Website
www.versionindustries.com
Team
Giles Copp,
Stephen Lynch,
Caspar Newbolt,
Duran Rose,
Gavin Singleton
Bio
We just opened a second office in Manhattan, New York after starting out in London a few years ago. Back then rich content and Flash in particular was really starting to come into its own and it became our express intention to use it to push the envelope of what the internet could do. Given this aim of doing large-scale creative work, the move to New York was inevitable.
The Flash website that Hi-ReS! did for the film Requiem For A Dream in 2000 became the first major focus of our interest in website design. Unlike so many of its contemporaries at the time, it presented abstract ideas rather than just text and images successfully blending the cinematic elements of film with web design. For us this changed the game and opened the door to comparatively low-budget creative collaborations with just about anyone in the world, no matter what their profession.
From this point on we've been about doing something new with every project and in some way giving our clients more a piece of work backed by a strong creative idea than just a bare-bones functional design. We look for work which brings together a variety of different media - film, music, visual art - and we believe the reason why Version Industries works is that we all bring such different ingredients to the table: Giles is a coder with a desire to write some day, Gavin is a prolific electronic musician and Caspar, a wannabe filmmaker, is the son of two fine artists. Weve yet to realise our individual personal goals, but you can be sure that when they arrive, theyll be designed beautifully and have a great website to back them up.
Taken from the article 'Getting Graphic' in the Web Developer's & Designer's Journal
