We love our servers and we love playing with gadgetry so we decided to combine the two. We picked up some traffic lights off ebay, cleaned them off and cracked out the soldering iron. We’ve built an arduino and some custom circuitry into the traffic lights. The arduino checks the status of our servers every few seconds and switches the lights to let us know what’s going on. Green when everything’s good, amber when things aren’t running at 100%, and flashing red for those rare occasions where something needs our immediate attention.
For those times when we’re away from the studio, or need to find out exactly what’s going we have also created an online dashboard (see pic below) which shows us an overview of the overall health of our technical infrastructure, and tells us the status of individual servers and services. There’s even a switch on the dashboard to let us enable disco mode, when we feel like kicking back in the studio.
We should come clean and credit our source of inspiration. Back in the Autumn we came across this blog post on engadget. We liked it so much that we decided to build our own!
March 3rd, 2012
Category: | Branding | Print | Web |
Yesterday (Friday March 2nd) BBC Radio 1 announced the lineup for this year’s Creamfields – the UKs biggest dance music festival – which takes place over the August Bank Holiday weekend in Daresbury, Cheshire. With David Guetta, Deadmau5, Tiesto, Skrillex and many more on the bill this year is likely to be yet another sellout.
We’re delighted that, once again, The Cream Group have chosen us as their design partners for the festival. This is the fourth year in succession that we’ve designed and delivered the campaign. You can see our creative for the teaser poster below or visit the Creamfields website.
In related news we’ve also been commissioned to deliver the 2012 Cream Ibiza campiagn which launches later this year – more on this soon!
December 2nd, 2011
Category: | 3D worlds and games | Company | Web |
In an uncharacteristic display of festive goodwill we have created a suitably seasonal game which allows you, the player, to bash us, Corporation Pop, on the head! With more than a nod to the ever popular Whac-a-Mole you can test your reflexes by trying to click on our avatars as they pop up from their snowy burrows. Your scores are entered on the Leaderboard and you can impress your friends by tweeting your success or posting to your facebook wall. We’ll be converting the highest score (achieved before 3rd January) in to pounds and making a donation to WaterAid.
The game has been created using the canvas element of HTML5 which allows us to use javascript to create the animation rather than using third-party software like Flash. This has the benefit of allowing the game to be played, without a plugin, across multiple javascript enabled browsers on devices including the iPhone and iPad (which don’t support Flash).
You can play the game at corporationpop.co.uk/xmas
November 25th, 2011
Category: | Motion | Print |
From humble beginnings in 1989 Bench has grown to become one of the most widely recognised global fashion brands with a network of stores around the world and many more outlets through major retail chains.
To celebrate this success and over twenty years of the brand’s history Bench appointed us to create a video showreel and accompanying book. Both the showreel and the book are packaged in a custom box along with samples of Bench clothing. The package will be used by the International sales team to help win new business.
For the showreel we have used archive images, artwork and video clips overlaid with graphics to create an animated two-minute montage. Meanwhile the 24 page case-bound book contains spreads influenced by the video and additional sales and product information.
Emily Frazer, International Marketing Manager at Bench said: “Having worked with Corporation Pop on a number of projects including several campaign videos, they were a natural choice for this project. Over the course of four weeks, Corporation Pop were efficient, forward thinking and kept communications clear and frequent, making sure we were informed fully through every step of the process. The finished products looked great and were a brilliant asset to the brand to use internationally, and we will definitely be working with them again in the future.”
