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the Bluecoat

Posted by Chris at 12:42 pm

We’re chuffed to have won the contract to design the new website for the Bluecoat, and we’re all looking forward to working with the Bluecoat team.

For those who don’t know… the Bluecoat is a restored historic building in the centre of Liverpool and its community mixes artists of all types and encourages connections between audiences, participants and artists. It uses its spaces to display talent from all creative disciplines, including visual art, music, literature, dance, and live art.

The building underwent a £14.5m redevelopment and was reopened in 2008. Now the Bluecoat is updating its online presence to match its ambitious plans for the future.

UPDATE…UPDATE…

Posted by Chris at 1:29 am

The Well wins ‘Best Cross Platform Project’ and ‘Best Interactive’ at the Banff World Television Festival.

To find out more about the project then check out The Well case study within our portfolio.

Welsh PageTurn launched

Posted by Chris at 9:40 am

The PageTurn service is now available in Welsh. PageTurn is the ideal e-brochure hosting service, saving our clients large portions of their existing print reproduction budgets!

www.pageturn.co.uk/cymraeg.html

And another…

Posted by Chris at 5:36 pm

To find out more about the project then check out The Well case study within our portfolio.

Interpretation panels for Rhuddlan Nature Reserve

Posted by Chris at 5:23 pm

The first of six interpretation panels have been installed at Rhuddlan Nature Reserve. Local children have been involved in the design process throughout. The panels feature information on Rhuddlan Castle, the former railway station and the flora and fauna of the site.

The panels were illustrated by Steven Woods who really enjoys producing intricate isometric maps. The panels were completed soon after a new campus map for Edge Hill University and Steven is really eager for anybody wanting this kind of map to get in touch. The bigger the better as far as he is concerned!

Go!TravelWise.com Launched

Posted by Chris at 3:26 pm

Thanks to our chums at TravelWise (TW) yesterday for the invite to launch the Go! Schools sites at their Sustaining the Journey to School event.

Huw Jenkins, Chair of  TravelWise Group/Merseytravel introduced  Sara Mair, our education specialist from Mair Education and I  to present the Go! sites to Merseyside schools.  One teacher told me her class pretended to be the TW Walk2school characters; Reece, Suzy, Ash and Mia. The characters were originally illustrated by Ste Woods in 2006  (see site! –  they have their own personalities, travel to school stories and lots of illustrations so teachers and pupils can create fun activities.)

Finally, thanks from me and Sara to Splinter’s Baz, Shane, Sarah and Kevin, Dave and the TW team and all the local authority officers for  their hard work. Also a big thanks to the teachers, children and young people for their input.

To find out more about Go! check out our portfolio.

p.s. Posted by Rach not Chris! – (Chris is out on the Clwydian Range somewhere so I’ve hijacked his login)

Branding the Clwydian Range

Posted by Chris at 8:55 am

We are chuffed that we have just won the contract to brand the Clwydian Range AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). We are very pleased to be partnering Hi-Clarity Communications on this project.

We are also due to launch the new website for the AONB soon, watch this space for details!

Splinter enter the world of Augmented Reality

Posted by Chris at 6:16 pm

We can finally tell you all about an exciting new project we did for ACC Liverpool. We put together an interactive display for them featuring “augmented reality” technology, which merges live video footage with 3D interactive graphics.

The stand was unveiled for the first time at Confex, an international exhibition in London for event organisers and venues across the world, and went down really, really well!

Jacquie Rogers, general manager of the BT Convention Centre, said: “We wanted to do something which was a bit different, utilising cutting-edge technology to give our stand an extra wow factor.”

You can get more info and see a video demo over in our portfolio.

Go! Rachael

Posted by Chris at 10:55 am

Rachael presented Go! TravelWise to 35 of Liverpool’s Primary and Secondary Personal and Social Health Education (PSHE) teachers. The Go! TravelWise interactive games, websites and lesson plan packs introduce sustainable travel options into the classroom. Despite a heavy cold she still felt she let the side down slightly by taking a taxi to the venue.

Edge Hill Annual Report 09 arrives

Posted by Chris at 6:30 pm

Chris B and Pete celebrate as they just received printed copies of the Edge Hill University Annual Report 2009. It looks great, so thanks to The Printroom UK for doing a wonderful job. The report is environmentally friendly, featuring a drip varnish rather than the traditional use of Spot UV. The brochure also uses vegetable inks throughout.

Pete took his enthusiasm for environmental issues a little too far, resulting in the obliteration of both the kettle and the hoover … may they both rest in peace(s).