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…
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…
Posted on Wed 3 Dec 2008
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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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Posted on Thu 13 Nov 2008
In todays edition of the New Media Age Magazine both Media Sandbox and also Happy Packages were featured in an article by Sean Hargrave on Location Services.
Posted on Tue 11 Nov 2008
The great and good of the national Press decended on Bristol yesterday and SWRDA hosted an event at @t-Bristol to round the evening off. Team Happy were asked to exhibit some interactive play-things in the lobby and of course we leapt at the chance. Only after signing up did we realise there wasn't…
