Archive for the ‘Creative Labs’ Category
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
It’s been a bit quiet here in the last couple of months partly because it’s been a very busy period. Mostly because I’ve been neglectful. I’ll try to catch up with reports and observations from some of the work we’ve done with Channel 4, the BBC, Nesta and Crossover over ...
Posted in Creative Labs | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The third of this year's BBC Innovation Labs finished on Friday with Jason Daponte, the BBC's Managing Editor for mobile applications, saying it was the best set of presentations he had seen in the three years they've been running. I tend to agree, although the southern lab last ...
Posted in BBC, Creative Labs | No Comments »
Friday, March 14th, 2008
It's pitch day at the first of this year's BBC Innovation Labs and we're back at Forest Hills Hotel near Aberfoyle.
The Scottish Labs always seem to engage the most technically proficient, not to say geeky, teams of all the labs. Last year we had one group both whose ...
Posted in BBC, Creative Labs | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Children have always loved TV, but the days when passive viewing was their only option are well and truly over. Kids are finding other forms of entertainment and seeking out new platforms to access it. They’re media literate and demanding more sophisticated, interactive content which is fragmenting the market.
So what ...
Posted in Creative Labs, Creative London, InSync | No Comments »
Monday, January 7th, 2008
...is that the word doesn't really mean very much.
The first person I heard make this case was Curt Carlson at SRI when I went there with the BBC. He preferred to use the the term 'value creation' but he was really just making a point in the context of his ...
Posted in BBC, Creative Labs | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
It's the penultimate day of the two week tour with the Innovation Lab roadshow. We're at the Lowry in Salford today. It's a striking building but one in which the interior designer has been excessively liberal with the orange paint.
Last week's Edinburgh event is described by Calico Jack, one of ...
Posted in BBC, Creative Labs | No Comments »
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Finally a day off from the whistle-stop tour of cities to launch this year's BBC Innovation Labs. We've done events in Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newcastle (again) so far.
I decided to base the afternoon's workshop on a user-centred design exercise since that seems to have been the most valuable ...
Posted in BBC, Creative Labs | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
The BBC Innovation Labs are to continue into a third year with a series of launch days scheduled for next month.
They're being produced by Matt Cashmore and Morag Cartwright following Matt Locke's departure to Channel 4. Unexpected Media will be devising and directing the process again.
The intro sessions are filling ...
Posted in BBC, Creative Labs | No Comments »
Monday, October 29th, 2007
The Play/Time Lab finished on Friday with seven pitches for games. These ranged from a competition to find the best playground game in the world to a simulation of a totalitarian takeover in the UK following a terrorist attack on London.
A couple of the participants in the Lab have written ...
Posted in Creative Labs, Creative London, InSync, London Games Festival | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
In October 2007, the first Play/Time Games Lab will be staged as part of the London Games Festival Fringe.
Games, not just console games but games on tv, the web and mobile phones, ‘alternative reality games’, pervasive games, street games, are emerging as one of the key creative forms of the ...
Posted in Creative Labs, InSync, London Games Festival | 2 Comments »
