magneticNorth are looking for a super talented Flash Actionscripter available for a pretty much immediate start, working on lovely stuff in a lovely environment in Manchester, UK.
We’re looking for someone who loves nothing better than coding in as2 and as3 and relishes the opportunity to do things that some people might say are impossible. […]

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A very happy new year to everyone. 2007 is already shaping up to be a very busy year, not least on the speaking side of things; February sees me going to Seattle having been very kindly asked to speak at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, then in March it’s off to SxSW(my first time) in Austin […]

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Meanwhile at mN. We’ve been hard at work on our lovely new site which will be going live pretty soon. But in the interim we’ve just put up a little trailer type thing to wet your appetite. The new site will give people a sneak peek into the process at mN (and no it […]

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magneticNorth are currently on the look out for a top Flash ActionScript guru. You need to be into ActionScript 2.0 in a big way, be the daddy when it comes to getting all kinds of data into Flash, have experience in making games and also have some knowledge of PHP and other such technologies that […]

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Tuesday saw the first public preview of magneticNorth’s SPIN project - vinyl being used as a control device for digital media. As part of the Diffraction event at FACT, Manchester’s GKUT performed a 15 minute set using the tools we’ve been creating together as part of the FACT funded project. Wanna see? Check out […]

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mN recently finished a project for Manchester Metropolitan University - a virtual tour of all the campuses, filmed from a first person perspective.
We’re pretty damn proud of this one from several points of view, but mainly because we decided the video should be super large, instead of the standard 320 x 240. By putting […]

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mN is looking for talent. As Creative Director I’m looking for amazing interactive designers. I’m not looking for people who think that’s just about creating crap animations in Flash. I’m not looking for people who spend their days surfing design portals and copying other work. You can all just f**k off. I want people who […]

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It’s been almost a month since my last post mainly because things are just mad crazy busy at mN - but then that’s a really good thing.
One of the things we’ve been working on is a small pet project that we’ve had on the back burner since the end of last year. Well we […]

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The Autumn issue of Born Magazine features a project by magneticNorth called Crushed Under Sodium Lights - a typographical, sonic journey around Manchester city centre at night.
The new November issue of Macformat features a little Flash MX video tutorial I’ve put together with some cool bits on how to use code to make dynamic in […]

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