Sex, drugs and rock’n'roll
Unit9 created a super-cool video player to showcase the cheeky characters from the British tv series Skins. And they needed some minimalistic design to go with it and match the irriverent drama’s mood. It was a good challenge trying to feature the grunge look-and-feel and keep it minimal at the same time.
Splash!
Electrolux has a long history of caring about the nature and so do Helpful Strangers! So we were very happy when Great Works asked us to design this full-screen measuring cup. On the site you can see how much water you and the rest of Europe would save if we all would start using dishwashers instead of washing by hand. For example: if a single household in Sweden would use a dishwasher they would save enough water for 25 710,7 cups of coffee… We have a dishwasher here at Helpful Strangers and that happens to be the exact amount of coffee we drink every year.
Bam!
That’s what happens when you try to do something classic like a character surrounded by twigs and whatnot.
Rejoice
Today is a day of great rejoice since our Italian A-Team arrived!
Elena & Riccardo comes directly fresh out of the Unit9 oven in london and we will treasure them as our most precious. Expect to see some great work comming out! As soon as we manage to catch them on some kind of camera device we will parade them.
Adobe Flash in wonderland
Together with our friends at Unit9, we created this lovely interface/setting.
The whole thing started as a project regarding a button or two, but ended up being a lot more than that.
Clean & quirky made this one a stunner, only we wish we could have made the rubber duck explode!
The recyclable Tin-Man
On our way to work this morning we bumped into this lovely robot man walking his robot dog. Initially we thought that finally the future had arrived but it seems it was just a children’s show filming.
Like quicksilver
Samsung Style has launched!
Helpful Strangers have taken care of the interactive direction on this project and also been in charge for the overall look & feel of the site. It’s all about liquid metal, and to emphasize this we’ve created a very nice widget that you can see whilst you load the site, but also deeper into the site by clicking “Play with style & function”.
Dancing Colours!
Akzo Nobel is one of the worlds larges companies and when they in the summer of 2008 merged with several other companies to become EVEN BIGGER they also decided to update their… Somewhat ancient identity. And when they wanted the world to be aware about this epic update they turned to the us to help them with their online banners.
The sweetest way to save the Honey Bees
Honey Bees are disappearing rapidly and no one knows why, so Häagen-Dazs® ice cream is raising awareness on the plight of our stripy pollinating friends. To do this, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners teamed up with Unit9/Helpful Strangers and created a microsite that’s all about making people aware and having fun doing so.
Uhh…mmy!
A friend of ours had a bit to much spare time on his hands and contemplated starting a T-Shirt brand, helpful as we are we came up with a couple of illustrations and this is one of them. The little blue things you can see circling around his head is clouds. That means his head is a metaphor for the earth. We are clever that way.
