Carbon Visits the Royal Welsh Show

We recently traveled down to the Royal Welsh Show to install our interactive touchscreen application for the BBC. The application allows you to browse video content across Wales and create you very own news story by editing clips and music together with live playback. A collaboration between Carbon, Made and BBC Wales New media.

Know Your Rights!

Know Your Rights is a bilingual interactive game about the Rights of the Child. The challenge is to explore the community map collecting all your rights along the way. Imaginet commissioned us to create, illustrate and build a game that was visually engaging and fun for children and young people to interact with.

Lucky Voice Pop-up Shop!

For two weeks Lucky Voice is taking over a shop by Carnaby Street and turning it into an emporium of song. There’ll be Party Boxes to buy and free singing to be done in their karaoke shop front every day 12pm – 7pm, 25th March till 5th April 09.
We made them a fun little interactive pop-up card to market the event, which has been a huge hit already!

www.luckyvoice.com/popupshop

Have a Karaoke Christmas!

Lucky Voice wanted to send out a Christmas card to their friends to get them singing! Carbon Studio came up with this karaoke Christmas card... Enjoy!

A Little Tweet!

We were very excited to work with Lucky Voice (the most liberating, heart-racing, life-affirming singing experience on earth) recently. They came to Carbon Studio because they wanted a fun engaging marketing tool for their January promotion. The brief required us to create an on-brand experience targeting a largely female audience. Play the game now and win some prizes too!

Don't Keep The Design Secret!

Our latest website, and biggest undertaking for The BBC to date, Merlin went live this week!

The project embraced the challenge of making accessible Flash content, and is something of a flagship project for all concerned. Mike took the creative lead on this project and worked closely with BBC Wales New Media to ensure that the outcome achieved a 'Hollywood' feel. The site features a range of fantastically detailed Photoshop screens, digital illustrations and Flash animations that reflect the high production values and attention to detail of the show.

Check it out at www.bbc.co.uk/merlin

Torchwood Alternate Reality Games

"A genetics professor has gone missing! It's probably nothing but he had just claimed that he was being hunted by aliens. It's an ideal opportunity to test out the potential candidates. If you think you got what it takes, give it your best shot!"

We we're very excited to create the design for the Torchwood ARG, a series of games that encouraged users to move from the TV show to their computers to continue the adventure on-line. We were responsible for the design and illustration of the computer interface, the icons and all the games. Another very cool project to work on!

www.torchwood.org.uk

Torchwood

We were very honoured to be asked to redesign the website for world wide hit TV series Torchwood. Preparation for this included a private tour around the set and a chance to meet some of the cast, which was very cool!

The brief required that we create all the content from scratch. The end result? We created an above ground Cardiff cityscape for the homepage, then head down below ground for further content.

www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood

Original Torchwood cityscape artwork (above)

Sarah Jane Adventures

Carbon Studio was commissioned by the BBC to design and illustrate the new Sarah Jane Adventures interactive website. It was a really fun site to do! We enjoyed creating all the assets from scratch in photoshop to create a half real, half illustrated feel to the site.
www.bbc.co.uk/sja