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News

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02 May, 2012

Calories calculator

We have designed a user friendly calories calculator
for the British Heart Foundation (BHF).

In contrast to most online calories calculators we have taken a light-hearted and humorous approach in highlighting how mundane, everyday tasks like ironing or walking the dog help you to burn calories. The playful illustrative style compliments the BHF's visual identity, and the surprising calorie-burning facts make for an interesting read.

The calories calculator is available for desktop browsers and as a web app for iPad and iPhone. Android based devices are also supported, encouraging use when on the move.

View website
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01 May, 2012

We're looking for a Studio Manager

We are seeking an enthusiastic Studio Manager to maintain and manage the day to day running of our lively studio. The reliable and efficient candidate will have the ability to multitask and will be responsible for the upkeep of the studio and internal communications.

The person we are looking for is highly organised and tidy with confidence and communication skills to effectively liaise with staff and suppliers. You have thorough knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite as well as excellent written English. The ideal candidate is pro-active, full of initiative and an all-round people's person with 2 years relevant experience working in a busy professional environment.

If you think you fit the bill please send a cover letter explaining why you would be perfect for the role along with your CV to:
jobs@sennep.com
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13 Apr, 2012

Design Week & Webby Awards

It has turned out to be a good week for award nominations. We've been shortlisted for a Design Week Award for our micro site: British Heart Foundation - 50 Years at the Heart of Health.

'50 Years' has also been nominated for a Webby Award along with our HTML5 Web App OLO game.
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29 Mar, 2012

OLO tournament at Pick Me Up tonight

Our Soho Warriors branded OLO game is on display at the Pick Me Up exhibition at Somerset House. Tonight there will be a tournament (Thursday 29th March) from 6:30pm to 10pm. The overall winner will get a signed artist proof of Lewis Smith's Matchday print (with their name on the cup), and a limited edition SWFC scarf.

To enter, simply tweet @theSWFC with #olocomp and you will be allocated an entry time.

For more info go to the Soho Warriors blog
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21 Mar, 2012

Google Campus Launch

We were commissioned by onedotzero to design a fun installation for the Google Campus launch party.

The result was a straw-powered four-player 'Rocket Race'. The simple premise is to propel your chosen rocket into space through lung power alone.

Photos from the night.
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15 Mar, 2012

New OLO game coming soon to App store

We're getting ready to launch a new version of the OLO game. The new features include a fresh new design, enhanced gameplay, improved physics, sound, four player and online multi-player.

Check out www.ologame.com for more information and to watch the teaser video.

OLO on facebook, twitter and tumblr
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20 Jan, 2012

Bus O'Clock

Bus O'Clock (BOC) is a simple live bus departures app for London.

It's fast, easy to use and covers the whole of London so you will never be left wondering how long you've got to wait for the next bus.

The 'Find me' function locates your nearest stop and serves up a simple departure countdown on a super-friendly clock.

Download it from the app store for free!
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24 Jan, 2012

Project AMARIX

We've been having some fun with HTML5 audio and working with NIKE78 to make a trainer talk. As a part of a wider project, where 78 designers and creatives were asked to challenge the function of a pair of Nike's, we used some code, a text to speech engine, a wig and some other stuff to create Project AMARIX.

Our concept looks at eliminating the need for a human Personal Trainer... What if your Nike's could verbally give you the motivation and support you need to get through your training regime? Imagine if you could select 'Personal Trainer' as an option when customising your NikeiD's... Straight out of the box your Nike's will OWN you!!!

There's no more slacking, slowing up on that last mile, sneaking a couple of donuts when you think no one is looking. AMARIX is always there to get you through those moments of weakness.

www.projectamarix.com
www.nike78.co.uk/sennep
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15 Aug, 2011

BHF - 50 years of Heart Health

With the British Heart Foundation celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, we created an interactive timeline to showcase the key stories and successes from their past. The timeline is a folded paper heart that expands to reveal over a hundred BHF stories, with some of the key characters appearing as little plastic people to help guide you through... It's amazing how our knowledge of heart disease has changed in half a century!

50 Years website
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20 Jun, 2011

Interface design

We've been working on a huge interface design project for a global professional services company for over a year now - it's certainly been keeping us busy and challenging the braincells!

The client has developed online applications to help the world's biggest and brightest get bigger and brighter, and it's our job to make sure that these applications look slick, intuitive and have an inherent 'wow' factor... As soon as we can show you some screenshots we will!
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05 May, 2011

Twitterball recycled

With the concept behind our Twitterball being about recycling and reuse, it's nice to find it in gainful employment once again, this time on the shoulders of the very lovely Erin O'Connor.

Working with photographer Marcus Mays and PR agency Frank, the 562 recycled plastic bottles in the sculpture were perfect to help communicate the message of 'A World Without Bottles' for their client, Sodastream. We were naturally happy to help out... The opportunity to get our Twitterball fondled by a supermodel was too good to miss!
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03 May, 2011

Sennep seeds

'Seeds' is our new site of unpolished noodles and doodles. Basically nice little ideas, interactions, and tests that are in their infancy but we thought worthy of sharing.

Here is a collection of 'seeds' that we have dusted off from the last year or so. We'll be adding more over the coming weeks, months and years, so please check back, or follow us on Twitter to be the first to know.

seeds.sennep.com
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29 Oct, 2008

Sennep Flickr

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.

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Work

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04 Aug, 2011

DJA

DJA is a creative agency founded by David James, who has been responsible for some of the most memorable and distinctive fashion imagery, video and art direction of the last twenty years. Throw into the mix the branding and type design of partner company Alias, and the creation of AnOther and AnOtherMan magazines and you have a truly iconic body of work.

We've been working with DJA and Alias for a couple of years on a number of projects, and have just launched sites for both agencies. With a pared back aesthetic and fluid navigation the sites are discreet, stylish and as enjoyable to browse on iPhone and iPad as they are on the desktop... So now you can choose how to take your fashion fix!

dja.dj
alias.dj
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04 Aug, 2011

OLO OLO OLO

OLO is a minimalist two-player game of skill and strategy for touch devices.

It's a finger-flicking web app developed using latest features of CSS3 and HTML5 and can be played straight in the browser or offline and full-screen. It's free, so visit the site on your mobile device and give it a go... It would be great to hear what you think.

Happy OLO'ing

ologame.com
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08 Jul, 2011

The Huffington Post hits the UK

On Wednesday night assorted bloggers, tweeters and celebs gathered to celebrate the launch of The Huffington Post in the UK. The event centered around a panel discussion with Alistair Campbell, Kelly Osbourne and Richard Bacon (amongst others) giving their tuppence about blogging, the internets and the media in general.

We worked with Poke and Smesh to design and develop a fluid, animating Twitterwall as the backdrop for the debate, where tweets from the audience were moderated in realtime and projected onto a cinema screen. Key tweets were highlighted and gained prominence, and were often used to steer the debate. All in all the event was a great success, with some bloggers going on to say that the Twitterwall was the star of the show... We couldn't possibly comment on that... :-)

See video
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20 Jun, 2011

Create your own showreel

We've been working closely with Williams Murray Hamm to develop a unique showcase of over ten years of great design work.

The website allows users to choose from 60 selected projects and generate a bespoke showreel that can be easily shared across social networks.

If one particular project takes your fancy the website can auto fill the showreel with related projects to create an easy and distinctive viewing experience.

www.williamsmurrayhamm.com
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31 Jan, 2011

Orange BAFTAs Flickometer

For this years BAFTAs we developed 'Flickometer' for Orange. Working with the mighty POKE, we designed and built a real time Twitter visualisation to show the popularity of the nominees. The tweets were served up by Smesh, who made it possible for us to create a playful, live experience that brings all the latest gossip to the surface.

There's never a dull moment... It doesn't matter whether you're backing Natalie Portman or ranting about Inception, you can do it all through the Flickometer. Take some time to have a look around, filter by actors, films, or directors, or create your own experience choosing your favourite nominees.

The big day is only a couple of weeks away so get involved by using the hashtag #OrangeBAFTAs.

bafta.orange.co.uk/flickometer
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07 Jan, 2011

MustRD

We've been hard at work developing a new site for MustRD, the research and development arm of the Useful Simple Trust.

MustRD help formulate R&D ideas across a broad network, and we represent these connections as a striking data visualization above the site content... All in all we think it makes a more playful experience!

mustrd.co.uk
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16 Dec, 2010

Santa goes solo

This year Sennep has created a fun Christmas game for Checkland Kindleysides.

Rudolf has a fractured hoof from a freak ice-skating incident, so he's unable to help the Big Man deliver presents this year.

Please help Santa deliver as many presents as possible before the before the light of dawn.

Play the game
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19 Nov, 2010

Bringing 25,000 people together

For quite a few months now we've been working on a comprehensive intranet for Kantar. Finally it sees the light of day, at least for their 25,000 employees spread across the world.

Kantar, a pre-eminent global provider of market insights, wanted to create one central place for news, information and inspiration for their group companies.

Some of the intranet's features include creating your own homepage by saving content most relevant to you, a global job board and daily industry news feed. The focus is on bringing people together, letting them save key contacts to their 'favourites'.

Sennep pulled all the information together from the registered users and created an interactive data visualisation of the group, displaying the connections between clients, companies and employees.

Data visualisation video
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15 Oct, 2010

Atomized

Atomized is a production company that creates content for TV, web and mobile funded by broadcasters and brands. We have just launched their identity and website.

atomized.tv
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16 Apr, 2010

Simon&John

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.

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16 Dec, 2009

Plink Plonk Plink

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...
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29 Jan, 2010

Kantar Worldpanel

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
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11 Jan, 2010

Peepshow

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.

peepshow.org.uk
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16 Dec, 2009

How do you doodle?

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.

doodle.feelgooddrinks.co.uk
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11 Nov, 2009

Useful Simple Trust

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
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27 Aug, 2009

Kantar Group

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
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06 Mar, 2009

James Day

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

www.jamesdayphoto.com
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15 Jun, 2009

BHF - New Health Plan Petition

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
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30 Jul, 2008

The Savoy hotel

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.


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31 Aug, 2008

BHF - Annual report & wall mural

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.
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15 Jul, 2008

Bartle Bogle Hegarty

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.

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08 Jan, 2008

Feel Good Drinks Co

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
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01 Mar, 2008

Seymourpowell

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
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29 Aug, 2007

Checkland Kindleysides

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

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Installations

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10 Nov, 2011

BBC Three Comedy Twitterwall

As part of Internet Week Europe, 7th-11th November, Sennep and Smesh created a live Twitterwall for stand-up 'The Boy With Tape on His Face' brought to you by BBC Three.

It was a show with a Twitter twist! Unlike a normal comedy show, this one involved the audience and their phones. Tweets from the audience were moderated in realtime and projected onto a big screen. Key tweets were highlighted to provoke a reaction from "Tape Face".

It was a great success and was 'trending' on Twitter in London. Video of the show and more images will be available soon. In the meanwhile you can view some shots from the set up and testing on our Flickr.
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01 Jan, 2010

Dandelion

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
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08 Dec, 2010

Turn on the holiday lights with your tweet

562 recycled plastic bottles, hundreds of LED lights and live Twitter feed are the ingredients for this year's holiday installation Sennep has cooked up for Cohn&Wolfe.

Working together with eco artist Sarah Turner we've created a giant tweet-reactive bauble, pulling in selected words from Cohn&Wolfe's holiday message. Each time their message is retweeted they donate $1 to Project Kaisei, a non-profit organisation researching ways to reduce the Plastic Vortex - a patch of plastic the size of France and Germany combined, floating in the North Pacific.

Turn Twitter into the ultimate goodwill ripple effect and somewhere a whale will be thanking you!

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You can see work in progress here.
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20 Jun, 2007

De La Warr Pavilion

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.
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20 Nov, 2007

Blyk

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

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About

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Who we are

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 eleven enthusiastic full-timers is a great size. It means we can provide a range of specialist skills whilst maintaining a 'boutique' service.
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What we do

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.

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Recognition

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24 Apr, 2012

Best use of data visualisation

Orange Flickometer, which we designed and built with Smesh for POKE, won 'Best use of data visualisation' at the Revolution Awards

Read more about the project here
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19 Oct, 2011

Data Strategy awards

Woo hoo! We've won an award for the real-time visualisation of Twitter activity around the 2011 BAFTA awards. 'Flickometer' was developed for Orange BAFTA in collaboration with Smesh and Poke.
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07 Jan, 2011

Design Week - Creative Survey 2010

We were happy to find ourselves at number 40 in Design Week's 'Giant Topplers' chart.

This league table is made up of the UK's most awarded companies across all creative disciplines.
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07 Jan, 2011

Design Week Awards 2011

This year's Design Week Awards shortlist was released today and we were pleased to find our work shortlisted in two categories: Digital Design - Commercial (How do you doodle?) and Installations (Dandelion).
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22 Nov, 2010

We've won 2 IMAs :)

After months of painstaking frame by frame animation for Cohn & Wolfe our hard work pays off with two 'Best in Class' IMA awards in the Marketing and Public Relations categories.

Cohn & Wolfe is a global PR agency behind some of the world's highest-profile events, ranging from every Olympic Games since the early '70s to the GRAMMY's, the Golden Globes and Live Earth.

Sennep re-designed their website and produced a number of stop frame animations to communicate their offer and expertise. Take a peek behind the scenes.

www.cohnwolfe.com
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05 Oct, 2010

Design Week - Digital Survey Top 20

We're v. happy with being included in Design Week's 'Digital Survey Top 50 creative award winners'. We've cracked the top 20 in the UK at number 16, and are top and tailed by some very illustrious company.

How Design Week did the maths: "The chart for creative consultancies is based on their prowess in four key awards schemes: Design Week Awards, D&AD Awards, The Webby Awards and the BIMA Awards. We have looked at consultancies' performance over the past three years of each award scheme. The ranking is based on interactive design projects only."

The survey is part of Design Week's Interaction Design Supplement and is definitely worth a read.
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22 Apr, 2010

CR Annual 2010 - Best in Book

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.
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Webby Awards

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)
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Design Week Awards

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)

Nominated
BHF - '50 years of Heart Health' (2012)
Dandelion (2011)
Feelgood doodle (2011)
Seymourpowell (2009)
Checkland Kindleysides (2008)
Horlicks (2006)
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Web Design Note 2008

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.
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New York Festivals

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)

Finalist certificates:

Art/Technique: Interactive

Santa Goes Solo (2011)

Avant-garde: Innovative Use of Media
Dandelion (2011)
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.NET Magazine

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.
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.NET Magazine

.NET magazine got in touch with Sennep and asked us to design a solution for the 'technique/makeover' section of their magazine.
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D&AD Annual 2006

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

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)
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Fundamentals of Animation 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
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Creative Review - The Annual 2005

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.
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D&AD Annual 2005

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

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Archive

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19 Dec, 2007

Expedition Engineering

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
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14 Feb, 2007

Oakley O-life v2

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.
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03 Jun, 2009

Cowboys Relish

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

www.cowboysrelish.com
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03 Dec, 2006

Agency Republic

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
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30 Nov, 2006

Jacksons of Piccadilly

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
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20 Mar, 2006

Isobel

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.
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20 Sep, 2005

Bow Wow

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
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12 Sep, 2005

Not To Scale

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!"

The site is no longer live.
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12 Sep, 2005

Peepshow

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.
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18 Feb, 2005

Fallen Vodka

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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16 Jun, 2004

Horlicks

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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