oyoaha was asked to contribute its drupal development savvy toward building a client extranet application for Wieden+Kennedy, NYC. The heavy lifting aspect of the project involved developing workflow processes to manage multiple levels of content and user groups while appropriately controlling access to specific content. Management workflow was the first half of the project, the second half was developing an AJAX enabled UI for handling the display of multiple media types.
Portland Art Focus is an association of local art institutions. Before inviting oyoaha on board, they used print advertising as their primary means of communicating the Portland community's contemporary art happenings with the rest of the world. This, or course, had some limitations. oyoaha built a bridge between two mediums (print and web) in order to seamlessly connect the invitation through advertising with the informational web content.
The Portland Art Dealers Association (PADA) requested a website upgrade. They had a working framework whereby independent art galleries could manage an online art exhibit and show listing, but the whole effect somehow seemed incomplete. The content was there, but the message didn't seem to consistently come together. Here are a few highlights of oyoaha's final solution.
oyoaha contributed to the art exhibition, Laptop, which questioned the metaphors of information space via a mobile project, an installation, and the web (yes, a little circular - we get that part). Implementing AJAX via Google Web Toolkit (GWT), we created a virtual information space that mimics a...well...virtual information space.
Kinda' fun. Be sure to play around with the windows.
We are always interested in new means of implementing exciting, effective design. AJAX specifically is a new resource we have yet to see fully embraced by the global design community. Whether it's true or not, we get motivated with the thought we're helping to blaze a new path. (See history of html, Flash, CSS, etc. - those dang developers just don't seem to always recognize the full brilliance of what they create...) Anyway, we think this evolving project is one piece of the design by AJAX pie.
This AJAX enabled bit of concept development creates a dynamic wallpaper pattern that responds to user interaction (visits, window re-size, etc.) We named it the "Mood Board" based on the artist being able to instantly communicate her specific fashion-line mood throughout her brand. The concept for the project is this: the brand is the process - not the logo, or the website, or the business card...ad infinitum. As the artist's themes and styles change, she can add the corresponding images (in this case fabric design and imagery) to the website via a simple workflow.