For the eighth film in our Digital Up North series, we’re in Gateshead, talking to Codeworks founder and CEO Herb Kim. Chris Sharratt does the introductions.
Herb Kim is connected. As founder and CEO of Codeworks, it’s part of what he does. He brings digital thinkers and doers together, creates a space for ideas to be shared and, with his small team at Codeworks, puts on events that have become key dates in the digital industries calendar.
While the Codeworks mission is to grow the digital sector in the North-East, its impact goes far beyond the region. The annual Thinking Digital conference, launched in 2007, draws delegates from across Europe and features a global line-up of speakers.
While the Codeworks mission is to grow the digital sector in the North-East, its impact goes far beyond the region. This year’s conference in the main hall of Gateshead’s gleaming Norman Foster-designed concert hall was a sell out. Anticipating the demand, many more were able to listen to speakers via…
For the eighth film in our Digital Up North series, we’re in Gateshead, talking to Codeworks founder and CEO Herb Kim. Chris Sharratt does the introductions.
Herb Kim is connected. As founder and CEO of Codeworks, it’s part of what he does. He brings digital thinkers and doers together, creates a space for ideas to be shared and, with his small team at Codeworks, puts on events that have become key dates in the digital industries calendar.
While the Codeworks mission is to grow the digital sector in the North-East, its impact goes far beyond the region. The annual Thinking Digital conference, launched in 2007, draws delegates from across Europe and features a global line-up of speakers.
While the Codeworks mission is to grow the digital sector in the North-East, its impact goes far beyond the region. This year’s conference in the main hall of Gateshead’s gleaming Norman Foster-designed concert hall was a sell out. Anticipating the demand, many more were able to listen to speakers via…
The seventh film in our Digital Up North series takes us to Leeds, where we talk to David Eccles, founder and managing director of award-winning digital media agency Numiko. Chris Sharratt introduces the man, his company and his shirts.
David Eccles is wearing a rather lively new shirt, fresh off the hanger. “Just bought it for this interview,” he explains with a smile. “I have a bit of a reputation for my shirts.”
It’s not, of course, the only thing Numiko’s director has a reputation for. Since forming the company in 2000 (it was called New Media Collective back then; Numiko came along in 2007), this Leeds-based digital media agency has become known for getting great results with its user-focused approach to projects. Not surprisingly, the clients have got bigger and more high profile as the company’s reputation has grown.
One such client that keeps coming back for more is the BBC. Numiko recently designed the corporation’s Your Paintings website, which is currently being Beta tested.…
The sixth film in our Digital Up North series finds us talking about the joys of Flash games with husband and wife Tim and Emma of Team Cooper. Chris Sharratt introduces the couple and their company.
Team Cooper are all about Flash and not at all flashy. They’re nice, not cool. They prefer functional PCs to shiny Macs. They have a framed picture of Bill Gates in their office.
Their small HQ is in Sheffield’s ElectricWorks, a stone’s throw from the city’s main railway station and the anchor site of Sheffield Digital Campus, an ongoing building project aimed at providing a home for the region’s digital industries.
Team Cooper aren’t the biggest or highest-profile digital company in Sheffield, a city that boasts a strong sector that includes global software providers ZOO Digital and games developers Sumo.
They’re not even the biggest company in ElectricWorks, home to, amongst others, the Europe HQ of WANdisco, digital agency Ion and Warp Films .
So, what’s so interesting about Team Cooper?…
The fifth film in our Digital Up North series finds us in the Manchester city centre offices of magneticNorth, talking digital with mN Executive Creative Director Brendan Dawes. Chris Sharratt provides some back story to the chat.
There’s something refreshingly analogue about Brendan Dawes’ digital obsession, something pleasingly real and tangible.
Dawes considers himself a maker rather than a designer; a man who likes to get his hands dirty, albeit while surrounded by the white walls and (original) Eames chairs of magneticNorth’s city centre offices.
He may be Executive Creative Director of a digital agency, but he is not a man to be constrained by corporate identity. Yes, he’s 100 per cent committed to the business but he’s anything but a company man. He has his fingers in many creative pies.
You’ll find plenty of information about his personal projects – such as Whilst I Was Sleeping, which involves a brown paper bag, an Instagram feed and print outs of the ten most recent pictures…
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