14.07.08 – Save the Children: Kroo Bay micrositeKroo Bay is a slum in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Save the Children’s compelling campaign to improve the appalling living conditions of the people of Kroo Bay is presented in this microsite, which we’ve recently completed work on. Please visit the site and make a donation.
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20.06.08 – AstraZeneca Talent Scout wins 2nd awardOur work for AstraZeneca’s internal employee referral programme, Talent Scout, has won a second award, this time in the Effectiveness category at the CIPD Recruitment Marketing Awards.
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07.05.08 – Giles Revell website phase 2Photographer Giles Revell is launching the second phase of his website. The site has been created by Applied Works in association with Studio8 Design, with the aim of showcasing both Giles’ commercial and artistically-driven work.
www.gilesrevell.com |
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02.05.08 – Spiritualized.comLatest update to the official Spiritualized website to coincide with the forthcoming release of the band's sixth studio album ‘Songs in A&E’. The new site features a number of design and feature improvements, including an RSS news feed, a gig dates calendar feed and full screen video promos.
www.spiritualized.com |
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01.05.08 – Friends Reunited tour videoWe've just completed a video for Friends Reunited, working in association with Mr B & Friends. Narrated by Martin Clunes, the video employs stop-frame animation to demonstrate the new features of the revamped website which launched on Tuesday. Follow the link to view:
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17.01.08 – Applied Works wins RAD awardWe’re delighted to have won an award at this year’s RADs for our work on AstraZeneca’s ‘Talent Scout’ employee referral programme. The award was presented by Jack Dee and Ian Theodorson of Barnardo’s to Jez Chance (AstraZeneca) and Peter Newman. |
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27.07.07 – Freelance Web Designers/Developers WantedWe're looking for a number of freelance web designers/developers to join us on an ongoing basis. Click on the link for more details.
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02.04.07 – AstraZeneca 5th in FT Bowen Craggs IndexAstraZeneca have been ranked 5th in an index of the world's most effective corporate websites. The survey, published this week, was conducted by the Financial Times and Bowen Cragg & Co. Read the full article here:
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07.02.07 – CarbonZero statusWe’re pleased to announce that on 2nd February 2007 Applied Works achieved CarbonZero status by offsetting our carbon emissions for 2006 with co2balance.com. Offsetting works by investing funds in energy efficiency or forestry projects that absorb or prevent the release of a tonnage of CO2 equivalent to your carbon footprint. This year we are taking steps to lower our carbon emissions in order to reduce the amount we will need to offset for 2007.
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30.01.07 – At This RateThis booklet and poster was designed by our friend and colleague Matt Willey at Studio8 Design, with photography from Giles Revell. Produced to raise awareness of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, all proceeds go to the Rainforest Action Network (RAN). Both items are available from
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15.12.06 – Merry ChristmasWishing all our clients, suppliers, friends and colleagues a very merry Christmas and a happy new year from everyone at Applied Works. |
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29.11.06 – Villandry online shopVillandry is a foodstore, restaurant and bar situated in London’s West End whose website we originally designed in 2002. Villandry asked us to add e-commerce to the site in the form of an online shop selling a variety of food hampers. The new shop launched in November.
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02.10.06 – Giles Revell websiteWe designed this website for photographer Giles Revell with Matt Willey at Studio8 Design. The work is presented as a series of adjacent images, much as you would view photographs in a gallery. The images also serve as the navigation (back and forth) allowing for a clean, focused viewing space. Larger images are automatically served to users with larger screen sizes.
www.gilesrevell.com |
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01.09.06 – We Are What We DoWe’ve recently been introduced to We Are What We Do, a movement that inspires people to use their everyday actions to change the world. They’ve published two books, the bestselling ‘Change the World for a Fiver’ and the just-released ‘Change the World 9 to 5’. They’re lovely books and enormously worthwhile to boot. They can be purchased at a wide range of bookstores and online at
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24.08.06 – Marcus Beale website updateWe’ve just completed a progression of the Marcus Beale Architects website that we designed in 2004. The aim was to improve accessibility by enlarging the main menu navigation, introducing access keys and brightly coloured hyperlinks. We also added an RSS news feed.
www.marcus-beale.com |
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15.08.06 – We’re hiring!We’re looking for a middle/senior web designer and a project manager. Click on the link for more details.
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11.07.06 – AstraZeneca animations launchedOur recent work for AstraZeneca to create a suite of corporate animations have proved an immediate success, with requests coming in from all corners of AstraZeneca’s global PR network. The animations will be used across video productions, PowerPoint presentations, marketing events and conferences worldwide.
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09.05.06 – Applied Works news feedAll our latest news updates are now available as a news feed.
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06.03.06 – Paul ArmfieldWe’ve just completed a short film of the recording session for Paul Armfield’s ‘Give Me Your Wings’.
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16.12.05 – Season’s GreetingsWe’ve just completed a seasonal e-card for AstraZeneca. The animation explores close crops of a snowflake crystalizing. See & hear the English version here:
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06.09.05 – Carrot & 10 Unity StreetWe’ve recently started working with niche property developer Carrot on the first of their new developments – 10 Unity Street in Bristol.
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02.09.05 – Soup Kitchen websiteWe’ve been working with Annabel Buckingham & Thomasina Miers (winner of Masterchef) to produce the accompanying website for their new book ‘Soup Kitchen’. The book is a unique collection of soup recipes donated by top chefs & food writers. 70% of the proceeds will go directly to charities for the homeless. It’s a beautiful book full of great recipes – go buy one!
www.soupkitchen.org.uk |
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27.07.05 – AstraZenecaWe’re excited to be starting a major progression of AstraZeneca's international website that we originally designed back in 2002. In addition to this, AstraZeneca are keeping us busy with other projects including exhibition banners, posters & Flash presentations.
www.astrazeneca.com |
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21.07.05 – Spiritualized website liveToday we launched the brand new website for Spiritualized, a band we’re very proud to be working with. Frontman Jason Pierce has recently been very ill. We wish him all the best and a speedy recovery.
www.spiritualized.com |
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10.06.05 – Market Squared websiteMarket Squared website launched.
www.marketsquared.co.uk |
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25.05.05 – Design Typography websiteWe’ve just completed a redesign of the Design Typography website:
www.designtypography.com |
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23.05.05 – Spiritualized teaser site launchToday we launched the new teaser website for Spiritualized, ahead of the full site launch later next month.
www.spiritualized.com |
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05.05.05 – Branding for Making Markets conferenceApplied Works has produced branding materials for Market Squared’s forthcoming Making Markets conference in June. Items include magazine adverts, inserts, direct mail and exhibition banners.
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30.03.05 – Paul Armfield sessionsToday we filmed Paul Armfield and the Four Good Reasons recording some tracks for their forthcoming second album. |
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13.03.05 – Spiritualized website underwayWe’ve started work on a new website for the band Spiritualized. |
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25.02.05 – Moth screeningYesterday evening we attended the screening of Moth, a short film by Amulet Films for which we created the opening titles and publicity posters. The final film was beautifully executed, and it was great to see our work on the big screen.
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27.01.05 – Market Squared identity launchedWe’ve recently been working on a new identity for market consultancy Market Squared. Drawing on the influence of the subject, we’ve created the entire identity by hand. All stationery was printed by Hand & Eye Letterpress.
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05.01.05 – GlaxoSmithKline identsWorking with Communique360, we’ve just completed a family of 9 motion graphics idents for GSK’s e–learning network ‘myLearning Live’.
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21.12.04 – We’ve movedIt’s been a very busy couple of months but we’ve finally settled into our new surroundings - and we’re enjoying it very much! |
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15.10.04 – AstraZeneca wins employer’s website awardAstraZeneca’s UK careers website, designed by Applied Works, has won ‘Best Employer’s Website’ of the National Online Recruitment Awards 2004.
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04.08.04 – AstraZeneca finalist in Marketing Design AwardsWe’re delighted to announce that our work on the design of AstraZeneca’s international website is a finalist in the ‘Online & new media’ category of the Marketing Design Awards 2004.
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01.08.04 – Cubic Interactive - intranets for efficient businessLaunch of new positioning & identity for intranet specialist Cubic Interactive:
www.cubic-interactive.com |
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01.07.04 – Marcus Beale ArchitectsWimbledon based Marcus Beale Architects (MBA) today launched a new identity and website developed by Applied Works. We created a responsive, seasonal brand that changes throughout the year. In addition, the homepage of the site reacts to daylight, getting dark at dusk and light again at dawn.
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26.02.03 – Jac-Sac identity & website launchJac-Sac today unveiled its new brand identity developed by Applied Works. We have been working for a number of months with the product’s inventor Matt Wender, refining and developing the garment and brand style.
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05.02.03 – Virgin surpasses 1/2m viewsThe success of our 2 viral campaigns for Virgin Experience has been rubber-stamped by outstanding 6 week statistics provided by DMC, who seeded and tracked the clips via several dozen seed routes. As of today, the 2 clips have received 550,663 on and offline views between them, and this figure is continuing to grow steadily week by week.
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03.12.02 – Second Virgin viral clip liveRafter Man, the second of two viral marketing videos for Virgin Experience, was released today. The clip depicts a man who’s become rather obsessed with the memory of a white water rafting experience he’s had. As with the first clip, Pamper Girl, the movie offers the viewer the chance to enter a competition to win an experience via a hotspot link. The Pamper Girl clip has now surpassed 50,000 online views (along with many more which cannot be tracked), and has reached number 1 on IFILM.com’s most popular commercials chart. |
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28.11.02 – Virgin campaign week 1 results‘Pamper Girl’, the first of two viral marketing videos produced for Virgin Experience, has received excellent first week results with over 36,000 trackable online views via a number of different seed routes. The clip shot straight to number 1 in the Lycos Viral Chart in less than 12 hours where it still remains, breaking the Chart record for daily visits by over 300 percent. In addition, the clip has also proved very popular on IFILM.com where it has received a further 13,000 online views, taking it to number 2 in the IFILM ‘Most Popular Commercials’ chart. |
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20.11.02 – Virgin viral campaign launchedVirgin Experience today launched the first of two viral marketing video clips produced by Applied Works.
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