{"id":64,"date":"2026-03-04T21:14:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ff20.freerangefuture.com\/?post_type=ff20_case_study&#038;p=64"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:33:34","slug":"2006","status":"publish","type":"ff20_case_study","link":"https:\/\/ff20.freerangefuture.com\/?ff20_case_study=2006","title":{"rendered":"2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"text-image-block_6dc65b242c55b0d32bda0fce4efc7ee1\" class=\"block-text-image surface-white ptop-3 pbottom-3 block full\">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid no-pleft\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-center\">\n\n\t\t\t<!-- Content Column -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-6 col-lg-5 order-md-2\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-text-image__content fade-slide-up\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wysiwyg-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>The beginning<\/h2>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Freerange Future became a real company on 19 July 2006 \u2014 registered, official, still operating from Nick&#8217;s lounge room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The backstory was simple enough. After three years of freelancing, Nick was so busy maintaining old sites that he barely had time to build new ones. Something had to give. So he hired his partner Minka to wrangle the business side, and brought on Simon Gill as the first developer. (Simon went on to start his own agency\u00a0\u2014 turns out the lounge room was a good launchpad.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">In those early days, Freerange worked mostly with ad agencies and design studios in Adelaide and Melbourne, turning their campaigns and brands into pixel-perfect Flash websites. We worked closely with local web agency Katalyst, and together we produced some of the most complex and engaging work of those years. Nick had already collaborated with Katalyst on Us Mob, which won an AIMIA award in early 2006. One of Freerange&#8217;s first projects picked up right where that left off.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<!-- Image Column -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-6 col-lg-7 order-md-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-text-image__image left fade-slide-up\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/ff20.freerangefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/716634EC-0025-4DCA-BBB6-3B4D4F33B27B_1_105_c.jpeg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"text-image-block_6da837d771e6330ccd5994f7e772da37\" class=\"block-text-image video surface-white ptop-3 pbottom-3 block contained\">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-center\">\n\n\t\t\t<!-- Content Column -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-6 col-lg-5 \">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-text-image__content fade-slide-up\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wysiwyg-content text-right\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6>FEATURED WORK<\/h6>\n<h2>The Spoon Show<\/h2>\n<p>The Spike Milligan Legacy was a 2005 documentary about the life of the great, troubled comedian. For the 2006 DVD release, we worked with Katalyst to build a set of interactives \u2014 the hero being the Spoon Show, a four-track soundtrack mixer.<\/p>\n<p>Built in Flash and distributed as Mac and PC apps installed straight from the DVD, this was genuinely fun to play with. It was stuffed full of samples from Spike Milligan&#8217;s solo career and his time on the Goon Show \u2014 music, jokes, sound effects \u2014 and you could drag and drop them onto a four-track player, layering up your own remix with a backing music track underneath.<\/p>\n<p>The best part: creators could save their recordings to a web portal, where anyone could browse and listen to what other people had made. A community remix tool, years before that was really a thing.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<!-- Image Column -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-6 col-lg-7 \">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-text-image__image right fade-slide-up\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Swiper Carousel -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper\" data-swiper-id=\"text-image-block_6da837d771e6330ccd5994f7e772da37\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"width: 1200px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-64-1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/ff20.freerangefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Recording-2026-03-18-at-10.46.21.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ff20.freerangefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Recording-2026-03-18-at-10.46.21.mp4\">https:\/\/ff20.freerangefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Recording-2026-03-18-at-10.46.21.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/ff20.freerangefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2006_Spike-Milligan_Case-Study_1-2-1200x800.png\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/ff20.freerangefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2006_Spike-Milligan_Case-Study_2-1200x800.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"controls right\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-button-prev\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-counter\"><span class=\"swiper-counter-current\">1<\/span> of 2<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-button-next\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"block-milestone surface-beige-light ptop-4 pbottom-3 block full\">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row d-flex\">\n\n\t\t\t<!-- Image + Shape Column -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-6 col-lg-5\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-milestone__image fade-slide-up\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/ff20.freerangefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/438F3BB6-EBCF-47C1-B0D0-44381608D3E2_1_105_c-991x724.jpeg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"Nick and the guys from Katalyst with the 2006 AIMIA Award for Us Mob\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"block-milestone__shape\" src=\"https:\/\/ff20.freerangefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2006-shape-4.svg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<!-- Content Column -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-6 col-lg-7\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content-wrap fade-slide-up\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-milestone__intro\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wysiwyg-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6>2006 AIMIA Awards<\/h6>\n<h2>Just before our story starts&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/katalyst.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katalyst&#8217;s<\/a> 2005 project Us Mob was a massively ambitious interactive film about the adventures of kids in Alice Springs town camps \u2014 choose-your-own-adventure pathways, rich storytelling, and two spin-off platform games. It was a deserved winner of the Best Learning Award at the 2006 Australian Interactive Media Industry Association Awards, and Nick built the interface and those games.<\/p>\n<p>This project was as good as anything being made in the world back then, and an unfortunate victim of the sorry state of <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060819050429\/http:\/\/usmob.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digital preservation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here Nick celebrates the win with legends Jason Sidoryn, founder of Katalyst, and Chris Joyner, Katalyst&#8217;s digital producer on Us Mob.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div clas=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-lg-9 block-milestone__details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wysiwyg-content fade-slide-up\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Digital in 2006<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div clas=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-milestone__info-items\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-9\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-milestone__info-item fade-slide-up\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wysiwyg-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">Twitter launched. Facebook opened beyond universities. Google bought a little video site called YouTube for $1.65 billion (people thought they&#8217;d overpaid). &#8220;Google&#8221; was officially added to the dictionary.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!--div class=\"milestone__year\">< ?php the_title(); ?><\/div-->\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"block-cta surface-dark-grey ptop-3 pbottom-3 block full ff-general-cta\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-center\">\n\n\t\t\t<!-- Image Column -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-5\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-cta__image fade-slide-up\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/ff20.freerangefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ff20-logo-reversed.svg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<!-- Content Column -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-cta__content fade-slide-up\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wysiwyg-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Want to see what we&#8217;ve been up to lately?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Learn about what we do today and how we go about it. See some recent projects we\u2019ve brought to life, or get in touch to chat about yours. We\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-cta__links\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/freerangefuture.com\" class=\"text-link\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn more about Freerange\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/freerangefuture.com\/contact-us\" class=\"text-link\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tContact us\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":75,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-64","ff20_case_study","type-ff20_case_study","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2006 - Freerange Future<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ff20.freerangefuture.com\/?ff20_case_study=2006\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2006 - 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