Projects
Ambre Energy
Ambre Energy are planning to be able to supply 30% of Queensland’s petrol needs from local resources, and needed to tell everyone about it, quick!
So in collaboration with community consultants JTA Australia we designed and built them a new site in record time. With a deep and complicated information architecture, we relied on MODx to make things as flexible and configurable as possible, while keeping the development process agile. Ambre had some complex communications requirements for their web communications, so we used the fantastic web service WuFoo to help them send all of the right details to the right locations.
Sampology Website and Intro Video Production
With Sampology set to take over the audiovisual world with his Super Visual Smackdown, he needed a design refresh to show people what was coming.
Sam is pretty new to the video world, so he asked Oxygen Kiosk to provide some post-production services to give his set intro that extra bit of polish.
Jaymis animated titles, stabilized hand-shot footage, tightened the edit, and colour-corrected the clips Sam had brought together from throughout film history.
Compact Designs
I’m sure it’s no surprise to discover that the Oxygen Kiosk directors have a vast love for coffee, so it didn’t take much convincing for us to take on the online store development for Compact Designs – purveyors of awesome accessories for coffee creation.
To keep things as simple and affordable as possible, we went with a sleekly implemented Textpattern CMS and the Yab_shop plugin, which allowed checkout through Paypal without fuss.
Attractive, isn’t she?
RSPCA Tasmania
After our work with the national RSPCA Australia, we were contacted by the guys from RSPCA Tasmania, who needed a new website. They had been stuck with a a closed-source, proprietary content management system. It was awkward, ugly, difficult to use, and as such the site was stagnating.
After working with the team, Oxygen Kiosk created a new website for them, that better emphasised the important work that they do in Tasmania.
The new RSPCA Tasmania website design
This new site is based on the MODx content management system, and the team are finding it so easy to use that their content updating has increased 400%!
Digital Democracy
Digital Democracy are a Sydney-based digital communications consultancy. Jenny needed a new WordPress template, pronto.
Bam! New wordpress template.
That was easy, wasn’t it!
Children of the Revolution
Children of the Revolution are an amazing shoe shop based in the heart of the Brisbane CBD. They approached us after seeing our work with the dogstar Blog and Facebook page.
Unlike many of our new clients who come to us from bad design relationships with other web companies, Children of the Revolution were happy to keep the existing look of their site, which was designed by the uber talented Jeremy of The Bennett Organisation.
What they wanted was to make the site more interesting, informative, faster to load and easier to update.
So we saved them from Joomla, and brought their site over to the bright, shiny, blog-friendly world of WordPress. Along with the full social-media fitout of Facebook, Twitter, Newsletter campaigns, competitions, integrated marketing with other local businesses and much more!
Babyology
Babyology is an immensely popular blog for parents (and other people who have babies and tiny humans in their homes). They had managed to outgrow their server, their content management system (Joomla), and their design all in the same month, so they gave us a call.
We gave them a flashy new design, migrated all of their posts and comments safely from Joomla (yuck) to WordPress (yay!), and housed them safely in their own dedicated server.
Babyology has some great advanced features: A database-powered “Product Chooser” which allows parents to comparison-shop for Prams, Cots and Highchairs, and a Wishlist which lets readers save articles to a list which can be sent to their friends.
Babyology also have a vast subscriber base for their newsletter, so we hooked them up with a custom solution for Campaign Monitor which allows them to easily send out excerpts and thumbnails from a selection of recent posts.
Rowan Sable
Working with sisters Phillipa and Olivia was great fun from the very start. Phillipa is a wonderful illustrator, and we wanted to collaborate with her to create a site design which reflects the personality and art of Rowan Sable.
The shop is sprinkled with origami, branches, and paintings. We worked out a design framework which would allow us to combine these things into a website interface, and then Phillipa created drawings of the different elements, which we were able to combine into a completed design which is not only attractive, but valid HTML/CSS code!
We wrapped this around the Content Management Framework of MODx, which makes it super simple to maintain content in the various different sections of the site, and even add products to their online store!
Pacific Opera
Pacific Opera is the opera company for young people. They provide opportunities for emerging opera performers, and stage interesting twists on old favourites like Cosi Fan Tutte and Barber of Seville. They’re a not-for-profit organization, and needed something attractive, functional, and cost-effective.
We think we delivered on all counts, with a sleek design, clean HTML and CSS code, wrapped around the fantastic MODx content management system.
RSPCA Australia
When we heard that RSPCA Australia were looking to have their website redeveloped, we instantly knew that the project was for us (we both love animals: Jaymis actually has a pet, Cal’s apartment doesn’t allow for one).
Working very closely with the RSPCA Australia online team, we created a brand-new original layout, with a focus on cleanliness, readability and style. Navigation was constructed with a focus on simplicity and inherent findability.
All content is managed using the favourite MODx content management framework, which made deployment an absolute breeze.
Mink Home Staging
We jumped at the chance to work with our second home staging client, Mink.
As Mink owner Deb is a graphic designer herself, it made sense for her to create an original website skin which we wrapped around the MODx content management system.
Working with a complex design, we constructed some of the best-looking html and css we’ve ever done. Sprinkled with some jQuery to drive the menus, and some other assorted delights, super sexy!
Norpoint
Norpoint is a specialist superannuation and consulting firm providing complete self managed superannuation fund (SMSF) solutions.
Oxygen Kiosk worked with our long-time design partner Alex Just Creative to implement this stylish website quickly.
Spectrum Worldwide
Spectrum Worldwide is a leading event management and experiential marketing company operating in the Asia Pacific. For more than 16 years, Spectrum Worldwide has created and managed tailored experiences that not only bring to life its clients’ brand positioning but also create opportunities to showcase values in a memorable and compelling way.
Spectrum Worldwide approached Oxygen Kiosk and our design collaborator, Alex Just Creative, to provide them with an entirely new website as they were undergoing major changes within their business and needed their website to reflect this.
We worked with Alex to create what has been a fantastic success: the tired, table-based design has been replaced with valid xhtml and css, the content has been rewritten from the ground up, and importantly, the content management system has been replaced with the ultra-modern MODx that allows Spectrum Worldwide staff the flexibility they demand in posting new content to their site.
We are especially proud of their portfolio page which we constructed using a smattering of jQuery and other magic.
Chocogram
Chocogram. Chocolate Telegrams. You’re right. There is no way we could go past a job like this.
We took a design by Alex Just Creative and combined it with ecommerce system Magento to create a site which features a rather clever javascript-based Create Your Own system allowing detailed product customization.
Lippsinc Entertainment Website
With Cal a reformed DJ and Jaymis a VJ, we love being able to help performers get more out of their business. Lipps Inc work with a huge variety of bands, DJs and entertainers, and needed a fast, clean website to effectively showcase their roster.
MODx keeps everything effortlessly organized and current.
North Sydney Yoga
North Sydney Yoga is a yoga studio on Sydney’s North side. Working with grahic designer Alex Just, they had created a new website design but had no one to implement it.
We worked closely with Angelika from North Sydney Yoga not only to implement the design (using the incredible MODx Content Management Framework) but also to help her and her team of yoga professionals learn how to utilise the web in new and exciting ways.
Lippsinc Bridal
Lippsinc Bridal is a new bridal entertainment booking company, run by Bondi resident and professional corporate dj Joseph Smith. Joseph approached Oxygen Kiosk after a recommendation from a friend – he wanted a new website to showcase the many acts he had on his books.
The new site is sexy – white and greys combine the wedding aesthetic with the modern, dance-music oriented vibe of his existing company, Lippsinc Entertainment.
The Motor Report Auto News Blog
Steane and Mike of The Motor Report have been building a big following for their Australian car news blog, with great writing and comprehensive coverage of all things auto. They outgrew their off-the-shelf WordPress template, and Mike (TMR’s design conscience) had some really strong ideas on where things should go next.
dogstar
After suffering through unsatisfying relationships with a series of inept web development companies, boutique Brisbane fashion label dogstar came to us with a tight budget and brief: We were to tie up the loose ends left by prior site attempts, build a website they could update themselves, and help them to reach their fans around the world with a simple, cost-effective online store solution.
Within 2 days of launch, the dogstar online store had sold enough clothing to cover its development costs! Now that’s connecting a business with its market.
DJ Tech Tools Store
Ean Golden is a respected deejaying trailblazer. He writes for Remix Magazine as the digital deejay specialist, works showing off new technology for Vestax, and runs his own little slice of the web at DJ Tech Tools.
When Ean needed a hot-looking store to sell the ultra-limited VCI-100 mixer, he worked closely with Cal, who designed the shop and integrated the modern shopping cart solution Foxycart.
Medici Concerts
Medici Concerts is a small Brisbane-based concert series promoter, who specialise in piano music. For their 2008 series, Cal designed a new-look, simple website, with an emphasis on typographic arrangement. All content is displayed clearly on the front page, and the Javascript library JQuery is used to display further concert details in a modal window. The design uses the Blueprint CSS Library for the basis of the layout.
Ten Pound Crew
We have long-admired the Ten Pound Crew – putting on successful events in Brisbane is no mean feat, and these guys do it with seeming ease.
They needed a site to integrate with their extensive mailing list, and to sell tickets to events. They also wanted a sophisticated image gallery to show pics of their latest parties, and notify punters of upcoming gigs.
Flowershop Australia
We have been working extensively with Flowershop, helping them to grow their business in the online sphere. They are excellent at what they do – delivering the freshest flowers all around Australia!
Basing their site on Zencart, we have made extensive customisations to the code that allows Flowershop to get on with what they are best at – giving people flowers!
Monaux
Our good friend and OxygenKiosk collaborator Karl needed to spiff his portfolio site up, fast!
So we helped. It’s super simple, super clean, and showcases Karl’s super imagery perfectly. This redesign was featured in graphics sites worldwide within hours of being launched.
Home Staging by Anne
Home Staging by Anne needed an informational site to promote their home staging and organization business and fast! So we went oldschool, crafting an simple, clean XHTML/CSS based site with some of our cleanest code ever, and utilizing the fabulous Lightbox image presentation scripts.
Sidechain Music
Boutique Brisbane promoter Kris-Ko needed to showcase his posse of DJs and live electronic musicians. With high profile events looming it needed to be fast and sleek, so we hooked him up with the MODx content management framework and some seriously fast design and code, turning out a new site in record time.
Sporting Images Australia
One of Australia’s leading independent sports photographers, Duane Hart has shot everything from famous Olympic Games truimphs to primary school athletics carnivals. He had amassed a truly impressive archive of commercial, editorial and local sporting images but was tied to an unwieldy, proprietary photo selling system. Sporting Images needed a new, flexible solution to allow their online business to expand.
Four months later: Duane now has almost 300,000 images available for purchase online and is expecting to break half a million by July.
Create Digital Music
This popular (10,000 visitors daily) music technology blog had an outdated and inaccessible design based around an unwieldy Content Management System. In collaboration with Peter Kirn (New York, Site Editor) and Nathanael Jeanneret (Melbourne, Graphic Designer) the Oxygen Kiosk created a site designed around the open-source CMS WordPress and forum PHPBB to create something truly functional and attractive.
Richard Stuart – Theatre Consultant
Richard contacted us after a referral. He had an existing company, and an off-the-shelf website that did not fit his requirements.
We worked with Richard to create a visually structured interface that allowed him to showcase his extensive biography and knowledge of his industry.
CreateDigitalMusic and CreateDigitalMotion
OxygenKiosk has been collaborating with CDM since 2005, when Jaymis responded to Peter’s request for help building the future of CDM.
In the years since, we have helped CDM launch a huge popular redesign (in collaboration with Tasmanian designer Nathanael Jeanneret), and move into the Visualist realm: Launching CreateDigitalMotion with Jaymis as co-editor of the site.
As we spend so much time glued to computers making websites, it’s no surprise to discover that Oxygen Kiosk is uncommonly experienced in the electronic music field:
Cal is a producer – creating beats on trackers under the name OK Sushi – and DJ from way back. He founded Brisbane’s biggest alternative electronic arts festival, and for years managed Queensland’s best independent record store.
When he’s not writing for CreateDigitalMotion, Jaymis spends much of his time VJing with electronic artists from around the world, and as the visualist member of various bands including Segue and Bobby Flynn.
We love working with musicians and artists to help promote and sell their work. Recent musical projects include:
DJ Tech Tools Store
Ean Golden is a respected deejaying trailblazer. He writes for Remix Magazine as the digital deejay specialist, works showing off new technology for Vestax, and runs his own little slice of the web at DJ Tech Tools.
When Ean needed a hot-looking store to sell the ultra-limited VCI-100 mixer, he worked closely with Cal, who designed the shop and integrated the modern shopping cart solution Foxycart.
Ten Pound Crew
We have long-admired the Ten Pound Crew – putting on successful events in Brisbane is no mean feat, and these guys do it with seeming ease.
They needed a site to integrate with their extensive mailing list, and to sell tickets to events. They also wanted a sophisticated image gallery to show pics of their latest parties, and notify punters of upcoming gigs.
We currently have room in our calendar to accept new work. We really love talking to new and potential clients, so please contact us.
Oxygen Kiosk at Unconvention Brisbane
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