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Hey there! You’ve found the portfolio of Stephen Horner, an Interactive Creative at Aim Proximity all about engaging ideas, sexy design, usable interfaces, clean code and intelligent use of technology.


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Stephen Horner (aka Steve) had his first contact with a computer user interface around the age of seven. It involved a Commodore 386, Microsoft Windows 3.2, and a frustrated dad up the rest of the night reinstalling the operating system. Stephen still maintains he thought dragging and dropping folders was a game at the time.

After studying design at Natcoll in 2006 and freelancing for various companies in Wellington (New Zealand) Steve was hired by Clemenger Group direct agency Aim Proximity in early 2007 to design and develop interactive stuff.

He’s now there in the role of Interactive Creative talking ideas with art directors and copywriters, tweaking pixels with designers, optimizing code with developers, haggling timings with producers and enjoying all of it.

In his free time Steve enjoys surfing, snowboarding, footy, tennis and pretending he knows how to play drums.


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Hybrid Camry

Hybrid Camry
Better For You

For the launch of Toyota's new Hybrid Camry we developed a website that showed how the car was better for you.

This personal approach showcased how the Hybrid Camry's features were uniquely suited to your lifestyle, your driving, and your budget.

Project Roles

Concept, Information Architecture, Design, Talent Direction, Animation, Actionscript


The World's Biggest Scrum

The World's Biggest Scrum

To get rugby fans excited about the Rugby World Cup a year in advance we developed a Facebook application that let them join a scrum to show their support.

Over eight weeks of tournament play thousands of fans joined teams to win the ultimate prize; tickets to the RWC2011 final.

Project Roles

Concept, Information Architecture, Design, Animation, Actionscript


Zoe Weir

Zoe Weir

Zoe needed a portfolio site that explained what she was about and presented her work across three disciplines of visual communication design.

The solution effectively showcases her talent, is simple to navigate, and content is easily maintained via XML.

Project Roles

Design, Animation, Actionscript, XML



Fame or Shame

Fame or Shame

ACC needed an engaging way to educate New Zealanders about the dangers in their home.

We dramatized the subject with a video pick-a-path that followed someone throwing a birthday party. Right choices collect party essentials, wrong choices result in injury, and home safety tips help you along the way.

John Caples International Awards

Project Roles

Concept, Design, Animation, Actionscript, JavaScript, PHP, XML



Watch This Wall

Watch This Wall

Clemenger were going to do a big painting that everyone painted a small piece of and wanted somewhere for people to follow the progress online.

Collaborating with their design team we created an appealing WordPress theme and customized the installation to suit their requirements.

Project Roles

Design, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress



Lexus RX450h

Lexus RX450h

Lexus needed a microsite to suppport their above-the-line campaign of the RX450h, their new hybrid SUV that took 'another giant leap' in technology.

We chose to interpret the line literally and created a navigation that sent visitors leaping forward to content that showcased the vehicles luxury styling and innovative technology.

Project Roles

Concept, Design, Animation, Actionscript



Practice

Practice

ACC's Practice program for learner drivers hadn't been updated in 5 years and needed an overhaul.

We created an online engagement platform with a bold look and navigation to assist drivers and their coaches on the way to passing the restricted test with driving skill summaries, lesson videos, hour logging and a skill approval system.

Adobe Site of the Day

Project Roles

Concept, Wireframing, Design, Animation, Actionscript, JavaScript



Prezzy Card

Prezzy Card Campaign

New Zealand Post wanted an online campaign targeting Christmas gift buyers to view Prezzy Card as a great option this season.

We created a banner campaign that demonstrated how versatile Prezzy Card is and directed them to a page that explained the product.

Project Roles

Design, Flash Animation, Actionscript, HTML, CSS, Javascript



Stop The Aussie Invasion

Stop The Aussie Invasion

Kiwibank were launching a new patriotic brand campaign around the line 'Join The Movement' and wanted online word-of-mouth to play a role.

We developed a tongue-in-cheek viral game that let Kiwis defend New Zealand from invading Aussie bankers by pelting them with pavlovas.

Adobe Site of the Day

Project Roles

Concept, Design, Animation, ActionScript, HTML, CSS, Javascript



Lexus LX570

Lexus LX570

For the launch of the new Lexus LX570 in New Zealand we designed and developed a website that positioned the car as the peak in luxury, style, and performance.

Project Roles

Design, Animation



v.box

v.box

Vodafone were undergoing a worldwide rebrand and needed to update v.box, their online loyalty program for high value customers.

We took the existing website and refreshed the design, made information architecture improvements and introduced 'theme' elements that could be changed out over time.

Project Roles

Design



Missing Points

Missing Points

CourierPost needed a campaign that demonstrated to small and medium sized businesses the FlyBuys points they could be earning with CourierPost if they linked their account.

We created a website that showed how many points they could have earnt over the last three months, and gave them a window of time to claim them.

Project Roles

Design, Actionscript



World of Difference

World of Difference

Each year the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation run World of Difference, a program to find six people to work with youth for a year and paying them to do it.

We created a banner that depicted a youth tagging your webpage, and challenged you to see his potential. It received the most complaints of any banner run in New Zealand to date and was a 2008 Webby Honoree.

Webby Honoree

Project Roles

Design, Acting, Animation, Actionscript



Fashion Freakshow

Fashion Freakshow

A collaboration with Zoe Weir to take her strong collage style into an interactive medium, this proof of concept animates in reaction to an MP3 audio input.

With development of the animation and interaction this could have an application as a live projection at events reacting to band instruments/crowd noise.

Project Roles

Concept, Actionscript



Apart/ment

Apart/ment

I participated in the '09 48 Hour Film Festival, a fun competition were teams write, shoot and cut a film in a weekend, in our case with an awful handycam.

Our team had to produce a 'Parallel World' genre film containing a rock as a prop, the character Alexander Puddle, and the line 'It doesn't fit.'

Project Roles

Bad acting, Color grading



Dust Bunnies

Dust Bunnies

Intended as a stage projection for the agency band Dust Bunnies for the Battle of the Ad Bands contest, best laid plans fell over at the venue when the projector cable was several meters to short, reducing the animation to the role of desktop screensaver.

Project Roles

Concept, Design, Animation, Drums



Word

Word 'Zine

After finishing my course I wanted a project to put some of my learnings into practice. In collaboration with fine art student Aaron Burr a 'zine for the Wellington poetry community was produced with collected poetry, poet interviews and editorial opinion pieces.

Project Roles

Concept, Design, Editor