Easily Distracted

The Eye of the Beholder

Leigh Whipday — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:48:06 +0000

This is a quick design I did for my friend Peter Smyth to use in his pitch to the BBC. He was presenting an idea for a programme for BBC Three called The Eye of the Beholder. The aim of the pitch was to win a four month internship, which he won.

The Genius of Guinness

Leigh Whipday — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:53:00 +0000

A friend sent me this. Brilliant.

FTPE Website

Leigh Whipday — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:26:55 +0000

Finally, after lots of hard work the First Transpennine Express website has gone live. I did all of the design and animation at Code and the illustrations were done by Migy. It’s bursting with colour and fun and certainly not what you’d expect from a train website. We’ll be adding new features in the coming months too so keep checking back for updates.

Check it out here.

Matalan Retail Site

Leigh Whipday — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:53:49 +0000

The Matalan retail site went live today. I worked with John Lander on the design of the site for Code.

Epson Characters

Leigh Whipday — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:34:42 +0000

These are some characters I created for the Epson 40th anniversary microsite we did at Code. They weren’t used in the end but I like them anyway.

Hobnox Audio

Leigh Whipday — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:55:51 +0000

One of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen done in Flash. Hobnox Audio is like Reason, but built using Flash. Have a go, it’s ace.

Baby Moviestar

Leigh Whipday — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:27:38 +0000

Woohoo! The Huggies Baby Moviestar microsite I designed and animated for Code recently won a DADI award for ‘Best Campaign Which Became Viral‘. This was on top of the silver it won at this year’s Roses Advertising Awards.

Actionscript was all done by my good friend and Flash hero Stu Hamilton.

Have a look at the site here.

M-Party Microsite

Leigh Whipday — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:56:00 +0000

This is the microsite I’ve recently designed and animated for Matalan’s M-Party stores for Code. Go to the Matalan homepage and follow the M-Party link from the left-navigation to check it out.

The Beast Is Back

Leigh Whipday — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:36:04 +0000

One of my favourite illustrators, Christopher Lee has added some cool new work to his site www.thebeastisback.com.

Off with my head

Leigh Whipday — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:56:41 +0000

I was excited to receive my copy of Guidelines for Online Success after hearing so much about it. Beautifully made and full of contributions from some of the world’s best agencies, things were looking good. However, after reading the first 2 chapters I couldn’t help but feel a bit let down…

I was surprised at how little information there actually was on each topic. I mean, how can you cover something like viral in just three paragraphs and three dos and don’ts? Don’t get me wrong, I think the information in this book is very useful. I just thought it might be a bit more extensive rather than being packed full of images.

The good causes section written by Martin Hughes of WEFAIL is very funny though.