State of Emergence is a creative communications studio.

We specialise in producing communication solutions in new and conventional media through understanding your brand and engaging your audience. Our services include strategy consulting, design, art direction and creative direction.

Our approach underscores the belief that innovative design creates immersive experiences for your users. We help you to reach your objectives, achieve your goals, and execute your plans.
Most importantly, at State of Emergence we love the challenge of what we do. We believe your audience will too.

Peruvian Wharf is a proposed mixed-use development on the Thames opposite the Millenium Dome. State of Emergence was approached by EPR Architects to produce an interactive presentation to be used in the public enquiry which will determine the future of this development. The result is a Flash development that seamlessly fuses interactive information, animation and graphics with architecture. Simplicity and clarity was primary to successfully demonstrating the complex architectural relationships within this large mixed-use development and the wider geographical juxtaposition with surrounding infrastructure. *AWARDED - the website version has been awarded at FWA.

Rory Campbell and Andrew Mackay have been featured in the book 1000 Type Treatments published by Rockport. The work on display is for a feature on Kurt Cobain for Sunday Times series called The Month that State of Emergence worked on with unit9. The type treatment that was crafted made use of photocopied typography that was cut up, scratched and re-pasted to create a style that would represent the grunge movement.
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unit9 commisioned State of Emergence to assist in the design and creation of a microsite for Sony Japan to promote the new VAIO notebooks. The objective was to focus on VAIO's distinctive and superior characteristics by associating them with human qualities or emotions. This ambitious project required us to combine elements of video footage with a Flash animation to to form a hybrid environment. The site is made up of a series of presentations.

unit9 contracted State of Emergence to design the promotional website for Sony Playstation's World Rally Chamionship 4 game. Our objective was to emphasise the extreme nature of the WRC4 and broaden the appeal of the game. We made use of gritty graphics and animation to achieve the extreme visual effect. We also managed to improve our driving skills!

We wanted to wish our clients a merry festive season and happy New Year with a personal touch. Instead of spending money on a print run, we bought gifts from Oxfam Unwrapped. These gifts included chickens, goats, radios, school desks and... a bicycle which would be donated to communities in developing countries. The extra touch of personalisation came when we brought out the scissors, pens and spraypaint as you did at the end of the school year. Each and every card was unique, but centred around the theme of the gifts. We hope you enjoyed your goat!

“The Month” is the monthly entertainment CD-ROM that supplements the first week of every months edition of the Sunday Times. Viewers can find reviews, view exclusive interactive features, hear samples of album tracks, preview clips of the latest movies and games, as well as catch up on arts news. State of Emergence worked with unit9 on the CD-ROM feature using flash and animation skills to provide an entertaining and interactive experience for viewers. We worked on 6 issues, including Attack of the Toons, Master and Commander, Brian Wilson and Kurt Cobain, Festivals, Robbie Williams and the Incredibles.

*Nominated for BIMA 2004

Championship Manager has an enormous user fanbase throughout the world. State of Emergence was commisioned by unit9 in creating a community portal for Eidos' Championship Manager. We were responsible for the art direction and design and the foundation html and CSS. It has only very recently been launched.

Being a photographer's site, we aimed to create an unobtrusive Flash environment where the photographs were the focus. The images needed to be displayed at a decent size with as little compression as possible. Since download time would be compromised for such images, we developed a sequential preloader that would load images into the site whilst other images were being viewed. The content is easily updated as is necessary with a photographer's website. Since the site was built, the client has enjoyed exposure to a much wider audience.

Swikiri is an online space for the promotion of African creativity and community. The entire conception of this project was created by individuals from State of Emergence (in collaboration with the community). Swikiri required a fully integrated design, development, marketing and promotional strategy to achieve its goals of exposing African creativity locally and internationally.

Eurostar needed to transform their very successful print campaign onto the web in the form of banner ads which would appear on various high profile web portals. The banner ads, although maintaining their existing distinctive illustrative style, needed to enhance the creative campaign, be eye catching and convey the print campaign in an online medium. (produced by unit9)

Mossie Soppie is an animation project that we undertook to explore the idiosyncrasy of Africa as we know it. The idiom “one man's meat is another man's poison” is investigated when the tragic fate of a pair of “mossies” (a type of sparrow) turns out to be the good fortune of the roadside “sop” (soup) vender. It was important for us to capture the harsh reality in a humorous way.

Monolith Media wanted a promotional campaign that would communicate its creative ambitions.

An interactive tongue-in-cheek postal strategy was devised and five illustrations were created to feature on postcards. These postcards would be sent in an envelope to potential clients and contacts and stamps would be included. The recipients were encouraged to explore their creativity and post the postcards to anyone (including themselves!) in protest to information overload.

Anvil Animation and Production needed to establish themselves as a major player in a very competitive market. The brief we were given by Anvil was to create a site that showcased their extensive portfolio. Since their client work is so varied, we decided that the site style needed to be subtle so as not to conflict with the portfolio work.

We also created a promo microsite for Valentines Day. > view here

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