Luke
Stevenson

The safety and driver-assistance features worth showing are the ones you cannot demonstrate in a stationary truck on an exhibition floor.

A transparent interactive display overlaying demonstration video onto the real windscreen view, with custom mounting and a local playback system built for show conditions.

Contribution to be confirmed. Delivered within the 1000heads technical team.

The interesting parts of an electric commercial vehicle are scattered across the whole truck, which makes them hard to explain on a screen or a sign.

Synchronised video playback and controlled LED lighting driven from one control system, tying each moment of the explanation to the physical part it referred to.

Contribution to be confirmed. Delivered within the 1000heads technical team.

UNIQLO wanted a broad graphic tee range to feel personal, and wanted the street activation to end at the till rather than at the exit.

A mobile personality test with custom matching logic, a personal QR code handing the session from the phone into the physical showroom, a large-format result display, and voucher generation redeemable at the store nearby.

I designed and built the platform: the question and matching logic, the mobile experience, the QR handoff, the showroom result workflow, and voucher generation and redemption.

ISUZU needed to reach school leavers and show both the breadth of the roles available and the technology behind them, in a few minutes at a busy expo stand.

Immersive point-of-view footage assembled into a branching narrative, played back locally through an Oculus headset and built to run all day at an exhibition.

I developed the system which joins together the video segments into a Choose Your Own Adventure path. I also engineered the system allowing for Over-The-Air updates of media and story, allowing changes to the content to be distributed to all headsets automatically and then supporting offline use at events.

How do we make something fun, fast and interesting? How do we make something which stands out during an exhibition or event where everyone is fighting for attention? A quick, easy, engaging game was the perfect fit!

We built a custom microsite, where a player was shown 5 random sets of statements within specific subjects. Two were true, one was not. They were tested to see whether they could identify the false answer. The quicker they found it, the more points they scored.

I was the system developer and architect.

The awards needed cultural noise, not a press release. Something a broad audience would voluntarily take and then post.

Branching logic and structured content over PHP, with Three.js rendering the sixteen character models and per-result share links built for social preview.

Solution design, data handling, and making the experience scale cleanly through the peaks that follow a share spike.

The experiences had to live inside constrained iframes on a platform we did not control, meeting brand guidelines, load-time budgets, security review and accessibility requirements.

HTML, CSS and JavaScript with ScrollMagic driving animation, deployed as independently hosted iframes; semantic markup was a primary focus so assistive technology could reach the content.

Guided the technical approach: sizing and cross-environment behaviour, performance, and a deployment model simple enough to reuse across multiple Shell platforms.

EduTECH 2023 is a leading exhibition where vendors demonstrate products and services for the education industry. Standing out in that crowd can be a challenge. We developed a game to capture attendees' attention and to give them something special to take home.

We built a bespoke game, connecting a QR code scanner which read attendees' badges and ensured that nobody got more than their fair share. The game drove three screens, so that the fun and excitement could be seen from all angles.

I engineered the system, building the entire system, and integrating creative provided by the 1000heads studio team.

The UN needed roughly thirty content-heavy pages produced fast, consistently, and editable by a content team working to a deadline.

FullPage.js for the scroll narrative with PHP templating generating all thirty pages from one shared structure, so behaviour, performance and accessibility stayed identical throughout.

Oversaw the technical design and worked with the creative team so the storytelling intent survived translation into the build.

A convening platform for organisations and individuals, carrying resources, workplace and education material, video, partner onboarding and event content, all editable by a non-technical content team and reskinned each campaign year.

A bespoke theme plus supporting plugins rather than an off-the-shelf stack: the searchlight interaction on the homepage, structured content types for resources and partners, validated multi-step enquiry forms, and asset delivery sharded across multiple CDN subdomains to keep a heavily illustrated page fast.

I built the custom WordPress theme and the plugins behind it, including the searchlight mechanism the campaign became known for.

The UNEP wanted to a way to demonstrate how small changes can be made to move from unhealthy polluted air to clear air and blue skies, in a compelling online way. We leveraged our experience in animated scrolling sites to tell that story in a compelling visual style.

We built a bespoke microsite combining the information supplied by the UNEP and the storytelling capabilities of the 1000heads team.

I built the framework and frontend for this microsite.

Ancestry's community needed to contribute images at volume, and the internal team needed them stored, searchable and editable rather than sitting in an inbox.

An embeddable iframe upload form backed by a PHP application and MySQL, with an admin layer for tracking, editing and deleting submissions.

Architecture and data handling for user-submitted content: storage, moderation workflow, and the operational side the client actually lives with.

We needed to produce a focused website where Cisco could showcase their products and initiatives, and also provide their attendees with a way to share and amplify their ideas to drive conversation around how sustainable technology could not just sustain but surge innovation.

Bespoke Content Management System, allowing content created across 4 languages to be uploaded and arranged.

I created a bespoke Content Management System, allowing participants to submit business ideas which could then be reviewed, edited, published and voted on.

Lenovo lost the channel it used to demonstrate hardware and talk directly to education decision-makers, with no date to get it back.

An online event platform combining a product showcase, scheduled streamed sessions and live chat routed to Lenovo specialists who could answer and recommend in real time.

Contribution to be confirmed. Delivered within the 1000heads technical team.

The warmth of a thermal garment is invisible. UNIQLO wanted to help their customers see it, inviting them into the store and gifting them a HEATTECH shirt to feel the heat for themselves.

An IR camera rig driving an unattended capture-to-print loop: Apple automation orchestrating the camera and printer, Bash and ImageMagick compositing each thermal frame into the branded print, and the same voucher issuing and redemption pipeline behind it so every portrait left with a trackable code.

I engineered the IR camera system, the image capture and print pipeline, and the voucher redemption system behind it.

Cisco Designed is a partner conference thst was hosted virtually across the APJC region. Cisco needed to generate excitement for their event and get their attendees engaged with them via social media.

We leveraged our experience from building the LogoWall, and tapped into Twitter using their API. Running targetted filters and matching Twitter users to businesses, we were able to attribute social media interaction to a business and reward that business through increasing their visibility.

I developed the framework and system which collected and collated the data, producing a backend interface which allowed an operator to observe and attribute engagement. I also produced the platform for our designed frontend to be hosted on, and the data feed which pushed into it to make the cloud dynamic.

UNIQLO needed a street mechanic that would stop a passer-by, get them to pull out a phone, and carry them from the footpath into a store.

A campaign microsite that validated codes, walked people through the product benefits, issued vouchers and tracked redemptions live, plus an in-store validation system so staff could verify a voucher at the counter.

I built the whole online side: the microsite, the data capture, and the voucher issuing and redemption system.

Attendees were choosing between taking notes and paying attention. Event staff needed to publish in seconds, without a technical operator sitting beside them.

A controlled editorial interface for non-technical staff feeding an attendee-facing timeline, built for a live environment where a failure has no recovery window.

I designed the publishing workflow, built the bespoke CMS behind it and the attendee-facing timeline, and prepared the system for time-critical live use.

A business event needed its audience visibly participating rather than sitting still, and the social activity had to appear on screen fast enough to feel live.

A collection and collation layer pulling social activity in real time, filtering it and feeding a structured stream to the front-end display.

I built the data collection side: gathering and collating the social media activity that drove the display.

Microsoft needed a launch activity that pushed visitors to walk the whole of a brand new retail space rather than stopping at the door.

Custom-engineered branded tiles with RFID tags, a front-desk reading station, and software that identified each tile and drove the prize reveal, built to survive a full day of public handling.

I designed the technical concept, engineered the branded tiles and their tag integration, built the reading station, and wrote the identification and prize-reveal software.

Lenovo wanted to say that ideas grow through collaboration, using an interaction that made the point instead of stating it.

A four-sided Pepper's Ghost display: angled transparent reflectors above a concealed screen, with seat occupancy driving the animation state so the flame scaled with the number of people present.

I developed the interaction concept, chose the Pepper's Ghost approach, designed the inverted four-sided reflector and the enclosure around it, and engineered the seat-occupancy interaction.