Archive for July, 2009

Tickets are on sale now.

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

woo hoo.
Early Bird tickets are now on sale. Get them while they are hot.
Buy tickets here for Playful ‘09, Friday 30th October, Conway Hall, London.
 
Playful is a one-day event all about games and play – in all their manifestations, throughout the contemporary media landscape. It’s a conference for architects, artists, designers, developers, geeks, gurus, gamers, tinkerers, thinkerers, [...]

Hiding & Seeking

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Hot damn. I wish I could go to this…but I’m on holiday, and everyone else is busy. We got this e-mail from Alex Fleetwood last week, so we’ll pass the news on in case you hadn’t heard about it:
“It gives me great pleasure to invite you to the 3rd Hide&Seek Weekender, which is going [...]

Rex Box Rex Box Rex Box

Friday, July 24th, 2009

We can hardly believe our luck. Little Big Planet designer/Knights of Now creator/Mr. Sim animator/filthy marzipan loving Rex Box has remixed the Playful ‘08 graphics (originally created for us by the lovely folk at Poke) ready for Playful ‘09. You can see the first fruits of his efforts in the new website header, and there’ll [...]

Conway Hall = Booked

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Grabbed this photo from Flickr (CC credit to Jim Linwood) where it said, quite rightly, that Conway Hall is “a landmark of London’s intellectual, political and cultural life.”
It’s a fantastic building, and a perfect home for Playful. So we’ve booked it again, for Friday October 30th 2009. The ladies who run it are lovely. Hopefully [...]