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Communicating stuff

We’ve just used the Newspaperclub newspaper to report on the learnings for a project we did called My Life As An Object. We think it works really well as a way to get people reading stuff, partly due to the form factor (people are used to newspapers, rather than A4 bound reports or Powerpoint print [...]

Illustrations for user journeys

As part of our work developing ideas for the BBC’s A History of the World project last year, we commissioned a series of illustrations from Tiffany Rawson, an artist that we first met in 2008, and who we’ve worked with on a couple of previous projects for Folksy. The illustrations were used to illustrate a [...]

Muddy: Playing with the Powerhouse

We’re releasing Muddy in the next couple of weeks (as a web service complete with a range of APIs and also as an appliance you can rack). It’s a service that indexes your content and finds ‘notable’ things and can tell you about those notable things (because the entities we identify are part of linked [...]

Another idea: ‘What Happened Here?’

Ewan McIntosh over on the 4iP blog has picked up on our new policy of setting ideas free (starting with Bands From Here), in a blog post debating the transparency and opaqueness of the 4iP pitching process. There’s even talk of a ‘turned down by 4iP’ wiki. I thought I’d continue our spirit of openness [...]

Bands From Here

We submitted a few ideas for MIPTV’s Content 360 Innovation competition a while back, in the category of ‘engaging teens locally’ (sponsored by the BBC). The brief was for ideas that “will help encourage teenage audiences to develop interests in, and to reflect, their local communities across the UK”. We’ve just found out that one [...]

‘Prepare to die’ – an idea for Social Innovation Camp

Rattle were at London’s Kings Cross Hub last night for the announcement of the ideas that will take part in December’s Social Innovation Camp. This is a weekend-long affair, at which designers, thinkers, social entrepreneurs and coders will meet to develop seven socially-benefiting ideas into working prototypes. Rattle submitted an idea called Prepare to die, [...]