Numiko, an award winning Leeds based digital creative agency

Numiko has been selected from over 100 companies to take part in the new commissioning initiative @North. The initiative ties in with BBC Children’s move to Salford in 2011 and is all about bringing people, technology and creativity together to develop fresh new online content for children.

Impressed by our experience and track record of working with broadcasters, we will now be involved in intensive workshops where we will be developing our ideas alongside creative and technical mentors from the BBC. The best ideas then enter into the final commissioning selection process, where four final projects will be commissioned from the £500,000 fund for CBBC and Cbeebies.

We’ve come out in front winning a bid to redevelop the website for the twin Anglo-Saxon monastery of St Peter’s in Wearmouth and St Paul’s in Jarrow.

We’ll be bringing all our skills to the fore to create 3D virtual experiences, allowing users to get a feel for what it used to be like for the monks that lived at the monasteries. The site will also have lots of regular features such as news & events, an image gallery, interactive maps and learning resources.

The website a plays an important role in Wearmouth-Jarrow’s UK nomination for World Heritage Site status in 2011 which if successful, will have great economic benefits for the North East.

The new site is due to launch in March.

The new Leeds College of Music website has just gone live, with loads of new features including an audio player, video, news blog, events calendar and links to official facebook, YouTube and Twitter pages.

There are lots of new sections which enhance all of the existing content, making the new site a hive of information for anyone looking to study at LCM or make the most of the great facilities the college has to offer.

Engineered by Numiko

Numiko’s Rich Hilson is talking to Huddersfield Uni’s Digital Media Design students today. FOLD happens every Monday and gives second and final year students the opportunity to share studio practice covering a variety of themes with industry input.

For today’s talk, Rich is covering user centred design with a specific focus on the youth audience.