I'm James Shakespeare. I am passionate about relevant, thought-provoking design for printed media and the web. Currently I'm studying Multimedia Technology and Design at Brunel University, London. I work across a wide range of media and technologies. To find out more about me, click here, or to see what I do have a look at my portfolio. I also maintain a blog, updated regularly (kinda) with scribbles, ramblings and videos.
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Brunelsailing.com
05.09
An extensive redesign of Brunel University Sailing Club's website. The site was built on the popular Wordpress CMS and enables all members of the club to sign up and contribute news articles, photos and videos. The ease of use of the CMS ensures that future club members will be able to keep the site updated with fresh content without the need for FTP accounts, a design background or scripting or markup knowledge.
Martian Green
02.09
I made this game to give the user an interactive experience of terraforming and controlling artificial atmospheres. The object of the game is to nurture three specimens of plants to adulthood as quickly as possible. The user can modify the atmospheric conditions and adjust the speed at which time passes. The game was built in Flash using Actionscript 2. Plant and background images were made in Illustrator.
A few select pages I’ve created since starting my 1+ year placement at Messum’s.
StartaCollection.com: Complete site for the Start a Collection initiative, which focuses around a three day sale of 100+ works at Messum’s.
Michael Forster: A landing page for emails and publicity relating to the recently finished Michael Forster exhibition.
Andrew Hemingway: Another landing page, this [...]
Welcome to the English autumn. A quick 5 minute illustration upon returning home after a soaking.
Stolen from Digg this morning. I truly hope some vastly paradigm shifting event like Youtube or even Google dropping IE6 support happens really soon. I gave up developing for IE6 last year (hell, sometimes I can’t even be bothered to get IE7 bugs fully ironed out), but until support for it is severely cut, [...]
