1 April 2010 | Projects, Strategic | Leave a comment
The Pass IT on campaign has attracted some high-profile supporters
Well, they’re all partners of Pass IT on, a new nationwide digital inclusion initiative from UK online centres and the government’s Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox.
What is Pass IT on?
There are 10 million people in the UK who still don’t or can’t access the internet. Pass IT on asks web users to pass on their enthusiasm for the internet to their friends, relatives or colleagues who are offline.
What’s that got to do with The Workshop?
We’ve been working closely with UK online centres over the past few months developing the Pass IT on offer, strategy, and websites, which went live last weekend.
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29 March 2010 | Projects | Leave a comment
Vinyl strips promote the campaign and help create 'real' space for innovation
The Workshop recently designed and built a website about innovation in the public sector for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. We also created a series of printed materials as part of their ‘Create the Space to Innovate’ campaign, which encourages public sector employees to get their thinking caps on and share their marvellous ideas.
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16 February 2010 | Events, Social | Leave a comment
Left: Peter, our winner. Top: Our Top Gear-style leaderboard. Bottom: Getting competitive.
For all our friends, colleagues and clients, we organised our first ever Nintendo Wii Winter Olympics at the Royal Institution. Everyone had a great time, with plenty of eating, drinking and virtual speed skating.
With a Wii to be won and places on a Top Gear-style leaderboard at stake, competition was, on the whole, good natured – with a tussle at the top between Laura James from Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and Peter Stidwill from the Houses of Parliament Education Service.
When the competition drew to a close Peter just edged it, with a time he’d set on his first go! A huge thank you to everyone who came along and joined in the fun.
You can check out the pictures on our Flickr profile.
18 January 2010 | Projects | 2 Comments
We turned part of our Sheffield offices into a working film set to create content for The Rehearsal Room
We’re currently working with Sheffield Theatres to engage non-traditional audiences in theatre productions.
We’re creating The Rehearsal Room to promote plays before, during and after performances. Potential theatre-goers will be able to use this virtual space to find out how plays are produced. The site’s content will be filmed here at The Workshop: we’re currently building a set in our offices. Users will also be able to explore the work of Sheffield Theatres through video, photos and interactive elements and add their own contributions.
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11 January 2010 | Projects | Leave a comment
Our design work had to illustrate the thinking behind both collections, but still work as a single suite of materials.
The Workshop has worked with John Smedley for almost 20 years.
Recently they asked us to design and produce press materials and sales team tools for their Autumn/Winter 2010 menswear and womenswear collections. We began by spending some quality time with their design team to understand the thinking behind each collection.
That time helped us draw on the ethos behind the knitwear: layering. For both collections, we produced a spiral-bound presenter featuring fashion photography of the key pieces and sample fabric swatches.
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