Archive for the “Creative” category

My letter to John Hutton MP about the Digital Economy Bill

by Phil Powell on April 8, 2010

Dear Mr Hutton, I’m writing to you as someone who has taken a keen interest in the progress of the Digital Economy Bill as it has made it’s (hurried) way through Parliament. As a constituent who has worked in the digital creative industries for many years, and as someone who is building a creative business (…)

Find One Thing

by Phil Powell on March 21, 2010

I started a little side-project recently: Find One Thing. It’s nothing amazing, nothing ground-breaking: a little conduit for motivating myself to be a little more creative. The premise is simple: I’m trying to find one thing to record every day. It could be a photograph, a video, some words to express an idea, things I’ve (…)

Getting hot under the collar

by Phil Powell on June 18, 2009

I was really excited to see the launch of Fever yesterday – a new web-based application from the uber-talented Shaun Inman.

Let me start by saying that this is neither a critique of Shaun or his new app. Shaun is both a very talented web designer and an innovative developer, and his work is held in high regard – and rightly so. Fever looks like a really great app which looks to be a beautifully conceived idea which opens up all sorts of new ideas.

Announcing North 2009

by Phil Powell on January 19, 2009

We just launched an exciting new initiative called North. It’s going to be a creative conference taking place in South Cumbria this coming Summer, and we have some really great plans for it.