Clients & Projects

Quite simply, I would recommend, and have recommended, Unthinkable as one of the best companies in their field.
David Rogerson, Sound and Music

Over the past few years we've been lucky enough to work with a huge range of talented people across several sectors - including arts, broadcasting, local and central government, healthcare and charity. On this page we display some current and recent clients we're proud to be working with. We've also grouped all of our clients under the different services we offer on the right hand side of this page.

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Barbican Centre, London
Digital strategy definition

We recently completed a project to create a long-term digital strategy for London's world-leading multi-arts venue the Barbican Centre, alongside a brief for a redesigned website. The strategy encompasses all aspects of the Barbican's engagement with digital, from archive capture through innovation across platforms to a consideration of structure and resources (and points between). As usual, our emphasis is on a collaborative approach to developing the ideas needed, bringing our sector expertise to bear through a set of structured engagements with domain experts inside the organisation rather than working things out alone. Our consultation comprised desk research, one to one interviews and a series of workshops.

At the time of writing, we are continuing in an occasional consultancy with the Barbican's Audiences team and are looking to manage the creation of an ontology for the centre's assets and activity.

BBC Knowledge and Learning
Strategic advice on product development

We are currently advising BBC Knowledge and Learning on the development of their product strategy. The scope of our work includes original contextual research in time-based navigation, review of prototype design work around data visualisation and advice on the commissioning of further phases of work. We are delighted to be able to bring together in this project our own interest in digital memory with the BBC's exploration of new models of navigation around time.

BBC Academy
Devising and delivering training courses

Our association with the BBC Academy (previously BBC Training and Development) has continued to be fruitful. Through much of 2011 we developed and delivered Creating Great Digital Experiences, a course focused on how to develop a deeper understanding of audiences beyond the standard demographic data, how to put that knowledge to use when developing an idea and then choosing the best content platform for its realisation. The training combines insightful and wide-ranging presentation with practical exercises that are designed to be useful when back at work with the production team. The course has taken us all around the country to sundry BBC locations: Glasgow, Bristol, Manchester, Evesham and of course London.

UK Trade & Investment

UK Trade & Investment is the government organisation that helps UK-based companies succeed in the global economy and assists overseas companies to bring their high-quality investment to the UK. Sarah advises their Global Entrepreneurs Programme (GEP) on a part-time basis. The GEP team consists of a network of internationally successful entrepreneurs who are able to offer their insight, networks and experience to help accelerate companies into global markets from their UK headquarters. Sarah has also provided advice to Tech City, David Cameron’s flagship project to regenerate East London.

Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network
Metadata & Convergence Theme Champion

Simon had his part-time role with the CI KTN both extended until the spring of 2013 and its remit extended. In addition to his existing "champion" role around metadata – a role which saw Simon spend much time in 2010-11 spreading the word about £10m worth of TSB funding – Simon will be taking on responsibility for the KTN's Convergence Strand.

We were also delighted to have CI KTN join us as co-host of our recent Group Think event on Memory and Data.