Mob Mates is a project for Orange that I’ve been working on at work for a while now… It’s an interesting offer, basically it’s a standard PAYG SIM, but the calls and text between people also on Mob Mates are only 2p. The site’s been created to help people build up a calling circle and spread the word to their friends because you only get the cheap rates if all your mates are on the same tariff. We were given a bit of leeway with Orange’s brand on the site as they were aiming the offer at a young audience and their corporate guidlines didn’t go down too well with that demographic. Mysterious Al did all the little characters dotted about the site, when you sign up you can create characters for all your mates, then produce a load of dynamic content using them to download or stick on your blog/myspace etc… Knotty coded the site, there’s some lovely ajax touches in there, I was amazed how he’s got it compositing loads of graphical variables and outputting it all as animated gifs, desktops etc… Kester held the whole thing together and I did the design.