Just found out that Zopa won the Webby for banking, well done POKE and to project buddies Nik and Iain (creative direction) and Dom (design). Just having a look over at their site though, I feel they’re starting to stray away from our lovely templates, not sure I like what they’ve done to the homepage… ah who cares, if you go have a look at some of the comments about it on the webby site their seems to be a lot of people who really like the site. Oh. I don’t think you can see the comments anymore, so you just have to take my word for it.

David Gest’s blog has just launched. It was another fun POKE project, basically the brief was to make something a bit bonkers and fun! I was responsible for art direction, design and illustration, and had a lot of fun with the look and feel of this one. The reason for it existing is he’s got a new reality TV show on ITV shortly, and it’s purpose is to advertise that, but hopefully David might keep adding things to it after the show finishes. Most of the content is video clips of David and his bizarre behaviour, some of it is very funny indeed.

If you like the look of the site you can download a desktop of the tiled background I made for the it here.

I always quite like finding bits of old work that you forgot you ever did. Here’s a mob mates logo I did last year that never made the grade, but I actually quite like it.

This is a project I’ve just finished at POKE. It’s a site for the publisher Penguin, to promote a new book coming out called The Malice Box. The book is a bit like the Da Vinci Code – a dude runs about the place, solving puzzles and saving the world. In the book he has a GPS device called ‘The Quad’ to help him get around. For the online game we created, you get to navigate the globe using google maps. Basically you solve puzzles, guess locations of ‘Red Gold’ on the map and win prizes. Go check it out and play the game and at www.maliceboxquest.com/

Also see what Tom and Iain have to say, who also worked on the site.