Numiko, an award winning Leeds based digital creative agency

We have recently hired four new digi experts to join our team in Leeds!

Clare Maguire and Roz Sheldon have joined Numiko as Project Managers. Clare has over 15 year’s digital experience. She has managed projects for organisations including NHS Direct, Lloyds TSB, RBS Natwest, Department for Work & Pensions, TD Waterhouse and the ABPI (Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry). Over the coming months Clare will be responsible for managing projects for Channel 4, BBC and LOCOG.

Over the past 9 years, Roz has planned and delivered a large number of digital projects for well-known FMCG, entertainment and public sector clients in both the UK and abroad. Since joining Numiko, she has been managing one of our most recent commissions, which is to create a new Lottery Good Causes website. The site will be totally redesigned, bringing together various functions including the existing National Lottery Good Causes directory.

Col Grist has joined Numiko as a front-end developer. With 10 years’ experience of designing and developing, Col has worked on some amazing web projects for Disney, First Direct, HSBC, Asda, NHS, Halfords, Channel 4, BBC and Sony BMG (X Factor).

Craig Goode joins the Creative team as a digital designer who has a multi-disciplinary background in film, motion graphics and photography to name a few. Craig has a strong heritage of working on digital briefs for well-known companies such as Umbro, Schwarzkopf, Quorn, Ribena, BBC and Learn Direct.

Look out for examples of their work over the coming months.

Channel 4 have commissioned us to build another quiz – this time it’s a ‘love quiz’ for the new series of Undateables, which starts tonight on C4 at 9pm.

Undateables follows the journeys of several extraordinary people, each with a disability, looking for ‘The One’.   This three-part series follows them as they enter the world of blind dates, matchmakers and speed dating in pursuit of happiness.

The quiz is a fun way for the audience to find out how their personal views on dating, love, sex and relationships stack up against the experts’ view of what’s considered ‘healthy’.

To take the quiz, go to http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-undateables/articles/the-love-and-relationship-quiz

We’ve just launched the programme homepage for Channel 4′s private, interactive video tour of  Damien Hirst’s 360 exhibition, which is on at the Tate Modern from 4 April to 9 September 2012.

The homepage contains a countdown timer, which counts down to the exhibition opening on the 4th.  C4 are giving viewers a sneak preview with a documentary programme screening on Monday 2 April at 8pm.  The state-of-the-art online video tour of the exhibition will be available on Channel4.com at 9pm following broadcast of the documentary – it will only be live for a week so don’t miss it!

To view the Damien Hirst homepage, visit http://www.channel4.com/programmes/damien-hirst/articles/private-view-360

This year we’re proud to be the main sponsors of the annual Sh! Awards, which puts the spotlight on the creative talent coming out of Yorkshire’s best universities in advertising, web design, graphic design, illustration and more.

Why are we sponsoring Sh!? Well, we’ve been involved with Sh! for years, either through judging or sponsorship.  Not only is it a great opportunity for us to see students’ work,  it gives them a chance to get in front of some of Yorkshire’s top agencies, with the chance of winning a  six month paid placement.  The event also raises money for the Meningitis Research Foundation in honour of Stuart Hocknell – a brilliant young designer who died from meningitis in 2002.

Students who are interested in entering can find further details here Sh! Awards website

The closing date for entries is Friday 20 April, 2012 and the event will be held on Thursday 24 May, 2012.  Good luck!

We’ve  just won two exciting projects for good causes, The National Lottery Promotions Unit and Time to Change.

The NLPU has chosen us from a national tender process to create a new Lottery Good Causes website – the site will be totally redesigned and it will help users find out more about how Lottery funding works, where it goes, who has benefited from it and how to apply.

Time to Change, England’s biggest mental health anti-stigma programme run by the charities Mind and Rethink Mental Illness, has commissioned us to create the digital strategy focusing on 14-18 year olds.   The strategy will help young people improve their knowledge and understanding of mental health problems, make sense of their own feelings and experiences, and reach out to others by starting conversations about a topic that is still often misunderstood.

We’re thrilled to have been commissioned for these projects, which really make a difference to peoples lives and we look forward to showcasing the work once it’s completed.

We’ve been lucky enough to have the opportunity to work with Shetland Arts on a great project, supported by LOCOG and Creative Scotland.  Named Hansel of Film, meaning ‘gift of film’, the project centres around a relay of film screenings from Shetland to Southampton and back again.  It also promotes the idea of joining in, and of fun and celebration – ideas that are intrinsic to the London 2012 Festival.

Shetland Arts commissioned us to design and build a content manageable website to act as the main hub for the project, allowing people to upload their films, apply to become ‘runners’ (volunteers who will transport the films between venues) and follow the relay as it travels to each of the venues up and down the country.

The ‘Hansel of Film’ relay starts in Shetland just as the Olympic Torch arrives on 10 June, 2012.  To visit the site, go to http://hansel2012.org/

Hansel of Film: Shetland to Southampton and back again

The BBC have commissioned us to produce a new game to accompany the CBBC television game show, Copycats.

Presented by Sam & Mark, Copycats sees two family teams battle it out in a range of Chinese Whispers based tasks.  The teams take it in turn to copy pictures, actions and show off their musical talent to reveal the winners of the coveted Copycats trophy!

The game follows the theme of the show, consisting of tasks which give the player 5 seconds to memorize the shape on screen.  They then have to re-draw the shape by clicking on squares, or by moving round the grid with the arrow keys and clicking on the space bar.

Aimed at children aged 6-12, it allows kids to have a fun experience, while challenging their memory and copying skills as they progress through the various levels and zones.

The game has gone live this week www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/copycats-game

The app we built to compliment Channel 4′s Street Summer season of programming last year, has been nominated for another award!

The Rap Beatbox Choir YouTube app has been shortlisted in the Revolution Awards Media & Entertainment category, and it’s up against some strong competition.

The app has already been recognised by the FWA - being awarded Site of the Day on 21 October 2011.  It’s also been nominated for a Best Award and we’ll hear if we’ve won on the 1st of March.  And last December it was made a finalist in the Creative Diversity Network Awards.

Based on its track-record, we have high hopes for the app, but we won’t find out if we’ve won until the 20th of April, so we’ll have our fingers and toes crossed till then!

To find out more about the RapBeatbox Choir YouTube app, click here.

We’re not off to Texas forever – just for a week in March when Founding Director, Dave Eccles will be representing Numiko at SXSW Interactive in Austin!

We’re one of 34 UK companies chosen by the UKTI to attend this year’s Trade Mission to SXSW, which is one of the largest and most well known conferences focused on digital media and technology.  It will give Dave the opportunity to mix with people from the US digital industry and from across the globe.

The Trade Mission runs from the 8th – 13th March. For more info visit http://chinwag.com/ukti/sxsw2012