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HTML5 is a major revision of how the web is put together. Much of the development is in incorporating and developing multimedia functionality that has previously been bolted on technology within a browser. Other advancements include smarter use of offline storage, geolocation data and forms. Early HTML5 examples are already hinting at the possibilities. MSN’s ‘Royal Wedding’ timeline shows more seamless, high definition use of interactive animation, images and audio. Rough Guides ‘Make the Most’ site, in a similarly seamless fashion, visualises geotagged flickr photos wonderfully. And of course the now seminal ‘The Wilderness Downtown’ music video from Arcade Fire that pulls together video, animation, and geotagged satellite imagery into your very own personalised music video. Very exciting.

• MSN ‘Royal Wedding’
• The Wilderness Downtown
• Rough Guides ‘Make the Most’

Right, here we are 2009. Set fire to the Christmas tree and discard all those gifts you didn’t want, we’ve got to get out fresh thinking caps on for the year ahead.

2008 saw us deliver some great projects. Knoll International and The Times Spelling Bee were highlights for us. We grew the Design and Technology teams and have got some really great people bringing with them their very own piece of the digital jigsaw.

By the looks of things we’ve got an equally great year coming up too, with several top projects on the go at the moment for clients old and new. It’s all very exciting.