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Our second application for the iPhone is now available on the iTunes App Store. iYoga is a project that we completed for our client Breitschmid Productions and offers users two ways to practice yoga with high quality video instruction. Both the application and the videos are available in English and German.
For more information please check out the promotional website at www.iyogaapp.com.
I gave a presentation at last week’s ZĂĽrich Webtuesday on how to brand and customise an iPhone application without stomping all over the experience of using an iPhone. The talk initially focussed on laying down some ground rules on what to consider when converting an idea into visuals and how to use the UIKit components, before going through the code from our CITYGUIDE application and discussing our implementation of UITableViewCell hierarchies and how we achieved some of the features.
The event was really, really nice, thanks to the hard work and planning of Jonas Schnelli and Marc Ammann. The feedback we received afterwards was very encouraging and it was great to hear that a lot of people found it more useful that the recent day-long official Apple iPhone Tech Talk World Tour. Our next plans are to set up a full mobile developers group in ZĂĽrich. More news to be posted on this blog.
As promised I’ve made my presentation slides available below, although they are probably only useful to those who attended the event, as most of the content was in the dialogue and discussion. You can also download the full Keynote file complete with fancy transition effects if you’d prefer.
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: iphone branding)
2008 was a very busy year for us. Not only did we grow from 5 to 14 people (including our wonderful interns), but we moved to Nørrebrogade, opened a foreign office in Zürich, launched our new website and discovered how much fun making iPhone applications is.
In order to celebrate all of the above, we are throwing a *p*a*r*t*y* at the spacious new Copenhagen studio on Friday, 9th of January 2009 from 8pm.
If that wasn’t exciting enough - Russell, Frederik and new managing director, David Luisi, will all be in town.
So come and enjoy (some) free beers, (some) free snacks and (lots of) free music.
We can’t wait to see you all again!
Vi ses snart vores danske venner!
Nørrebrogade 32, 2.
2200 Copenhagen
Denmark
Friday 9th January 2009, from 8pm.
If you’re on Facebook then sign up at the event.
Image depicts party in a previous location and is only a serving suggestion.
We had our annual Danish Julefrokost (Christmas lunch) last Friday, which was also our intern Jacob’s final day with us. It was an emotional rollercoaster, but the meatfest with snaps made the farewell a little easier. Here are a few of pictures from the evening:
We would also like to announce that the Copenhagen office will be closed from today until January 5th, but we will still be checking our emails on mail@spoiledmilk.dk. On behalf of the entire crew - merry Christmas and a happy new year to all clients and friends.
Yesterday, Spoiled Milk hosted an in-house film shoot at their new Nørrebrogade studio in Copenhagen.
The Motion department is working on a project for CA - a major Danish unemployment insurance fund (a-kasse). We therefore transformed one of our offices into a state-of-the-art film studio and filmed three different people discussing their relationship with CA.
Our offices were buzzing and filled with green screens, cameras, lighting, sound equipment, a make up artist and nervous soon-to-be-filmed people… until it all ended with “it’s a wrap”!
While the Copenhagen office is busy enjoying themselves with Christmas parties and cooking up rice puddings, the ZĂĽrich folk are arranging fun events for the whole community!
Webtuesday - Developing for Apple’s iPhoneWebtuesday is a great monthly get together of the web development community in ZĂĽrich and surrounding areas. This month’s topic is straying slightly into other programming disciplines and will be focused on an introduction to creating native iPhone applications.
The event will be hosted by inclue7 and has been organised by Marc Ammann (Liip) and Jonas Schnelli (include7). I will also be doing a segment titled “How to brand without ruining the iPhone experience”.
Tuesday 16th of December at 19:30
For more information and to sign up
We are happy to invite you to the next Spoiled Milk ZĂĽrich party, where we will once again host a cosy gathering with good wine, super food and live music. This month’s band is Palkomuski. We hope to see you there!
Thursday 18th of December from 19:00
Salento Gourmet, Pfingstweidstrasse 6
Today is the day of our Christmas lunch here at the Copenhagen office. It’s a time for celebrating with pats on backs and a feast to start our final week before Christmas. It is also Jacob Klintrup’s last day with us as his internship ends. Jacob has been a great help with projects and strategic planning for our Motion team and today he will also cook a traditional Christmas lunch for us all.
No Danish Christmas lunch is perfect without ris ála mande (rice pudding with single “prize” almond) and therefore Jacob has customised our drill (which was being used to setup our new office) into a turbocharged cream whipping machine!
Or a video of demonstration:
Custom creamwhip on 12seconds.tv
The new Nikon D90 is a 12.9 megapixel digital SLR camera, with movie capture at up to 1280 x 720 (720p) 24 fps. That’s right! a DLSR that’s also a HD video camera. Quite simply it’s stunning :)
Click on ‘HD’ to watch the full movie in High Definition on the Vimeo site
Nikon D90 test from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.
For the Swiss launch, Nikon dropped cameraman Robert Bösch and speed climber Ueli Steck onto the Eiger by helicopter, leaving Ueli to climb the north face and Robert to film it using the D90. The quality of the resulting film (and the speef that Ueli ascends to the peak) is remarkable.
Spoiled Milk and NikonSpoiled Milk worked with closely with Köder und Stolp and Nikon to develop a Flash microsite to support the Eiger TV commercials and nationwide launch.
Visit the microsite
After our first iPhone application reached the dizzy heights of the Top 10 Swiss apps in the iTunes store, we sat down with CITYGUIDE to formulate the plan for a full-fat version 2.0, which we are proud to announce has just been completed and is now awaiting approval from Apple before it makes its way onto the app store.
“The ultimate video guide to Switzerland just got better – now with a completely fresh design, support for Germany and countless other updates. CITYGUIDE iPhone 2.0 lets you browse a list of selected cool places with summaries, images and contact information. In most cases you will also find professional videos that guide you through the location of your choice.”
Watch the version 2.0 screencast here!New features
The time has come when we simply need more space at our Copenhagen headquarters. So we’re excited to announce that our new home from December 2nd will be on Nørrebrogade. Please note that the office is officially closed this Monday for removals.
Please update your records:
Spoiled Milk ApS
Nørrebrogade 32, 2. sal
DK-2200 Copenhagen
Denmark
If you have an urgent issue, please contact Casper HĂĽbertz at casper@spoiledmilk.dk or +45 28 10 54 18.
We promise to bring you photos next week. Wish us luck :)
We finally threw our first ZĂĽrich party last Thursday at Salento Gourmet in Kreis 5 and met lots of new and familiar faces. There was even a live unplugged performance from Tanja Dankner. Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate with us and please keep in touch as we have a number of other events planned for the near future.
As you may have noticed, Spoiled Milk has been undergoing quite a radical growth in the last six months. We have tripled our team size and opened an office in Switzerland. Things have been moving so fast that despite everyone working together daily using fantastic tools such as Basecamp, Campfire, Skype and Beanstalk - there were still many team members who hadn’t met face to face or seen our Copenhagen headquarters
So, we gathered up all the people from the Swiss office and flew to Copenhagen for our first group meetup. We spent the morning and early afternoon in workshops designed to discuss the problems we’ll face as an organisation in the coming year. The feedback and energy was fantastic and after much debate we retired to a local bowling centre to relax, then grabbed some excellent sushi before continuing the evening in some of Copenhagen’s hyggeligt bars.
Just getting to see everybody in one place and hear about the different backgrounds and cultures made us all realise how special our team is right now. It was a great, productive and fun day and something we will no doubt be repeating again soon. Thanks a lot everyone!
For more photos, check our Flickr page.
The Motion department has hired its first intern, Jacob Klintrup.
Jacob joins our team to help us with the management of projects, customer contact, idea and concept development, branding and much more.
Jacob is on his last year of the KaosPilot education in Ă…rhus, where he has specialized in project management, processes and branding. Jacob has lots of experience, working with and for several big European companies, which makes him a very capable addition to the Motion Department. So please give a big warm welcome to Jacob!
Niklas just made me aware of this tutorial and showreel of a new feature that is created for the new Adobe Creative Suite 4 Photoshop. I was waiting for something good when no. 3 came out, but this time around they’ve really thought outside the box. This tool will be amazing for almost all kinds of designers and clients, novice or professional level.
Video link here: Adobe Configurator 1.0 / (courtesy of Russell Brown).
iPhones are the bee’s knees and now you can decorate yours (or your iPod Touch) with a lovely Spoiled Milk wallpaper.
Pick from these three designs:
Then download here:
Enjoy!
I was invited to the first in a series of lectures being run by the new CIID course at the Danish Design School here in Copenhagen.
This specific lecture was about computational design and the speakers were The Product from Berlin. They held a very interesting talk about how they have used visualisation of datasets in their work. In was explained that instead of relying on a designer’s set of skills to develop an installation or art-piece, they let the data do the visualisation by enabling various home-made software programs to do the job.
We have dealt with this type of design before, but only very briefly and to do entire installations and have the whole concept evolve around this one unique process, creates quite extraordinary results as was shown on the projector.
They went on to show some examples of other people’s work, which I would like to reference as well, as I thought they were interesting mostly from a designer’s perspective, but also from someone who deals with applications and software in their daily worklife.
I will write an update when CIID post a specific website or any updates on new lectures. Word is that there’s going to be two next week.
Boris MĂĽller: Poetry On The Road
“The basic idea behind the designs for Poetry 03 was to use a computer program that enables a text to layout itself. Following this idea, each text carrys its form in itself, so the form of the visuals is directly linked to the inner structure of the text. The aim was to visualise the nature and texture of poems. In order to achive this end, I developed a computer program that performs this transformation according to pre-defined rules.” - Boris MĂĽller
Read more at [www.esono.com]
Casual Data: News Knitter
“News Knitter is a data visualization project which focuses on knitted garments as an alternative medium to visualize large scale data.
The production of knitted garments is a highly complex process which involves computer support at various steps starting with the designs of both the fabric and the shape of garments until they are ready-to-wear. In recent years, technical innovations in machine knitting have especially focused on the patterning facilities. The patterns are designed by individuals generally depending on the current trends of fashion and the intended target markets and multiplied through mass production. News Knitter translates this individual design process into a world-wide collaboration by utilizing live data streams as a base for pattern generation. Due to the dynamic nature of live data streams, the system generates patterns with unpredictable visuality.” - News Knitter
Read more at [casualdata.com]
Big up to Kevin Cannon for letting me know about this event.
Today we’re launching the fully-fledged version of our Spoiled Milk Motion department. We now have four case studies that we’re very proud of and want to share with you! These recent projects have been completed for Greenpeace, Tadaah TV, Copydan and M-Cnatet and you can discover the background of each one and see the final results, on the individual case pages.
Do you have a motion-related project for us? We cover all parts of the process from strategy, thru shooting and post-production to the final deployment of web-based brand channels. Please contact Martin Jacobsen for more information at martin@spoiledmilk.dk or +45 22 29 54 48.
Today we’re launching the fully-fledged version of our Spoiled Milk Motion department. We now have four case studies that we’re very proud of and want to share with you! These recent projects have been completed for Greenpeace, Tadaah TV, Copydan and M-Cnatet and you can discover the background of each one and see the final results, on the individual case pages.
Do you have a motion-related project for us? We cover all parts of the process from strategy, thru shooting and post-production to the final deployment of web-based brand channels. Please contact Martin Jacobsen for more information at martin@spoiledmilk.dk or +45 22 29 54 48.
Spoiled Milk is delighted to be able to announce the addition of David, Gustavo and Christian to our Switzerland branch. This team expansion will add a wealth of web development, design and managerial experience to our group as a whole, as well as igniting our local Swiss knowledge and network. Needless to say we are all very excited to start working together (and not just because we can add Swiss and Argentinian to our collection of nationalities that already includes: British, Chinese, Danish, French, German and Swedish)!
David Luisi - Swiss Branch Director
David was born in 1973 in ZĂĽrich to an Italian father and an American mother. After completing school in Switzerland, he studied Fine Arts in Los Angeles and then Computer Graphics in Rome, before returning to his homeland in 1996 to set up Netvertising; one of the first Swiss web companies. He stayed with the firm for 8 years building it up to over 20 people and working with clients such as Credit Suisse, Omega, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sony, Swisscom, Walt Disney and Warner Music.
In 2004 David decided to sell his shares and move to Costa Rica with his family to take some time out and learn to surf. Now back in ZĂĽrich and ready for a new challenge, David joins us in a Branch Director role where he will focus on growing the Swiss division as well as applying his experience to the Spoiled Milk group as a whole.
Gustavo Salami - Strategic Planner
Born in Santa Fe, Argentina in 1974, but relocated to Switzerland in 1976 with his family due to the increasing military violence. After attending the Rudolf Steiner school in ZĂĽrich for 12 years, he tried art school, toured the world as a technician with a performing arts group, acted in a movie and then joined David for the early years at Netvertising. Since then Gustavo has taken a series of consulting positions and more recently worked at Publicis advertising group for four years. Blessed with a broad knowledge of startup strategy, project management and a finely-tuned contact network, Gustavo will be handling our strategic planning in Switzerland. He also likes watermelon.
Christian Vollenweider - Developer
Christian was born in 1978 in ZĂĽrich. After finishing Gymnasium school he met David and also became wrapped up in the birth of Netvertising, where he remained part of the core team for the next five years - primarily developing cutting-edge websites in Flash. He then tried his hand at a degree in chemistry, before quitting to join the Art school and a new media course. During his studies and a 9 month internship in Barcelona, he started to build up his own freelance business that he continued to run after finishing his education. Now reunited at Spoiled Milk with the rest of his early-web cohorts, Christian will be dazzling us with his Flash and Ruby on Rails prowess.
Have a project in Switzerland? Contact us at mail@spoiledmilk.ch or +41 76 285 1987.
A warm welcome to a new member of the Copenhagen office and our newly established Motion department. Martin Jacobsen will be dealing with strategic project management and making sure that our motion-related projects run as smoothly as possible.
Martin has just graduated with a Master’s degree in Strategic Business Communication from the Ă…rhus School of Business and has been closely following the progress of Spoiled Milk right from the early days. He also has previous commercial experience in film and video production, so is the perfect fit for our team!
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