100 mots pour la folie : 5 months in the works, 600 clips from the NFB archives, a 12 000 word glossary in constant evolution, and a semantic engine that learns and creates bonds between words you enter. Add an original soundtrack by Quebec’s indie rock legends Malajube, and you start getting what the experience is about.
A project we were delighted to be a part of, commissioned by NFB, and that’s starting to make a lot of noise (Le Devoir, Cyberpresse, Métro, Le Lien)

Analekta approached us a few months ago to create a series of web videos.  The objectives were twofold. Firstly, to use web videos to increase their fan base by making classical music more accessible to a younger audience. And secondly, the videos would be used to promote their artists on a national and international level.

The idea: To create 2 minute videos that capture the essence of each artist’ most recent recordings.

The challenge: To stay nimble and as invisible as possible not to disturb the artists during the recording sessions. The videos are shot, edited and uploaded the same day.

The result: Thousands of online-views and a happy client, the videos can  also be viewed on-board Air Canada flights.

The latest video is Lorraine Desmarais Big Band who will be performing at the Montreal Jazz Festival with Montreal’ gem Oliver Jones as special guest.

It has been a privilege to work with such luminaries as Angèle Dubeau, Kent Nagano, Alain Lefèvre and Matthias Maute. On a personal level, it’s quite therapeutic to be at recording sessions with such great artists.

To celebrate the 6th Edition of MTL BNL, Montreal’s Biennale under the Open Culture theme, we conspired with Amuse in order to build this good wishing machine. Anybody can conspire by sending their tweets to @inspireconspire, through the site, using SMS, or by calling the 514-933BIEN voicemail. A Twitter feed aggregates and spreads the love from all those different sources to the world. Go ahead, conspire now.

If you would like to know more on tar sands and the consequences of oil extraction in Alberta, Petropolis features exerts from the award winning movie, additional content and documentation, as well as stunning aerial photography of the oil fields by Eamon MacMahon.  The creation of this topical documentary site is a new collaboration with Angle Reserve and Greenpeace Canada.

Télé-Quebec’s new humor series is making quite a buzz and we were enthusiastic to work at creating the show’s site in collaboration with Télé-Québec. This intelligent, addictive, fun and viral site proposes the complete episode of the week, streaming, as well as a great dose of hilarious content, sketches, supplements and other exclusive to the web surprises.

We recently collaborated with Paperny Films in Vancouver to create Chop Shop, the TV series’ official web companion. The show, directed by Ziad Touma airs on wednesdays on Slice, and is, you guessed it, all about hair. As you visit the site, don’t miss Pimp My Cut, the instant interactive hair styling tool! Art direction and design in collaboration with Angle Reserve.

Infrarouge the Montreal based theatre company was founded in 2001 and has witnessed world recognition. The company’s website finally came into existance thanks to the combined efforts of the FEED design studio, KNGFU’s production team, Daniel Canty’s direction, and the intimate creative collaboration with Marie Brassard, founder of the company.

Creators of Emotions is Ubisoft’s latest recruitment campaign and goes way out of the ordinary. The project was executed with varial+yako, and was for us a great adventure made of Flash development, video encoding, some 3D and two handfuls of challenges. We thank Turbulent for their help.

Oh, and did we mention the site has recently been awarded the Boomerang 2008 Grand Prize in Montreal? And it is featured on the FWA!

We recently had lots of fun with Remarquable Communications producing this project. C Malade! is a viral Flash game, inspired by the classic Operation game, to incite future med school students to apply to University of Ottawa. Many thanks to Angle Reserve for the video and illustration work. Test your surgery skills here.

We recently created a series of mini-games for Touts petits, Télé-Québec’s children playground zone. 3 to 5 year olds have to find Zéphir, the site’s mascot.