the useful arts organisation

Afterall, www.afterall.org, 2009.

Consultancy + website build with Content Management System + E-commerce for subscriber access.

Afterall is a contemporary art research and publishing organisation who asked to the useful arts organisation to help to launch their redesigned website celebrating their 10th anniversary. Given the flat designs produced by AtWork we built the complete site for them, advised on best practises for some of the parts of the site that weren't yet finalised, and extended the designs as necessary.

Alison Leeper, www.alisonleeper.com, 2008.

Styling, Website Design + Build with Content Management System.

Almanac : www.somewhere.org.uk/almanac , 2003-2007.

Almanac is a site specific installation by Somewhere for Cinema City in Norwich, commissioned for the refurbishment of the cinema. It consists of a database of timelapse photography which dynamically generates a short film clip each day, providing a visual record of film locations across East Anglia.

The Useful Arts advised and on the systems uses for capturing digital photographs of the locations and managing the data, and built the back end database and software to dynamically generate the daily film clip, compositing the still images dynamically into a film, with surround sound. The system also uploads videos to the somewhere website where visiitors can see them blogged, or subscribe to a podcast.

AudioBunny, www.audiobunny.jp, 2006.

Styling, Website Design + Build with Content Management System.

avant gardening, www.avantgardening.org, 2009.

Website design & build with Content Management System.

Avant Gardening is an arts and environment project aiming with the aim to educate on the issues of how we affect and interact with the world around us. Their website is a central point on their news, project information, and a launch point to interesting things the find about similar projects.

The aesthetic of the website intends to follow that used in the fanzines they produce, producing something friendly and involved, reflecting the complexity of the issues and the simplicity of their approach at once, in a friendly, fun manner.

Ayurvedic Me, www.ayurvedic.me, 2008.

Branding, Website Design + Build with Content Management System.

Angie Fraser is Ayurvedic Practitioner at Ayurvedic Me

Clare Yarrington, www.clareyarrinton.com, 2009.

Styling, Website Design + Build with Content Management System.

Colchester Inn, www.colchesterinn.net, 2009.

Styling, Website Design + Build with Content Management System.

Dorian Moore, www.dorianmoore.com, 2000 - present.

Branding, Website Design + Build with Content Management System.

folkestonomy, www.folkestonomy.net, 2008.

Interactive Mapping Tool Hardware and Software Development.
Styling, Website Design + Build with Content Management System.

Gerry Leeper, www.gerryleeper.com, 2008.

Branding, Website Design + Build with Content Management System.

Grizedale Arts, www.grizedale.org, 2009.

Consultancy, Styling, Website Architecture + Design + Build with Content Management System & Shop.

Part of our ongoing relationship with Grizedale Arts, this website was redeveloped to coincide with the launch of Lawson Park as the base for their residency programme. The website will extend out to allow artists-in-residence to document their work and use grizedale as a publishing platform for their research and practise.

The Useful Arts also work with Grizedale Arts providing technical direction, consultancy and support for a range of their projects. Related projects include: Lawson Park, ToadBall TV, Happy Stacking

i am here, www.iamhere.org.uk, 2009.

Graphic Design, Website Design + Build with Content Management System.

This website is an representation of Fugutive Images' 'i am here' installation at Samuel House, Haggerston, Lonodn. E8 4HN. It has been started a launching space for further documentation aobut the redeveolpment of the Haggerston estate in the coming years.

We also did the graphic design for the information boards and flyers for the launch event, and are involved in the ongoing development of the documentation.

PostEverything, www.posteverything.com, 2000 - 2008. Now off-line.

Branding, Website Design + Build with Content Management System and Order Processing System

Dorian Moore was a founder and Technical Director of PostEverything.

public works, www.publicworksgroup.net, 2010.

Website design & build with Content Management System.

public works are an art & architecture practise working within and towards public space.

We created this website in collaboration with the team to allow them to move away from an in-house site built using DreamWeaver with Wordpress blogs, to something more dynamic that would allow all of the team members to manage their own projects within a content management system, and provide better interlinking between their works.

This project is part of an ongoing relationship with public works that includes Folkestonomy, Colchester Inn, International Village Shop and DIY Regeneration.

Rhyzom, www.rhyzom.net, 2010.

Website design & build with Content Management System.

Rhyzom is a collaborative network initiated by Atelier d'architecture autogérée to explore local cultural production and translocal dissemination.

The Rhyzom.net website was developed to allow the participants to document their activities and projects as part of the network, and to show the complex set of connections between participants activities and outcomes, growing over time. Part document, part map, the website design merges navigation into structure to represent the rhizomatic nature of the network. 

Rona Lee, www.ronalee.org, 2009.

Styling, Website Architecture, Design + Build with Content Management System.

Rossi & Rossi, www.rossirossi.com, 2010.

Website design & build with Content Management System.

Rossi & Rossi are an art gallery specialising in contemporary and classical Asian artworks.

The Useful Arts were commissioned to update their out dated web presence, providing a new site design and improved visibility of exhibition, artworks and artist information, to provide a cleaner, clearer experience with the focus on the artworks that they represent.

SHOWstudio, www.showstudio.com, 2003 - 2009.

Internet Broadcasting. Systems Development. Installation Work. Systems Administration.
Website Build with Content Management System.

showstudio.com won a Webby Award for best Fashion Website in 2003.

Dorian Moore was Chief Technical Officer of SHOWstudio from 2003-2009.

"Fantastic Dorian, its like having the internet SWAT team on my side!", Nick Knight

Simon Rose, www.simonrose.org, 2006.

Styling, Website Design + Build with Content Management System.

Sometime Later

Website Design + Build with Content Management System.

Somewhere, www.somewhere.org.uk, 2003 - present.

Installation Development.
Styling, Website Design + Build with Content Management System.

Somewhere artists Pope+Guthrie won the Northern Art Prize in 2007.

Spatial Agency, www.spatialagency.net, 2009.

Consultancy + website & database design & build with Content Management System.

Spatial Agency is a research project initiated by Agency, part of Sheffield University School of Architecture, looking at alternative architecture practises, their interconnection and influences.

The first part of this project has involved creating a database structure to allow them to document and connect the various important practises, both as a research tool for publication of a book and as an extra resource, providing ongoing documentation of projects that can't be featured in the book.

The second part of the project will be a mapping of the interactions and influences of the various parties featured practices.

ToadBall TV, www.toadball.tv, 2008.

Installation Development. Interactive Desigin and Development.
Website Design + Build with Content Management System.

What Will The Harvest Be?, www.whatwilltheharvestbe.com, 2009.

Consultancy, Website Architecture + Design + Build with Content Management System.

A website created for somewhere to document their urban community vegetable garden in Stratford, London. The intention of the webiste was to create a window onto the garden, documenting the background to the project and to provide a place where the process and experiences of growing could be documented, though a database of plants with user annotations, a blog, and a webcam producing an interactive timelapse.

The website design is based upon the original print design fro the project created by Linda Byrne.