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Introducing The Workshop’s free accessible media player

23 July 2010 | News | Leave a comment

We’ve developed an accessible media player and we’re making it available to download for free right here on our website.

We started building our player towards the end of 2009 and have already used it as part of our work with clients. But with few robust, accessible players out there, we began to think about how we could do more with what we’d created.

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And the winner is…

16 July 2010 | News | Leave a comment

Can you guess the footballer just by their haircut?

First, a big thank you to everyone who donned their footballer’s haircut and played our augmented reality Nutty Footy game over the last few weeks. It’s been great to see so many people wandering around in the hole, arriving late in the box and sticking it in the onion bag. That type of thing.

But there can only be one winner. And that’s Margaret Scott from Perthshire in bonnie Scotland. Her score of 1497 was the highest eligible score on our leader board, so a brand new Nintendo Wii will be winging its way northwards very soon.

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Design Talks: Bruno Maag on the business of typography

15 July 2010 | Design Talks | Leave a comment

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The latest in our long-running Design Talks series took place last month, with this one aimed at the local design community. You can watch part one via the video player at the top of this post and catch part two over on our Vimeo profile.

Bruno Maag is Managing Director of Dalton Maag, legendary font and logo agency and one of the world’s most celebrated typographers. He treated us to an hour-long insight into the world of typography.

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Down to business with Sheffield Hallam University

2 July 2010 | Projects | Leave a comment

The Workshop recently designed and built the relaunched ‘Services for business’ section of Sheffield Hallam University’s website.

The site aims to challenge the assumption that a university can only offer training and development. It features news and case studies about the range of technologies, services, facilities and resources that Sheffield Hallam offers.

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Win a Wii with our Nutty Footy game

11 June 2010 | Events, Social | Leave a comment

We launched Nutty Footy at our 'Sun and Games' party

We take our fun and games seriously here at The Workshop. You may already know that from the highly competitive Wii Winter Olympics competition we held in London this February.

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