The Crim Collective @ Pictoplasma Festival Berlin 2011

The Pictoplasma Festival in Berlin this year staged a one-week program of inspiring presentations, lectures, installations and workshops that included The Crim Collective and their exhibition “Mechanicalism”, and I helped get their website up and running in time to help broadcast their work ‘live’.

The site makes good use of large background imagery, which is pulled through from the collective’s Flickr account. The guys were taking pictures throughout the event and uploading them as the exhibition was unfolding so the site was constantly changing and reflecting the status of the event. It was also built to adapt to mobile devices for those checking the site from the exhibition itself.

Crim are a bunch of extremely talented guys, founded by a mate of mine. So do check out their Vimeo, and keep an eye out for future developments on the website!

Art in Yorkshire

It’s a big year for Art around my way. The Hepworth gallery has opened down the road in Wakefield, and this year also sees a year long series of exhibitions celebrating Yorkshire’s artistic heritage, aptly name ‘Art in Yorkshire’.

Art in Yorkshire – supported by Tate is a partnership between: Axis (commissioner and content developer), fuse8 (designer and developer) and York Museums Trust (lead museum for the Art in Yorkshire consortium). Leeds Met Gallery contributed to the initial concept through The Culture Company’s Artimelt Academy. The app is funded by Arts Council England and MLA Renaissance Yorkshire.

It’s been an exciting project to work on, and has led to the development of a fantastic framework that can be used for future projects. You can read more in my interview about the app on The Culture Vulture or by viewing the case study on the fuse8 website.

During, the development process we also took a few of the team down to Yorkshire Sculpture Park to take in the surroundings and to brainstorm ideas about how mobile can be used in such environments. It was a very valuable exercise, that led to some great all-round thinking for future projects. Check out a little video we put together:

My migraine hell – Overcoming medication overuse headaches

I was interviewed a number of weeks ago by The Daily Mail about my migraine suffering, and have today been in the paper, and on the Daily Mail website. Get me!

The interview came about after I was approached by The Migraine Trust, a client of ours, about being a media volunteer.

My situation, technically classified as ‘medication overuse headaches’, is becoming an ever increasing problem for others and it feels very good to be able to share my story with the world (or at least with the people that read the Mail).

Check it out anyway…you wil learn about how my life was turned upside down for several years. Also, check out my cool migraine pose! (not sure why the Mail used a shit stock image!)

BBC iPlayer iPad app review

I was asked recently by The Drum to write a review of the new iPlayer app for the iPad.

It’s fair to say it’s a great app, and a great way to catch up with some telly, but i was a little disappointed in the amount of advancements made from the existing web version. Fingers crossed the updated versions live up to its potential!

You can read my full review on the  Drum website.

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