A selection of productions from the Granite New Media portfolio:
The Falls Festival is one of among the most renowned events on Australia's youth music and culture festival calendar. Held over New Years Eve annually, it attracted well over 20,000 people in this its 11th year, to picturesque coastal locations at Lorne, Victoria and Marion Bay, Tasmania. A significant portion of the tickets to The Falls Festival are sold via the e-commerce facilities on The Falls Festival website. The site sustains heavy traffic in the lead up to the festival, acquiring millions of hits per month.
Granite New Media provides website development (including e-commerce), interface design, web content management, graphic design (including animation) and email list management for the Falls Festival.
View the Falls Festival 2004.
The Roys are a five piece rock and roll outfit from Melbourne who have been playing together for a couple of years - to cater for their upcoming album launch, The Roys made an emergency engagement with Granite New Media to design and develop a website.
With a page full of keywords and a copy of their album for inspiration, we cooked up a site. They haven't quite got all of their content together yet, but we've created them a flexible flash framework for a dynamic site that will serve them well into the future. View the Roys Website.
Sense is a web based server management application developed by Thalamus systems. Thalamus systems engaged Granite New Media to brand and skin sense during its development. As the development process was occurring in tandem with the design process, Granite New Media developed a centralised template or "code style guide" for the developers. This gave them a central point of reference to copy and paste pre-baked user interface elements. By providing them form, developers could dedicate their time to function.
The original code style guide for Sense, with its 13 lovingly hand crafted icons (including this 
realistically modelled hourglass) can be viewed here.
Sally Squad is new a kids TV show coming soon to the Australian Christian Channel. Sally Squad is the brainchild of one of Granite New Media's original and best clients, Natalie Miller. Since the show's inception, we've been providing design, production, marketing and photographic expertise. Our services have included development of a brand identity, creation of a cross media style guide, TV show intro/credits, set design, album cover design, and promotional photography.
The Sally Squad Album cover is a good example of our in house capabilities at Granite New Media; featuring the style guide powered Sally Squad brand identity, patented & targeted funky design, and our studio quality, meticulously post produced photography (including hair masks). We can, and do, it all.
Ageing Research Online is a government website developed to facilitate the centralised online research and discussion of ageing and ageing related issues within Australia. Granite New Media was engaged to develop a brand identity for the newly created ARO. View the ARO Brand Identity.
The brand identity was thoughtfully created to hold value and meaning, the symbolism may be of interest. A tree was chosen both for its strong example of positive ageing, and as a symbol of the hierarchy, connection, structure and flow of the organisations that would work together under its banner. Its foliage forms an outline of Australia, and its autumn hue demonstrates the change of seasons and passing of time - the purple being identified as the primary shade for the brand. The tree was styled after the unique Australian White Cedar, one of only a handful of native Australian deciduous trees.
Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Rotary District 9810 encompasses 51 clubs in the eastern and south-eastern areas of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Granite New Media worked with Rotary District 9810 to develop a site that met the following requirements:
- easy access to information for Rotary members and non-members alike;
- readability and usability for visitors, many of whom are not technically experienced;
- easy ability for content to be modified regularly by site administrators who may not be technically experienced;
- compliance with established web publishing standards to ensure cross browser/device/future compatibility, and accessibility for users with disabilities.
In 2003, the International Computer Users Fellowship of Rotarians chose the site as equal best Rotary district website in the world. View the 9810 Rotary District Website.
Scrapbooking is a large chunk of the 25.7 billion dollar a year craft and hobby industry in the USA1, and is rapidly gaining popularity here in Australia.
Scrapanalia is a start-up scrapbooking business specialising in providing in-home scrapbooking tuition, offering a wide range of scrapbooking products to their customers. They required a strong new media presence to acquire new consultants, and take bookings for existing consultants.
To this end, Granite New Media developed a focused and unique brand identity, and a content managed website with statistic tracking, we then launched the completed project with a targeted print based advertising campaign. View the Scrapanalia Website.
For the past two years, if you wanted to play a video game online with Telstra, you used COGS (Complete Online Gaming System). COGS is an integrated PC application, providing chat, game server browsers and web page viewing. It's used by thousands of gamers around Australia every minute.
Granite New Media was responsible for the interface design, branding, and creative direction of the original COGS application. As part of the COGS project, Granite New Media was also involved in the integration and relaunch of games section of Telstra Bigpond's domestic website. View the COGS Interface.
The Australian Institute of Recreation required an interactive application to be used as a presentation tool to assist in capital acquisition meetings. Granite New Media was responsible for the interface design, branding, creative direction and graphic design and development of the AIR application and website. Download the Australian Institute of Recreation application (7.99mb).
Natalie Miller is an award winning ventriloquist and one of Australia's best. In demand she regularly travels nationally for children and adults entertainment bookings. Natalie's website is the crux of her brand identity as an entertainer. Her site allows her to take bookings, keep a calendar of shows, acquire new members for her kid's fan club, and provide information about herself, her shows and her recent entertainment related shenanigans. Granite New Media was responsible for the development, content management system, branding, creative direction, and the general funky pink girlyness of Natalie Miller's website. View Natalie Miller's website.
Ausgamers.com is an Australian community based video game portal - with over 65,000 members using its news, files, and community sections. Ausgamers is one of Australia's most active websites in both visits, and traffic.
Granite New Media was responsible for the creative direction of the Ausgamers website. View the Ausgamers website.
This particular design was for the John Faulkner Racing V8 Supercar team. The spec was for a slick, intense and motorsport themed interface for their new media presence. View the John Faulkner Racing design.
Peter Bailey is one of Australia's most highly regarded food photographers and winner of the 1993 Fuji Australian Photographer of the Year Award. If you've walked down the frozen food section of your local supermarket, if you've been to Red Rooster, or if you've watched any number of TV commercials in the last 10 years, you've seen his work. Peter's website aims to achieve two goals, primarily to be a simple and easy to browse gallery of his photography and TV commercials. Secondarily the site aims to securely provide his clients (many of whom are international) with live video feeds of his current shoots; saving them time and money. The DVD is used as a marketing tool which provides a quickly accessible gallery of Peter's work. Granite New Media was responsible for the development, content management system, interface design, re-branding, creative direction, and graphic design of the Bailey Photographics DVD and website. This site is presently pending completion. View the Bailey Photographics production.
Granite New Media has also been responsible for design, development, consultation, or management for the following clients:
- Environment Australia Website
Interface design, creative direction, graphic design.
- Suzuki Australia Website Concepts
Interface design, creative direction, graphic design.
- Defence Housing Association
Interface design, creative direction, graphic design, photography, video, development.
- ATSIC Annual Report
Design & Content Management.
- DVA Annual Report
Design & Content Management.
- Hawthorn Football Club Website
Interface design, creative direction, graphic design.
- Westcoast Football Club Website
Interface design, creative direction, graphic design.
- Australian Made Website
Interface design, creative direction, graphic design.
- Coogi Website
Interface design, creative direction, graphic design.
- Asia Online Website & Concepts
Interface design, creative direction, graphic design.
- InterACT
Creative Direction, Graphic Design.
- Brent Howard Games
Game Design Consultation (with MicroForte)
- HIA
Interface design, creative direction, graphic design.
Footnotes:
1: 2001 HIA Nationwide Craft & Hobby Consumer Usage and Purchases Study.
