*Scroll to bottom of featured web address to see the BBC Things To Do news widget integrated to the BBC news page on the right hand column. BBC Things To Do is an activity finder enabling users to discover local activities offered by the BBC and its partners. The site contains thousands of...

The Times Educational Supplement (TES) is a well known organisation in the UK that aims to provide potential, new and existing teachers with everything they require; from job listings and useful information to online tools and interactive learning games. TES approached Aerian Studios with an...

In 1986, 900 years after William the Conqueror’s original Domesday Book, the BBC published the Domesday Project. The project was probably the most ambitious attempt ever to capture the essence of life in the United Kingdom. Over a million people contributed to this digital snapshot of the...

Digital TV Labs is the worlds largest independent and specialist digital TV testing company, with laboratory facilities in the UK and Hong Kong. We provide global receiver testing solutions and test products, leveraging our huge experience combined with excellent broadcaster and operator...

BBC Things To Do is an activity finder enabling users to discover local activities offered by the BBC and its partners. The site contains many hundreds of activities and events which are expected to grow as more partners come on board. This project involved creating a mobile phone version of the...

BBC World Class helps UK schools to twin with schools around the globe as part of its educational legacy for the 2012 Olympics. Their mission is to support teachers in developing school-to-school partnerships, encouraging pupils to share creative work inspired by the Olympics. They work in...

The Chapel gifts website is an online retail outlet for Salco Group PLC that the general public can access and purchase Gifts, Home Decor and Novelty items. We were commissioned for a site redesign and the incorporation of ecommerce features to allow online customer purchasing of their giftware....

Skillwise is a wonderful resource supplied and created by the BBC to help people pick up key skills needed in everyday life and employment.  We were approached by BBC learning to help deliver the web development area of the Skillswise website. This included creating a Zend powered PHP website...

When wannabe god Professor Beachell De Vries creates an intelligent and powerful Chimeran worker race to save his son’s life and the economy; their camp becomes a battleground for the very future of the human race. Oliver is a ten year old boy dying of a degenerative brain disease. His best...

Aerian Studios teamed up with Mayden Health to collaborate on improvements to their IAPTus patient management system. IAPTus is the complete patient management and reporting solution for psychological therapists providing cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and other related treatments.We lent our...

Pro-Flite is a manufacturer and distributor of UK flight cases for industry and professionals. providing strong durable casing for audio visual equipment.  We were asked to produce brand guidelines and website design for Pro-Flite's online profile, ready to launch at the Plasa 2011...

Lumaform is a UK distributor of amazing LED and light based furniture, for those looking to make a real impression. We were approached to help launch their new range of products. A large part of this was expanding the brand to encompass website design, ecommerce website development and print based...

The Vector brand had no web presence and so an entire site and brand had to be developed. Vector are a professional audio brand, the direction chosen was high tech and modern. We developed a design based around glossy blue and cool grays with a modern polish. The use of simple high level navigation...

This is an area we have worked hard on in the past. Our recommended approach to layout creation is not to rely on WYSYWIG editors which offer poor transfer of complex layouts, or to restrict the user to a set of predefined templates into which all content would need to be shoehorned. Instead our...

Batmink is a leading distributor of audio, lighting and pro audio equipment based in the South West of England, supplying fantastic cutting edge products to all areas of the industry.  We were approached by Batmink to help reimagine their brand and web design during summer 2011, and part of...

Pro-Stage are a provider of portable staging systems within the UK that are easy to assemble with a neat and tidy finish. As part of the brand reimage we were asked to design a leaflet to give a little insite into the product. As part of the website design we created this print media within the...

The Wadworth Beer Kitchen is a unique range of beers from traditional family brewers Wadworth & Co. ltd. Brewed in limited batches from the finest hand selected ingredients, these beers were specially created to complement food, or be savoured on their own.With the launch of their new beer...

Sparksite is a website for young people to add their events, views, news all in one place. Sparksite approached us looking to add new interactivity onto their website including a new updated design. So SparkSite underwent a full front end redevelopment to now include the new features...

Aerian Studios were tasked with the Job of taking the current CBeebies website and moving it from an old internal BBC platform to a more flexible XML driven content management system based on Alfresco. This goal required Aerian Studios to take the existing XML data from the CBeebies storage area...

ActivEngine was originally developed for BBC Languages as the ‘Profiling Tool’ - a tool allowing learners to have their abilities in various aspects of foreign languages assessed.  It has evolved greatly since this initial delivery.The ActivEngine is a configurable, extensible...

  Chris Grainger asked us to do a complete rebuild of his existing site which showcases his exceptional artwork....

Seadrift is a stylish contemporary Kitchen - Cafe in the picturesque harbour of Porthleven, just outside of Helston on the beautiful South Cornish Coast. After 12 long months of planning, design and development both Carla and Chris visions have been brought to life!With the web design now signed...

In 1986, 900 years after William the Conqueror’s original Domesday Book, the BBC published the Domesday Project. The project was probably the most ambitious attempt ever to capture the essence of life in the United Kingdom. Over a million people contributed to this digital snapshot of the...

BBC Things To Do is an activity finder enabling users to discover local activities offered by the BBC and its  partners. The site contains many hundreds of activities and events which are expected to grow as more partners come on board  . The frontend of BBC Things to do follows the new...

After the massive success of the initial website development project for regency mouldings in 2006 we approached James (company owner) to see if he would like the site brought up to modern standards with a re-development. Delighted with the results from the last project Aerian and Regency Moulding...

As part of our phase 2 web design, rebranding and development work for the BBC's Editorial Guidelines, we were tasked with solving a selection of internal issues regarding the presentation of data, and the division of content between BBC internal staff and external suppliers.  Using the BBC's...

Just4Specs is a family run online business offering designer glasses and sunglasses at discount prices.The website created for Just4specs incorporates many features that were specifically requested by the client. These included; a discount system so users could access unique discount codes, an...

WorkItRadio gives production managers and editors the chance to call upon the vast array of knowledge, experience, and advice and contact information to its members. Using WorkIt Radio, managers and new acts can find out key information about how to get their music played on the radio, and on the...

WorkItRadio gives production managers and editors the chance to call upon the vast array of knowledge, experience, advice and contact information to it's members. Using WorkItRadio, managers and new acts can find out key information about how to get their music played on the radio, and on the road...

In 2007, we took over the maintenance and optimisation of www.sparksite.co.uk. During the next 10 months, the site expanded in popularity and output, and soon outgrew it's previous iteration by another provider. Wiltshire County Council and Wiltshire College then approached us as a web design and...

WorkIt Press gives production managers and editors the chance to call upon the vast array of knowledge, experience, advice and contact information to its members, allowing them the inside knowledge needed to get their project in the press, and out the general public. We were tasked with working...

We inherited the H2G2 website from its previous iteration, a UGC web 2.0 project inspired by Douglas Adams back in the 1980’s. Unfortunately, since that date, no one had really revisited the site’s framework and branding – a terrible shame when you consider the love and esteem the...

BBC Janala is a prototype BBC World Service Trust project enabling people of Bangladesh access to a wide range of English learning quizzes. The prototype website is a proposed update to the existing website design and system currently seen on http://www.bbcjanala.com/ As the people of Bangladesh...

21CC - The BBC's 21st Century Classroom offer creative digital workshops to schools and teachers. 21CC is one of the most rewarding prospects of BBC Learning, giving children the chance to expand their horizons and learn new and fantastic skills. BBC Learning approached us in relation to...

Container Group Buying are a trading company specialising in supplying Gifts, Home Decor and Novelty items to independent and multiple retailers across the UK and Europe.We were commissioned for a site redesign and the incorporation of ecommerce features to allow online purchasing of their...

Quiz Supplies provides fantastic Pub Quizzes and Quiz Questions direct to the public - allowing monthly subscriptions, repeat orders, free downloads and many fantastic fun quizzes of course!! After analysis of search and user data, we re-imagined the site and engaged in a round of UX&D with...

Primary Languages is a new BBC Learning website teaching the subjects French, Spanish and Mandarin to the KS2 learning group. Each language features educational resources for children including lessons, photo galleries, songs and audio clips, video content and a set of educational Flash games. The...

The BBC's Editorial Guidlines website provides help, information and rules aiding people in the creation of content for the BBC, be that for TV, Radio or Online. We successfully tendered for the BBC's Editorial Guidelines design and build, and despite some quite exceptional issues with the design...

We were approached to help create the project. This involved vast swathes of time working on a non dynamic content management system involving XML, XSLT and XSSI, as well highly complex Javascript DOM modelling to enable the functionality that did not exist within the BBC comments systems...

Live n Deadly is the sister show to the fantastic Deadly 60. Live n Deadly follows presenters Steve Backshall and Naomi travel the length and breadth of the UK; bringing deadly animals to children and adults alike. As part of the same project as Sam and Mark's TMi Friday, we were approached to...

Sea Drift Cafe, a cafe / bistro in Porthleven approached us to create their corporate identity. This included bringing their ideas for a retro style sea themed logo to life and creating a memorable brand that could be easily transferred to all other media types associated with a cafe (staff...

UK Pump Supplies is a business that specialise in the supply of agricultural, horticultural and industry pumps.We were approached by UK Pump Supplies to create an online presence for them to sell agricultural pumps and everything associated with the market. To do this Aerian\'s design team went to...

Paul Stone is a fantastic freelance illustrator based in the UK. Paul approached us to create a portfolio website to display a selection of his work. We created a complete online web development presence with a content management system to allow Paul Stone to easily update and create new projects...

Aquarius Homes is an estate agent, based in the Bath region supply letting, sales and information serives around the Bath area to a variety of consumers. We were approached by Aquarius Homes to create a content managed PHP / Mysql web development and brand building website that would allow them to...

BBC Wildlife Fund is designed to raise awareness of the plights facing wildlife across the country and wider world. We were proud to be involved in such a worthwhile cause - so do tune in on the 20th June 2010 and donate money to a very, very worthwhile cause. We were tasked with the building of...

Hippo Energy Drink does just what it says on the can, it gives you energy. Surprisingly for us at least, it does have the harsh kick of other energy drinks. It\'s much more fruity and natural in our opinion.  We were approached to develop a web presence and TV advert for a Nigerian only...

Lab UK is the ambitious BBC project to help bring science to the masses. Be that through testing the nation, brain test britain, virtual revolution or any of their other wonderful projects, Lab UK really is at the forefront of the online science community. We were approached to help create web...

BBC History offers an amazing wealth of historic content to users across the world. With fantastic applications to enrich the user experience, we highly recommend BBC History whether you are a student, a historian or just a keen collector of historic knowledge. As part of the BBC\'s ongoing...

BBC Health has, for many years, been a national resource for finding out any health concern that you can imagine. Whether your child has a scuffed knee, or you are worried about your pregnancy, there\'s something for everyone and it has a fantastic loyal following. We have been lucky enough to be...

BBC Religion is the BBCs website dedicated purely to religions around the world. With fantastic applications to enrich the user experience, the BBcs religion website delivers all kinds of interesting information and facts about religions from all over the world. This website really is one not to be...

The BBC Ethics website covers a variety of political and social ethic aspects, its latest debates include climate change, religion, abortion and war. With fantastic applications to enrich the user experience, we highly recommend the BBC ethics website to all. As part of the BBC's ongoing...

BBC Blast is an incredible user content rich web development project developed by the BBC to help young people express their creativity. BBC Blast environment allows users to upload their own content into cross referenced categories with tagging to improve the usability of the search and improved...

To coincide with the new decade, Neon wanted to expand their web presence, and improve their corporate styling. To this end, we worked closely with them to expand their online brand and provide a more corporate sheen to their web output....

After completing the 2009 relaunch of the EastEnders site, we were tasked with developing new page build and application interaction for the 25th Anniversary celebrations - all based around a live episode focusing on Archie's killer. Our work was divided into creating a character system to...

BBCThree is BBC's new talent and comedy channel, aimed squarely at an ever widening audience who enjoy television that asks questions of them. Is this funny? What do you think? Would you ever? BBCThree represents a major step forward for us in working BBC's most up to date systems. This work...

Xelplex are business franchise specialists, helping businesses to \'fastgrow\' their output and profits. After creating Xelplex\'s brand and literature, we were tasked to create their web presence. This included a full content management system allowing them control of data in a modular and...

Thrillseeker is BBC based website designed to get people up out of their comfy chairs and involved in local activities. We were tasked with creating the web build and web development elements of the Thrillseeker website. To this end, we created an XSLT based content management system, a javascript...

We were very proud to be associated and involved in doing what we can to help the families in Sherston Musul. We're also very proud of our team, especially Hannah (again), who really pulled out all the stops to make this project a reality. As is often the case, companies can be quite separated from...

BBC Food has long since been a pillar of BBC online, offering a massive range of recipes and advice to homes and cooks across the UK. After reinvigorating the desktop site, we were tasked with taking this massive repository of information and turn it into a mobile application. The system uses...

The Cbeebies website is one of the BBC's most popular sites, entertaining children from across the nation with songs, fun games and make & colour activities. The new web launch represents months of hard work from the talented Cbeebies team, which we were proud to be a part of. The Cbeebies...

Oasis Carnival are a voluntary organisation based in Frome, Somerset. Primarily Oasis concerns itself with building and creating a carnival float each year for entry into the various Carnivals in the South West of England. In addition, Oasis provide various event stewarding services to events such...

...

Rebecca-Louise is a fantastic UK based model, dancer and television presenter. She's worked with some of the UK most talented photographers, designers and TV people. Never one to rest on her laurels, she's also part of the girl band, the Dolli Divas. Rebecca-Louise approached us to create a...

The bad boys and girls at Devil's Den stock a wide range of naughty, barely legal and downright rude products for those of you who aren't there who love a bit of a cheeky shock in your postbox We've had a long running association with Devil's Den, and were pleased to be commissioned to recreate...

Breathing places devotes itself to the love of the outdoors. Users can search the site to find out their local breathing place, read articles about wildlife and generally enjoy the great outdoors. We built the site based on an XSLT / XML based content management system, designed for the best...

KS2 Bitesize is a another amazing education resource for schools, students and learners alike. We were approached by the BBC Bitesize team to web develop the new iteration of KS2 Bitesize. This involved both a wonderful redesign, new elements such as video and audio and a massive improvement on...

KS3 Bitesize is a fantastic education resource for schools, students and learners alike. Covering massive swathes of educational content from the syllabus, BBC KS3 Bitesize is a fantastic way to learn, and have fun too. BBC have created a wonderful website, with games, video, audio and text based...

Textile Forum South West (TFSW) is a contemporary textile hub for the southwest. It is a non-profit making, voluntary organisation to promote and develop textiles in all forms for the educational, cultural and economic benefit of the region. It is a point of exchange for people who love making,...

EasyLiving Furniture supply a fantastic range of furniture to customers across the UK. EasyLiving are one of the UK quickest growing brands and we're very proud to be working in close partnership with them. 2008 was a great year for EasyLiving furniture's website. We created a completely new...

BBC Food is one of BBC's most important websites, providing a database of recipes and chef's, used the world over. The Food recipe database contains over 10,000 recipes for a massive range of culinary tastes and abilities. We were approached by the BBC lifestyles team to help in the redevelopment...

11million.org.uk is the children's commissioner's website, allowing the children of the UK to air their views, fears and concerns to the parliament. We were approached by 11 MILLION to take part in a rebuild of their existing website. The team wanted to massively ramp up the possibility of their...

BBC Gardening is one of the BBC's flagship websites, combining a wealth of gardening experience and resources designed to inform, help and advise green fingered users the world over. We were asked to work on a variety of products within the gardening area, mainly plant finder, an application...

MDS Technologies provide fantastic business application and hosting services. With a range of partners such as Vodafone, Steljes, Netsweeper and many others, they passionately provide services to a range of international client through mobile and internet means. MDS approached us to expand their...

Gear 2000 is an online retailer for DJ products. Be it mixers, night club lasers or the latest CD players, Gear 2000 stocks them all. Phil Brookes, the MD of Gear 2000, is literally one of the nicest people we've ever met in the business, and we can't speak highly enough of him. We were...

BBC Blast is an incredible user content rich web development project developed by the BBC to help young people express their creativity. BBC Blast environment allows users to upload their own content into cross referenced categories with tagging to improve the usability of the search and improved...

The Apprentice is naturally one of the most commonly known brands from the BBC. The Apprentice follows a group of talented money makers as they bid to be the next apprentice of money mogul, Sir Alan Sugar. The show has enjoyed immense popularity on BBC and has gone from strength to strength each...

The Eurovision song contest has long since been an institution within the BBC - watched by millions. Loved, and mocked by generations, it's been a fun filled family frolic for as long we can remember. The BBC asked aerian studios to complete the development of the Eurovision website prior to it...

Richard Bazley, Head of Bazley Films has enjoyed a long an industrious career both in the UK and his more well know work in Hollwood. Formerly part of legendary projects at Disney such as Hercules and Lion King, Richard has worked on many films which have gone on to become household names, such as...

We were very proud to be associated and involved in doing what we can to help the families in Sherston Musul. We're also very proud of our team, especially Hannah, who really pulled out all the stops to make this project a reality. As is often the case, companies can be quite separated from the...

Helen J Hicks is a contemporary Jazz and Easy listening singer and song writer from England. Helen’s unique style has had many comparisons, some more accurate than others. Helen has graced stages and events all across the world and continues to grow in popularity as she expands into new genres and...

The BBC has developed an in house template based system, to help speed up the process of designing and developing the layout of their web sites and pages. The decision was made to create a list of all the possibilities for web layouts they would need, and the components that would go within them,...

BBC GCSE Bitesize is one of the world’s best resources for revision and education, covering numerous methods of learning, including games, tests, quizzes and a variety of fun carefree lessons. GCSE Bitesize has long since been a popularly used resource in classrooms and students bedrooms across the...

Wild About Your Garden is a national campaign from the BBC to increase the awareness we have of the gardens and budding gardeners all around us. Viewers were and are invited to send in images and videos of their gardens. The campaign spanned the whole of the United Kingdom and had a great response....

BBC Learning Zone Clips, also known as BBC Learning Zone Broadband Clips, is a massive resources of video clips designed to be used in a learning environment. Simply visit the site, type in your search terms, and the site will return a selection of clips to match your criteria. The clips can then...

After months of developing and optimising the existing Easy Living Furniture site (created by another provider), it soon became apparent that it's growth warranted a rebranding / redevelopment exercise. We were more than happy to be chosen to do this. We completely gutted the site, reordered...

In 2007, we took over the maintenance and optimisation of www.sparksite.co.uk. During the next 10 months, the site expanded in popularity and output, and soon outgrew it's previous site by another provider. Wiltshire County Council and Wiltshire College then approached us as a web design and...

Big Cat live is one of the most adventurous natural history programmes to come out of the BBC for many years. Chronicalling the adventures of a selection of Big Cats throughout Africa. At aerian, we were asked to provide web development solutions for the Big Cat Live team. This involved a large...

BBCthree is one of the most content rich websites on the BBC site, with users uploading their own videos content and sharing it with the world. BBCThree makes great use of interactive content tools such as flash to present it's content in a vibrant and exciting way. Aerian were tasked with several...

7Words life management techniques help you realise your potential; as well as learning how to manage and make the most of your strengths and weaknesses to be successful in all areas of your life. 7Words approached aerian to completely revamp their existing corporate styling and business workings....

About2croak is a new venture that will surely offend even the most open minded of individuals. About2Croak gives users the chance to play in a rather morose game of "celebrity deaths". The rules of the game are simple, you choose a selection of celebrities you think are 'about to croak' and then...

Big is Back is an online retailer of clothes for big and tall men, offering massive savings from high street prices and other online retailers by dealing directly with the warehouses and suppliers. By working directly and having inside contacts, they are able to pass on the savings to their...

The Culture Show is a prime time twice weekly show on BBC Two with Mark Kermode and Lauren Laverne covering a multitude of areas of culture in modern society. The show features guests from a variety of genres such as David Bowie, Germaine Greer and a host of famous names for the film, arts and...

Junction18, or j18 as they are known in the business, are one of the premier supplies of homeware, jewellery and accessories in the UK. You may not have heard of them as they mainly deal business to business, but if you look at the branding on many items in the high street, you may well see their...

BBC languages is a massive online repository of language based learning materials. The BBC has created something truly wonderful to help people pick up any popular language, to whatever level they wish. BBC languages has a massive slew of activities, quizes, crosswords,interactive videos, games and...

Quiz supplies is an ecommerce site providing downloadable quiz sets for those who want to run any kind of quiz night. Fun and frolicsome, serious and stressful, Quiz Supplies has got it all. Quiz Supplies approached us after our work for about2croak.com and commissioned us to create an ecommerce...

ColourMuse is a wonderful concept. It helps teach learners of all ages the piano through the use of colour. The creator, critically acclaimed TV score composer, Michael Maxwell Steer found that using colours, and likening them to smarties, he was able to teach students of all ages and...

Bath Holiday Rentals is an luxury accommodation service for people looking for high quality self catering in the heart of Bath. With properties through Bath, at a variety of rates to suit most pockets, Bath Holiday Rentals do a wonderful job of helping people find the holiday home or corporate let...

The Wiltshire Yeoman needed a web presence with a small budget for their local country pub in the region of Devizes, Wiltshire. The Wiltshire Yeoman approached aerian to create a full corporate style for themselves including logo design, web development and naturally web we design. We've also...

The brunel broderers are a well established group of textile artists in the southwest of england, and they were looking for a site to showcase their work and events. With a continuously evolving portfolio and a rolling calendar of exhibitions, being able to update the website with the latest...

Haines Angling Direct is a long established business based in Somerset selling quality fishing goods to the public. Haines stock products from all fishing disciplines, and are now able to offer products direct to the customer, at discounted prices, through their new website developed by us. We...

Easy Living has a plethora of furniture stores throughout the UK and is rapidly growing to be a major supplier of high quality designer furniture. Easy Living Furniture approached aerian in the summer of 2007 to handle the online web presence of the company. This involved stock promotions,...

Villa Turkey supply Turkish property opportunities for both holiday makers, property developers and people looking to buy abroad. With an in house mortgage and flight team they represent a fantastic single point of contact for anybody looking to invest either life, or money, in Turkey. We've...

Laguna world offers a variety of income opportunites to the receptive people throughout the world. With a luxurious resort in the Spanish area of Murcia, they are ideally placed to take the world by storm with their unique marketing and networking models and extreme enthuasiasts.Laguna has, more...

Glasses Direct have gone through a massive change in the last few months. Moving from a traditional single purchase system whereby a customer could only buy one pair of glasses, to a fully integrate shopping basket system that would perform optothalmic te ...

Devils Den, as it sounds, is a little bit naughty! Selling a variety of products not found on the high street that push the boundaries of what's acceptable. Bad taste paraphanlia, smoking equipment, adult toys... they sell the lot, and for a good price. Devils Den found there previous web providers...

Regency Mouldings was formed in 1986, and in 2006 they decided to venture into the web with aerian studios. From having no web presence they have now are enjoying a large quantity of sales and traffic from their web shop and marketing from ourselves. The site benefits from interactive 3d views of...

Modern Grooming is a complete free service started up by aerian studios founder Paul Goodenough. Paul summised that men often suffered in silence through thousands of lifes problems, and through this Modern Grooming was born to help guys look and feel better as well as offering advice and reviews...

Computer Hypnosis was another start up who utilised aerian studios vast experience in helping start ups succeed and prosper in their appropriate market. Computer Hypnosis developed an amazing piece of software that helps users to realise their goals and drive customers to buy their revolutionary...

Inductoheat Europe are a large multinational organisation spanning many countries and sub groups. They approached aerian to create an international web presence that could be viewed by any of the native language speaking countries they operate in. Inductoheat Europe required an intergrated site...