Mike Rigley freelance Flash designer / developer based in London

Profile

Interactive developer and designer with over 9 years experience with web, CD-Rom and motion graphics. I’m confident leading a team or working away on my own. I like sharing what I learn and in return learning from other people.

I’ve been lucky enough to work across a varied range of projects using my varied range of skills. This has allowed me to explore a great range of work and win multiple awards from the likes of BAFTA, BIMA, IVCA and the Royal Television Society.

mike@mrmikey.co.uk

Clients

Sony
BBC / CBBC
M&S
Master foods
Sky
Coca-Cola
Channel4
Royal Insitution
BT
Nick Jr.
DTi
Virgin media
Sunday Times
Proctor & Gamble
Glaxo Smith Kilne
Ted Baker
Hendersons

Awards

Duracell and DTP's Summer Athletics for Waste Creative:
2009 Pixel Awards Sports Nominee
Elegance website for P&G:
Y Design award 2007 winner – The so successful award
Campaign Digital Awards 2007 – nominated
The Fimbles cd-rom for BBC Worldwide:
BIMA Winner: Best Training & Home Learning
BIMA Commended: Best use of CD/DVD/Kiosks
Right Start Award Winner: Gold Award
Design Week Awards Nominated: Interactive Media - Infomation
Inside-out website for channel 4 Learning
BAFTA Nominated: Interactive Factual category
IVCA Winner: Biz Net 2003 awards
IVCA Nominated: Biz Net 2002 awards
EMMA Nominated: 3-18 year old learning category
What if? web games (as part of gridclub.com) for channel 4 learning
BAFTA Winner: Interactive Award in online learning
EMMA Winner: 0-18 Learning category
Puzzle maths website for channel 4 learning
Royal Television Society Winner: Multi-media & Interaction 2001

Projects

we are the people we've been waiting Movie site for Spike/Elvis for Edge Dec 2009 visit site	We are the people movie is aboutthe state of eductation in britain. The site is a 2D parralax of 'paths' which the user follows around. I coded the movie's site in a short turn around. It has quite a few talking heads with people like Richard Brandson and Henry Winkler ('the fonz' oh yeah).

Virgin Media - See what you're missing Spike/Elvis for Virgin Communications Nov 2009 visit site	Virgin wanted to point out to everyone that they are better than Sky. They wanted to show, in an engaging way, all the breadth of content and cool stuff they have like video on demand and pausing live TV. Virgin wanted it to be better than the 3D video fly through that Sky have (which amused us as we made the Sky one a year earlier). This was a short turnaround project, just under 3 weeks, as Virgin had a two stage launch plan. But we managed to do near enough everything they wanted for stage two but by the stage one deadline - aren't we nice.

GIJoe game banners Turner for Waste creative Aug 2009 play HALO dropzone play Tank Commander	I coded 2 in banner games for the launch of GIJoe the movie. In HALO dropzone you take control of our hero as he jumps high altitude and avoids the sky mines and flak on the way down. In Tank Commander you get a tank to fight your way through the village and out to saftey. A few cool extra touches on these games are the smoke fumes that change colour and opacity based on the revs of the desiel engine and the real pyhsics of the drive tracks. No one asked for them, and it's a bit geeky, but I like it.

Duracell's Summer Athletics Duracell/DTP game tie-in for Waste Creative july 2009 2009 Pixel Awards Sports Nominee visit site	DTP's Summer athletics 2009 and Duracell got together and wanted an online experience to drive awareness of the game's launch and the new rechargeable batteries for the bunny ;) I coded the 4 events from the main game each with a bespoke game engine and control system to give the player a taste of what was to come on the wii.

Flora by Gucci Parfum site for Gucci feb 2009 visit site	Gucci's high standards were evident throughout the attention to detail in this project. My flash dev skills were needed to create highlights like the interactive 3D fly through of the 'flora' motif's history. I was also tasked with everything from html to after effects work when needed.

M&M'S Full Colour Gaming Flash site for MediaCom/Masterfoods Jun 2008 visit site	The M&M'S Full colour gaming site was for cross promotion with EA games. So I was tasked to develop 3 games along the lines of EA's finest... but using M&M's rather than golf balls or cars! I made 3 little physics based games where the track was destructable and the golf ball has a flight path O'meter and amfPHP highscores tables.

Fanta Crunk Off game Flash game for AKQA/Fanta Feb 2008 play game	You 'crunk off' (dance off for oldies ;) against the computer or challenge your friend (via email) to compete in a turn based game.

Kodak TrolleyDash Game design for OgilvyOne/Kodak oct 2007 click to play	I designed this trolley dash game for Kodak (while freelancing at OgilvyOne). The idea was to teach people about the package deals they could get from buying bundled products whilst having a bit of fun.

Elegance multilingual website for Proctor and Gamble sept 2007 Y design award winner 2007 Campaign Digital Awards - nominated 2007 www.lacoste-elegance.com	A lifestyle website to give info and aspiration for the 'Elegance' perfume from Proctor and Gamble. The site is in five languages, including ru_RU.

Information Design info viz and organic information design ongoing view spider explorer	I love the challenge of visualising massive data sets in an organic and user friendly way. Wether it be a small graphic to show loads of weather information in a single glance or creating dynamic environments that evolve as you navigate a massive database to find that useful set of data out of the 70,000+ items.

Zovirax website for GlaxoSmithKline Sept 2006 www.zovirax.co.uk	Polaroids are flung on the floor of a young lady's apartment. The user zooms in and around to explore the 5 stages of getting a cold sore.

Unilever careers - toothpaste interactive mpu Jan 2007 view mpu	Unilever wanted a 'bendy' empty toothpaste tube to show that the container can be recycled into various objects. So the MPU is a timed game allowing the user to bend the tube to make chairs or roofs.

Marks and Spencer's Homepage hero image carousel hero image carousel 2007 www.marksandspencer.com	Marks and Spencer wanted a easily updated image viewer and links for the homepage. The 'hero image' viewer sits in prime spot on the homepage and is updatable via their CMS. There is also a video player version.

The Fimbles - Fimbling Fun! cd-rom for BBC Worldwide march 2007 BIMA Winner BIMA Commended Right Start Award Winner Design Week Awards Nominated buy from amazon.co.uk	Fimbling Fun! is a CD-ROM for fans of TV program aged 2-6. I acted as head programmer on this project, making all the technical demos in the early stages. This was a lot of fun to work on as the Fimbles are so cute :) I am very proud of being able to name all the fimbles and their friends without having to think about it.

BBC Interactive TV Information Design + user testing	At the BBC's interactive TV design department, I designed and built interfaces and models for current and future interactive TV services as part of the 'Future Interface group'. This ranges from simple 'now and next' type screen overlays to imagining future interfaces for the next gen. of digital personal recorders which need to allow browsing and searching of 70,000 data items.

Window on Life - DNA 2 cd-roms for The Sunday Times Oct 2003	Commisioned by the DTI for the Sunday Times newspaper. There are over 400+ articles over both cds, these all come from a rational database on the discs. Each article has photos, diagrams or video clips to accompany it. This is a very dynamic project, that even generates graphic elements from the data. There is a full weighted search on both CD-Roms.

InsideOut Educational games for the RI 2002 BAFTA Nominated IVCA Winner 2003 IVCA Nominated 2002 EMMA Nominated play Human Cannonball play Energy Quest play Flick the Flea	Developed for the Royal Institute of Great Britain from some of my game concepts. The InsideOut website is designed for 11-14 year olds to help inspire them to science. I created 3 games for the site, Human Cannonball, Energy Quest and Flick the Flea. The InsideOut site was showcased in DIGIT magazine and BAFTA nominated.

Computational Design personal ongoing view spider explorer view painter view blit painter	Whenever I get a spare moment I try and make a small program that helps explore an area of computational design. This is design (or art) that is created through the use of interactive/itterated algorithms. These vary from experimental interfaces to 10 minute toys.

Quest Database driven learning tool 2001 (as the flagship section of gridclub.com) BAFTA Interactive Award EMMA Foundation Award BETT Award Learning beyond classroom explore Quest	From my original interface concept, I produced an exciting learning tool for 11-14 year olds to learn about the UK and it's places of intrest they can visit. The spinning menu and zooming map are an exciting way into the roughly 2000 pieces of database driven content. This flagship application helped gridClub.com walk away with a BAFTA and Emma awards.

What if? Educational games for Channel4 2001 (as part of gridclub.com) BAFTA Interactive Award EMMA Foundation Award BETT Award Learning beyond classroom	I produced 4 children's games as part of Channel 4's 'What If?' website, supporting the TV show of the same name. The games taught basic maths in an entertaining and transparent way.

CimexXmas 3d snowman christmas card 2001 play game	A rather dark Christmas viral email game where you play the part of a snowman who throws snowballs at other snowmen, whilst trying to avoid smashing the windows! This was a great project where my only brief was 'we need a game to go out via email and you have two weeks to do it in.