Frequency Festival 2011

by Wayne

Lincoln’s first bi-annual digital media festival “Frequency” has just come to a close. Its purpose to celebrate the pioneering spirit of digital innovation and culture through exhibition, creative collisions and debate. There were some really interesting and beautiful pieces of work, with some renowned artist like Stellark, Alex Posada and Roseline de Thélin exhibiting, I especially liked Davy and Kristin McGuire “The ice book”.

Its great to see Lincoln being involved in such a collaboration although I feel it still has a long way to go, but every great festival has to start somewhere! I think building on the positives of this festival, tweaking participation and better dissemination of information could make it a real success in 2013. A step in the right direction for Lincoln.

Welcome Steve

by Jim

I would like to welcome Steve Mather to the Studio View team. Steve is an addition to our web development team, an exceptional coder he’s fluent in java, css, php, actionscript and has a passion to learn and experiment with new technologies. He’s not a bad bloke either! Hope you enjoy your time here mate!

Science Brochure Delivered

by Jim

The University of Lincoln ‘Discover Science’ brochure was delivered this week. It’s looking great. A matt laminated cover and gloss spot uv have been used to enhance the cover with high gloss text pages to provide a really crisp punchy publication. A big thumbs up to Mike who lead the design, it was his first big print job and he’s done exceptionally well.

Round Table Ball

by Wayne

After last years invite to the round table ball, we thought this year we should get a table, its for a great cause, gives us an excuse to treat some of our clients and we also get to see Mike in a tuxedo instead of a T shirt and skinny jeans. A great do, thanks to Charlotte from Cartwright Communication, Gareth from Jigsaw, Harriet from Innovation Lincolnshire, Chris from Lincoln University and our ladies.

Science Museum

by Wayne

With a birthday trip to London, I thought it would be silly not to check out the Science Museum and its interactive installations, especially as interactive design agency “All Of Us” had worked on the Atmosphere exhibition and some visuals in the Wellcome Collection wing. Some really interesting and fun stuff which has given me loads of ideas, I wonder if we could get them in the Frequency festival?

Presentation books arrive

by Jamesy

This morning, we took delivery of 6 A5 96pp perfect bound books for a presentation we have upcoming in the next few weeks. The lengths you go to eh? Print by Purley Digital in Derby. Spot on quality at a spot on price.

(Key elements hidden of course…)

 

Flash On The Beach 2011

by Wayne

Its that time of year again when the laptop goes in the bag and I venture down to Brighton for 3 days of inspiring, informative, mind blowing and intimidating work by the worlds best designers, coders, artists and film makers…Yep its Flash On The Beach 2011!

Some really good pointers for HTML 5 with Adobe EDGE, Away3d taking advantage of the new Fash Player 11 (MoleHill) and Unity for game development with Flash are to name a few.

As usual some exceptional work and entertaining speakers. Some of my personal highlights where by Carlos Ulloa working on a 3d lights interface for Elle Golding in java!! Download his hello flower application for iphone, check it out here.

Seb Lee-Delisle turning the audiences smart phones into pixels to create a massive screen and interactive game. Jared Ficklin always one of my favourites showed what he had been doing with sound and phidgets. David Lenearts using a kinect camera and Away3d to create a real time avatar, Eugene Zatepyakin with his image recognition, and eva-lotta Lam with improvisation and beautiful sketeches, Jon Burgerman, Joshua Davis, the list goes on. Only 364 days to the next one!