Cardon Copy takes underconsidered flyers and posters, (we've all seen them… hand scrawled notes stuck to trees, shop fronts, pinboards) redesigns them and then replaces the originals.

(l-r: @neiltak, @lspurdle, @petetak, @domtak)

We published this on our Twitter feed as it happened last week so Flim Flam is playing catch up this time (lost my camera's USB cable).

Anyway, the news — last Thursday we attended the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) Awards representing our goodselves, BMAG and the wonderful Pre-Raphaelites. We were honored to be shortlisted for the Best Arts & Culture Website category.

The competition was pretty fierce and we really weren't expecting a win; making the shortlist was good enough for us humble folk. So, we were incredibly excited when our name was announced as the winner.

Someone in the crowd yelled "YEAH TAK!!!" as we headed to the stage to collect the award. It's fantastic our project which was up against others ten times the value won. Well done to everyone involved.

The rest of the evening was a blurry drunken mess

 Fresh from the BIMA Awards win in London we arrived back to Birmingham to find an email from Microsoft waiting for us to say that the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery's http://www.preraphaelites.org website is featured on their cutting edge Live Lab's Seadragon showcase.

We'd like to thank Microsoft for all the support they are giving us - the showcase on the Silverlight site sent a whole lot of folks over to the multi-award-winning site and we are hoping that this one will create a lot more fans of Birmingham's stunning Pre-Raphaelite collection in the weeks to come.

Last night played host to this year's Drum Awards for the Digital Industries aka the DADI's.

We're delighted to announce that we came first in the Best Use Of Technical Innovation category for the Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource.

Fantastic stuffs!

Well done to everyone at TAK! for the hard work that went into creating that site and for Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery for trusting us completely throughout. 

The Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource is at it again having been shortlisted for a BETT Award.

 

“The BETT Awards is an annual scheme that highlights exemplar digital products intended for the education marketplace.  The BETT Awards is produced by Emap Connect, the organisers of the largest educational technology show in the world – BETT.  The BETT Awards is made possible by working in association with Becta, the Government's lead agency for ICT in education, and BESA, the trade association representing the educational supply industry.

The BETT Awards define exemplar products as those which are fit for imitation, or a model. The awards also recognise outstanding education sector products and learning solutions. Judges review the entries based on these criteria, including design, cost-effectiveness, support of higher order skills and effective learning and teaching styles. For the technical evaluation, focus is on the robustness and resilience of each product, and its accessibility for those with specific needs.”

 

We're delighted to be shortlisted for such a prestigous award. The Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource was primarily designed for use in education and offers a suite of tools for use by students and tutors alike; from a unique search engine to in-depth .

This is the 5th time the site has been shortlisted in as many submissions and confirms our aspiration to produce innovative work within the arts, education & cultural sectors.

 

It would seem Rabbit Boy has been busy after all (see post below). Jimmy Alpha Channels presents a collection of doodles, sketches and scribbles of work in progress. And other stuffs. Fandabby.

We are always looking into ways we can improve the performance of our sites.

Recently I stumbled upon an open source project... Combres (Client-side resource combine library).

".NET library which enables minification, compression, combination, and caching of JavaScript and CSS resources for ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC web applications. Simply put, it helps your applications rank better with YSlow and PageSpeed."

Heres the link... http://combres.codeplex.com/

Courtest of the always on point Rabbit Boy who hasn't updated his site in agessss.

I've always been fascinated with the Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations, especially the artwork. This collection from my new favourite website is pretty wild.