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August 3rd, Illumina Scotland open for business

Illumina Digital has opened a new office in Glasgow to grow new business in the public, broadcasting and commercial sectors in Scotland and the North of England. Claire Scally joins the team as the Head of Illumina Scotland and we are currently recruiting project managers and developers to work with us on an exciting range of projects.

July 8th, NHS Local launched by Health Secetary, Andrew Langsley

NHS Local brings together local (West Midlands) health news, information, services and support from across the NHS and from other trusted organisations and individuals. It aims to connect citizens and staff to the best available online resources and, importantly, to each other. Illumina is the design and development partner in a consortium led by Maverick TV.

www.nhslocal.nhs.uk

May 14, Get your hands on London's history with London Recut

London Recut is an exciting new film initiative and competition open to everyone. Using Illumina's online editing tool eseq, users can produce a short film responding to life in London today. Films submitted are entered into a competition with the winning film displayed on the big screen at the Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival.

Download the press release

www.londonrecut.co.uk/

April 29, Backing Young Britain goes live

Illumina Digital designed and built the website to support the cross-departmental government campaign 'Backing Young Britain Mentoring' for Nord Anglia Education. The site provides information for a range of audiences, plus online training activities for mentors who have signed up to the scheme, and a number of videos to provide additional information and encourage participation.

www.backingyoungbritain-mentoring.co.uk

April 26, Science of Scams is nominated for a BAFTA

Science of Scams has been nominated for a BAFTA Award for Interactive Creative Contribution. The awards are to be held on Sunday 23rd May. Illumina Digital created Science of Scams with Objective Productions for Channel 4.

March 12, On Top of the Digital World 2

Transmission date: 05.00 BBC2 Tuesday 16th March

This is the second series of films about digital media literacy aimed at young people between 11 and 16 to be commissioned from Illumina Digital by BBC Learning. This series of nine short films focuses on the challenges, rewards and dangers of young people interacting with the digital world.

February 11, CopyK@tz Beware!

'CopyK@tz Beware!' is a fifteen minute animation produced by Illumina Digital for BBC Learning as part of the BBC's contribution to Safer Internet Week.

See 'CopyK@tz Beware!' on the BBC Learning Zone Broadband Class Clips site.

And check out the AlleyK@tz' music video 'Pay for What You Play' on YouTube.

December 15, Illumina's Santa's Sleigh game

Get into the Christmas spirit with Illumina's Santa's Sleigh game. The best scores appear on our twitter leaderboard.

Play the game

December 11, BBC College of Journalism

Illumina designed the newly launched BBC College of Journalism website. Working alongside the College of Journalism team at the BBC, Illumina devised the information architecture for the site and created a sophisticated and striking design that would appeal to journalists, institutions and the general public alike. We also created a CMS based on the Movable Type platform.

www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/

November 5, BBC Raw Numbers Goes Live

BBC Raw is the BBC's adult education site supporting and helping adult learners develop skills for everyday life. Illumina produced the video content and built the shell to meet all current BBC accessibility guidelines. Raw Numbers follows on from our work on the Raw Home page with Phil Tuffnell, creating a welcoming environment for users who may be new to the internet and to learning.

www.bbc.co.uk/raw/numbers/

October 19, The BIMA Shortlist

Illumina get nominations in 2 categories: CBBC Mashup for Online Web Applications, and WebQuests for Arts and Culture. The awards will be announced on November 19th.

October 16, BBC Media Literacy goes live

Media literacy is the BBC's first 'supertopic', a portal to the wealth of content across the BBC that supports web users in understanding, using and creating media. Illumina designed and built these 'beta' pages which showcase a range of content, including three video clips from On Top of the Digital World, the media literacy series produced by Illumina for BBC Learning Zone Broadband Class Clips. The BBC plan to use feedback on these pages to help develop the supertopic next year.

www.bbc.co.uk/medialiteracy/

October 8, New Quizmania Shows

Our Partners, Fremantle, have been in production with a series of new Quizmania shows to test our new PuzzleVision Platform. Go to www.quizmania.tv, register and find out the transmission time for the forthcoming episodes.

October 5, Science of Scams: Have you been Scammed?

We've been working with Channel 4, Derren Brown and Objective to release 7 hoax videos which appear to show paranormal phenomena. In fact they're all based on real scientific principles and there's nothing paranormal about them at all. Over the past few months this hoax footage has been posted all over the internet in an attempt to find out if people would accept the footage as genuine or question it to try to discover the real truth.

www.scienceofscams.com

October 1, Sun Quiz Live, erm, Goes Live!

Sun Quiz Live is a ground breaking new online quiz show that combines live broadcast TV with a multiplayer quiz platform and a micro payment system. We've been working over the last year to develop the platform and we're delighted we've been able to launch with the SUN.

www.sunquizlive.co.uk

Also see:
Media Week
Media Guardian
Le Figaro
C21

September 22, Illumina brings back the 70s!

... and the 80s and the 90s with the launch of the Electric Dreams website. The website has been developed to accompany the Wall to Wall TV series coming to BBC four on September 29th . Electric Dreams explores how the technological revolution of the 1970s, 80s and 90s has transformed Britain's homes and all our lives. One of the big features of the website is the 'time tunnel' featuring fun objects from the 70s, 80s and 90s alongside curious facts, archive footage and quiz questions. Delve deep into our catalogue of nostalgia and remember the hissing Teasmades, beeping Tamagotchis and fizzing Soda Streams. We'll always be together... together in electric dreams...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/electricdreams/