And welcome
... to Flat Earth Industries based in London, with offices world-wide working to provide bespoke dynamic CD-ROMs and web sites that function exactly as our clients require. Our digital design services encompass font and type design, Flash banner ads, screen-savers and post production animation.
Latest projects
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
ABRSM asked us to design and code a midi based application to be included in their educational Soundjunction site. The online program has the standard midi features, plus a unique grouping tool that allows transformations not found in music editing software. Allowing it to explore the relationship between chords rhythm and melody. www.soundjunction.org
CivicArts | EKA
www.civicarts.com
WWYLTC
www.wwyltc.com
USPG
www.uspg.org.uk
Breaking news
14/10/08Strings, Toby, Southbank and Shortlistings
5/Strings: an Algorhythm
The Shunt theatre and lounge in the vaults under London Bridge station are exhibiting Julian Baker’s “5/Strings: an Algorhythm” in The Long Corridor between Wednesday 15th to Saturday 18th. Here’s what Shunt say...
Inspired by the mathematical aspects found in classical music, 5/Strings aligns cubic geometry with the bowing of a stringed instrument, like a toy with which the audiences physical participation becomes, affects and is crucial to the visual and sonic narrative.
The participant can direct each of the quintet's 'musicians' in the strict sequence and tempo they play. The directional spin of each cube dictates the four note scale from their total repertoire of six pitches, with speedof rotation denoting their tempo. By this simple point and click interaction a rich and complex harmony can be generated.
Say hello to Toby
We are delighted to welcome Toby to Flat Earth as our new web programmer who will be handling all things web 2.0.
Southbank Consulting
Southbank Consulting are a new company specialising in interactive television and advertising consultancy who asked us to develop their identity.
Shortlisted for a BIMA
The site “What Would You Like To Change?” that we developed for PricewaterhouseCoopers has been shortlisted for a British Interactive Media Award for B2B Distribution & Media. It goes without saying that we will let you know if we win, in the meantime time to dust down the tux.
What Would You Like To Change?
09/07/08Books, rabbits, mugs and sites.
USPG web site
It may seem that we haven’t been busy what with a lack of recent newsletters, but rest assured that this isn’t the case. Not that you might have been worried. For the last few months we have been working on “white label” projects bound by a confidentiality clause.
So busy in fact that announcing the launch of the USPG (United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel) site at the beginning of the year slipped through the net.
The site has been running now for a few months with the client updating via a custom CMS, complimenting us on it’s ease of use.
Discussions about adding new features are about to start, so consider this an official announcement for phase one!
Say hello to Wrabbit
The recent upgrading of the studio wireless network to 11N (geek speak) found our nabaztag neglected and looking forlorn on the shelf of dead technology.
She’s been given a dusting, so say hello to Wrabbit and us by sending a message via our web site, don’t forgot to say who you are, unless it’s rude of course.
Don’t have a clue what we’re talking about? www.nabaztag.com tells you all about electronic rabbits.
Creative Practice
Michael Atavar’s forthcoming book “How To Be An Artist” has received an unprecedented interest from publishers, with a flurry of appointments to attend he asked us to redesign his web site in a matter of days. Not content with giving us perhaps the shortest deadline we’ve ever had, he also raised the ante by briefing that the site should be engaging and creative without the use of imagery.
We are delighted with the result achieved in three days, including a new logotype for the animated site using no Flash, allowing it be to updated by Michael himself, and fully indexed by search engines.
40 Something
Adam on his recent travels at the BBC spotted someone drinking out of a Carter 30 Something mug featuring the record sleeve design we did back in the day.
A quick email found Jim Bob and Fruitbat alive and well, and in exchange for some Flat Earth slippers we have new studio crockery.
Wife Swap
No, not a new service from Flat Earth, instead Julian is delighted and amazed to find one of his microfictions – a very very short story – accepted for publication by nthposition, an award winning literary web site.
Got a spare minute? Read it on nthposition
10/06/08Burn Bros gig Sun 15th, with free album
Adam and JP will be putting the actionscript aside this Sunday and stepping wide as Atom Oil and JPye serving dub electronica, being one half of the Burn Brothers
Burn Brothers will be hitting The Inn on the Green under the Westway on the market road between Ladbroke Grove and Portobello Road (3-5 Thorpe Close) on Sunday, 15.06.08 for their last gig, as Marc is moving to St. Lucia. Support will come from the Colourcode with an exclusive Dub set for your ears. DJ Smart Monkey will be on the 1s & 2s
Free entry, Optional £5 Entry with Free Burn Brothers CD
United Reggae says ...who bring together reggae and modern electronic styles under the lived in but venerable spoken tones of Guyanese born writer, former Black Power activist and Linton Kwesi Johnson contemporary Mark Matthews AKA Trampingman... ...if the returns of Portishead & Tricky have piqued your interest in blunted loops and idiosyncratic voices; this well crafted, atmospheric little set could be your summer selection of choice.
CD sleeve by Flat Eart' using our patented rasta raster (a little lithographic reproduction joke)
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