Well, another mad month or so has elapsed, and we're rapidly descending into Summer Break here at the ER- Kraig's awayed to India on sabbatical for six or so weeks, the Chef's gone to ground somewhere deep in an East Melbourne bunker, Shannon's just gotten hitched in fine style on the Central Coast (Raise your glasses, then!), Fady's taken to his gaming parlour to give the Nintendo Wii a jolly good seeing to, and Rocko's mere hours from hitting the highway on a Hunter Thompson Lite desert tour.
But! Festive revelry or non, we're still knee deep in a raft of projects well into the New Year- so much so that we've had to shut down in January to roll the sleeves up in the ER Lab and get to work on some very special new endeavours...more of which we'll be revealing next year.
First, though, check out the Flash 8 preview of our Chivas Golf promo for the upcoming Chivas Life promotion. Special thanks to Ryan Media, who shot our golfing footage and really should have a website through which to pimp their excellent production services.
We've also completed work for online content delivery gurus Streamspace, and have put a huge USB drive presentation job for Marriott Hotels to bed in the last week or so, with the aid of Branded Items.
In addition to January's tinkerings, upcoming projects include sites for The George Lane Bar and Mac Daddy Sopranos, product and site launches for Australian Nutritional Supplements, and an explosion of content for our friends at SAGA.
So, for now, festive greetings to you and yours, keep safe if you're travelling, and yes, Gatorade and Nurofen is indeed a smashing hangover cure come January 1, 2007.
Most importantly- a huge thanks for all your support this year- see you on the other side!
Rocko
Friday, December 15, 2006
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Thursday, October 26, 2006
SAGA & More
Contrary to popular (and entirely well founded, come to think) belief, we've not dissolved into a puddle of exhausted alcoholic muck post- Adelaide jaunt; there's simply been far too much STUFF on that's eaten up all our valuable News Updating time!
First cab off the rank are our new chums at the South Australian Gridiron Association, who've brought us on board to update their branding and online presence in conjunction with Adelaide based creative dynamos Penguin. Check out the new look site for the Eastside Razorbacks, and keep an eye out for a fully tooled up SAGA homepage in the very near future!
Our Adelaide visit also strengthened our ties with advertising agency KWP! (they even bought us lunch!). We'll be developing some cool new promotions in conjunction with the guys in the coming months- look out for new Chivas Life web action in the weeks ahead.
What else is on the plate? We're in the process of finishing off an extensive CD-ROM for Footy Vic, have put together a new site for our hygiene oriented friends at Virogard, are in the process of getting up and coming label Johnny T's new web presence off the ground, and are looking forward to a whole raft of fashion related undertakings for our friends at NMBQ, KDT and Snikity.
Oh, and check out the new site for local textiles consultants Pryor Concepts while you're poking around our wares, too.
Alright, then- back to work it is.
Promise to keep a more regular updating schedule from now on!
First cab off the rank are our new chums at the South Australian Gridiron Association, who've brought us on board to update their branding and online presence in conjunction with Adelaide based creative dynamos Penguin. Check out the new look site for the Eastside Razorbacks, and keep an eye out for a fully tooled up SAGA homepage in the very near future!
Our Adelaide visit also strengthened our ties with advertising agency KWP! (they even bought us lunch!). We'll be developing some cool new promotions in conjunction with the guys in the coming months- look out for new Chivas Life web action in the weeks ahead.
What else is on the plate? We're in the process of finishing off an extensive CD-ROM for Footy Vic, have put together a new site for our hygiene oriented friends at Virogard, are in the process of getting up and coming label Johnny T's new web presence off the ground, and are looking forward to a whole raft of fashion related undertakings for our friends at NMBQ, KDT and Snikity.
Oh, and check out the new site for local textiles consultants Pryor Concepts while you're poking around our wares, too.
Alright, then- back to work it is.
Promise to keep a more regular updating schedule from now on!
Monday, October 2, 2006
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Top Secret Projects Unveiled!
Produced in conjunction with our chums at KWP! in Adelaide and hot off the proverbial, here's our closely guarded new project in all its painstakingly crafted glory:
SA Tourism Activity Seekers Microsite.
Look out for the accompanying TVC and print campaign just about any moment now!
Also hitting the 'net this week is By Design: Mind and Body's new site; drop by to get the down low on all the latest fitness and well being news and tips.
Sadly, Chef has let his 7 day trial gym membership expire; stricter adherence to the principles outlined at By Design might just see him make it through our boozy rock 'n roll fact finding tour of Adelaide late next week.
Finally, but no less important for it, it's Spring Fashion Week in Melbourne once more.
We Engine Roomers are proud to be rolling out a new folio site for insanely chic rising stars Khoi Dinh Tran.
You should also check out Fashion Week exhibitors and ER favourites Roba Designs' catalogue site, and be certain to say 'hi' to the boys if you spy them around the Fashion Week traps.
(There could be dire repercussions if you don't; have you seen the size of them?!)
We'd also like to remind you to check out our close personal friends at New Model Beauty Queen's site; these are the guys behind the scenes, the makers, printers and consultants who see all those garments through the production process; be sure to check out some of their work at the Beautiful Fear event on Thursday the 7th!
That would be pretty much IT for this installment; assuming Chef and Jones make it back relatively sobre and capable from their Adelaide jaunt, one of us will be in touch soonish!
-Jones (Yes, it's 11.18pm and I'm still here.)
SA Tourism Activity Seekers Microsite.
Look out for the accompanying TVC and print campaign just about any moment now!
Also hitting the 'net this week is By Design: Mind and Body's new site; drop by to get the down low on all the latest fitness and well being news and tips.
Sadly, Chef has let his 7 day trial gym membership expire; stricter adherence to the principles outlined at By Design might just see him make it through our boozy rock 'n roll fact finding tour of Adelaide late next week.
Finally, but no less important for it, it's Spring Fashion Week in Melbourne once more.
We Engine Roomers are proud to be rolling out a new folio site for insanely chic rising stars Khoi Dinh Tran.
You should also check out Fashion Week exhibitors and ER favourites Roba Designs' catalogue site, and be certain to say 'hi' to the boys if you spy them around the Fashion Week traps.
(There could be dire repercussions if you don't; have you seen the size of them?!)
We'd also like to remind you to check out our close personal friends at New Model Beauty Queen's site; these are the guys behind the scenes, the makers, printers and consultants who see all those garments through the production process; be sure to check out some of their work at the Beautiful Fear event on Thursday the 7th!
That would be pretty much IT for this installment; assuming Chef and Jones make it back relatively sobre and capable from their Adelaide jaunt, one of us will be in touch soonish!
-Jones (Yes, it's 11.18pm and I'm still here.)
Friday, August 25, 2006
Lightning Update
As promised- some new sites!
Montie's Bar
Dew South
360 Events
Currently deep in the lab hashing out a hot new micro-site for SA Tourism; Ben and Garth will be jetting to Adelaide in the weeks ahead to press the flesh with our good friends at KWP regarding some exciting developments in the advertising neck of the woods, too.
Otherwise- we've rolled up the sleeves and have some hot new idents for our friends the Shred Bettys and StreamSpace in development, and the By Design site's not looking too shabby, either.
More on our top secret Spring project next time, too!
It's Friday,
Jones
Montie's Bar
Dew South
360 Events
Currently deep in the lab hashing out a hot new micro-site for SA Tourism; Ben and Garth will be jetting to Adelaide in the weeks ahead to press the flesh with our good friends at KWP regarding some exciting developments in the advertising neck of the woods, too.
Otherwise- we've rolled up the sleeves and have some hot new idents for our friends the Shred Bettys and StreamSpace in development, and the By Design site's not looking too shabby, either.
More on our top secret Spring project next time, too!
It's Friday,
Jones
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Thursday, August 3, 2006
Jones Accepts The Handball From Chef
...who's having a less than stellar time of it, what with his prized ugg boots finally succumbing to the cruel whims of Whirlpool fate- vale, you mighty, odorous bastards: we'd almost come to terms with your seemingly symbiotic relationship with the Chef's lower extremities.
Anyhap, footwear catastrophes aside, it's been a pretty decent few weeks for The Engine Room; embarrassingly, it seems we're now a triple award winning studio, as most recently voted by the preeminent Australian Web Designers Network; their very stylish Platinum Seal of Approval rests right here:
Shiny.
Other big news includes the launch of Boags' Gallantry Is Back site, as seen recently in MX and Kontraband. 75,000 individual views (and counting!) in the site's first fortnight online means that there are quite a few starstruck romantics out there revelling in their own personalised love jingles at this very moment.
We've also launched Roba Designs online store; if you're of the 6 foot plus persuasion and in the market for some unique wearables, give the guys' site a visit, pronto!
There're a whole slew of projects currently in the works, too: upcoming weeks will see the launch of a hot new site for Montie's Bar in Fitzroy (The Engine Room's watering hole of choice!), a new site for personal trainers By Design: Mind & Body (whose services we really should consider utilising), and the unveiling of Dew South's all new page.
That's not even taking into account a few of the more top secret efforts in production- be sure to check back regularly for all new updates and the odd embarrassing personal revelation.
Be sure to drop Chef an email to commiserate re: ugg boot loss, too. It's the decent thing to do.
Soon,
Jones
Anyhap, footwear catastrophes aside, it's been a pretty decent few weeks for The Engine Room; embarrassingly, it seems we're now a triple award winning studio, as most recently voted by the preeminent Australian Web Designers Network; their very stylish Platinum Seal of Approval rests right here:
Shiny.
Other big news includes the launch of Boags' Gallantry Is Back site, as seen recently in MX and Kontraband. 75,000 individual views (and counting!) in the site's first fortnight online means that there are quite a few starstruck romantics out there revelling in their own personalised love jingles at this very moment.
We've also launched Roba Designs online store; if you're of the 6 foot plus persuasion and in the market for some unique wearables, give the guys' site a visit, pronto!
There're a whole slew of projects currently in the works, too: upcoming weeks will see the launch of a hot new site for Montie's Bar in Fitzroy (The Engine Room's watering hole of choice!), a new site for personal trainers By Design: Mind & Body (whose services we really should consider utilising), and the unveiling of Dew South's all new page.
That's not even taking into account a few of the more top secret efforts in production- be sure to check back regularly for all new updates and the odd embarrassing personal revelation.
Be sure to drop Chef an email to commiserate re: ugg boot loss, too. It's the decent thing to do.
Soon,
Jones
Monday, July 24, 2006
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Welcome to The Engine Room
Greetings all, this is the first filler post for the ER blog, I will encourage Garth to edit (delete) it later as he is far funnier on the type than I, but I felt we needed something more original than latin sample text in the blog.
So in the absence of wit I'll deliver the facts, as I see them, at this the birth of a super studio. As we emerge blinking into the light and open our first bank account, get baptised by the glory of ASIC and suckle greedily at the teat of company credit cards, we pause to look back to our parent companies Neografik and NMBQ whose folios we have so blatantly plundered.
OK that’s enough pause, we are a now a Multi award winning design company, that’s right 2 count them 2 website of the week/month/second awards for Engine Room Online courtesy of Creative Public and The Webmaster Awards.
And here's what they look like:
So proud.
New stuff in the works that hasn't made the folio yet includes an interesting piece of work for the Boag’s St George website courtesy of
AJF Partnership and our ever benevolent benefactors the masters of moving pictures for the electric internet Vividas. This viral campaign sited at
Gallantry Is Back saw us putting a finely flash engineered backend to some supplied storyboards the result of which allows you to send a song to your chosen lord or lady in the fine tradition of the knightly serenade. Have fun with that one.
Other work on the go includes a total design rework for the South Australian Gridiron League and Merchcart a customised e shopping cart for the fashion and music industries.
Cheers,
Chef
So in the absence of wit I'll deliver the facts, as I see them, at this the birth of a super studio. As we emerge blinking into the light and open our first bank account, get baptised by the glory of ASIC and suckle greedily at the teat of company credit cards, we pause to look back to our parent companies Neografik and NMBQ whose folios we have so blatantly plundered.
OK that’s enough pause, we are a now a Multi award winning design company, that’s right 2 count them 2 website of the week/month/second awards for Engine Room Online courtesy of Creative Public and The Webmaster Awards.
And here's what they look like:
So proud.
New stuff in the works that hasn't made the folio yet includes an interesting piece of work for the Boag’s St George website courtesy of
AJF Partnership and our ever benevolent benefactors the masters of moving pictures for the electric internet Vividas. This viral campaign sited at
Gallantry Is Back saw us putting a finely flash engineered backend to some supplied storyboards the result of which allows you to send a song to your chosen lord or lady in the fine tradition of the knightly serenade. Have fun with that one.
Other work on the go includes a total design rework for the South Australian Gridiron League and Merchcart a customised e shopping cart for the fashion and music industries.
Cheers,
Chef
Monday, June 5, 2006
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