Bradford saw in influx of game-related creativity in November, as the gaming wing of the Bradford Animation Festival took place. The two-day event saw a genuinely impressive range of international talent give talks and demos, with big-hitters like Sony, Bethesda…
I’ve finally written up notes from my talk at the Leeds Digital Conference 2012. I’ve been a Last.fm user since 2006, but 2012 was finally the year I stopped using the service. Not due to some great epiphany about life-logging,…
Lots of digital thought is converging on Leeds next week, and I’ll be doing a talk as part of it. The Leeds Digital Conference features a mix of talks and sessions covering design, development, marketing, SEO and blogging. It’s part…
I went along to the third incarnation of The Story, a conference based around storytelling in its many forms, in the fantastic Conway Hall in London. There was a pleasingly eclectic roster of speakers, all lovingly emblazoned on the solid…
Here’s a write-up of some interesting open data projects showcased at Manchester’s FutureEverything conference in May. There was an overarching theme at this year’s FutureEverything of ‘cities’ – what makes them unique, what drives their development, how people live in…
Part one of my report from dConstruct’s one-day conference in Brighton. With a pleasantly varied range of talks and speakers, down by the seaside in Brighton, I was rather excited. The Designful Company Things started very well with Marty Neumeier,…
I headed down to London to see the Decode exhibition at the V&A. Based around the notions of data visualisation, technology and interactivity, it was a small yet flab-free exhibition that was impressive and fun. The entrance to the exhibition…
It was a full house in the lecture theatre at Leeds College of Art & Design last night, for June’s Creative Networks get-together. There was a nice pre-talk vibe due to it coinciding with the end-of-year shows for the various…
BarCamp Leeds 09 was another important example of the vibrant creative scene in the North. I attended on Saturday, and while the idyllic weather probably didn’t do a great deal for attendance figures (despite being a sell-out, there were numerous…
There has been a huge amount of creative activity in Leeds this last week. The LSx09 Leeds Web Festival, curated by local technology/design advocate Imran Ali was underway and I managed to get myself to a couple of events. This…