I just found out from my friend Richard Hewitt than London’s legendary venue The End is due to close it’s doors in January after 13 years of top-notch dance floor action.

I've got a personal attachment to the club as I've spent many late nights over the last five years making interactive flyers for my long standing client Sancho Panza’s regular night at the venue’s AKA bar. I’ve also spent many late nights / early mornings in the club itself.

Looking back over the flyers in a misty-eyed sort of way, my favourites are:


The big long street that took a whole year to make


The one with the lighter


The one with the stop motion electronic man


The one which loads random 70s photos from Flickr that I made while on my holidays in Bermuda


The one where the users helped to brighten up London


The one where you could play along with the music on a drum

I'll miss The End & AKA dearly but it’s not the last of my work for Sancho Panza. We’re currently working hard on a brand new website which will be launching later this year.

It’s time once again for my monthly e-flyer for Sancho Panza at The End / AKA club London. No fancy interactivity this month unfortunately as I’ve been away sailing in Scotland for the last week or so and only had one evening to conceive and execute the thing. Thankfully there’s now a two month break in the schedule which will allow me to address lobbing Sancho’s seven year old Flash site in the bin and replacing it with something shiny and new.

Here’s this month’s e-flyer for my long-standing client Sancho Panza’s monthly night at The End & AKA club in London. Users can add a splash of colour to the city via some rather exotic feathered fauna.

I just finished this month's user–generated flyer for my long–standing client Sancho Panza's monthly night at The End/AKA club in London. This month we're hopeful that spring is kicking in (despite today's shocking weather). Users can create a typographic flower from their name. Why not add yours?

I had intended to write a post about interactive music videos – but guess what? There are hardly any. In fact I managed to find around five, of which “Black Mirror” by Arcade Fire was the clear winner. This and Rektor's Princess (2003) were the only ones which kept me engaged throughout the length of the track. Arcade Fire's other contribution to the world's smallest genre had a certain charm but ultimately became very dull very fast.

While searching through a thread of comments on Digg I found this quote from a user called “bitcloud”:

“I'm pretty sure there's a reason the rift between interactive and passive media exists - too passive to be interesting, and too active to be passive...”

Is this true or have we just not cracked the interactive music promo yet?

More user–generated e–flyer business for Sancho. This time users lend a hand in brightening up dreary old February London.

I just finished this e–flyer for my long standing client Sancho Panza. It features some neat user–generated Flash trickery. Check it out here.

Muxicall is a collaborative music making tool created by Diana Antunes, a student on the New Technologies of Communication degree at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. It's based around the idea of up to 8 people improvising at once. Although there's no particularly ground-breaking technology here and the actual music making interface could be easier to use, it's a great idea and it's beautifully crafted too. The addition of a splash of colour (based on an Issac Newton theory apparently) for each musical note, means that when a few people are playing at once, the experience is quite mesmerising. Enjoy!