Monday 7 April 2003
For immediate release
Press release # 030407-vf
Local team collaborates to create Brighton and Hove Virtual Festival
Web site
A group of Brighton and Hove-based Web professionals have collaborated
to design and build the Web site for the sixth annual Virtual Festival
(www.virtualfestival.org.uk).
The Virtual Festival is coordinated by Mark Walker of the Sussex
Community Internet Project (SCIP) and runs in parallel to the Brighton
Festival throughout May 2003. This year a new logo and brand identity
was created by designer Nigel Gordijk, who also produced the advertising
and marketing collateral.
Web site technical development is by Brighton's Jane Dallaway and
Richard Dallaway. The site has an innovative feature - created by
Matt Walker - that allows people to contribute to a daily diary
using SMS text messages from mobile phones, images sent from picture
phones, or direct from the site itself.
Amongst the Virtual Festival's other features are:
Live Webcams: regularly updated views of Brighton and Hove.
Weblogs: Brighton Blogs by local residents.
Annual Web Awards: nominated and voted for by Brighton and Hove
residents.
The Festival committee is: Mark Walker, Richard Dallaway, Jane
Dallaway, Nigel Gordijk, Helen Goss, Tom Hume, Johanna Hunt, Ann
Light, Sophie Major, Belinda Nash and Matthew Walker.
This year it is supported by: thisisbrightonandhove.co.uk, The
Argus, Sussex Enterprise, Virtual Brighton & Hove, Midnight
Communications, Brighton Young People's Centre, Brunswick Older
People's Project, The Big Issue, Brighton and Hove City Council,
and O'Reilly Books.
About Common Sense Design's Nigel Gordijk
Nigel Gordijk is an accomplished, independent Web consultant with 20 years
of design industry experience. His client list includes BP, Royal Shakespeare
Company, Honda, Primus Telecommunications, and No 10 Downing Street (UK Prime
Minister). He has also designed sites for New Hamburg Firebirds, The New Hamburg Harry Potter Festival, Kitchener Waterloo Habilitation Services
and Waterloo florist, Lilies White.
Nigel is one of the co-founders of Creative
Latitude, a worldwide network of creative professionals that promotes ethical
business practices within the design industry.
