Cardiff. Halo. Cats.

Yep, it's not often that you see those three words next to each other. Even rarer when it's on an agency website. But then we're not about the ordinary. In fact, we're not really an agency. We're a collective. We're about the awesome. And Cardiff, Halo and Cats are all, we'll hope you'll agree, pretty bloody awesome.

We Make Awesome Sh was founded by Tom Gibby and Syd Lawrence. Tom and Syd met at Cardiff university through a shared love of all things gaming, geek and tech. We joked about one day starting our own company, little did we know that one final unexpected element would spark this opportunity – cats.

In early 2011, a few days after the Instagram API was released, we built Instac.at, a comical site that quite literally displayed a live feed of cat images being uploaded to Instagram. After just 24 hours over 30,000 people had visited the site and just a couple of weeks later that number had rocketed, fuelled by coverage from publications such as The Next Web and Mashable. The success of Instac.at lead to us creating Search Instagram – the best place to search for Instagram images online. Less than 9 months later, we've helped a number of brands integrate Instagram into their marketing and social media strategies, as well as increasing our offering to pretty much any piece of digital technology or social media application you can think of.

Welcome to We Make Awesome Sh.

What we make.

Think of any social media community or piece of digital technology. Chances are we've already made something awesome with it. Because that's what we do. We Make Awesome Sh.

Here are some examples of the awesome work we've made.

  • Kylie Minogue - Tweet to unlock campaign
  • Professor Green - Tour Images using user submitted Instagram images
  • Ferrari & Shell - Youtube page
  • See Australia - Facebook Tab
  • Hangouts for Charity - a social good campaign utilising Google's awesome hangouts platform
  • Diesel - Fashion Show Showcase using admin submitted Instagram images
  • Tweet my plus - A service to cross post a google+ update on to a twitter account
  • Instac.at - The thing that spawned it all
  • Kinect Virtual Disco Deathmatch - A multiplayer kinect controlled web based dance game.
  • Search Instagram - You already know what this is...
  • MacLight - An arduino powered back lighting system for Mac OS X
  • Tweetduino - An arduino 8x8 Matrix LCD displaying tweets of a certain hashtag.
  • Movembergram - A Search Instagram site with facial recognition to render mos on faces.

Trust us, we're awesome

Awesome. It's a pretty bold statement. It's also a pretty awesome word. So what makes us awesome and how do you know we're not just talking sh?

Need to add in our “brand values/work ethos here” – need to work on this together but for now just chuck this in:

We live by five principles.

  1. The digital world is there to be played with. The web is our playground. API's and code are our swings.
  2. Stay ahead of the curve. Innovate.
  3. Create sh that consumers will think is awesome. Don't just create sh for the sake of it.
  4. We're not a traditional agency. So we won't ever behave like one. That means you don't need to worry about lengthy project times and massive costs pushed up by layers of approval and bureaucracy. Instead, you get to work with an agile collective of specialists. Honest. Hard working. And driven by delivering you awesome sh.
  5. Making clients look awesome makes us feel awesome.

Who talkin' sh.it about us?

There’s been a lot of sh said about us and the work we’ve done. And not bad sh. Awesome sh.

Links to coverage of work…

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