Please visit lowimpactgirl.be to know what we’re talking about ^^

What do you do for a (six)teener who wants a website that reflects her inner-self, and could last 2 years? Yup, you draw some pretty figures, use a lot of soft, girly colors, and place them all on one page. The site actually has a countup! Instead of a countdown! Her project ends on the 30th of june, 2011. During this period, she will embrace different “zones”, ( fashion, travel, … ). The first zone is fashion, watch her work her magic.

Each post has a day numbered. When the project is completed, a lot of this content will appear in a book, and by using the days as a marker, it’s double easy for her to write that novel!

Like the modern, social person that she is, you can follow her, stalk her and talk to her! The logo-stamp was created by Jurgen Maelfeyt, everything else by us.

a wee-bit technical

At Mr. Henry, we love to work with the WordPress platform. So much actually, that we’ve made our own custom element within the existing system. It’s not thàt mindblowing, but it’s easier and more fun for us to work with.

It’s just something we’ve been working on, and in the future, you can expect a separate post about this. “It really kicks the llama’s ass!”

And oh yes, THANK YOU ASTRID FOR THE SITE-LAUNCH-PIE!! UH-UH-HMMMMMMM

Thanks for your attention!

Wherever you are Elevators ( we like to call them like this ), we hope you enjoy them!!

And for those blasphemists out there, here are the 7 works…

1. Feed the hungry
2. Give drink to the thirsty
3. Clothe the naked
4. Shelter the homeless
5. Visit the sick
6. Visit the imprisoned
7. Bury the dead

Lots of love, jesus euh Mr. Henry

This is the feedback from OnePage Publishing on the georgette website:

We have been to the Georgette website recently and are very impressed with its creative and appealing design, in particular the lovely animation and navigation, with screens flying by, balloons and hearts that show the progress of loading, the scrollover taskbar below and of course, the presentation of the shoes, the option for a real-life view of the shoe on a real foot, and how they fall nicely into the shopping cart once you click Buy. The website is fun and aesthetically pleasing yet simple to use and intuitive, which is what we are looking for.

That’s like… a good review! ^^

Something you don’t see we did, is some analyzing ( pretty popular word these days hu? ) of the previous website. Making all their content easier to navigate is something we were eager to do. The collection of Cette is very, very extensive. Working closely together with brands like Olivier Strelli and Trinny & Sussanah, they are pretty good at what they do. The site is deployed in more then 50 countries! We ♥ Jean-Marc for his fantastic mind! Truly a great guy!

Visit the result online, make the click!

And oh yeah, our favourite piece is the “Shanghai” one…

Mr. Henry loves to share, so what follows is how we made this cover, from the ground up! ( after the proposal getting approved of course, out of 3 proposals… )

Step 1: photography

We did all the photography, knowing we wanted to build 3D letters on a wall, and used a dark backside to create some contrast… Initially, the inside was also going to be a mix between photo and 3D, but ended up as a 3D render because of the tight timeframe.

All pictures were taken in Brussels, Beursschouwburg ( on that one day in Belgium when ALL public transport was down, and the centre of Brussels was filled with people on strike.. Hello 3-hour drive-what-was-supposed-to-be-25-minutes )

Step 2: building the letters

We’ve built the entire letter composition in illustrator. Each “cube” of text is a separate file. We then composed a parent file, that had all the “cubes”, and we drew a box around each cube, making it look like every word is placed inside a box. The entire box needed to be a compound shape, because when we want to extrude everything ( that’s a 3D term yeah yeah ), you can’t have seperate objects, it looks like crap. So compound that shape, and make sure nothing overlaps!!! ( cfr. image 4 ). Pretty tiring process, a lot of trial and error…

Step 3: let’s go 3D!

When the letters are finished, we need to make everything “real”… Basically, one needs to find the perfect lighting and environment settings. And then it’s just pressing a button. But of course, we had some problems on the way. For one, the overlapping ( as you can see in the outline-view above ) is a scary sight! We then aligned the scene with the perspective in our final picture.

Step 4: comp everything together!

The final result! Throw everything into photoshop, and paint away… Sold exclusively on her concerts, not in stores ( too bad for all the fans! ) And oh yeah, here’s her myspace!