Recent Work
A Screen Logo Build for a Radio Station
November 2010Motion Graphics
With minimal budget, we crafted this quick black and white logo build of 2 Oceans Vibe - an online radio station, operating from Cape Town. The logo build will be seen briefly on screen at Cape Town's Wavescape Film Festival from 1 December until 20 December 2010.
View the 2 Oceans Vibe Advert
View the 2 Oceans Vibe Logo Build
Happy Movember
Movember 2010Illustration / Tumblr
We quite like mo's and 'staches - they look quite rad on some people. And FirstView is made up of a bunch of rad guys, no ladies just yet, so we decided to celebrate FirstView's manly side this month in support of Movember. We're posting a new mo dude on our FV Mo site every weekday, as well as some cool links, images and other goodies. Submit your own photos as well, if you want.
Brazil Futbol hits SA
September 2010Motion Graphics
FirstView took on a motion graphics project to introduce the development and growth of football in South Africa. Using shapes, sounds and movement to mimic the cultures of both nations, we felt that we had delivered exactly what was needed for a video presentation that involved interviews with soccer celebrities such as Carlos Perero.
A PhoneBox for Everything
August 2010Website Design & Development / API integration
FirstView were commissioned to develop a website for a cutting solution, PhoneBox. To parallel the unique product, we developed a unique website structure using new cutting edge website development techniques. The website pushes the envelope of website development by introducing animations, fades, slides and direct API integration into the products management system.
Land Rover shifts
up with Gear
July 2010Website Design / Interactive Development
With the ever increasing growth of the 4x4 market, Land Rover Gear approached FirstView to position them at the forefront of the 4x4 fashion industry by developing a world class online store for their clothing range. Although both Land Rover & Land Rover Gear are such established brands, FirstView were still able to introduce new & exciting developments to their web strategy to make their website visitors experience a fresh, easy and unique experience.
5 Star Lodge meets
5 Star Website
June 2010Website Design & Development / API / Interactive Design / Email Campaigns / Social Networking
Nambiti Hills Private Game Lodge is a 5 Star luxury resort which offers only the best quality or service, food & wildlife experience. FirstView were approached to match their level of excellence by developing an interactive and informative website that integrated directly to thier booking system for a quick and easy user expereince. Aside from adding all the bells and whistles such as social networking integration, photo galleries, online booking, document library and more, FirstView also fulling integrates Nambiti's Email Campaigns that are sent regulaly to it's beloved clients.
Fresh Collection of Style
May 2010Website Design & Development / Interactive Design
With the photography market exploding in South Africa, and around the world, Fresh Collections approached FirstView to build a website that would make it simple and easy for people to purchase hi-res prints of any photo on the Fresh Collections network. FirstView explored and made easy use of the Flickr API, brilliant color to enhance the photos and the use of client side browser languages to create galleries and single-image viewing modules.
75 Years and Still Cutting Edge
May 2010 Full Flash Website / Content Management
In celebration of their 75th aniversary, Mbatha Walters & Simpson decided to launch a new brand and a new website that would emerse the user in a large image format environment to showcase their sheer size of their projects. With a captivating user experience, easy to use navigation structure, dynamic image resizing, optimised bandwidth loading to support South African broadband speeds, and even a full content management system for all their projects, we believe the Mbatha Walters & Simpson website will suitably propel the company into their next era.
Engaging Experiences
April 2010Full Flash Website / Interactive Design
EngageSA are a unique company tackling a fairly sensative subject int the South African market, BEE. FirstView were approached to develope an engaging user experience website that communicated the true strategy and cause behind BEE and it's effectiveness in South Africa. With a simple and unique navigation technique, we developed a website that captivates and passes and important message to it's users.
Nothing like Hip Hop!
October 2009Motion Graphics / Audio Design
Motion Dance is one of Durbans largest HipHop dance companies with over 80 students. FirstView were approached to tackle the Motion Graphics of their annual show. Venturing out into the non-corporate client sector brought more excitement than challenges. With a huge turnout and even bigger response to the visual graphics, we believe that we nailed that..yo!
Fashion in Motion
September 2009Motion Graphics / Audio Design
With the growth of the FirstView team, we decided to venture into new grounds when taking on the project for the KZN Fashion Council logo build. After a lot of pattern scanning, idea pushing and editing in Adobe After Effects, we are very proud of the outcome and look forward to more Motion Graphic challenges in the future.
Mobile Phones Galore!
August 2009Website Development / eCommerce
With limited time, FirstView had to develop a fully integrated eCommerce website that allowed users to order directly online as well as track orders, view detailed phone information and more. The Mobile Store website has a fully integrated Content Management System (CMS) that allows the client to keep thier products up to date with the ever changing mobile industry.
Touching a Reebok
July 2009Flash Animation / Touchscreen
FirstView were commissioned to develop a high quality fully manageable touchscreen interface for the Reebok stores around South Africa. The touchscreens can be updated by a management consol and are completely dynamic. Users will be able to easily register, browse products and much more with the exciting new addition to Reebok's stores.
Radio on TV
June 2009Flash Animation / TV Media
FirstView worked closely with some of Durban's top TV agencies to produce the latest East Coast Radio, House & Garden Show TV advert. It was exciting for FirstView to venture into new areas of animation and we're even more excited with the opportunities it has brought.
Bubbles, bubbles & more bubbles
May 2009Flash Animation / Presentation
FirstView partnered with a top brand agency to deliver a slick interactive presentation for Coca-Cola. FirstView met with some challenges that were easily overcome by broadening our skills to other applications such as Adobe After Effects & Swift3D.
Something to Brag about...
April 2009Full Flash Website Design / eCommerce
With the latest craze hitting big in SA, bags that hold family photos...FirstView was approached to create a spunky and comfortable website that provided an easy and exciting user experience. The website was delivered with full eCommerce Integration and other latest technologies to ensure high level usability.
Cash or Card?
March 2009Website Development / eCommerce
FirstView enabled Coretalk to take their business one step further by enabling their website will eCommerce functionality buy means of online Credit Card purchases of SMS's.
FirstView to the Rescue
February 2009Website Design
With the ever increasing speed of Internet in SA, FirstView enabled RescueBox with a full function website that integrates directly into their Remote Desktop Support system. The website offers free software and helpful PC tips and tricks.
We've Got Milc!?
October 2008Website Design
FirstView have been working closely with another top development company on the design and development of potentially one of South Africa's biggest mobile content websites. With it's vast array of media types the challenge is delivering custom based content according to the user's mobile specifications. The website is set to launch late 2008.
Andrew McGibbon Photography
September 2008Full Flash Website Design
FirstView is also currently revamping the website of renowned photographer Andrew McGibbon. We felt that the huge success of the previous website was in it's interactivity with the user and have decided to keep this as a focus.
Latest News
Shelves in, manners out.
We've picked up some fantastic little white bookshelves as well as 2 monstrously big white bookshelves - home to about 3 books (No, we have a bit more, but more shelf space than books at the mo). And a whopping 52-inch TV is now sitting in our to-be boardroom, where FIFA lounge mode has made soccer hooligans out of us - succeeding carpet bowls as most popular game of the lunch break.
We've been transformed into gentlemen.
A fascinating and interesting game of skill is what we're into now. Without a foosball table and with plenty of free space while waiting for our new office furniture, we've transformed our office into a carpet bowls Mecca.
New Offices, New Ventures & Exciting New Challenges - October 2010
The new clients and work we're going to be sinking our teeth into is worth working without desktops, a cafeteria upstairs, foosball and the beloved next-door developer neighbors. We won't be missing Koos on his motorcycle.
Foosball is a Serious Game!
With 2 foosball men losing their legs in the last 2 weeks, we have come to regard foosball not as a leisurely past time nor simply as a gentlemen's game but rather a game that is explosive, intense, ego-boosting, sweat generating and highly addictive. The skilled will enjoy, the lucky will win and only the humorous will endure. Only a fool would regard foosball as a playtime activity.
1 Year later...and we still have a s**t-hot business card!
People, world over, are still loving our business card - yes, that one that we posted on Creattica. Someone offered to purchase our design, but we declined. We're proud of our own kids and wouldn't dream of selling them.
Creattica.com
Land Rover Gear set to Fly! - June 2010
No, Land Rover Gear is not starting an Airline. We are speaking in figures of speech, and that was a metaphor. For the plain folk out there, this means that Land Rover Gear is ready to take on the world of online purchasing through their new website that we designed!
Visit LandRoverGear.co.za
Who says having 27 inches was too big?
Hot, powerful, fast, monstrous, sexy, ripped, elegant and refined are the adjectives. We've been able to tame 4 of these new 27 inch iMacs to suit our ever-growing creative needs. We're talking screen size here ladies and gents and the bigger the better!
The way to a designers heart...through his stomach.
Free lunch at a cafeteria that makes dinner meals for lunch is a benefit that anyone would smile at. We're smiling and we're getting fat. But it is good.
Which Mac are you?
We're choosing Mac. They're sexy, we're sexy and our designs are going to be sexier because of it. That's it.
ActiveCollab...we give it a spin!
After using trusty Basecamp for a while, we're going to try shifting over to ActiveCollab - this means quicker browsing speeds (due to it being local), different styling, more users and a once off cost. We'll see how it goes.
Good-looks without Character is meaningless
FirstView has always been hot, but we've just brought on some substance. Our new PHP developers are set to take over the world, one loop at a time.
FirstView turns 1!
7th January 2010
Happy Birthday to us, happy birthday to us... We've made it to 1 year and It feels like we're five.
Reebok Live and Kicking
15 October 2009
We're proud to announce that the Reebok Touchscreen system is up and running in various Reebok stores nationally, be sure to pop in to your nearest store and play!
Boys will be Boys, but toys aren't always just toys!
25 September 2009
FirstView added thier first additions of KidRobot (http://www.kidrobot.com/) Limited edition designer figureens to thier office! And my how they just fit in!
FirstView supports Woman's month with our new Employee!
19 August 2009
We have added the feminine touch to our team with the addition of a very talented business administrator. We're also excited for the possibility of cupcakes and pancakes!
FirstView business card featured on top design websites!
5 August 2009
After the redesign of our logo we have been in hot pursuit to make sure our new corporate identity is inspiring and professional. With the redesign of our business cards, it's seems we've sparked some inspiration to others...a true value of FirstView.
Creattica.com | DzineBlog.com
Like our work? Become a Facebook Fan!
8 July 2009
FirstView is now also on Facebook. So become a fan and join the social networking side of FirstView!
www.facebook.com/pages/FirstView/199250650276
Now Tweeting louder than ever
30 June 2009
Yup, we're alive and kicking on Twitter.
www.twitter.com/firstviewmedia
Giba Gorge Signage Up
15 June 2009
The FirstView Coretalk signage has been erected at the Giba Gorge mountain bike course.
YMCA now in control
25 May 2009
The Durban YMCA website just got a backend CMS overhaul to give them full control over thier website content.
New looks, same passion
02 April 2009
FirstView have updated their logo. We felt we needed a stronger bolder yet simpler logo.
Visions of a brotherhood
17 February 2009
We have been dealing with a quite a few other agencies in the same industry and are excited with the new relationships.
FirstView adds Bear power!
02 February 2009
FirstView recently employed a young and enthusiastic graphic designer.
Growing more and more
07 December 2008
FirstView have recently landed some exciting projects with some big brands such as Reebok.
FirstView Website v2008/09
11 October 2008
We're currently working hard on the release of the official FirstView Media 2008/09 website. Watch this space for more information!
The Birth of FirstView
5 October 2008
The birth of what we believe will pioneer media design and development in the web space. We invite you to join us on our journey to excellent service and business relationships.
