It seems to be flavour of the month again to proclaim the death of TV advertising but I’m not convinced the detractors are really seeing the big picture. Sure, broadcasters have seen their revenues fall as the number of broadcast channels increase and Internet focussed digital marketing strategies encroach on their monopoly but that’s just [...]
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7 Apr '13
“Racing Blind”
Sam & Asa Butterfield iPad game out now!
Start your engines, close your eyes and put your foot down! Racing Blind is the only driving game that you play with your eyes closed and is full of the crashes and close shaves you’d expect. It’s a turn based multiplayer game. Suitable for anyone aged 4 to 103. It’s perfect for groups of friends [...]
15 Nov '12
Harrods highly commended by BSME
We’re very happy to report that Harrods Magazine for iPad was highly commended by the British Society of Magazine Editors in their 2012 awards. More information can be found on the BSME Awards website.
14 Nov '12
New hour “Dave” now available on Radiosoulwax
“Dave” the Radio Soulwax homage to David Bowie has finally been released. With all things Bowie, original songs, covers, backing vocals, production work or reworks they made a must for all Bowie fans out there! You can enjoy Radio Soulwax with the iOS app , the website or the Vimeo channel.
5 Nov '12
Debenhams magazine on iPad
Debenhams magazine has been integrated into the Debenhams iPad app in the latest update. This follow the current trend where tablet shopping app are becoming more and more of a browsing and editorial-based experience, rather than purely transactional. This is Do tank Studios fourth digital magazine after Harrods magazine iPad, Vogue UK iPad magazine and [...]
26 Oct '12
Harrods nominated for BSME
We’re delighted that the Harrod Magazine for iPad app has been nominated for a prestigious BSME awards in the “Brand App of the Year” category. See the full short list here.
2 Oct '12
Mulberry in Cosmo’s best apps ever
Cosmopolitan compiled a guide to the best apps available to download EVER and we are honored to see Mulberry is ranked 12 out of 30 in their list. Read more on the cosmopolitan website.
6 Sep '12
Magic Belles for iPhone/iPad launched
We’re really excited about our latest project – introducing, Magic Belles for iPhone and iPad! Magic Belles are the creation of Luma Creative – beautifully illustrated interactive, musical characters for girls aged 3 – 6. When they play together they create a magical, harmonious symphony: the more Magic Belles taking part, the more magical the [...]
22 Aug '12
Nightjar and the D&ADs
We’re delighted that The Nightjar, the scary 3D audio game for iPhone featuring the voice of Benedict Cumberbatch, has been recognised in the 2012 D&AD awards. There is more information on the D&AD website.
5 Aug '12
Come Dance With Me
Come Dance With Me is an exiting new project from Dance East – a dance web TV show, hosted on the ‘pop up website’ The Space (which is jointly funded by the BBC and Arts Council). Episode one is now LIVE! The six-part series is hosted by Pete Shenton and Tom Roden of New Art [...]
19 Jul '12
A/W ’12 arrives at Mulberry!
The latest version of our app for Mulberry is live – and it features all-new items from the Mulberry A/W 2012 range. What with the wash-out that is the British summer this year, it couldn’t have come soon enough. To check it out for yourself, you can download the Mulberry app for free. Or if [...]
29 Jun '12
Heart of Faerie Oracle: full deck!
Our popular Heart of Faerie Oracle app has been updated! We first turned Brian and Wendy Froud’s popular divination cards and book, The Heart of Faerie Oracle, into an app back in 2010. Since then we’ve introduced a steady stream of updates, including parallax scrolling features which bring the 2D cards to 3D life, and [...]
2 Apr '12
Harrods Magazine iPad App
We’re very proud to announce the arrival of our latest iPad project, for Harrods. The Harrods Magazine for iPad is the digitally enhanced experience of the physical Harrods magazine, which in print currently goes out to over 120 thousand of their customers around the world. Our brief was create a digital magazine that their customers [...]
16 Mar '12
Debenhams Multichannel Award
We’re delighted to report that Debenhams has picked up the prestigious Oracle Retail Week Award for “Multichannel Retailer of the Year”. We’re proud to have designed and developed the “Debenhams for iPad” aspect of their multichannel offering. More information on the other winners can be found here.
22 Aug '11
RSWX nominated for two awards
Radiosoulwax has been nominated for both “Best Music App” and “Best Radio Show or Podcast” at the 2011 edition of the BT Digital Music Awards.
28 Jul '11
Mulberry update
Good news for all fans of Mulberry (and we know there are a lot of you out there) – there is a brand new version of Mulberry’s iPhone and iPad app available in the Apple App Store. We’ve improved product browsing, added a search, integrated the wishlist from mulberry.com into the app and added Twitter [...]
25 Jul '11
Heart Of Faerie Oracle adds sharing
Ever wanted to share your reading with a friend or send them a reading you did for them asking insight into an issue in their life or relationship? Now you can: we have added several new sharing features to the “Heart of Faerie Oracle” iPhone app based on the popular book and card set by [...]
21 Jul '11
Papa Sangre wins Develop award
We’re delighted to report that Papa Sangre has won the prestigious Develop award for “Audio Accomplishment”. We were lucky enough to be at the ceremony and pick up the award on behalf of Somethin Else, 4ip, Coney, Nick Ryan and the rest of the very talented team.
11 Jul '11
Wigmore Hall – The Sound House
We are delighted to announce that our project with the renowned Wigmore Hall “The Sound House” is now live! The Sound House is the culmination of a six month programme of work led by Wigmore Hall Learning. Inspired by the history, artists, audience and daily life at Wigmore Hall, this interactive site aims to capture [...]
30 Jun '11
Radio Soulwax
We’ve been working closely with 2ManyDJs for 2 and a half years and now is the time to unveil the brand new “Radio Soulwax” project. We’re really proud to announce the launch of the brand new 2ManyDJs project “Radio Soulwax”. At the core of the project is an online radio station that broadcasts a series [...]
30 May '11
Papa Sangre updates
Papa Sangre, the project we developed for Channel 4′s 4ip continues to receive amazing critical acclaim, with a nomination for a Develop award and a featured spot at the E3 international games festival among the most recent high-lights. Papa is nominated for an “Audio Accomplishment” award at the Develop awards, a prestigious award ceremony for [...]
9 May '11
Colgate “La faute de style” on Facebook
Our latest game for Facebook is now live – “La Faute de Style” a new app we’ve developed with the lovely people at VML for their client Colgate. As you can probably guess from the name it’s aimed at the French market, but due to the wonders of modern technology the app will run in [...]
28 Apr '11
The Nightjar
Our latest collaboration with the wonderful team at Somethin’ Else is now live in Apple’s App Store. The Nightjar is the second game to utilise the 3D binaural audio engine we created for Papa Sangre and has been funded by Wrigleys chewing gum brand ’5 Gum’ via their UK advertising company AMV BBDO. We had [...]
7 Apr '11
NET-A-PORTER What’s New
The NET-A-PORTER iPhone app has been overhauled and has been rebranded as “What’s New” to compliment the iPad’s “Magazine” application. It features a brand new, more engaging, landing screen and massively improved product browsing and purchasing experience. We’re really excited to have had the chance to work closely with NET-A-PORTER again and are really happy [...]
9 Mar '11
NET-A-PORTER Awards
Our iPhone app for NET-A-PORTER was awarded a commendation in the Design Week awards which were announced last night, which we’re really pleased about. It’s also in the running for the Carphone Warehouse Appy’s in the Fashion Category. It’s a public vote, so if you like the app, then please vote for it here. They’ve [...]
2 Mar '11
Beat Machine for Android available
We’re super excited to announce that our first application for Android is now available on the Android Marketplace and what’s more it’s FREE! Leveraging our extensive experience with dynamic audio applications we have developed Electro Beat Machine, which turns your Android device into a futuristic drum machine that enables you to make grooves on the [...]
18 Feb '11
Papa Sangre wins IMGA award
We’re delighted that Papa Sangre has picked up the award for the Most Innovative game at the International Mobile Gaming Awards. Raphaël Goumot, Mobile Games Director at Orange said “As part of the jury, I saw the hundreds of entries from all over the world. The standard was incredibly high and it is hugely reassuring [...]
8 Feb '11
Award nominations
We’re really proud to announce that Papa Sangre and NET-A-PORTER are both up for awards. Papa Sangre is nominated for the “Most Innovative Game” at International Mobile Gaming Awards, which is part of the Mobile World Conference. It’s against the rather excellent EpicWin app, which is one of our favourites so it’ll be nail-biting waiting [...]
12 Jan '11
Welcome in the New Year with some App updates
Happy 2011 !!! The turkey has been (finally) consumed, and the empties recycled. And we’re now back to work with a Bang. We’ve given Mulberry a new face – now sporting their rather fetching Spring/Summer 2011 range. Update the app to see what you should be wearing soon. We’ve also recently updated Papa Sangre, after [...]
18 Dec '10
Papa Sangre Launches
You are lost, deep in the darkness of the land of the dead. Your eyes are useless to you here — but your ears are filled with sound. And what is it you can hear … ? All you know is someone is in grave danger and desperately needs your help. Can you save them [...]
7 Dec '10
Mulberry wins British Fashion Award
All of us at Do Tank Studios would like to congratulate Mulberry on their success at the prestigious British Fashion Awards, winning Best Designer Brand. The award recognises how the brand has excelled and impacted on the international fashion market. Do Tank Studios recently developed their iPhone & iPad application. This has already received global [...]
1 Dec '10
Merry Xmas
The festive season is upon us once more, and Do Tank Studios would like to wish our clients, suppliers, friends and family a very Happy Xmas, and prosperous New Year.
3 Mar '10
Do Tank welcomes a new member
We are pleased to announce the arrival of a new member to Do Tank Studios. Marianne Bayne joins us as Studio Manager. Please give her as big a welcome as we do.
10 Jan '10
Winter iPhone Roundup
It’s been a busy Winter for Do Tank Studios so far, with lots of very exciting projects in production that we will be able to unveil in 2010. We’ve been very busy looking at mobile strategies and application development recently, with a few iPhone & iPod Touch applications having recently gone live on the App [...]
3 Jun '09
PhotoFit for iPhone
We are very pleased to announce that our very first (of a series) of iPhone apps is now available in the iTunes App Store. PhotoFit is a fun app that allows you to take pictures of your friends and colleagues and mix them together with hilarious outcomes. You can then save the images to your [...]
18 Mar '09
The Moon The Moon
The Moon The Moon is a sweet little piece of on-line theatre that we’ve produced in partnership with Coney, Unlimited Theatre and Solar Associates to promote Unlimited’s new theatre production which is starting at the Curve Theatre in Leicester, and then touring around the UK. We’ve had some really nice feedback about the interactive on [...]
17 Feb '09
BBC Flash Integration Policy
Do Tank Studios are working with the BBC to define their best-practice guidelines for all Adobe Flash projects.
3 Dec '08
The Sancho Plan @ Ars Electronica
For the third year running, Ars Electronica have invited The Sancho Plan to exhibit a piece of work at their innovative museum space in Linz, Austria. Once again, The Sancho Plan have chosen to partner with Do Tank Studios to produce another ground-breaking interactive experience. This year is slightly different, as The Sancho Plan are [...]
18 Nov '08
Sheffield DocFest RFID Game
This year’s Sheffield DocFest featured an unusual way for attendees to experience the event: an RFID Game. We were asked by pervasive gaming specialists, Coney, to develop the branding and design of various elements the game including the RFID Cards themselves which allowed players to battle and earn points which they could then exchange for [...]
18 Nov '08
Soulwaxmas New Myspace Page
We just launched the new design for Soulwax on MySpace, this time to reflect their special Christmas Soulwaxmas parties! myspace.com/soulwax
10 Nov '08
London Games Festival 2008
As part of the London Games Festival Fringe 2008, Adam Hoyle, one of the Do Tank crew, will be appearing with Julian Baker to unveil a new sonic artwork at Cybersonica Social. The night also contains DJs, VJs, a performance controlled live from Mexico and an 8 bit chip music set, so should be a [...]
9 Nov '08
Warriors come out to play
Cult seventies classic The Warriors is to get a comic book adaptation, courtesy of the creative talents of writer David Atchison, artist Chris Dibari, and Kieran Oats as colourist. The 1979 film was based on Sol Yurick’s novel and follows the story of the titular street-gangs journey when they get stuck in Bronx, 27 miles out of their territory, [...]
13 Oct '08
Honda The Musical
There’s a white strip down the side of the motorway called a rumble strip and it makes a noise if your tyres go over it. I have been highly appreciative of rumble strips ever since I got into the Cab-of-Fear at 3am on my trip home from a late-one at Pinewood many years ago; It [...]
10 Oct '08
One Good Turn Deserves Another
My role is increasingly strategic and management focused these days but I still love the chance to get my design-head on once in a while. The other day I was asked for a “favour” job and, as it was for my eldest’s school, I couldn’t really say “No”. The only problem was that it had [...]
23 Sep '08
Spacequatica Installation in Madrid
Over 1.5 million people walked Madrid’s Gran Via on Sat 13th Sept to celebrate La Noche En Blanco 2008, and The Sancho Plan ‘s interactive installation (for which Do Tank provided all coding & system architecture) was in prime position! The public could play with the interactive audiovisual adventure Spacequatica by waving their hands in [...]
23 Sep '08
G-Phone to hit UK in November
Google’s long-awaited and semi-mythical Android phone is set for a US launch later today. Google’s notorious secretiveness has fuelled wild rumours about it’s specs but it’s reliably believed to have GPS, and a handy pull-out QWERTY keyboard. With tilt sensors and touchscreen, the G1 phone will support third-party applications so expect a flurry of iPhone-a-like [...]
4 Sep '08
Meta Serif – the Microsite
FontShop have gone and made a microsite dedicated to the glory of Erik Spiekermann’s new font Meta Serif. Designed specifically to complement his iconic – and almost ubiquitous – Meta, it’s bound to be a big hit. You can even download a poster but even I’m not that sad… well, maybe.
12 Aug '08
Is It Christmas Already?
Yeah, well, Summer must be nearly over cos I’m getting emails telling me the next big event to look forward to is halloween, Guy Fawkes, Christmas! Yup put that swimming costume away, repack your camping gear and get out your galoshes because Cockpit Arts is preparing for it’s Christmas Open Studios. Always inspiring, Cockpit Arts [...]
1 Aug '08
SIGGRAPH 2008
Ed, our head of production, is at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles presenting the immersive installation “The Sancho Plan” and touting our wares to anyone who’ll listen. SIGGRAPH is a major date in the computer graphics and the interactive community’s calendar and we’re dead chuffed Ed was invited to perform SpaceAquatica, part of The Sancho Plan’s [...]
20 Jul '08
Do Tank Talk at the Apple Store
As part of the Rushes Soho Shorts festival, our creative director is on the panel at the Apple Store, Regent Street, for a discussion on new digital animation. Also at the table are Rushes’ own Jonathon Privett and animation superstars Nexus. 5pm Tuesday 29th July Apple Store, Regent Street
