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I was confronted by this double-barrelled freak of nature at my desk this morning. Weird.

[Posted by: Neal Andrews]     

Filed under: Funny on March 28th, 2007 | No Comments »

This vacancy has now been filled.

If you’re a talented XHTML/CSS developer with some PHP chops, but not a hardcore programmer, then there may be a place for you at DIGERATI/.

We’re currently recruiting for a front-end web developer who can take a design and turn it into a W3C standards-compliant and accessible website. Knowledge of JavaScript/AJAX is a big plus, as is the ability to write some PHP/MySQL code.

Just to clarify, this is not a design or an applications developer position. Read the full job description: Web Developer Job Description - Mar 2007 (PDF 134kb).

Send your CV and some recent live examples of your work (explaining which bits you did) to marcus-dot-duffy-at-digerati-dot-info and we’ll take it from there. Salary is negotiable depending upon experience.

Closing date is Tuesday 10th April, so get a wriggle on.

This vacancy has now been filled.

[Posted by: Marcus Duffy]     

Filed under: Recruitment on March 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »

Website - www.humdrumidol.com

For Chicago Town Pizza, our sister ad agency BDH\TBWA have created the ‘Humdrum Idol’ campaign for the brand’s TV sponsorship of American Idol. Based on the fictional town of ‘Humdrum’, the TV commercial idents feature talentless Humdrum characters auditioning for their chance of fame in front of a gob-smacked three-member judging panel.

To support this campaign, DIGERATI\ have created HumdrumIdol.com, an immersive site that uses the TV panel members as part of an interactive Flash video homepage and is integrated with all offline activity.

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[Posted by: Neal Andrews]     

Filed under: Our Work on March 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Website - www.chicagotowntakeaway.co.uk

More activity for Schwan’s frozen food brand. This website supports a national TV campaign for Frozen-pizza brand Chicago Town. The ad explains that in a blind taste-test more people preferred Chicago Town Takeaway pizza to Domino’s or Pizzahut takeaway pizza. The website allows consumers to view the pizzas, watch the ad, view the statistics and post their stories regarding negative pizza delivery experiences.

[Posted by: Robin Barton]     

Filed under: Our Work on March 12th, 2007 | No Comments »

We came across a great idea the other week posted by a guy who is elevating his bedroom walls from mere partitions to a creative mood board. How? By making his walls magnetic.

By using a special metal-based paint as an undercoat, he can use magnets (or anything magnetic, see Anthony’s post on Moo Cards) to plaster any creative flotsam all over his walls. He can move them, add to them or replace them in a jiffy!

We thought this was such a good idea, that we are having our office walls done in the same fashion, making it a truly creative space where the team can really contribute to our collective inspiration.

A really simple, but powerful idea.

[Posted by: Steve Crawford]     

Filed under: Things We Like on March 10th, 2007 | No Comments »

I gave a team presentation the other day on AJAX and JavaScript focusing on how our designers can best tackle this approach in their creative, and how our account managers can describe the technology without sounding like idiots.

The fundamental, non-technical, difference between AJAX and JavaScript is that JavaScript moves stuff around the page, while AJAX is a way of getting/sending dynamic data without reloading the page. That’s about as simple as it gets without pointing and grunting, and I think even Robin almost understood it.

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[Posted by: Ollie Harridge]     

Filed under: Industry Comment on March 10th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Website Design

Best companies, the people behind the Sunday Times ‘Best Companies to Work For’ list required guidance for their main website. Our work was to be built by their in-house technical team under legacy systems. In response we produced detailed design templates which not only overhauled the look of the website, but gave guidance on matters of usability, logical structure and layout.

[Posted by: Anthony Jones]     

Filed under: Our Work on March 2nd, 2007 | No Comments »