Sheffield’s helter skelter office

Opening night at the Electric works On Friday it was the launch party for the city’s most high-profile office building, the Electric works in the Sheffield digital campus. Guests were able to tour the building, view a design exhibition and play Wii, as well as enjoy a drink from the sky bar (with not-so-panoramic city [...]

The story of Sheffield film for Sheffield storytellers event

Another promotional video commissioned by Creative Sheffield Just thought I would post this in case anyone missed it last summer. It is a two-minute film  for ‘Sheffield Storytellers’ launch event at Sheffield City Hall in June last year. City development company Creative Sheffield commissioned creative agency Human to produce it.

Top posts on sheffieldblog.com

One year on, which are the most popular posts? I thought I’d do a quick round-up of the most viewed posts during the first year of this blog. According to WordPress, this is the 83rd post, which makes an average of about 1.5 a week. I’d like to write more often but don’t always have [...]

Electric works slide on CBS news

Coverage of the Sheffield office building in Britain and beyond Over the last few days, the Electric works slide has appeared all over the UK media. Although a bit of a gimmick, it looks like the ‘building with a twist’ (as it has been called in most reports) is succeeding in further promoting the city, [...]

Sheffield on Twitter – update three

Organisations on Twitter on Sheffield Twitter has continued to snowball in the last couple of weeks. I have updated the Sheffield Twitter Users page; here are the additions: Rattle Sheffield – agency doing research and development for the social web http://twitter.com/rattlecentral Little Man Tate – Sheffield indie band http://twitter.com/LittleManTate Red Shoes Magazine – local online [...]

The Designers Republic: a rebirth?

After 23 years, the world-famous design studio has closed There have been rumours about the internationally-renowned design studio The Designers Republic closing this week, and sadly it appears that they are true. Creative Review magazine’s blog has an interview with tDR founder Ian Anderson, who explains how an unfortunate combination of factors caused the company [...]

Inside Electric works building, Sheffield digital campus

See Sheffield’s latest building in a new light If you have been in town after dark recently then you will have probably seen the flashing lights of the new Sheffield digital campus illuminating the night sky – if not then watch footage of this uploaded to qik.com by Twitter user @watfordgap. A couple more glimpses [...]

New Sheffield business search engine locallysheffield.co.uk

Plus free a upgrade for your business if you are quick The creators of locallysheffield.co.uk have been in touch and asked for a mention of their site on this blog. It is part of a new family of online classified directories for local UK businesses called locallycompared.com. Their national network of sites has two million [...]

BarCamp Sheffield 2.1: the Joy of Techs

Calling all grass-roots geeks, creative visionaries, innovative entrepreneurs and talented technologists I’m not sure anyone would choose to give themselves any of those titles, but if you are (take a deep breath) a developer, designer, creative, educationalist, technologist, blogger, student, entrepreneur, writer, artist, academic, geek, marketeer, investor or gamer then you should get yourself down [...]

South Yorkshire digital region

Will South Yorkshire be one of the first areas to benefit from investment in the digital infrastructure? In a previous post I suggested that Sheffield could promote its intentions as an emerging creative and digital city by offering free municipal wi-fi to its residents. Whether this will ever happen is another matter, but a related [...]

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