The Angry Robot Zombie Factory
We make the robots, they make the websites.
Products
When there's so much cool stuff out there to play with, why stick with the same old same old? From little plugins to shiny, full-scale web apps, we've done it.
Work
Besides making all this cool stuff of our own, we also design and build sites and products for others and help them learn how to do it themselves next time.
Art
We don't just make cool online shiny things, we also make pretty pictures. This is a very small sample.
Company
The Angry Robot Zombie Factory have been doing internet things (for themselves or others) since Web 1.0 and illustration since disco died.
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Products
Harmonious
The Angry Robot Zombie Factory's first iPhone app. Harmonious is a smart sketchpad that lets anyone quickly create very cool looking works-of-art and upload them for the world to see.
Concept, design, build of app and site with HTML, JavaScript and Objective C.
GrowlBird
If you use OS X it is pretty much essential for you to install Growl, the unified notification service. It is an extremely usefeul way to bring notifications from any application into one single system. GrowlBird is an extension to Growl which combines the power of Growl with the ubiquity of Twitter. It will relay any notification sent to Growl into a Twitter account allowing you to use any of the myriad Twitter tools to manage your Growl notifications remotely.
Concept, build with Objective C.
Transmission.bundle
This is a plugin for the XBMC spin-off project Plex which allows you to access your Transmission downloads from within the Plex interface. We didn't do the initial development but have continued it with bugfixes, new features and UI tweaks.
Continuing development and design, build with Python
Jot
This is not quite ready for public launch yet but already looking quite shiny. Jot is a website that allows you to write notes on any other website. It was developed as a tool to be used in the web design workflow as a way for clients to mark amends directly onto the site rather than scribbling on print-outs.
Concept, specification, design and build with PHP, HTML, JavaScript
Wwwitter
Wwwitter is a tool that lets you tweet about any page via a simple javascript sidebar. When you launch the sidebar, it will pull in any tweets about the page and let you add your own. Wwwitter was built on the same system as Noodle, an early product of the Angry Robot Zombie Factory. Noodle was amongst the first of a new generation of social commenting tools, the most popular of which is the recently launched Google Sidewiki (which wasn't built here).
Concept, build with Python, HTML, JavaScript.
Work
Visitor Studies Group
The Visitor Studies Group approached us for a complete rebuild of their site. New architecture, new CMS, new design (but keeping with the existing colour scheme).
Design, architecture and build with HTML and PHP on Drupal.
Resume
An example of shiny HTML5, just like the site you're looking at now.
Design and build.
Alcohol
Built while at Whitespace.
Build with JSP, HTML and JavaScript.
60 years of NHS Scotland Timeline
Built while at Whitespace.
Build with HTML and JavaScript.
German Church
A bilingual site with integrated Google Calendars for events management.
Design and build with PHP.
Cryptic International timeline
Built while at Whitespace.
Build with JavaScript and Google Maps.
Many, many more
In addition to the specific examples here, we've been involved in writing the technical specifications, build and/or project management of more than 50 high profile websites over the last 5 years.
Art
Zzzombie
Illustration for a book.
Ink and digital colour.
Sad Bear
Part of the logo of unfeedr.com.
Pencil and digital colour.
Bat
Character design for a children's book.
Pencil and watercolour.
Many, many more
For more examples, visit the Permanent Pencil portfolio.
Company
All about us
At the moment, most of the Angry Robot Zombie Factory production line is staffed by me, Simon Madine.
I won't go into any resumé-style detail here. For all that kind of info, have a look at my...
The quickest way to get in touch with me these days is probably to send me a message via Twitter. Alternatively, you could e-mail me at simon@angryrobotzombie.com.