Just a note to say thank you to those of you who voted for Mission:Explore in the recent Orange Mobile Volunteering competition. It was one of the top three voted community winners for the topic ‘Apps doing good on the go – built or in development’.
Mission:Explore will now go through to the next judging phase, where 10 apps will be chosen from all categories to receive direct promotion to Orange customers.
The Workshop has been selected by the BBC to produce digital content for children as part of their @North initiative. We’re one of just five companies from Yorkshire, the north-east and north-west of England to be chosen in this first wave of funding.
It’s been a long journey, but we’re delighted that some of the wonderful work we did for BBC jam back in 2007 has finally reached its rightful destination on the BBC website. We brought exciting educational content to life through design, animation and development for Key Stage 1 Welsh, Key Stage 2 Science and Key Stage 3 French.
The material has now been versioned into Welsh and is being used on the BBC Wales website as part of their learning offer for young Welsh learners. Much of the work we did on these projects involved creating immersive ‘worlds’ from which to launch interactive content. Originally we worked closely with the BBC in the early days of Jam to research and consult on the shape of the service.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
We moved into our newly-built office at Nether Edge in January 2008
Our Sheffield office, designed by drdh architects, is in the running for a prestigious architecture award from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The folks from RIBA came to visit us this week and are now locked in careful deliberation before they make their final decision.
We’re keeping our fingers firmly crossed. Feel free to join in.
The idea is to send aid to developing countries in specially shaped AidPods that slot nicely into crates of Coca Cola (whose distribution network happens to be more wide-reaching than any aid or health organisation).
Transported inside each AidPod will be health and hygiene products, including rehydration salts, vitamin tablets and condoms.
