Partnering with Dan Nadel and Vectorpark, we made an iPhone app and website to accompany John Baldessari’s retrospective, Pure Beauty, at LACMA.
CLIENT: ForYourArt and Ovation
CREDITS:
Creative direction: Dan Nadel
iPhone interactivity/programmer: Patrick Smith/Vectorpark
Producer: Karl Ackermann
Designer: Eun-Ha Paek
Web programmer: Ranjit Bhatnagar
Production: Tomomi Sohn
Painting: Banquet Still Life(1667) by Abraham van Beyeren (Holland, 1620-1690)
As part of a massive redesign effort, SIKids.com came to us to create an immersive interactive experience that would encourage a boost in user registrations, promote sticky play and return visits, and drive traffic to the far corners of their site.
Working in partnership with Humanface, we created the Mascot D.E.N. (Dynamic Entertainment Nest) – a highly customizable avatar and interactive playroom, equipped with interactive animation, video, and messaging. We developed a number of interactive branded integrations as a unique add-on to the traditional SIKids.com media buy. We drove participation both in the application and across the site by way of an economy that rewards users for reading articles and playing games on SIKids.com. The economy awards points that can be spent in the application’s shop to collect items for the user’s playroom.
CLIENT: Sports Illustrated Kids/Turner Broadcasting
CREDITS:
Creative: Karl Ackermann, Jon Brzyski
Art, and Animation: Karl Ackermann, Jon Brzyski, Patrick Smith, Luke Boggia, Hal Lee
Flash Progamming: Ranjit Bhatnagar, Patrick Smith, Guy Hundere, Howard Wakefield, Karl Ackermann
Sound Design: Heather Perkins
Voiceover: Jon Brzyski
Backend Programming: WorkinMan, Turner Broadcasting
For Cadbury’s Bubblicious gum brand website, we drew on references from MAD magazine to the Saturday morning commercials of yore to develop this humorous and playful website designed with tweens in mind. In addition to the website, we created and developed 4 gum themed games.
CLIENT: JWTwo NY
CREDITS:
Karl Ackermann: Creative Direction, Copy
Eun-Ha Paek: Art Direction, Design, Illustration, Animation
Jon Brzyski: Design, Copy, Illustration
Takeshi Murata: Illustration, Animation
Sound: Jona Bechtolt, E*rock
Additional Animation, Illustration: Julian Gatto, Arthur Jones, Will Bredbeck
Programming: Patrick Smith, Howard Wakefield, Gabriel Jensen, Louis Santos, Smerc, Chris Robinson, Brad Pauly
To celebrate the Summer Olympics, we developed the Games of the Keyboard Olympiad for SIKids.com.
5 games in 1, Doodle Games draw inspiration from fast-button classics like Track and Field and demands both keen finger-eye coordination and flat out tapping speed.
Our hero is incepted into a hand-drawn world of his own creation and must compete in dream-tweaked versions of Olympic events in a quest for gold and glory.
We integrated the game with SIKids.com’s high score database, so that registered users have the option to post their scores for posterity.
CLIENT: Sports Illustrated Kids/Turner Broadcasting
CREDITS:
Creative, Art, and Animation: Karl Ackermann, Jon Brzyski
Additional Art: Arthur Jones
Additional Animation: Eric Benedict
Progamming: Howard Wakefeld
Sound Design: Heather Perkins
Working closely with Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam, we produced this online interactive microsite for Nike Women Europe. Each of the 22 athletes had a video or an illustrated book that opened up fullscreen. We also localized the site for 9 languages.
Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam
CREDITS:
Producer: Karl Ackermann
Progamming/Animation: Patrick Smith
Project manager: Eun-Ha Paek
Production assistant: Eric Benedict
Creative, Art, Design: Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam
We produced Wieden + Kennedy Portland’s Hair Metrics interactive campaign for Old Spice. The create and share app asked users to draw their head and body hair on a model diagram, then analyzed the drawing to assign one of 22 “Hairchetypesâ€, and offered advice on recommended Old Spice Hair and Body Wash usage.
Ad banners and Microsite
CLIENT: Wieden + Kennedy Portland
CREDITS:
Producer, Animation: Karl Ackermann
Additional animation: Eun-Ha Paek, Jon Bryzski
Progamming: Ranjit Bhatnagar
Creative Direction, Copy, Artwork: Wieden + Kennedy Portland
Working closely with Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s in-house team, we developed this interactive ad banner for Virgin Atlantic’s new haircutting service.
CLIENT: Crispin Porter + Bogusky
CREDITS:
Producer, Programmer: Karl Ackermann
Animator: Takeshi Murata
Producer, Creative Direction, Design: Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Mumbleboy, Karl Ackermann and E*rock collaborated on this game for the Aiwa TV section of Aiwa World.
CLIENT: Wieden + Kennedy London
CREDITS:
Art, Animation: Mumbleboy
Mumble House Interface Design, Programming, Additional Art: Karl Ackermann
Music, Additional Art: E*Rock
Mumblehop v1.5. Mumblehop gets an upgrade when it’s presented in the N.O.W.N. exhibition in Pittsburgh.
EXHIBITION: Wood Street Galleries
CREDITS:
Concept, Interaction design, Programming, Animation: Karl Ackermann
Art, Animation: Mumbleboy
Audio: E*Rock
USB 1.1 compatible pressure pads: Oliver Ackermann
Send a pee-greeting to your friends.
CLIENT: Sad peeople in the world.
CREDITS:
Concept, Art, Flash Programming, Server Prototype: Karl Ackermann
Server-side Programming: Chris Allert
Mumblehop v1.0. Hop on mumblepads to move through mumbleuniverse projected on a big screen.
EXHIBITION: Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY
CREDITS:
Concept, Interaction design, Programming, Animation: Karl Ackermann
Art, Animation: Mumbleboy
Audio: E*Rock
USB pressure pads: Oliver Ackermann
Curator, Shepard: Carl Goodman
Destroy cities around the world as the Y2K bug.
CLIENT: Nickelodeon
CREDITS:
Concept, Art, Programming (Macromedia Director): Karl Ackermann
Navigation system for Bark website. Dog lovers can now also pet dogs online.
CLIENT: Bark Magazine
CREDITS:
Concept, Illustration, Programming: Karl Ackermann
Unfrozen caveman make no friends. Maybe what he need is makeover.
CLIENT: MSN (Microsoft Network)
CREDITS:
Karl Ackermann: Concept, Art, Programming (Macromedia Director)
415 Productions: Producer
Itchy Richie has an itch. Use the keyboard to help him scratch it.
CLIENT: Self Pleasure
CREDITS:
Concept, Animation, Art, Programming: Karl Ackermann