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Ben teamed up with the BBC and Lonely Planet
to present A Year of Adventures.

BBC Year of Adventures - Ben Fogle - Hero

Year of Adventures - Ben Fogle

In a natural partnership, British adventurer and television presenter Ben Fogle teamed up with Lonely Planet to create a five-part series called ‘A Year of Adventures’. The series followed Ben as he took on challenges in some of the most beautiful (and far flung) locations in the world.

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BBC Year of Adventures - Ben Fogle - Heart rate

With Ben’s natural energy and desire to always push himself
to the limit, it was essential the website felt as dynamic
and exciting as the man himself.

BBC Year of Adventures - Ben Fogle - Site Shot 1BBC Year of Adventures - Ben Fogle - Site Shot 2

What we did...

  • Interaction design
  • Website design and development

How we made...

The birth of a website

  1. 12 Dec 2011
    Receive official brief from client
  2. 12-13 Dec 2011
    Sketching begins to start concept development and illustrate our idea to the BBC
  3. 14-19 Dec 2011
    Scope refined and defined to fit into client budget
  4. 21 Dec 2011
    Realise Bree has unknowingly bought the Year of Adventures book as a Christmas gift so the team pores over it for research
  5. 23-29 Dec 2011
    Website design in and around Christmas parties and pudding
  6. 9 Jan 2012
    The BBC interview Ben Fogle in London - we hear he’s excited about the website and loves the concept!
  7. 11 Jan 2012
    Development officially begins, with design handover and briefing
  8. 7 Feb 2012
    First of eight regions (and three languages) launch the website

Photography and parallax

The images used on the website were key in telling the story of Ben’s adventures around the globe. We made the most of them by introducing additional movement through parallax transitions, which seamlessly provided interludes between the ‘episode’ content.

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