The Harrods Magazine for iPad is the digitally enhanced experience of the physical Harrods magazine, which in print currently goes out to over 120 thousand of their customers around the world.

Our brief was create a digital magazine that their customers in the UK and overseas would love, whilst retaining the exclusive and glossy feel of one of the world’s best known luxury brands. We were also eager to make it not just pretty, but useful, so that readers return each month.

The result is a luxurious feeling digital experience squarely aimed at the Harrods’ international audience. Each edition is filled with fashion, beauty and interior design news, features and behind the scenes videos from the Harrods editorial team. Each feature starts as one page, but as you scroll down, more content is revealed.

The 65-page first issue also has a uniquely interactive beauty feature where you can test combinations of different makeup styles and shades on a model. Readers can then save their favourite product combinations to a wishlist. Now, you can’t do that with a print magazine!

We also built an accompanying website for the Harrods Magazine, hosting a selection of the magazine’s contents online.

Within its launch month the Harrods Magazine for iPad has been downloaded more than 9,500 times.

The Harrods Magazine for iPad is our third iPad magazine project, our first being the NET A PORTER iPad magazine and the second being the Vogue UK iPad magazine.

And that’s not all: in the coming weeks, we will be announcing another major update to the Heart of Faerie app that we know everyone will be very happy with so download the Heart of Faerie app NOW.

The Sound House is the culmination of a six month programme of work led by Wigmore Hall Learning. Inspired by the history, artists, audience and daily life at Wigmore Hall, this interactive site aims to capture the essence of the concert hall and explore the spaces and sounds of the building. The project has been led by Sound Artist Duncan Chapman, supported by Rus Pearson at Wigmore Hall and involved young people from Pimlico Academy. The site will be used to introduce participants on Wigmore Hall’s future schools’ projects and those attending concerts to Wigmore Hall as a venue. The Learning team are looking at developing an accompanying resource to help teachers use it in the classroom to explore sound and space.

http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/soundhouse

We’re really proud to announce the launch of the brand new 2ManyDJs project “Radio Soulwax”. At the core of the project is an online radio station that broadcasts a series of 1 hour mixes with accompanying video. Why an internet radio station you may ask, David Dewaele from the band sums it up – “To have 200 tracks in an hour, to clear them, it’s impossible,” he said. “So by doing it with a radio license we bypass that problem and it’s free for everyone.”

Radio Soulwax is a fully cross-platform project, with a website, a Facebook app and native mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. The website is a real mashup, taking official and fan feeds from Flickr, YouTube and Vimeo and mixing them all together into widgets that can be taken and shared on other sites.

The iPhone, iPad and Android apps all revolve around the core of Radio Soulwax and allow the videos to be streamed from the internet. David and Stef from 2ManyDJs are big fans of Apple so wanted to give iPhone and iPad users something more, so we’ve built in a downloading mechanism so that shows can be downloaded and played offline.

Check out the Radio Soulwax website here and the android and iOS version by clicking on the badges below.

Papa is nominated for an “Audio Accomplishment” award at the Develop awards, a prestigious award ceremony for the computer games industry. The award ceremony is on 20th July in Brighton, so we’ll be heading down to grab some fish and chips and if we’re fortunate a gong.

E3 is probably the biggest computer games conference, and where the big players in the computer games industry announce their latest consoles and games and IndieCade is, in their own words, “Dedicated to bringing together the freshest, most innovative and creative minds and works in independent game design.”. So we’re more that delighted that Papa Sangre is currently being showcased as part of the IndieCade space within E3.

On top of all of that there are plans afoot to take the Papa engine to the next level, so that all of you lovely people out there can take advantage of it. Check out this lovely video for more information:

Taking the concept of a girls smile being her best asset as the starting place, players help the female star of the game to get a date by removing unwanted accessories from her and dropping them into the bin.

Play the game here.