It's important to find some time to focus on yourself, look at your brand, think about how well you're telling your story.

We did that at POP. We have a new website as a result.

A great many people worked vigorously to make this happen and I thank them for their extraordinary efforts.

POP Homepage - Target

POP Homepage - Amazon

POP Homepage - Nintendo

POP / Work

POP / Work / Brown-Forman

POP / Careers / Flash / ActionScript Developer

We launched the complete Brothers in Arms - Hell's Highway site for Ubisoft and Gearbox a few days ago and the response has been extremely positive. The team at POP focused on creating a rich and deep experience that conveys a reverence for the actual event BIA-HH is based on, 1944's Operation Market Garden.

One special section to note is the Timeline; a piece of premium content you don't typically see in a gaming site. Our Operation Market Garden Timeline covers each day of the operation with detailed descriptions, images from John Antal's book, maps, and exclusive historical video.

Story Section

Weapons

Characters

Characters Detail

Timeline

Timeline Exclusive Video

I open up iTunes this morning...

And then...

Gee, thanks, Apple.

I'm proud to announce that Professor Layton and the Curious Village has won the FWA Site Of The Day Award for February 28th, 2008.

Many thanks to the FWA judges, the fine folks at Nintendo, and the entire POP team.

FWA (Favourite Website Awards) is an industry recognised award program, established in 2000, showcasing websites who use cutting edge technology, together with inspirational ideas, that lead the way for future generations.

Yesterday I snagged Andy Zupko's super-amazing BorgEffects download which demos his new Effects branch for Papervision 2.0. It's very exciting stuff!

Since I'm not a big-time Flex user, I converted his borgEffects.as for use in the Flash IDE and decided to make it available for download. I thought it might be helpful to those struggling with Flex to Flash conversions.

Of course, I couldn't resist making a few changes by just messing around;

randomly changing the colorTransform settings onClick

using a different texture

changing the clippingPoint

etc...

To highlight the Flex to Flash diffs, I've commented my BorgEffects_flash.as like so:

// the FLEX WAY
//dae.load(XML(new shipAsset()), mats);
// the FLASH WAY
dae.load("cube.dae", mats);

To make it all hum, you'll need the latest build from the Papervision respository and be sure to point the BorgEffects_flash.fla Actionscript 3.0 Classpath to the class files in /branches/Effects/src.

Download the source files and have fun.

EDIT: I'm not sure exactly which revision of Great White this demo used, but since 2007 I'm sure a lot has changed. Proceed with caution!

This past Thursday night, Joel Eby and I gave a spirited presentation on Process of Design, focusing on a single project we had collaborated on at POP.

The event was organized by James Robinson of Mercury Cloud and held at their sweet offices. Kudos to James for putting this event together.

Jamie Monberg from HADW and James Robinson both shared smart and engaging presentations to an audience of 80+ designers.

The event was overwhelmingly positive and inspiring, and we are thrilled to have contributed to this new dialogue happening within Seattle's Interactive Design Community.

Over the past year I've gotten a lot of requests for my Zach Braff mii thanks to Kottke's celebrity mii contest. Now anyone can grab good 'ole Z.B. from the Check Mii Out channel that launched today.

Z.B. and a few of my favorites have been posted along with their entry codes. If you want to find them, just plug those entry codes into the Check Mii Out search.

Zach Braff Mii - 4031-8109-6516

Jerri Blank Mii - 7168-9119-0990

Luke Wilson Mii - 1127-8871-4030

Tom Cruise Mii - 5494-8549-6139

Jack Black Mii - 5497-5159-1634

Kyle Gass Mii - 9251-7484-3710

POP created ExpressTix Mobile for the Seattle Opera and we're very pleased that Apple has selected it to be a featured web app on Apple.com.

ExpressTix Mobile is a Tessitura integrated web application that allows patrons of the Seattle Opera to safely and securely select and purchase tickets using their iPhone or iPod Touch.