What is the Camry Effect? Well, it's the latest project we did with the cool geezers at SSLA. Here's a hint, it's got cars in it.
RNZAF: Step Up let us play with little camera robots moving them through detailed environmental models online and in real-time. Â
Robot Death March! A game of skill, chance and hot models slinging Hand-Breaded Chicken Fillet Sandwiches from their bikini tops at mobs of angry robots? Who'd of thunk it.
Our nerdiest award yet but nerds make us oh so wet. Sponsafier 3 has won the Usability category at FITC Awards 2011.
For a third consecutive year  Resn grabs the title of best Digital and Interactive Agency in Australia’s CREATIVE magazine's Hot Shop Awards - Yummy!
Rhizopods - Testing the 3D balls of the Molehill API's in Adobe Flash. Real time rendering... Juicy.
Resn starts the nu yeah in style with a FWA Site of the Day. Wait a sec... are those animals doing it?
Cats, dinosaurs and funny hats. Resn takes the FWA Site of the Day for Kanvas - Merry Christmas one and all!   Â
Puma brings together lions, trees, shoes, rhinos and clothing like you have never seen before. Puma Africa is live and we're just as stoked as our buddies at Droga5 NYC. Roam on the plains!
Sponsafier has won a Silver for Brand Destination Site category at the American Interactive Advertising Bureau's (IAB) MIXX Awards in New York. No one even invited us to the after party which probably sucked 'cause we weren't there. Their loss.
Let's totally own this... vote for Sponsafier in the Adobe MAX awards and we'll share our first place coffee mug with you. We're a finalist in the Advertising and Branding category.
Read some words and listen to yourself talk about us talking about ourselves in the online. The UK's Web Designer Mag gets all up in our trunk with probing questions.
Resn has accepted it's membership invitation by the SoDA (Society of Digital Agencies) crew to jump on the good foot and shake it down with them. SoDA serves as a voice for digital marketing professionals worldwide with Resn becoming its only New Zealand member.
SoDA continues to attract some of the best, most innovative digital marketing agencies in the industry. Here's the SoDA who's who of who does the digital voodoo. Also joining SoDA in the international expansion of their membership is B-Reel ,Perfect Fools and four others.
Full SoDA Press Release
Resn features in top 100 most innovative companies in the whole widest world in the book “No Apples: 100 Other Top Innovators”. We hang with companies like Intel, Nike, Fiat, Spotify, ASICS, VW and Kodak. And other industry dudes like Droga5, Perfect Fools and Naked. Choice-arse-ness!
Resn and Saatchi LA took out a Silver Pencil in 360 Integrated at the One Show Interactive Awards in NYC for the Toyota Racing Sponsafier Campaign. Resn attended the awards in NYC where they closed the bar for 2.5 hours during the awards so we ended up drinking the toilet water to keep ourselves entertained.
Oh so hot, the burn, the intense sweltering bake radiating from our loins. Resn wins Creative Hot Shop for Best Digital & Interactive Agency for 2nd year running. Fully gonna use this down at the pub to pull chicks tonight.
Resn has made it into the prestigious Communications Arts Interactive Annual 2010! The annual features the top 40 sites for 2009/10. We even graced the cover of the Annual. We feel very warm and very fuzzy and a tad dizzy. Thanks to Communications Arts and the judges for seeing into our souls and taking a bite.
Resn is like the 2nd hottest digital unit of nerds and sophisto designers in Australasia advertising world according to other people.
Come listen to us rant - The Future of Digital - Melbourne, March 5th. AIMIA: The Future of Digital - Awards Edition.
Resn is nominated for two of its websites in the SXSW Interactive Awards. Fat Freddy's TV and Shapeshifter have both been nominated in the Music Category.
Resn is a finalist in the AIMIA Awards for three campaign pieces. Jag Black & 26000 Vodka in Best Advertising & Marketing category. Shapeshifter in Best Entertainment.
Resn has won five categories at the Pixel Awards. Resn took out Best Agency, Best Animation, Best Experimental, Best Music websites at the awards. Resn, Jag Black and 26000 Vodka were nominated for the Best In Show category with Jag Black receiving the Best In Show title.
Resn is going to be at Adobe Max in LA next week Oct 4-7. We'll be canoodling and doing the rounds so be sure to come say howdy to us if you are there.
Who the hell would do a “web reel”. Webs Sites are boring. The webs is for nerds. Go away internet. We HATE you, everyone hates you internet. Stop stuffing up our lives. I need a cup of tea with trim milk and someone please close the door.
Fresh out of the Resn studio is the new online video archive for one of New Zealand’s most successful music groups… Fat Freddys Drop. View exclusive video content uploaded by Freddys themselves. Create/arrange your own video playlists and share these with your friends. Or just chuck the videos on full screen at home and stream yourself some party time jerk chicken flavours.
Resn has been featured in .net Magazine's June 2009 issue. We got all hot and sweaty making over a UK wrestling website. Check it on our blog.
FWA Win For Resn's Own Website
Resn.co.nz will be named FWA Site of The Day on April 26th. You're already here so we refuse to give you a link to this site.
Another Special Surprise at the Webbys
Luke Buda's Special Surprise continues its award winning run and takes out an Official Honouree Award at the Webby Awards.
May have to move houses soon to find room for all these awards.
A Special Surprise at the One Show Awards
Luke Buda's Special Surprise website has been named a finalist at the One Show Interactive Awards. The winner will be announced at the awards event in New York on May 8th at Terminal 5. He's up against 17 other finalists that include big brands like Adidas, Nike, Nokia, Penguin Books, Nintendo, Diesel, Activision and Burger King. Go Buda!
26000 Vodka Wins FWA Award
26000 Vodka that Resn recently launched has received the FWA Site Of The Day Award for the 16th April. The site is a doozy that encorporates some slick 2D photography and an expansive 3D environment that will immerse you so deeply in world of 26000 Vodka you may feel a little tipsy afterwards.
Resn Wins Hot Shop Award
Resn has won best Digital & Interactive Agency at the Australasian Hot Shop Awards.
“The Hotshop Awards can be summed up in four words: Show Us Something Different! The awards aim to uncover the companies and individuals who are creating truly innovative solutions for their clients by pioneering fresh styles, techniques and strategies across a range of disciplines including advertising, design, interactive, post production, animation, production, sound and photography. We’re looking for exemplary craftsmanship and execution, but we’re also looking for innovative thinking – dynamic thinkers who aren’t afraid to experiment or break the rules.”
Congrads to The Glue Society who took out the supreme award.
Oh So Hot
Resn have been nominated as one of three finalists in the Australian Hot Shop Awards.
"The Hotshop Awards can be summed up in four words: Show Us Something Different! The awards aim to uncover the companies and individuals who are creating truly innovative solutions for their clients by pioneering fresh styles, techniques and strategies across a range of disciplines including advertising, design, interactive, post production, animation, production, sound and photography. We’re looking for exemplary craftsmanship and execution, but we’re also looking for innovative thinking – dynamic thinkers who aren’t afraid to experiment or break the rules."
Resn Wins At AIMIA Awards
Resn’s own Resn 08 website took out the Best Enterprise category of the AIMIA Awards (Australian Interactive Media Industry Association) at the awards ceremony on Friday night in Sydney. This AIMIA is definitely the heaviest award we have ever received. Our Creative Director, Steve Le Marquand is currently undergoing physiotherapy after having to hold the award all night long at the afterparty.
Special Surprise Top 50 FWA Sites of 08
Special Surprise has been named by Rob Ford (FWA Founder) as one of the top 50 websites of 2008. A great achievement which the all at Resn are extremely excited about.
Jag Black Wins FWA
Jag Black is featured as FWA Site of the Day on Sat 28th February. Another win on FWA, Resn's 3rd so far.
Resn "Most Unconventional"
Netdiver have called Resn "most unconventional" on the front page of their website. Thanks Netdiver!
Netdiver is a great read to find out all things going on in the design and digital world. Also check out their Best of 08 feature.
Resn Nominated for 3 AIMIA Awards
Resn has been nominated for 3!!! awards at the 15th Annual AIMIA Awards. Special Surprise has been nominated for Best Word of Mouth, Peer-to-Peer or Viral. Resn's own Resn 08 website for Best Enterprise. Kiss Off is nominated for the Effectiveness Award.
We have just discovered that Kiwis are actually not flightless (even in the face of a "financial crisis") so we might even see ya at the awards ceremony if nothing else is good on TV that night...
Resn Wins .net Magazine Site Of Month
Jag Black Book microsite has won the coveted .net Magazine Site Of The Month for Feb 09 issue which is the UK's leading magazine for web designers and developers.
Jag No. 1 Design Charts
Jag Black Book microsite that Resn designed and created for L.A. based advertising agency State of Tomorrow has achieved the No. 1 spot on Design Charts. Design Charts ranks websites on a total score based on their position on a number of other website design sites including, Dope Awards, Design Licks and Creative Website Awards.
Jag Black Book Launches
Resn has completed work on the new microsite for Jag-Jeans.com. The website is takes the user on a super sexy photo shoot with two top models. You control the camera and snap away a reel of photos that you are taking for your Jag Black Book magazine. When the photo shoot ends arrange your photos on the magazine pages and then publish the mag. You can then send the magazine to your friends or use the photos as desktop images.
Happy snapping!
Resn Writes For Taschen
Resn has been published by Taschen with an article titled "The Power of Online Portfolios" that introduces the book Web Design: Flashfolios.
"... a fast-food, high-energy fix on the topic at hand."
The New York Times Book Review
Check out pages 4 through 11 for Resn's rant about the power of Flash portfolios or Flashfolios.
Resn at Animfx NZ 08
Come get on the booze with us at Animfx NZ this weekend in Welly. If we don't see you at the conference just come find us on the D-floor at the Sidhe After Party on Saturday night at Dockside. Get your game on!
AnimfxNZ 08 has assembled the best Animation, VFX, Games and Digital Film speakers you will ever get to see in the Southern Hemisphere!
Resn wins Pixel Award - Music Category 2nd Year Running
The mightly Buda takes the whole cake again and eats it at the Pixel Awards. Beating out some big competition like SonyBMG and Sundance Channel.
Resn Wins 2nd FWA
Resn has won its second FWA award this year for the website Special Surprise. Blow up some pteradactals and get your jersey on!
Just Hear !t
Resn has completed the brand identity for an exciting new U.S. based music service 'Just hear !t'. The service will launch in the not too distant future. Loud noises!
Wellington Rugby
Resn has been selected to develop the family of sites for the Wellington Rugby Football Union. Keep an eye out for the Vodafone Wellington Lions and Super 14 Hurricanes seasons and get yourself down to the games!
Kiss Off Game
Our Kiss Off game created for Smokefree New Zealand has been launched. So how well can you kiss? Play the game.
www.notourfuture.co.nz/kissoff
Not Our Future
The Not Our Future website for Smokefree New Zealand gets a Resn facelift.
Webby Awards
We are an Official Honouree at this years prestigious Webby Awards. The Minuit site as been honoured in the Music category of the World!
Get a better worker
Razor Junior and Resn have launched a site for Ricoh. Got someone in your office that’s always slacking off? Calling people nicknames? Or claiming someone else’s hardwork as their own? Check out Ricoh’s comical take on the office cliches. Email a ‘friend’ and let that someone know how you feel in a not so subtle way.
