Tag: Brave

Billington Cartmell, Brave and Closer Live :: Technical Director

Nov 24, 2012

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I was appointed Technical Director of Billington Cartmell (www.bcl.co.uk), their sister adverting agency, Brave (www.brave.co.uk) and their experiential arm, Closer (www.closerlive.co.uk) in January 2012. The group of companies between them represent a phenomenal array of leading clients including Carlsberg, Panasonic, Sennheiser, Philips, Unilever, Kraft, GSK, Lexus, Morrisons and Ernst & Young.
Panasonic :: European Roll-out for Community Platform

Nov 17, 2012

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Whilst at Brave, part of the Billington Cartmell group of companies, I was involved with a few significant projects for their lead client, Panasonic. The Panasonic Lumix G is their top selling prosumer camera and Brave had been running there very successful ‘Lumix Lifestyle’ UK community site based in WordPress that enabled professionals and amateurs alike to share images, techniques and…
John Frieda :: ‘Bag a Box’ Facebook App

Nov 17, 2012

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Whilst at Brave, I was responsible for an amazing, yet challenging, build for a John Frieda App on Facebook. Called ‘Bag a Box’ the app was a HTML5 game based on the principal of snaffling, whereby users could grab an evening wear item that they want from the previous owner and if they happened to ‘own’ the…
Ecover :: Experiential Event R&D

Nov 17, 2012

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Whilst Technical Director of Brave (part of the Billington Cartmell Group) I was asked to investigate and advise on the best way to allow two handheld Ecover Disinfection Sprays with ‘pull to release’ handles to be used as both game and content controls for an state of the art exhibition stand at a global event.…
Dyson :: AirBlade Facebook Campaign

Nov 17, 2012

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ricmax

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Whilst Technical Director at Brave (part of the Billington Cartmell Group of companies) I oversaw their client, Dyson’s Facebook Campaign to nominate public restrooms in America for an AirBlade sponsored makeover! Users could self nominate a restroom by adding it to a searchable database then leave comments and votes on it. The leader-board mechanic dictate which restrooms needed making over and the winners received a full refurb including Dysons revolutionary AirBlade hand driers. My…
Babybel :: SpaceHopper Campaign

Nov 17, 2012

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ricmax

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Whilst at Brave we created a Babybel’s SpaceHopper Campaign that allowed participants to upload their own picture (generally of children) and position and wrap it round a Babybel branded space-hopper. These were then printed remotely and delivered back to the user. The code was Php-based and the platform was WordPress.
Scotty Brand :: Pixar’s Brave Facebook App and Website Updates

Nov 17, 2012

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ricmax

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Scotty Brand, a Billington Cartmell client, is a leading vegetable brand sold in the majority of supermarkets. Scotty had teamed up with Disney and Pixar for the launch of Brave, the animated movie about a red-haired Scottish girl on an adventure. I was responsible for the build of the Facebook App which contained a simple…
Panasonic :: ‘Flag Tags’ Facebook and Mobile App

Nov 9, 2012

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ricmax

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Panasonic is the official worldwide Olympic partner in the Audio Video Equipment Category, and whilst working as Technical Director of Brave I was responsible for technically overseeing their 2012 Olympics campaign, Flag Tags. Flag Tags allowed people around the world to show support for their country in the London 2012 Games by projecting a map…