppets, hangover cures and language lessons kept the focus on the athletes' downtime.

Agency Republic is an award winning digital agency, covering creative, technical and media strategy.

Sennep designed a bright and bold website, with a floating tool tip device displaying text, images or videos on rollover. The cursor works as a light source casting subtle shadows as you move around the site.

www.agencyrepublic.com

Jacksons of Piccadilly is a London tea house, started by Robert Jackson in 1815, who claims to have invented the 'original' recipe for Earl Grey tea.

Working with photogram images of real tea leaves, from the new packaging range by Williams Murray Hamm, the site's subtlety brings the natural forms to life creating a calming and organic feel.

www.jacksonsofpiccadilly.co.uk

Isobel is an advertising agency with a different set of values: "big agency thinking without big agency fat".

Sennep has created an animated and illustrated environment based on Isobel's existing identity.

The Isobel house can be explored to find out more about the company's philosophy and work, whilst Isobel potters around the various rooms.

Bow Wow has a highly spirited personality and it was vital to communicate this by creating an energetic site using personal elements, rationalised within the confines of the company identity.

Sennep created a friendly, welcoming site that compels the user to 'stick around', which details exactly what Bow Wow are about.

Mai Ikuzawa said: "Sennep are a rare breed. Not only did they build a seriously hi-tech website, but they also have an exceptional eye for design and understood exactly what I wanted to achieve."

www.bowwowinternational.com

Not To Scale is a production company with a boutique feel. The eclectic group of award winning directors create all types of animated, illustrated and designed content, for use across all platforms and media.

Sennep took inspiration from the company name and round logo to design a playful website that shows off the beautiful work in all its glory. A fast streaming video player is integral to the site, as is the client login area where projects are posted in various states of completion.

The functionality to change the website colours was built in later.

Dan O'Rourke said: "Bang on brief!"

http://www.nottoscale.tv

Peepshow is a collective of illustrators and designers working on both individual and joint projects.

Their collective portfolio has been created around the central theme of an old-school slide projector.

The site is no longer live.

Fallen is a new brand of vodka from the master blenders at Glenmorangie.

Sennep was appointed by brand consultancy Erasmus
to create a playful site that would illustrate the central
idea behind the brand - "there's more soul in
imperfection". The website is designed in Flash and takes inspiration from the Japanese aesthetic Wabi-sabi, which is based around the idea that the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete are the base elements of true beauty and meaning.

The unpredictability of user interaction reinforces this idea. Visitors create new, unexpected and personal content by sharing their opinions on what's got soul.

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As part of Horlicks' new image overhaul Sennep was appointed by WMH to design a new website.

Besides communicating how important sleep is to our well-being and how Horlicks can aid restful sleep, the brief was to give the new website a more contemporary feel with a better navigation structure.

We used illustration, animation and sound to create a calm, atmospheric website, where the users feel that they are on a journey to 'Sweet Dreams'.

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