Framing Creativity in Seattle

Seattle is a hotbed of creativity, inspiration and innovation. The American Advertising Federation/Seattle strives to challenge our collective creative power and community, raising the bar for Seattle’s creative work. Their efforts through events such as tonight’s Art Bash are perfect examples of celebrating our industry’s innovation and creative lifeblood. This year’s theme, “Framing Creativity in Seattle,” challenges the definition of creativity and pushes us to think about it differently; something our client’s brands are asked to do every day to stay relevant in people’s lives.

With emerging technology top of mind, Smashing Ideas created a piece using the simple frame-like squares and shapes that make up QR codes. We were inspired by these frames and put a new twist on it by adding some Seattle flair.

Congrats to all the agencies who participated and thanks for inviting SI to contribute!

Revenge Can be Fun

Witness the fiendish game that is “The Revenge of Dr. Blowhole!” Assume the role of Dr. Blowhole and use your insidious *MIND JACKER* clown-head to steal Skipper’s memories and secrets (in the world of Penguins this all makes sense). This is a fun connect-3 game developed to support this special episode. Watch for the secret code on-air on Nick September 5 for a special secret unlock!

Penguines Revenge

Twisted Whiskers on iPhones!

Yawp & Dander are at it again except this time they’ve gone mobile. Fetch, scratch and flush your way to victory with those wildly warped pets from The Twisted Whiskers Show! Beat the clock by performing absurd stunts: Claw a couch to shreds with Cutie Snoot! Go for a porcelain swim with Dander! Mark your territory with Ird the Bird! All that and more as you take a walk on the twisted side with Twisted Whiskers: Twisted Time Wasters!

Twisted Whiskers on iPhone

Smashing originally developed the game in Flash for AGKidzones.com – American Greetings saw this as a perfect mechanic for touch screen so asked us to take Twisted mobile. Using Adobe Air Packager, the team optimized the Flash version of Time Wasters to offer it on the iOS platform. Get it now at iTunes!

Aliens invade the Great Word Quest on PBS Kids

Alien Launch Party, the latest all original mini-game created for PBS’s The Great Word Quest, has launched…in more ways than one.  Help these adorable aliens blast off into space! The curriculum is based on Environmental Print Awareness with the learning goal to have kids correctly identify words within directional/everyday environmental signs.