Miles recently had the wonderful opportunity to work with The Next Institute, who’s goal is to be a catalyst for creative and sustainable enterprise. Companies like The Next Institute understand the market and growing need for designers in a leadership position.

Miles helped The Next Institute create and conceptualize pitches, while providing post production design services. Their clients include many of North Americas top retailers.

Collective Members: Miles Nurse

After pitching, hiring and establishing a mograph team at Riptown it was time for the Art Director & Motion team to take a big bite by creating a title sequence for “Bodog Battle of the Bands.” The Art & Design team did an amazing job with the visual treatment and pacing. The project was a true testament to their abilities and a great initial success for the team.

Watch the Title Sequence

Collective Members: Miles Nurse      Role: Creative Director

Miles spent the weekend working on a Riptown SLAM project. SLAM Projects also known as Deep Dives (made famous by IDEO) are projects in which you are given extremely aggressive time lines to accomplish huge amounts of design work. They are usually 2 -3 days in length.

Using this as our inspiration we decided to have the User Experience Department compete against each other  in teams of 4 or 5. The goal was to come up with a new concept and design doc for the Riptown Media site. The weekend was a great success with three really unique approaches, but in the end it was decided that our team had the idea most reflective of our culture. We celebrated by using our reward to take all the teams to Mortons for some steak sandwiches and whiskey sours.

Check out our prototype video which was created sometime between 3 – 4am.

Collective Members: Miles Nurse          Role: Senior Producer / Motion Designer

An RFP project for Tourism BC. MIles created a 30 second commerical piece that highlighted many of the outdoor landscapes available to the people of the Vancouver area. It was created as part of a pitch to land a potential contract from Tourism BC.

Process:  To capture footage of at least ten outdoor areas along the Sea to Sky highway. These would include waterways, historical locations, mountains and underwater footage. Then create a 30s montage that created buzz for the 2010 olympics while highlighting the beautiful visual canvas British Columbians get to experience every day.

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Role: Producer / Videographer / Motion Designer

Miles and a group of colleagues to on the challenge of creating  a 30 second commercial piece for the BCSPCA that they could use a part of their current campaign: Prevention of cruelty against animals. The commercial was to address neglect and animal cruelty. We where asked to put a specific emphasis on the long term effects of dog chaining. It was created as a part of  of  the Great Canadian Commercial Contest.  The BCSPCA aired the commercial on local television stations and in lower mainland movie theatres.

Collective Members: Miles Nurse

Role: Producer / Motion Designer

Bushido

The goal of this project was to promote a short movie titled Bushido and have it accepted into a Film Festival; concentrating our efforts on a Film Festival that celebrates Japanese styles. We facilitated this by designing a press kit produced to current professional standards that was consistent in reflecting the director’s message.

Solution: Design a press kit (Poster, Authored DVD, Info pack and bios, Video Trailer) for submission to film festivals. The press kit was designed to elicit intrigue and gain the attention of the festival panel. The DVD will come in a seductive package and have extras like a director’s commentary, storyboards and full motion menus.

Success: Bushido was acepted into three international film festivals.

Collective Members:

Miles Nurse :: Role: Producer / Motion Designer

Annika Newell :: Role : Art Director