Home
Last week we had the pleasure of meeting groups of secondary and 6th form students, from across Norfolk, who attended Your Future in Digital. Hosted by Norfolk Network, YFID 2011 aimed to give students hands on experience of working in the digital sector and was a massive triumph with hundreds of young hopefuls attending.
Archive for the ‘Industry News’ Category
Marketing yourself in the digital industry
17.11.2011 By: emily">emily Under: General, Industry News, Soak Related Comments: none
Adobe Muse: holding back the web
16.08.2011 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Creative, Industry News Comments: 1
Adobe are gearing up to release their new “code-less” website creation tool, Muse. The target audience seems to be designers or small business owners who have a design and are reluctant to invest time or money into developing an effective website.
Licensing and webfonts
15.02.2011 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Creative, Industry News Comments: none
Even though I’m almost literally bursting with excitement about the advances in typography online, I’ve yet to start gushing about it on here mainly because, despite lots of interesting articles from designers across the world, it’s still early days for webfonts and it’ll be a while before we see them universal adopted.
The cashless society might be closer than you think!
27.01.2011 By: jimhavers">jimhavers Under: Industry News, Trends Comments: none
I’m not talking about Britain’s flailing economy but an emerging technology called Near Field Communication.
The increasing need for mobile compatible sites
13.01.2011 By: adamcollison">adamcollison Under: Industry News, Technical, Trends Comments: 1
As technology marches on there is always something new to keep developers busy; it only feels like a couple of years ago it was the use of Flash in websites. This quickly changed with a trend towards Facebook integration and iPhone apps, now with ever increasing sales of smartphones it seems like the current trend is for mobile browsing. We always knew that mobile browsing would improve but I didn’t expect mobile browsers to evolve so quickly.
Soak attend UX Brighton 2010
16.09.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Creative, Industry News Comments: none
On Monday some of the Soak team attended the first UX Brighton conference, a day-long set of speakers grown out of the monthly meetings held by Brighton’s very active web-design community. The line-up promised an inspiring day of interesting and varied talks and it certainly delivered.
The 2010 Budget and what it means for the design and digital industries
25.06.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Industry News Comments: none
The recent emergency budget announced by the UK’s new coalition government has been given a good dissecting on the facebook discussion board of the Design Council, with particular focus on the public sector, predictable given the heavy cuts this area faces.
Anticipating the digital Olympics
02.06.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Creative, Industry News Comments: none
Ever since the 2012 Olympics logo was revealed in 2007, the graphic identity for the London games has been dogged by controversy. When Wolf Olins first unveiled the much criticised and in my opinion highly underrated brand, the public feeling was largely negative (although the reaction from the design community was much more thoughtful), and the video that accompanied the launch was even blamed for causing seizures.
Google Font Directory: An alternative to Typekit
21.05.2010 By: ronansprake">ronansprake Under: Industry News, Technical Comments: 1
During Google I/O 2010, Google have made some very cool announcements, including WebM (a license-free codec for audio and video) and a new hosted Font API.
Adobe CS5 Launch
14.04.2010 By: alanofford">alanofford Under: Creative, Industry News Comments: none
As the dust settles after Monday’s much anticipated online launch of Adobe’s latest version of it’s creative suite, CS5, it’s left us here wondering just what all the fuss has been about. The live webcast itself was a pretty bizarre event, which thanks in part to leaks like this YouTube video, created quite a buzz on Twitter. The actual presentation however was more teasing than illuminating, with 5 minutes segments being given by a series of increasingly off the wall Adobe ‘evangelists’, who were nearly in a frenzy over CS5′s “wicked-cool capabilities”.
