Posts Tagged ‘FriiSpray’

We’re pretty excited to get a mention in July’s Wired magazine in a feature on the office of the future.  Leeds is featured alongside London, New York, and Ibitha!

“The office is dead: make way for the freelance collective workspace. Part-time workers and self-employed may be hustling harder than ever, but at least the new wave of membership clubs lets them bounce ideas around and collaborate with like-minded souls”  The benefits of coworking for freelancers and startups are so attractive that more and more of these spaces are springing up. Things have moved on a pace since we first set up the space at Old Broadcasting House in November 2007. Back then things were very quiet and for a while our founding members Imran Ali, Deb Bassett, Simon Edwards, Richard Garside and Richard Hamer had the place to themselves. Now we have thirty five members and the space is buzzing! New products, such as virtual graffiti tool FriiSpray and Cardboard Laptop Stand have emerged as a result of coworker collaborations.

To find out more about our coworking space, call us on 0845 122 1555 or email info@ntileeds.co.uk.

What have I learned at Thinking Digital? There™s a lot here and its only lunchtime on the first day. We arrived yesterday afternoon to attend Thinking Digital University. I got the Techbus up from Old Broadcasting House, which was great fun. This was a seriously well-equipped bus “ wireless, coffee, kitchen with fridge and sink, TV and best of all great company. (more…)

nti Leeds Leia Bassett gives us a report on the first day of thinking digital, attending the ‘Show & Tell: Gadget DIY’ session at Thinking Digital University, sponsored by the Institute of Digital Innovation, hosted by Ian Forrester from BBC Backstage and featuring Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino from Tinker.it, Adrian McEwan from MCQN, Richard Garside, Stuart Childs and Dave Lynch from the Jamjar Collective (Friispray), Andy Huntingdon from Extraversion Interaction & Sound, Ken Banks from FrontlineSMS, Ant Miller from BBC Micro and Johnny Chung Lee - author of the Wiimote Whiteboard Software amongst other things and now working for Microsoft. (more…)

Outpost North’s Chris Martin gave me a glimpse of his journey since exhibiting his work at his final year Innovation North Showcase and some of the outcomes that have come out of being based at Old Broadcasting House coworking space.  (more…)

Check out this press release from Digital 20/20 about our fantastic Innovation Showcase Exhibition on 30th January:

Inventors, sound designers and web creators were just some of the talent that gathered at nti’s recent interactive exhibition to show why coworking is the way forward for the creative and digital industries.

The Innovation Showcase Exhibition gave its members an opportunity to show off their business ideas to potential employers and to show final year university students that working in a supportive environment, surrounded by likeminded creative people can help turn an idea into reality. (more…)