Foursquare, the most popular location based app, hit the 1million user mark this week, in half the time it took Twitter. Other location apps are also rapidly gaining in popularity, particularly Gowalla and Brightkite. Why do people use these apps? An initial glance would glean no obvious benefit from telling people where you are. In [...]

The STEPPING OUT project arises from the UK Design Skills Alliance having identified that a network of Leading Design Professionals connected to education will support the development and delivery of industry relevant curricula. Whilst it is recognised that Art and Design providers already engage with leading design professionals, their numbers, backgrounds and involvement in developing or delivering [...]

Part 3 – The Liberal Democrats – www.libdems.org.uk Capitalising on their recent TV debate success, the homepage banner rotates fairly quickly through images of Clegg speaking in various locations– there are no real messages here, only signposts to read the manifesto or watch the first debate.  The aim of this seems to be to build [...]

Just a brief update on our office make over project. Guy Mckinley and Jon Boam have completed their murals and they both look frickin’ awesome! Hot off their heels, comes Chris Gray, Rob Bailey and Antony Crook who will be sprinkling their magic at Code over the next week or so. Enough words here are some pictures… [...]

We played host to two students from Blackpool & Fylde Art & Design College today. Paige Forbes and Sam Sharples (both in their final year of a BTEC National Diploma in Graphic Design course) were winners of a design competition organized by our friends and client First Transpennine Express. The students were tasked to come up with a creative campaign which [...]