TCM INTERACTIVE
Legacy web product design over the years. In the early days at Turner Classic Movies, groundbreaking design and branding was the norm, created by some of the most talented people working in television.
I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to create cutting edge web and product design at Turner Classic Movies, even in the early 2000s. But it was partly because I worked with visionary cohorts doing the same across every area of the network: marketing, on-air, merchandise, events . It was an alignment that helped the brand flourish when it could easily have not. These early days saw a range of eclectic products as "digital" was just entering the lexicon: TV apps, music widgets, desktop apps, mobile web, very lite TV OS applications and much more. It was a wide gamut of digital products and experiences that were clever and fun, not centered on phones. In the early aughts for web, the trend was pushing the limits of Flash and HTML to make unique online experiences. Check out the Movietopia video below - an idea that was wildly ambitious way before FILMSTRUCK and Netflix were on the seen.
TCM Web {early designs}
MOVIETOPIA
Before Netflix, before streaming as we know it, there was...Movietopia.
In the early aughts, as Netflix was just a DVD business, if you were paying attention and worked on the digital side of cable TV, you knew where things were headed. People were going to get movies and TV content beyond a cable subscription. But what should it be like? With some help of several bright folks at Turner Broadcasting, myself and TCM leadership envisioned Movietopia. It many ways it was a precursor to FilmStruck, and it would have been a blast.
Movietopia
VARIOUS VINTAGE COOL STUFF
Insane Flash Sites, iTV Fantasy Games, Widgets, and more in a twilight eclectic era
(15 years ago, a lifetime in digital)
What these all have in common remains a desire to create something genuinely unique, engaging, and enjoyable. Much of this early work was created with talented engineers, designers and agencies. They still stand the test of time as elegant, fun, experiences.
Special Thanks: Tom Karsch and my good friends at 1Trick Pony
