Enjoy Human 2010
Client: Enjoy Human
Role: Designer, Developer (Front/Back, Flash)
When: 2009
I am so proud of this project. When the video production company Enjoy Human decided they wanted to radically revamp their site for 2010, we sat down together and planned everything out thoroughly. They knew they wanted something sleek, clean, and designed for widescreen monitors. But beyond that, they didn’t get too hung up on the trivial aesthetics like a lot of clients do (“Can we get the icons in cornflower blue?”), and instead focused on how to effectively present their impressive body of work. There were no last minute direction changes, no jumping from a horse to an elephant in mid-stride so to speak. The clear focus of all parties resulted in a clean, intuitively usable design, and some of the most beautifully efficient code I’ve ever produced.
In addition to designing and coding the site templates, I set up a high definition Flash video player that would handle varying aspect ratios. This player is integrated into the surrounding page in such a way that the page will adapt to the dynamic size and shape of the player. The video library is powered by wordTube, a Wordpress plugin I co-developed.
I created a custom Wordpress plugin to power the homepage featured content slideshow, which is a Flash AS3 application I built from scratch. Enjoy Human 2010 also uses a thumbnail generation plugin I built, originally for Antiquiet.
Check out the live site at enjoyhuman.com.
June 24th, 2010 at 1:16 am
I have to ask why you went with Flash for the image slider, you know its a compatibility issue. Or does it degrade gracefully to a js slider, in which case, I still ask why,
June 24th, 2010 at 9:38 am
because it was originally going to play video and there wasn’t a budget for rewriting it in jquery. but i agree, that’s the way it should be given what it does now.
June 24th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
that makes sense, just sucks for them
June 24th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
well their target audience is commercial and broadcast people on macs with big ass monitors (hence the super wide format). they’re not sweating iphone/ipad users at all. all of their content is high def video anyway.