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pSKIN teaser by Colantes
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011pViewer
Sunday, December 18th, 2011
pViewer is a light image viewing and eCommerce solution. It’s an easy to implement web app for all amateur and professional photographers that would like an elegant gallery to showcase and ultimately profit with their work.
pViewer app
The app is now being used extensively by photography studios like Almeida-Caria and Multifoto, , among many others.
AICA
Friday, June 17th, 2011We are happy to announce the opening of the new site for AICA, the International Art Critics Association: http://aica.pt.
We used the CSS3 @font-face feature, tweaked to be compatible even with older browsers [we're looking at you IE6], to allow the usage of a non web safe font.
The clients desired a very minimal, text-oriented design. We limited the graphic to a single line that, starting from the top right corner, constructs the search box, until reaching the left side and branches itself into the menu and menu subitems.
AICA/Ministery of Culture - Visual Arts & Architecture Prize dynamically created list of past winners
FLOW
Monday, March 7th, 2011
Events > Gallery
FLOW new site is now officially open at http://flow-lx.com.
The site’s main objective is to showcase the great work of Marta Ivens Ferraz, a flower stylist and designer, and the FLOW store in Lisbon.
Ranging from arrangements for large events to a variety of personalized floral compositions, her work already transpires enough chromatic richness, design and texture for the whole site.
The layout is very content oriented, with minimal ‘noise’ from navigation and framing.
The loading intro [image below] was inspired in vintage magazines covers, a certain 50′s Harper’s Bazaar vibe, let’s say.
Intro
Almeida-Caria new web presence
Saturday, September 18th, 2010Two fashion and advertising photographers, Francisco de Almeida and José Caria, contacted us in order to develop their web presence.
Almeida-Caria.com is our first fully dynamic, javascript-only, ajax driven website. It uses a grid layout, dynamically created using the site’s own structure.
It was crucial avoiding the typical single page loading from the server, therefore all of the site’s content is accessible at once on the landing page.
We developed a loading procedure that fetches all of the content sequentially, parse it accordingly to its nature, while rendering each content holder ‘module’ and positioning it in the ‘grid’. A red bar below the main menu indicates the loading status.
Home Page
The layout will immediately reflect any added or removed section by the site’s administrative system. This will also occur on section sub-menus like the Portfolio and Services modules.
We wanted to prevent the usage of the browser’s horizontal/vertical scrollbars, requiring us to create alternative methods of navigation:
Logo Hidden Navigation
- The main menu, located on the top bar is the site’s “standard navigation”. When a menu’s item is clicked, the layout grid will slide vertically and horizontally and center the targeted content module on the screen. “Inactive” modules have half of the opacity than the current section.
- We created a keyboard navigation using cursor keys [← ↑ → ↓]. It allows the user to “maneuver” the layout in any direction, as long as it has any content module to “land on”.
- Selection can also be done by clicking any visible “inactive” module.
- Finally, a “secret” navigation was added to each module: clicking in each of the rectangles [representing each one of the site's sections] will activate the module represented in that location.
keyboard navigation screenshot - navigating the 'grid'
The portfolio modules use our recently developed pSlideShow javascript class, connected to the site’s database, to refresh all the images.
Portfolio>Events (pSlideShow example)
Each module grid-like logo is also created on-the-fly from the site’s tree structure. And like the layout, it will mimic the site’s tree structure.
Almeida-Caria.com is complemented with a social network presence in Facebook and Twitter.
Henrique de Carvalho: Memories Of An Explorer
Friday, June 11th, 2010
This micro site, was created in parallel with the main exhibition of one of Portugal’s greatests African explorers, 19th century Henrique de Carvalho.
Our aim was to use specific elements of the Henrique de Carvalho exploration itself as the main material of the site’s structure.
It can be reached at http://socgeografialisboa.pt/projectos/2010/henrique-carvalho.
An early teaser [last image] show the main layout framed using ornaments from that specific timeframe. This version was later substituted for the present one, a more visually ‘subdued’ layout.
Catarina Zimbarra new site
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Plura recently finished the new site for the photographer [and longtime friend of ours] Catarina Zimbarra: http://catarinazimbarra.com.
The main idea behind the site was to encapsulate Catarina’s two main core businesses: Events and Family Photography.
With that in mind two different ambient or themes were created, allowing the user to choose beforehand the type of content he wishes to see.
Even tough one can easily switch from one theme to another within the site, the main focus was to strongly separate those different contents visually.
Catarina’s new site uses our administration backend application, pAdmin, to edit, modify or add all of the site’s content.
Home / Theme Filter
Memory Grid Game
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Our first flash game is finally finished, The Memory Grid Game!
Requested for a recent Ginsana online advertisement campaign, this project was developed within a very tight schedule. Based on our ever growing pLib code library, this served as a starting point for a structure that will be used, hopefully, in many future games.
Basically it consists of “special tiles”, randomly distributed on a grid, and as long you remember them in time you should pass to the next level!
Argonarms.com refreshed
Friday, December 4th, 2009
Home Page: includes 2 clickable promotionals spots from partners/sponsors
The site for Argonarms [http://argonarms.com], the brand created by Bruno Baleiras, a young portuguese artist, was recently updated by Plura.
Bruno’s brand of work is mainly focused in customized redesign of various electric appliances. The idea was “born of a personal necessity to oppose the monochromatic dullness of this type of objects of daily use” where urban art like graffiti plays a major part in the overall aesthetics of the final works.
Later and as complement, it became necessary to engage in other interior design interventions, like furniture, wall, etc. as a mean to create fully customized and decorative environments for each client.
About Me Section
The site’s structure was completely rebuild from scratch, using the latest Actionscript 3.0 based framework from Plura, pLib. Its ‘bandwidth footprint’ was reduced to almost half given the modular structure on which it now operates.
Customized Appliances Gallery
IV SIL Ideas Competition – Santarém, Portugal
Monday, October 19th, 2009Located some 85km northeast of Lisbon, the city of Santarém was the target of the IV SIL Ideas Competition, which consisted in the renovation of the city’s bullfighting arena and its adjacent area.
Spain and Portugal have seen some of their arenas [ie. Palacio Vistalegre] evolve into multiporpose buildings housing commercial areas, alongside its most notorious function. The latter also has to accomodate different types cultural and sport venues.
The entry by João Bravo da Costa and Tiago Simões focused on the cultural history of the city and region, mainly its equestrian and bullfighting aspects. A surface covers and envolves the isolated ring structure and the new, loosely distributed, program.
The Atrium, Main Hall
The Atrium, Main Hall (entrance view)