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New Juice / Wind in the Sails / Kick up the arse

Posted on Tue 9 Dec 2008

The official line isn't ideal, since we're a little off target in terms of nailing down business partners for a key milestone, but the far more exciting and important news is that the idea has undergone a rennaisance! Following our meeting with Sharon from the Watershed we went back to the drawing…


mscapeFest08 in Belfast

Posted on Wed 3 Dec 2008

The studio is missing a few residents this week as they have been whisked off to Belfast to both attend and mentor workshops at mscapeFest08. After a great conference last year, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories has organised a two day conference for mediascape, pervasive, locative and interactive media…


mscapeFest08 in Belfast

Posted on Wed 3 Dec 2008

The studio is missing a few residents this week as they have been whisked off to Belfast to both attend and mentor workshops at mscapeFest08.

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Wordsmiths & Homework

Posted on Thu 20 Nov 2008

Copywriter, provocateur and whirlwind-wordsmith Sharon Clark from the Watershed kindly spent a frantic 2 hours with the Happy Packages team on Wednesday. It was a really interesting session, both challenging and inspiring in equal measure and the unanimous verdict was "Why didn't we chat with…

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Media Sandbox 2009 launches

Posted on Wed 19 Nov 2008

Bringing together leading technology, artistic and media talent, Media Sandbox is a commissioning scheme to support South West companies / organisations to research emerging possibilities in digital media. Last year's theme was pervasive media and space in the studio was taken up by four of the six…

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When are these trails going to be used?

Posted on Mon 17 Nov 2008

When we're planning any project, it's essential to think about where people will want to use/interact with it to maximise their fun. So when would be a great time for me to say to myself, "I'd love to do a trail now" Some thoughts, "I've just finished on a phone call on my…


Last Will and Testament - a prototype MITE

Posted on Thu 13 Nov 2008

Last Will and Testament, an experimental installation by Punchdrunk, Hide and Seek, HP Labs and Seeper, was featured in The Independent today. A development of the ideas explored in Sensory Symptom (which is installed in the studio), Last Will attempts to create a "hybrid experience between…