Transparent Design

Fundamentally, we are interactive designers, based in London, who design and build dynamic html and flash websites, flash games, photography, motion graphics & branding ...we have a little geeky side too that talks in our ear telling us to push the limits to see what happens.

Online, we can help you sell and market your product, increase traffic to your site and create a successful and complete online presence with branding, web design, flash games & ecommerce websites.

Offline, we can create branding, print advertisements and mail outs, dvds & photography, helping boost your exposure to potential clients and more importantly; making sure that message we get across is the right one.

We have experience of working at and with clients including BBC, LBi, Ogilvy, Digivate, Cimex, Mediacom & Digitas and others. We've had the pleasure of working with brands such as Coca-Cola, Channel4, Marks & Spencer, Sky, Fiat, Master foods, MTV, CBeebies, BBC THREE, Start-rite & the Royal Institute.

We are based in London, so most of our clients are in the big smoke. However, we also have clients up north in such exotic places as Derby & York.

We help big and small clients. We are very friendly and we love emails so get in touch!

Clients

AKQA, Barilla, BBC, British Telecom, Cadbury, Cadbury, Coca-Cola, Critical Mass, David George Hair Group, Digitas, dolce and gabbana, Dr Boo, Duracell, Electronic Arts, Elvis/Spike, Ericsson, Fiat, Gucci, Kitty Do Little, kodak, Master foods, MediaCom, MTV Europe, Ogilvy, Paramount pictures, Proctor & Gamble, Shell, Sky, Unilever.

Projects

Virgin Media Elvis for Virgin Virgin Media wanted to point out to everyone that they are better than Sky. They wanted to show, in an engaging way, all the breadth of content and cool stuff they have like video on demand and pausing live TV. Virgin Media wanted it to be better than the 3D video fly through that Sky have (which amused us as we made the Sky one a year earlier). This was a short turnaround project, just under 3 weeks, as Virgin Media had a two stage launch plan. But we managed to do near enough everything they wanted for stage two but by the stage one deadline, creating an intuitive interactive 3d word - aren't we nice. > Visit the Virgin Media website Tags: flash, 3d, papervision, exploratory interface, tv

GIJoe games waste for paramount We created 2 in-banner games for the launch of GIJoe the movie. In HALO dropzone you take control of our hero as he jumps high altitude and avoids the sky mines and flak on the way down. In Tank Commander you get a tank to fight your way through the village and out to saftey. A few cool extra touches on these games are the smoke fumes that change colour and opacity based on the revs of the desiel engine and the real pyhsics of the drive tracks. No one asked for them, and it's a bit geeky, but we like it. > play HALO dropzone > play Tank Commander Tags: tank, skydive, physics, army

Duracell's Summer Athletics Waste for EA/Duracell EA's Summer Athletics 2009 and Duracell got together and wanted an online experience to drive awareness of the game's launch and the new rechargeable batteries for the bunny ;) Using Flash, we created 4 of the events from the main game each with a bespoke game engine and control system to give the player a taste of what was to come on the wii. > play the game Tags: games, wii, xBox, competiton, sendToAFriend, 3D rendered, little pink bunny

Flora by Gucci Critical Mass for Gucci Gucci's high standards were evident throughout the attention to detail in this project. Our flash dev skills were needed to create highlights like the interactive 3D fly through of the 'flora' motif's history. We were also tasked with everything from html to After Effects work when needed - we like doing everything. > visit the Flora site Tags: gucci, flash, flowers, purfume, after effects, femine, soft

Fanta Crunk Off game AKQA for Fanta In this viral web based game which we created in flash, for the Coca-Cola group, you 'crunk off' (dance off for oldies) against your dance opponent. You can challenge one of the computer dancers or get in there and throw the gauntlet down to your friends. You get to choose your 3 best crunk moves in order. Then the challenge begins! You sit back and watch the show as your first move is played out. Then the computer (or your friend if they thought they had a chance of winning) tries to compete with their first move. The winner gets the round. They are three rounds and at the end you get to laugh in the face of the loser (which hopefully wasn't you). > visit the Fanta site and play the game Tags: youth culture, hipHop, dance, justForFun, 2Player

M&M Full Colour Gaming Media Com for Masterfoods The M&M'S full colour gaming site was for cross promotion for M&Ms with current EA Sports games. We were tasked to develop 3 physics based games along the lines of EA's finest... but using M&M'S rather than golf balls or cars! We created 'need for speed' M&M racer where the user races the timed laps whilst trying to get to grips with the handling physics and the damage-able (hope that is a word) track. Some people even found the short cut ;) 'Tiger woods' golf is a little game you played on your virtual desk with a club fashioned out of a biro and some blu-tack that is used to pot the M&M in various 'holes' made of cups and other desktop furniture. All games have an high score table and generated a lot of heated competition between the players (who clearly had little work to do that day whilst eating their M&Ms) Tags: youthMarket, justForFun

The Hair Site The Hair Site We branded, designed & built the ecommerce site, as well as creating a handcoded bespoke database, full admin backend and order tracking system. Phew! Our expertise in Google Adwords and SEO has helped us get this start-up quickly off the ground. > Visit The Hair Site Tags: hair, hairProducts, tigi, ghd, hairStyling, she hair straighteners, ecommerce, online shopping, online shop

Quote Exchange Digivate for Quote Exchange QuoteExchange wanted a fun way to lighten up the business of the quote comparison world. We created in Flash, a little world which allowed the users to explore the offered content while being entertained and charmed. TransparentDesign added nice little touches on top of the content exploration to make sure the user was there out of choice; little things like the working toaster (jam sold separately) and some moveable fridge magnet letters - our record is 4 rude words. > Visit Quote Exchange Tags: quotexchange, navigation, fun, play, parallax

Sassy Straighteners David George Hair Group We created some branding concepts for a new brand of straighteners for the David George Hair Group in order for them to start to compete against the likes of She and GHD. Tags: hair, sassyStraighteners, straighteners, branding

Kodak TrolleyDash Ogilvy for Kodak We designed this trolley dash game for Kodak. The idea was to teach people about the package deals that could be had by buying bundles products whilst, of course, having a bit of fun as well. > visit the Kodak site Tags: brandAwareness

Sky Heroes season AKQA for Sky For Sky's 'Heroes' season of programming, Sky wanted a 3D world where the user flys around past videoscreens of their promoted programmes. We made a light weight module in Flash that allowed the user to interact and zoom around the space and into small trailers for each programme. The module was nice and re-usable, so they, re-used it again for their 'As it should be' campaign. We like recycling. Tags: tv, 3d, media

Fiat 500 launch AKQA for Fiat Fiat wanted a quirky site for the launch of their new Fiat 500 to extend their showroom site. Hosted by Danny Wallace, the mini-site which we built in Flash ran for 21 days and had a different item as a theme each day and a quiz based on each item. We also produced some nice dynamic banners that counted down 'how many sleeps' until the Fiat 500 was unleashed on the public. Tags: car, fiat, game

Digitas Xmas email game Digitas self promotion Digitas wanted a fun game to send out as their 'Christmas card'. Together we developed a game where the player has a hammer, in front of the hammer are lots of characters taking it in turn to sing very badly. I think you get the game play from here :) Tags: viral, 3d, justForFun, email

Wedding Website Lucy and Mike Rigley We got married. We made ourselves a flash wedding website which we feel is much more interesting and quirky than the normal wedding websites you see. It includes the ability to let our guests choose their song choices. > wedding website Tags: wedding

David George Hair David George Hair Group Our client, David George Hair, wanted a fresher look to their website. We created a simple one page site with all the information they need for their two hair salons. > Visit David George Hair Tags: hairSalon, salons, hair

Barilla fly through Digitas for Barilla We created a 3D fly through of hi-res still images of scenes from the Barilla world (nice people eating Barilla food, in short). A lot of heavy rendering later and we have a 2 minute movie showcasing the products in various cities around the world. Tags: 3D, flyThrough

Rems Floor Sanding Rems Floor Sanding Rem approached us to design a site to promote his local floor sanding company. It shows off his great work in an image heavy site. (No longer live) Tags: floorSanding, eastLondon

Ericsson Nobel Prize stings Digitas for Ericsson Ericsson wanted a 5 seconds bumper sting for the live broadcast of the Nobel Prizes from Stockholm. We were working with London agency Digitas who developed the idea of thought bubbles to show the 'taking ideas further' for Ericsson. 5 seconds is not a lot when 1.5 of that has to be the Ericsson logo, so we developed a smooth and gentle thought bubble which 'bubbles' (for want of a better phrase) onto screen without being to harsh as the viewers would be watching this about 12 times and we didn't want to jarr them but to entice them to read our message. Tags: tv, media, sting, bumper

Dr Boo Dr Boo Dr Boo needed an advert designing for a Living South magazine to promote their East Dulwich Boutique. Tags: livingSouth, hairProducts, skincare, boutique, southLondon

BT IT banners Ogilvy for BT At transparent design we also do quick, little small jobs. This project was a set of banners for BT showing how cool their IT support is. A straight forward job that involved filming people acting the parts and then drawing/animating in flash to get get down to the tiny file sizes demanded by media publishers. Tags: rotascope, film, animation, banner

Stella Creasy Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow We designed some of Stella Creasy's campaign material for her 2010 electoral campaign to become Walthamstow MP. This is the second promotional flyer which was distributed throughout the borough. Showm here are the front and back to the a4 leaflet. Tags: stellacreasy, walthamstow, mp, electoral, leaflet

Weber Shandwick stings Weber Shandwick We were asked to create a simple short sting for pharmaceutical PR firm Weber Shandwick to use in a presentation. Tags: sting, webershandwick, animation, motiongraphics

Stella Creasy Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow We designed some of Stella Creasy's campaign material for her 2010 electoral campaign to become Walthamstow MP. This is one of the leaflets which was distributed throughout the borough. Tags: stellacreasy, walthamstow, mp, electoral, leaflet

The Golden Afternoon Tea Company The Golden Afternoon Tea Company We designed this poster for The Golden Afternoon Tea Company's presentation of Bugsy Malone. The poster is in-keeping with the vintage theme of the day. > Visit The Golden Afternoon Tea Company website Tags: tea, teacompany, film, bugsy malone

The Laden Table The Laden Table We created a holding page and blog in WordPress for Yorkshire based cafe & bistro The Laden Table using their existing fresh branding. > The Laden Table > The Laden Table blog Tags: blog, website, blogdesign,