Paul Fillingham Digital Consultant
Thinkamigo Awards
Thinkamigo Partners

Selected Blog Posts

A vinyl record, art students talking in a studio and the author holding up a record sleeve

Leeds, Loud and Lonely

Pop goes the Heritage Media Format

‘The Art School Dance Goes On: Leeds Post-Punk 1977-84’ double album released Aug 2023. Digital Consultant and former Leeds Poly Fine Art student Paul Fillingham reflects on a past life in pop.

(20 minute read)

Comic art by Gary Erskine with embedded timeline design by Paul Fillingham

Madge World

A peek behind the panels

The Guardian Award winning digital comic Dawn of the Unread has hundreds of media clips and essays that were absent from the printed anthology. We revive an embedded timeline for rebel writer Margaret Cavendish ‘Mad Madge’.

(5-minute read)

Sons and Lovers Poster

A Trail for Sons & Lovers

MyTrail – Making heritage digital

The annual D.H. Lawrence literary festival was an opportunity to launch MyTrail.co.uk the new cultural heritage digital trail platform from Thinkamigo.

(5 minute read)

Book cover of Mine-craft the Prequel showing coal miners captured on different types of photographic media

Mine-craft the Prequel

Plate to Pixel: The infinite shoebox

Research collaboration with Nottingham Trent University and The Coal Authority attempts to reconcile metadata with historic images spanning 200 years.  This excerpt looks at successive media formats from glass plates to digital cameras, and speculates on the impact of AI technology.

(10 minute read)

Illustration of a QR code displayed on a mobile phone against an abstract depiction of a crowd of people

Who do you think-QR?

Opportunity knocks for the humble QR code

Social distancing during the COVID pandemic saw a renaissance in the use of contactless QR (Quick Response) codes with mobile phones. This article looks at the history of the technology and selected QR projects from the Thinkamigo portfolio.

(5-minute read)

Comic art panel depicting a young Eastern European woman holding a union flag umbrella in the rain

Whatever people say I am

Sequel to The Guardian award-winning‘Dawn of the Unread’

The fourth digital comic in the Whatever… series represents the first time James Walker and Paul Fillingham have worked together as writer and comic book artist.

(2 minute read)

Digital Services

Financial Services Shoreditch

User research, service design

Government, corporate and financial services

Underground video and images

Digital archives, arts, heritage

Academic research collaboration

Digital Lit on BBC News

Digital comics, stories, trails

Award winning learning experiences

Research and design clients

Contact

Paul Fillingham Digital Consultant - James Prior House, 2 Main Street, Blidworth, Nottinghamshire NG21 0PZ United Kingdom