Tag : Made by Many

The clock's have gone back, the nights are drawing in, the mince pies are on the shelves and Movember is here again. Yes, that time of the year when men all around the UK and the rest of the world sprout hair on their top lips in aid of raising funds and awareness for men's health - specifically prostate and testicular cancer.

Photo kindly taken by Charlotte

We were five years old at the weekend, which seems like a good moment to pause and look back at what we've learnt.

UPDATE: This position has now been filled.

Made by Many are looking for a interaction designer to intern with us over the summer for three months.

We're looking for someone's who graduating or taking a year out for work experience. Whilst it is a paid placement, we're not looking for someone to help out with our work. You'll be here to create something new.

We'll be teaming you up with a developer intern to build a new product, application and/or service. The two of you will be jointly responsible for coming up with an idea and then making it real. We're hoping you're going to create something exciting, transformational, a marriage of creativity and technology, maybe something that makes us see the world in a new way... Everything is up for grabs, the only limit is time.

You'll be involved at every stage, from workshops and idea creation to prototyping and high-fidelity designs. We see design as a mix of thinking, collaborating and learning - being comfortable explaining your work and visualising your ideas using pen and paper is just as important (if not more so) as being able to use Photoshop and Illustrator.

Above all, this job requires a passion for combining design and technology. If this sounds like your thing, send an email to tomh@madebymany.co.uk. Tell us about yourself, show us your portfolio and convince us why you are right for the job. Please keep it short and to the point. No recruiters.

A guest blog by Robin Pembrooke, Managing Director online and on demand at ITV

A little over a year ago we kicked off the design process for our project to re-conceive and launch a brand new ITV News offering online. I'm writing on budget day 2012 and as we speak the product is up and running http://www.itv.com/news/, and being used by journalists around the country as the nation discovers what’s in store for the financial year ahead.

A combined team has delivered the project from Made by Many, ITV and ITN. Before we began there was much discussion internally about how much effort we should be putting into news online. Given the dominance of the BBC in the UK, the massive resources that the newspaper groups throw at it, and the general difficulty that everyone has in making money from online news, why would we bother?

On the left, a shot taken from the Home Page; on the right, the simple drag-and-drop Admin tool that was created for the newsroom. 

For the past ten months Made by Many has been working with ITV and ITN to transform ITV News into a multichannel news service by adding online, mobile and connected TV to broadcast television. Leading on a live news feed, the first web, mobile and tablet releases of a radically different digital news service went live on Monday 19th March. This is the story.  

At the end of last year the nice folks over at Computer Arts filmed us for their Studio Life series and featured us in the magazine.

Many thanks to @pauljwyatt his team and @ComputerArts

This week, we welcomed Will Roissetter to the Many. Being such a fresh addition, he's yet to be given an avatar. So while we wait to put a face to a name on the blog, we thought we'd ask him to introduce himself to you in his own words. 

Last week, we had our first ever summer party in our lovely new premises by the canal. People came, ate the awesome BBQ food that Oli was patiently and artfully serving up, drank, danced - in short, they partied. Lots of people said they loved our new home - some probably almost as much as we do. Marawa the Amazing provided some excellent hula-hooping entertainment - you can check her performance out here.  

Here's a video with some photos - in reverse chronological order (why not!).

This week, the Many got an addition to the ranks in the form of Leila Johnston, who does an amazing range of things, right from being a published author to writing for Wired UK and being the founder of the Hackers! newspaper. We’re super-happy to have her with us. I sat down with her for a bit to see what makes her tick, and what she’s looking forward to at Made by Many.  Here goes:

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What’s your favourite book?

I have many: Corvus by Esther Woolfson, Digital Retro by Gordon Laing, Room by Emma Donoghue, and both of Cath O'Flynn's  gorgeous novels.

Several weeks ago Nicki Sprinz aka @sprinzette– new to The Many and as yet sans avatar – posted her thoughts on Lean with a little intro from Justin. Now it's my turn to host!

.... and over to Nicki:

"Six weeks in and what have I learnt? A lot. And it's been fun too. Here's my take on how ideas are born at Made by Many: