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Collaborating to beat cancer

Written by Liberty Avenues on May 10, 2012 · 1 Comment

Next weekend, a bunch of fifty digital do-gooders will be gathering at the Science Museum, and collaborating to beat cancer. There will be web developers, citizen scientists, Facebook developers, mobile developers, cancer scientists, anthropologists, game developers, digital UI/UE designers, animators, producers, strategists, communicators, gaming and social web experts…

And I’m so, so, SO excited that I’ll be one of them.

We’ll be working together to develop a simple but addictive game that could unlock research bottlenecks, tackle meaningful research challenges and enable hundreds of thousands of supporters in the UK to help beat cancer.

Our challenge is to spend 48 hours creating an amazing app that will ‘analyse real data, from real cancer patients, leading to real results and real breakthroughs in the development of personalised medicine.’ Organised by the clever people at Good for Nothing, Cancer Research UK and the Citizen Science Alliance, the idea is that ‘By analysing data faster, we can get knowledge to doctors faster, and they in turn can treat people more successfully. Put simply, playing this game really could save lives.’

For more details, check out Good for Nothing, the social mission that ‘brings smart folk together to do some good for nothing’.

This is digital at its very best. I’ll be there for Caitlyn.

More web design fun

Written by Liberty Avenues on May 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Last month I was lucky enough to create a new website for the lovely Sarah Markopoulos. A mosaic and glass artist, Sarah also works with community groups, in schools, and as an art therapist in health settings. (Sound familiar?*) Sarah wanted a site that was simple but special, with a [...] More...

How to start a creative blog… and love it

Written by Liberty Avenues on February 26, 2012 · 7 Comments

If you’re running a creative business, you’ve no doubt heard that you should be writing a blog. But you’d be amazed how often I hear, ‘I just don’t know that blogging is really me‘. Here’s how the conversation went with a lovely client last week: Lovely Client: But I don’t [...] More...

How many uses can you think of for a paperclip?

Written by Liberty Avenues on January 30, 2012 · 1 Comment

Another bit of video inspiration here – ‘Changing Education Paradigms’ by the wildly inspiring Sir Ken Robinson, author of The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything and an international advisor on education in the arts. He gave this talk for the RSA, (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures [...] More...

The most important possible thing you can do

Written by Liberty Avenues on January 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This is a great little video. Clever, clever words for anyone in the early years of their creative journey. Credit for the wise words goes to none other than Ira Glass. The kinetic typography was created by David Shiyang Liu as part of last year’s 30 Days of Creativity, a [...] More...