Base Creative Agency | 2012 Recommended Digital Agency (RAR+) | Bournemouth

Science vs the Magic Black Box

Magic is science that you don’t understand. I love science and I love understanding things.

Design in context: a short presentation

Innovate Consolidate – Who, Where, Why, What…

Here’s a short briefing I did at AUCB last week to about 60ish 2nd years. It was put together really quickly but thought I’d share here.

Get up, Stand up – a lesson from agile

At Base we work on several projects at once and as project manager it’s my role to know exactly where each project stands in terms of its design/development life-cycle. As the team has grown, we’ve needed to introduce ways to keep communication levels high internally.

We’re hiring! Junior Designer

Weʼre looking for a Junior Designer to join our team in Bournemouth. Someone with a great personal portfolio and looking for a chance to grow in a lively studio.

Junior Developer Internship 2012/13 – application open

ready for the best 42 weeks of your life?

We’ve started the hunt for a new intern to replace the one we’ve grown to love.

If this sounds like you then get in touch, send us some links to your work too.

Testing, testing; A look at Selenium (& our top tips) – Part 2

If you want to catch up on part 1, it’s available here.

Tips and Tricks

Over the course of our Selenium testing, we’ve discovered a thing or two.

Testing, testing; A look at Selenium (& it’s commands) – Part 1

Every web developer knows that testing for and fixing bugs is a crucial component of any successful project. Hours spent searching every nook and cranny of the functionality is often required to ensure that when you go live nothing is overlooked.

Dalton Ghetti’s Alphabet

A couple of weeks ago I tweeted about this beautiful piece of work by Dalton Ghetti entitled ‘Alphabet’. This stunning example of his work is featuring in the ‘Power of Making’ exhibition at the V&A.

Some things I learnt about email marketing by having a baby

When we found out we were pregnant last year Em signed us both up for a weekly baby email with a site called BabyCentre. If you’re not at the kid stage of your life yet or you have no intention, you may just cringe at the idea – I know I would’ve done before.

Hoo should be using Hootsuite?

Every day there’s a new application and few markets are as populated as the social networking arena. Tools that provide phone and desktop users with access to their Twitter, Facebook and other social accounts, are all vying for our attention by adding useful and hard-to-live-without features.