POP today launched the brand new microsite for Super Mario Sluggers. And so it seemed like a good moment to reflect on years past, recalling the work we did for its GameCube predecessor, Mario Superstar Baseball. Continue Reading…
Here’s one from the archives. The Seattle band Mercir (of which I was/am a member) debuted its album As Small As The Center in 2004. This site was designed to accompany its release. The beautiful artwork was hand-crafted by PCP and I was able to utilize the graphical assets from the album – such as the multi-color bands – for use on our site.
The site lives on, albeit with an updated skin (also from PCP!) for the Windchimes & Landmines EP.
The Pokémon Company holds regular tournaments and competitive events for players of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. This was their foray into the world of tournament play for video games. We created this site for Pokémon to get kids pumped about the new tournament, get them registered, and track the tourney progress as it was live last summer. Good times all around. And you might notice the site’s background bears a striking resemblance to a poké-ball.
Site, and Flickr Gallery
Today POP’s site for Ubisoft and Gearbox went live in anticipation of the release of Brothers In Arms: Hell’s Highway. The site was a pleasure to work on, in particular because we were able to create an immersive historical timeline as a part of the experience. Continue Reading…
In 2006 POP created this award-winning site for Nintendo’s release of New Super Mario Brothers. The day it launched it got Dugg over a thousand times, which is, of course, more a testament to the Mario brand than our design skills, but then again the fanboys did sing the praises of the site itself in there too! Continue Reading…
The pink puff made his Nintendo DS debut to this POP microsite, early in 2007. One of the hallmark franchises for Nintendo, Kirby has had a steady following of kids all over the globe, playin’ his games and watchin’ his toons.
I’ve never been an RPG-player, but there’s something about working with these really dramatic, fantasy illustrations, soundtracks, and movies that gets me pumped. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance was a site we did that integrated a pretty sophisticated database into a Flash site, letting users sort like-attributes of game characters, weapons, countries, etc. all set against a RISK-like world map. Continue Reading…
In 2005 we worked on this microsite for Nintendo, for “The Minish Cap”. I loved this site. In fact I ended up writing some music on it (a little orchestral riff assembled in Reason, remixing the classic Zelda tune) and low and behold, POP won a Webby Award (People’s Choice!) for Best Use of Music or Sound. (Zelda was also nominated for Best Game Site that year). Continue Reading…
Hello. This is me, Joel Eby. I’m an art director in Seattle, USA, for an award winning interactive agency called POP. From time to time I feel like posting some of my work that I’m particularly proud of. This is where you’ll find it.
I dunno. Maybe I’ll post other stuff too if I find it really interesting. Or maybe I’ll have something on my mind. Who is to say, really?
Hot diggety, WordPress 2.5 is nice.