The Topshop Helmut Newton Photo Machine
Fancy yourself as a model? A stylist? A photographer?
Get down to Topshop and you can be all three. The Newton Machine is here and it's not just for 20-something fashionistas - there's all sorts; girls, boys, girls and boys, men and women - there's even a couple doing something rather dodgy from behind.
Check out what's going on at Newton Machine Topshop for our latest collaboration with everyone's High Street favourite.
Oh! - and you could win a trip to Berlin and stay in the super chic Lux 11 Hotel...
You can read more about it in the portfolio.
Prepare for launch
We're proud to pre-launch the World's First Internet Balloon Race, to promote the launch of Orange's Animal tariffs for pay as you go customers.
As far as we're aware this is the first time that balloons have been set off across the web. And the balloons aren't just going to float over a little bit of the web. They're going to race over as much of the web as wants to take part - excluding sites that feature naked folk doing bad stuff.
To sign up for a balloon visit: http://www.playballoonacy.com
The person whose balloon goes the furthest over the 7 days of the race is going to get a killer prize. It's an £18,000 holiday to Ibiza for you and 7 mates. 18 grand gets you quite a bloody awesome holiday, even in Ibiza. And there's a load of daily prizes too.
If you've got a site / blog you can go here to get balloons to go over your site - we're hoping this will bring lots and lots of balloon fans to your pages once the race gets going.
Note: it's only in the registration stage just now - the real magic starts in a couple of weeks when the balloons set sail and the race begins...
Spot the Bull - It's Back & It's Better
Spot the Bull is back. And, it’s bigger and better than last year.
Orange were so pleased with Derek (the Bull) last year that they demanded a sequel. We auditioned far and wide, but couldn't do better than going back to the source. So, this year we're proud to present Winston - son of Derek. He's younger (obviously) and more nimble, so nailing exactly where he'll be at 3pm each day is a bit more challenging.
But by totally redesigning the site and adding these new features we've made it a whole lot more fun too.
- team play allowing you to win up to 8 tickets per group of friends
- live multi-cam video streaming from the field
- real time stats and bull-tracking - enabling strategic team play
If you want to win Glastonbury tickets - this is officially the biggest ticket givaway competition in the world - so get stuck in.
Play Spot the Bull now. Get your friends to play with you, and you’ll get a higher chances of winning those treasured tickets.
More Miss Moss
A juicy new site for Topshop to present Kate Moss's latest Collection. Read about it in the portfolio, or if you've got a second visit the site.
BBC Green is the new green and sustainable living website designed by Poke in collaboration with MultiAdaptor for BBC Worldwide.
A Brand New Site for Jenny Packham
Jenny Packham, designer of choice to Hollywood A-listers Keira Knightley, Eva Longoria and Beyonce, asked Poke to design a beautiful, new website showcasing both her ready-to-wear and bridal ranges.
The New Poke Website
OK, OK, we know we should have had a new site back in 2003 or whenever it was that having a new website was really cool, but you'd be amazed how long it takes for a bunch of web 'experts' to pull together what might look like a fairly basic site.
For a start client work always seems to get in the way. And then you've got to try and mediate between a load of people with very different views of what the site should look like, be like and everything down to the choice of bolts you use to attach the server to the wall in the place where all the computers go.
Anyway after lots of false starts and all kinds of constructive rowing (as in having arguments not paddling boats down rivers) here's our new site...
The purpose of the redesign is to make it easier to find stuff (and in the background make it a lot easier for us to update too).
It's not perfect and there's a few bits and bobs that we're still working on, but we've heard that it's OK for your site not to work. In fact it's really uncool if your site isn't in some kind of terminal beta.
Hope you like it in spite of any little wibbles, glitches or typos.
Orange Unlimited
We've just launched the most complicated and technically advanced single web page we've ever built. I suppose a 'never ending webpage' was always going to be a bit of a challenge. But it gets even trickier when you're trying to cram it full of really fun things that people can endlessly muck around with (and then make those things completely portable).
Why on earth would anyone conceive of such a thing?Well it's an unlimited web page, to promote a lots of unlimited offers from Orange.
You can read more in the portfolio. Or better still just go and visit the site and see for yourself what it's all about.
