Ben Stevens › Stuff that happened in 2008

I’ve recently finished a new web site for Backwater Media, which launched earlier today. It’s a simple Flash site but the Backwater guys and I are very pleased with its design and how it compliments their existing branding. Why not take a look at the site and some of the great short films they’ve produced: [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts to my site (last one back in April) but I’ve been very busy working on lots of lovely websites and other interactive goodness. Last week I arrived home from a fortnight in Antigua in the West Indies/Carribean, and it was without doubt the best vacation I’ve ever been on. [...]

It’s approaching two months since I made the decision to become a freelance interactive designer, and so far, touch-wood, there’s been very little to regret. Here’s what I’ve been up to over the last couple of months. During the first couple of weeks the priority was to get my name out there and do a [...]

Recent visitors to my site will probably have noticed that the design has changed (yet again), not long since the last major overhaul back in November. Well the reasoning behind this is not because I enjoy constantly re-designing it like I’m polishing a golden egg or something, it’s because I recently made the decision to [...]

Updated graphics created for Cabvision London, working with Liquid Digital Ltd. » Dynamic new look for animated Cabvision ident » Re-design of Cabvision interface with emphasis on usability You’ll see the new graphics in Cabvision taxis around London from March/April 2008.

It’s always nice to receive unexpected gifts, so I’d like to thank the nice people at D&AD for sending me their 2007 Student Annual. Lots of great work in there by a talented bunch of youngsters. My particular favourites are Nick O’Brien’s “Scream” poster for the London Horror Film Festival, and Marc Pavlovic’s “Oblo” sphere [...]

This is an animated clock screensaver I created for Liquid Digital using Flash, inspired by PixelBreaker’s Polar Clock. You can download the screensaver from their blog.

One of the lesser-known curses of being “creative” is that you tend to get creative ideas almost constantly, at any point of day or night, and usually when you’ve got an existing project already on the boil. In the past, most of the ideas I’ve had for potentially interesting projects would have been subject to one of [...]