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Adobe unites 2A, Big Spaceship, & Blitz General 2A

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Posted 06:35 PM

To promote this year's Adobe Max 2008/2009 Conference, Adobe pulled together 3 design agencies to collaborate and develop a unique interactive experience that would highlight the theme of the upcoming conference: Connect. Discover. Inspire.

2Advanced worked hand in hand with Big Spaceship and Blitz over the course of several weeks to conceive a special interactive/print campaign to promote the conference.

Never before in the industry have 3 interactive agencies collaborated on such an immense task; design and develop 3 unique landscapes based on 3 different themes (the jungle, the arctic, and the desert) and utilize these landscapes in a variety of mediums to promote the conference. Each studio's contribution would be fused together to create a seemless, yet stylistically unique, campaign across the Web, Print, Email, Signage, etc.

With our assignments in hand, we went to work. Big Spaceship was to handle the Arctic scene, Blitz was tasked with developing a Desert environment, and 2Advanced would conceive the Jungle landscape. In the end, each studio worked together to blend the scenes together into one seemless panoramic image. Finally, this panoramic image was to be deployed on the web, with each studio developing interactive layers on top of each landscape. The intent was that a user could scroll from left to right, up and down, and explore the different landscapes and interact with them. In the end, Adobe seemlessly tied all the landscapes together programatically and inserted it into the backdrop of the Adobe Max website.

Ultimately, you will find a very special experience awaiting you at the 3 different Max conferences that will take place in San Francisico, Milan, and Tokyo. 2Advanced, Big Spaceship, and Blitz will all have a large roll to play at each conference. You can expect to encounter a very interesting visual experience at Max, based upon our collaborative efforts, as well as have the opportunity to speak one on one with various team-members of each agency.

We strayed from our normal style this time around and tried to come up with something fun and slightly comical. Here is a look at the jungle environment developed by 2Advanced, in additional to a race of "Adobe Characters" we created in 3D which correspond to each of the key Adobe applications:


Below is the culmination of the collaborative effort, the blending of all 3 environments by each studio. (From left to right: 2Advanced, Big Spaceship, Blitz)


To view the interactive experiece visit http://Max.Adobe.com and click anywhere outside the informational window. Each visit is randomized to start at a different environment. Use your mouse to scroll left, right, up, and down in order to traverse all three landscapes. For the 2Advanced jungle scene, there are certain actions that you must trigger in order to progress the story (Drag & drop, clicking, etc). See how far you can get by interacting with the environment and the clues it gives you.

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