As part of Code’s continuing involvement and support of the region’s HE institutions we’ve been asked to participate in The Designers Northern Alliance (DNA) event. This is a two day event organised by the coming together of 6 Northern HE institutions. As well as showcasing the region’s best undergraduate and postgraduate talent from the fields of Design, Advertising, [...]

A handful of the more fit and healthy members of Code ran all 10 kilometres in the Great Manchester Run last Sunday. Congratulations to everyone who ran. I thought it apt to run while I was at the gym that day—I managed about 2k and it felt like I was having an asthma attack. —Ben

This beautiful, disgusting, hilarious site has had a profound effect on me—for better or for worse—so it’s inevitable that it’s been rearing its proverbial head when I’ve been brainstorming recent ideas (ideas far too scandalous and underdeveloped to include here). Advertising agencies have been quick to grab this bull by its exposed horns and use [...]

I recently went to a couple of courses up in Glasgow run by Patrick Collister—one on the principles of advertising and ideas and the other on the advertising opportunities in the digital space. They were both rather good and served as useful grounding in these areas. There were various group and individual tasks dotted throughout the day. For one of [...]

We’re collating useful resources, links, tips and tricks around HTML5/CSS3/Canvas etc so we’ve get together an article with them listed for posterity and as a central point of reference. Please feel free to contribute and join in! Simply tell us about your great links and resources and we’ll add them to the article. Thanks! Generally, [...]