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Introducing The Workshop’s free accessible media player

23 July 2010 | News | No Comments

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 | No Comments

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 Week Top 100 chart success

27 May 2010 | News | 5 Comments

Design Week is the industry’s flagship magazine

Design Week is the industry’s flagship magazine

The Workshop had some good news today. We climbed 23 places in Design Week’s top 100 list of UK design agencies, which puts us nicely into the top 30. We’ve moved into the top 10 digital agencies too, which reflects all the marvellous web and interactive work we’ve done over the last year.

We’re all very pleased about it. Now back to work.

The Workshop receives D&AD recognition for Roundabout annual report

30 April 2010 | News | 2 Comments

The D&AD Awards help set industry standards

The 2009 annual report we created for Sheffield charity Roundabout will appear in the 2010 D&AD Annual.

The Annual is widely recognised as the leading international showcase for design excellence and is a key reference source in universities, libraries and design agencies. Featured work is chosen by industry experts who judge entries in a range of design disciplines from around the world.

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We’re on a mission

23 April 2010 | News, Projects | No Comments

We're developing Mission:Explore for the iPhone

We're developing Mission:Explore for the iPhone

The Workshop has teamed up with the Geography Collective to take missions from their interactive book and create a website and iPhone application called Mission:Explore.

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