As Client Partner for two culturally-focussed organisations based in Edinburgh, it’s kind of my job to heart the place. Fortunately, however, that’s not hard to do.… Read more
Posts Categorized: Art
Results from the Sh! Awards 2012
Last Thursday was the annual Sh! Awards, which celebrates the very best creative, student talent to come out of Yorkshire. We were very pleased to be the main sponsors of the event, which not only gave students an opportunity to bag themselves a six-month placement, but it also raised money for the Meningitis Research Foundation in honour of Stuart Hocknell – a brilliant young designer who died from meningitis in 2002.… Read more
Numiko main sponsor of 2012 Sh! Awards
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.… Read more
Hansel of Film website for Shetland Arts
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.… Read more
Be part of C4′s Rap Beatbox Choir
We’ve been working with Fresh One to create the online presence for C4’s Street Summer.
Street Summer is an exciting season of programming that explores the influences that have shaped contemporary urban culture.… Read more
Hidden Paintings go online for all to see
Numiko have been instrumental in developing the freshly launched Your Paintings website for the BBC which coincides with the broadcasting of ‘Hidden Paintings” – the umbrella title to 11 separate programmes to be broadcast on BBC One across England at 6pm on Sunday 26 June.… Read more
GIFs in Fashion and Bugs in the Background
I’ve come across a few really nice blogs and suchlike this week, and have found myself with a rare free five minutes in which to blog about them!… Read more
The Art of Design
I read an article recently which said “what constitutes a good designer depends on the person judging”. I don’t think it’s unfair to say that this translates to “there are no objective standards in design” – if what’s good can only be judged by individuals according to their own standards then what’s good for me might be bad for you.… Read more
Art and us
I don’t like conceptual art; stuff like Tracey Emin’s bed and Martin Creed’s empty room leaves me cold. I can kind of see the point… It can be kind of clever, in a half-hearted way – earning a slightly raised eyebrow of amusement, or acknowledgement that something expresses a mildly interesting concept, but I can never really summon up any enthusiasm, or feel that these ill-defined concepts are things that deserve to be put into words, and galleries, and stared at and bought and sold for millions.… Read more