GSDH developed a logo for Scoreloop. Scoreloop provides a technology for mobile game developers (e.g. iPhone developers) who want to turn their single player game into a multiplayer game. Very interesting, check out their soon to be launched website: www.scoreloop.com

We are very much looking forward to the latest addition to our creative team!

Capetonian Genie started her career as an interactive designer quite recently, as she originally comes from a Fine Arts background. She studied a BA degree in Fine arts at the University of Pretoria, specializing in drawing and stop motion charcoal animation.

She went to London for two years, where she worked as a chef. While she was chopping away 15 kgs of onions Genie realized that she needed to find a way to channel her creative abilities in a medium that had a bit more career potential. She returned to Cape Town in 2005 to do a diploma in Multimedia design.

Genie started her career at hellocomputer as a designer and flash animator - and this very successful. But now she joined GSDH, lucky us!

Because of her fine arts background Genie likes to bring a quirky sense of style and illustration, to a traditionally slick design field.

The illustration on top was done for the SA/UK exhibition, organized by Rudi de Wet from South Africa and Pete Lewis from the UK. They were working together at the Amicollective at the time, and the exhibition showcased the work of South African and UK illustrators.

It was done in Photoshop, using a Wacom tablet.

This is quite nifty:

“Like magic, transparent parts of a PNG in your MovieClip are ignored during mouse interactions. Check it out!

Normally the clear areas of a PNG are treated as solid, which can be especially frustrating when dealing with a lot of images that overlap each other because they tend to block mouse interactions on the clips below them.

This utility fixes that so that mouse events don’t occur until you bump against a solid pixel, or a pixel of any transparency value besides totally clear. InteractivePNG lets you set an alphaTolerance level to determine what transparency level will register as a hit.”

http://blog.mosessupposes.com/?p=40

GSDH is proud to welcome two more members in Cape Town.

Rob Picard, maintaining the international tradition, is from Belgium and will be doing an internship in the range of illustration and design in order to improve his skills. He studied Industrial Design and Packaging; however he is now concentrating on artistic illustrations. We certainly want to assist this passion of his and are really looking forward to see his work.

Hanne Jensen, born in Hamburg, has already been living in Cape Town for a couple of years and is now boosting our local project managing team. She graduated from the FH Kiel in Technology Management and Marketing before she moved down as an intern to South Africa. Since then Hanne has gained a lot of experience in the range of project management and marketing in various companies. Hanne is a professional and pro-active addition to the GSDH team.

GSDH designed and developed a completelly dynamic XML and ActionScript 3 driven Flex application for Kneipp.

The application is a tool that allows users to pick a certain health-indication group (e.g. pregnancy) via a intuitive & innovative navigational concept. In a next step the visitor can pick the most important vitamins and minerals within this indcation group and learns about nutritional facts and Kneipp products which will supplement in that particular field.

The development of the tool was real fun and the tool itself turned out really well!

Check out the “Nutritional Circle” here

I have been working on this graphic in between projects and have made it available for download as a desktop wallpaper. Enjoy

Download the wallpapers here:
1024 x 768
1280 x 1024
1280 x 800
1440 x 900
1680 x 1050
all of the above as .zip

Philips Medizin Systeme GmbH (the German division of PHILIPS Healthcare) asked us to design and develop a Flash game for their intranet. The game is a camel race where all sales people race each other based on each person’s daily order intake and it will be used as a inHouse motivational tool.

The game was developed in ActionScript 3, Adobe Flex, Flash CS3 and Adobe Illustrator.

We love Flash game development, AS3 and design and the game turned out to be quite fun…

Check it out here (all content, names and numbers are dummy content)

GSDH is happy to announce the entry of two new great talents on the field of Flash and ActionScript programming to our Cape Town team.

Edward Davies has started his successful career as a programmer and web designer quite some time ago and has gained experience in another agency and as a freelancer previously to GSDH. Edward did a BSc in Software Engineering at the University of South Africa. Additionally he completed various courses to improve his skills in the field of webdevelopment. Edward is fluent in ActionScript 2 and 3, Flash, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, XML and knows quite a bit about design and animation.

Our second new entry is Wayne Langman. He finished his training at the well-known institutions CTU Training Institute and the City Varsity College. Wayne is also a Flash-developer and gained quite some work-experience at a well known Cape Town based ad agency before joining GSDH.

Last but not least we would like to introduce our new Designer. His name is Ernst Lass and he is a true Captonian. He graduated as “Student of the Year 2006” from the renowned City Varsity College, where he did an Advanced Diploma in Multimedia Design. He is a master with the Adobe programs Illustrator, Photoshop and Flash and he has already gained some work experience at some other agencies in Cape Town before he was attracted by GSDH. We are more than happy to have him working with us.

GSDH cordially welcomes the new team members and is looking forward to working with both!