This month we have been busy shooting for Imprints Futures, developing a new education web platform, working on our Devise 2 Deliver project and preparing for two events we are involved with in March.
January 2013Resolutions for your business?
We would like to hear your New Years Resolutions for business/work & work/life balance for a campaign we're doing with FIRST and Old School vs New School. We will be revisiting the resolutions at different points in the year.
Great mix of investors, professionals & student/new entrepreneurs coming to this month’s FIRST event that we are hosting with FIRST Newcastle. Speakers include Joanna Feeley from Trend Bible and Angela McLean from Baggers Original.
Fiona Selected for Prestigious Devise To Deliver
Hot on the heels of being on the Creative England/NFM Digital Bridge scheme Fiona Birkbeck has won a place on Sheffield Documentary & Digital Media Festival's Devise to Deliver programme. The 7-month, UK-wide scheme is for professional filmmakers and cross-platform media-makers to broaden their understanding of the possibilities of digital media, including developing multiplatform business skills and embracing new ways to fund, distribute and market films through digital technology. Can't wait to get started!
October 2012FIRST Old School vs New School Partnership Launch
Multiminded hosted a launch event for our partnership with The Bridge Club's FIRST events. It was a sell out event and we had an amazing mix of students, new and established entrepreneurs as well as industry gatekeepers and connectors. Thanks to North East Access To Finance and The Toffee Factory for sponsoring the event.
September 2012We have been commissioned to produce a video for SIG Combibloc's international presentation in Poland. We're planning something really engaging and a very different approach from a traditional presentation video.
August 2012Multiminded's Fiona Birkbeck is thrilled to have been selected for Creative England/Northern Film and Media's Digital Bridge programme. The initiative aims to create a hub of industry connected filmmakers with a slate of viable cross–platform projects whilst learning from leading pioneers new ways of storytelling and engaging audiences.
Breaking News SmoothGroove Video
Susan Laurie was recently shortlisted for a major entrepreneurial award with her 'stylist's secret' product for the fashion industry, the SmoothGroove. She wanted a video that would be fun and very different from traditional marketing videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jklBWIa86jo&feature=plcp
We were delighted to be commissioned to produce a video for an exciting new client who has invented an innovative product for the fashion industry. We've had great fun making the video which is a mixture of live action and animation. It will go live next month. More details to follow.
The website we have produced for Collaborative Family Law North East is now live:
http://www.cflnortheast.co.uk
NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR OLD SCHOOL VS NEW SCHOOL
The Old School vs New School team at Multiminded have been busy building relationships with new partners for our collaboration and knowledge exchange web platform. We're joined forces with Caroline Theobald and The Bridge Club for their FIRST events. FIRST brings university students, graduates and local entrepreneurs together with some of the top names in business to bridge the gap between start-ups and success. More details on the Bridge Club website here:
http://bit.ly/FIRSTcollab
We are thrilled to be involved in an exciting new web platform for the education sector. We will be creating the brand (including name and logo), web platform and marketing strategy.
May 2012We have been commissioned to produce a new website for the collaborative legal community. More details to follow soon.
April 2012DESIGN FOR HOMES WEBSITE IS NOW LIVE
The website we did for Design For Homes, the London knowledge centre for home design is now live:
http://www.designforhomes.org/
SPEAKING AT A STARTING A CREATIVE BUSINESS EVENT
Thinking of starting a creative business? Multiminded and Trend Bible have been asked to speak at a Business & Intellectual Property workshop in partnership with the British Library about how we combine creativity and entrepreneurship.
SPEAKING AT SPARK MEDIA DIGITAL MEDIA PICK N MIX EVENT
We were delighted to be asked to speak at this event:
Spark Media Digital media pick ‘n’ mix with Paula Le Dieu, Director of Digital of BFI.
http://bit.ly/zzC5q5
NIXON HIRE EXTRA VIRAL NOW LIVE
Good to see our viral is now live on Nixon's website. Congratulations to the company for just being shortlisted for the European Rental Awards.
http://bit.ly/GMC0E4
NEW LOGO FOR BUILDING COMPANY IN NIGERIA
We have just designed a new logo for Vec Bege, a building company based in Nigeria. The colours are symbolic for Africa.
http://www.multiminded.co.uk/portfolio/project/vec_bege
We've just been commissioned to create a new website for London based Design for Homes who champion the value of good design in the housing industry. The project has a fast turnaround so we look forward to giving you a preview of the new website very soon.
February 2012Multiminded love cool technology so we're especially pleased to be invited to make two documentaries for such an interesting project as this.
http://www.imprintsfutures.org/
We recently completed an animated viral advert for international client Nixon Hire. Here are some frames from the video: http://www.multiminded.co.uk/portfolio/project/animation
OLD SCHOOL VS NEW SCHOOL WELCOMES NEW PARTNER
Our collaboration and knowledge exchange platform Old School vs New School is pleased to welcome a new partner, Manpower UK. We look forward to working with them.
December 2011Multiminded have a new home. We're now based in the new landmark building in Newcastle,
The Toffee Factory. It's a fantastic place to be. Check out for the colour-changing chimney.
Here's a preview of our Christmas card celebrating our new home:
http://www.multiminded.co.uk/mailer-christmas-2011.html
MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION AT ENCHANTED PARKS
Multiminded were delighted to take part in Newcastle’s Gateshead’s Enchanted Parks this week. Where The Land Meets The Ocean, an outdoor multimedia installation with Bloom Studio, involved projecting animated videos on two large screens in a wood, music, lighting, divers hanging high in the trees and a drawing booth. Thousands of kids took part in the fish drawing competition. The winning entries will be inserted into an animation.
November 2011STORY STATION MAKES ITS ARTS DEBUT
We were thrilled when our interactive filming device prototype was invited to make its arts debut at Open Studios. Thanks to all the people who came down and tried it out.
OLD SCHOOL VS NEW SCHOOL BETA IS NOW LIVE
This week we launched the beta of our Big Society Big Ideas winner Old School vs New School during Global Entrepreneurship Week. GEW UK awarded us a prestigious High Impact Badge of Honour. We were also thrilled to welcome some very exciting project partners on board: The Federation of Small Businesses, PRIME (The Prince's Initiative for Mature Enterprise), Newcastle Science City, Cobweb Info and Better Business Magazine.
Multiminded is thrilled to have been chosen to produce a multimedia installation for Enchanted Parks with our regular collaborators Bloom Studio. Enchanted Parks takes place in December. The commission is from the Newcastle Gateshead Initiative and Magnetic Events.
BIG SOCIETY BIG BUSINESS WINNER LAUNCH
As reported earlier Multiminded were chosen as one of the winners of Northern Film and Media’s Big Society Big Ideas digital competition http://bit.ly/p4eR0b with our idea Old School vs New School. The web platform is going live in mid November. Please sign up below and you’ll be one of the first to know when the doors open:
http://www.oldschoolvsnewschool.co.uk
Previously two of Fiona's short films were selected by the BBC/The Arts Council to be shown at Glastonbury Festival. Now another of her films, Substitute has been selected for the Independent Shorts screening at the very cool Whitley Bay Film Festival. The film was shot on the red camera in Beadnell.
http://whitleybayfilmfestival.co.uk
NEW WEBSITE FOR MONSTER PEACOCK
The website we created for video equipment hire company Monster Peacock is about to be launched. If you'd like a sneak preview:
http://www.monsterpeacock.com/
Our first product prototype has now been built. We have been invited to test it at The Culture Lab’s Onsite this summer.
http://www.multiminded.co.uk/portfolio/project/product_development
We’re delighted to welcome Jim Bell to the Multiminded team. Jim will be our Digital Accounts Manager and the client contact for new and existing digital business projects.
April 2011We’ve just heard that we’ve been successful in acquiring some funding to develop the first prototype of a gadget that we will use for filming.
NFM - Big Society Big Business Digital Scheme
We are thrilled to announce that a Multiminded project has been selected for Northern Film and Media’s Big Society Big Business digital scheme. It had previously been one of ten shortlisted. Drawing on the industry expertise of Peter Cowley, CEO of Spirit Media and former MD of Digital Media at Endemol, and working in partnership with Sunderland City Council, Ewan Mcintosh and Northern Film & Media were looking to help develop the strongest web, mobile and interactive ideas about how to make the world a better place. Ideas had to be from the North East but with global reach.
Details to follow soon about the new digital platform we will be launching. Here is further information about the scheme:
http://www.northernmedia.org/?mod=news&pageid=38&id=1170
Multiminded are about to start work on a lovely education project in County Durham. It involves setting up a mini TV station for the school.
The Multiminded team have just finished filming the first of a number of special effects projects using a motion control rig in a green screen studio. We were also were asked to shoot some live action footage for an exciting new animation project for Bloom Studio.
December 2010Multiminded wishes everyone a very Merry Chrismas and a Happy New Year.
Check out this link: View Christmas email
We have just been filming the first multinational ping pong/clubbing event Pongress Berlin. What an incredible place. Highlights of the trip included being allowed to film at the extraordinary Jewish Memorial, finding ourselves in a packed metro train in the early hours of the morning surrounded by zombies (it was Halloween!) and celebrating some lovely news about two of the stars of our documentary. When we we arrived at our main filming venue the first thing we saw was a one of a kind ping pong table. See Ping Pong for further details. If only we could have brought it home...
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