Student from Huddersfield joins Apollo

We'd like to welcome Andy to the Apollo team, who will be joining us for the year from the University of Huddersfield. He is currently studying on the BSc Music Technology and Audio Systems course.

Andy will be working on a number of different projects, including a software development toolkit (SDK) for the Apollo Ensemble and new foley sounds for our copyright free sound library.

New student joins Apollo for work experience

This week we welcome Tess from St. Aidan's School on work experience. We hope she'll enjoy getting to grips with the Apollo Ensemble in our demo room and producing some resources.

Student wins big!

Earlier I told you about a student from King James's School in Knaresborough who designed a triangular bubble wall as a tabletop show-piece. Well since then he has gone on to win several awards for his design.

Charlie visited Apollo Creative many times during the design and construction of his piece in order to use our knowledge of building and customising bubble walls.

His first award came at the Engineering Inspirations event held at Yorkshire Air Museum where he won the Product Design award for Key Stage 5.

Yesterday he also won twice at the Big Bang Fair held at York Minster. As a result of winning here he gets to travel down to London to compete in the National finals. Good luck!

Student samples work experience at Apollo

This week we have had a student from a local school on work experience. A year 10 student from The Forest School, has been using his interest in art to help design a new company logo, product posters and graphics for the Apollo Ensemble software.

He produced some great paintings which we will be using with the Ensemble software as background images for two of our ready made themes, 'jungle' and 'under the sea'.

In between all his other jobs this week he managed to create a Christmas card for us, stay tuned for yours!

A triangular bubble wall?

Earlier this year we worked with a student from King James's School to help design a triangular bubble wall as a concept and also build a working prototype.

The product was designed to fit on a table top as a corporate showpiece. It includes the air pump and the lights in a small compartment and was seen as a smaller, more affordable bubble wall.

Various changes were made to the original design (top right) as issues were encountered, such as the removal of one triangle to save space, but the final product looks great. The movement of the air bubbles was interesting, something which we hadn't expected!

News: "All that matters..." is gardening!

The Malvern Spring Gardening Show opened today, with a Show Garden designed by Lindsay Warwick featuring Apollo Creative bubble tubes.

Lindsay is a graduate landscape designer who was shortlisted for the Chris Beardshaw Scholarship. 'Atom' is the theme for this years scholarship gardens, celebrating the UNESCO year of Chemistry. 'Chemistry ... all that matters' is Lindsay's interpretation of this theme, as she explains in her brief for the design:

"Chemistry ... all that matters showcases some of the elements we might associate with science. A blend of art and education, the garden pays tribute to the test tube rack and dusty chalk boards that were features of chemistry lessons for so many of us."

"An iconic atom sculpture stands adjacent to a circular pond. Rivers of meandering electrons flow, winding their way through space and weaving around the base of the test tube feature that bubbles proudly away at the back of the garden."

Lyndsay received an RHS Bronze Award for her efforts, as well as having a great deal of public interest in her design.

You can read about the preparation for the event on the Apollo Projects Blog.

Chemistry ... all that matters is complete!

The Malvern Spring Gardening Show opened today and we travelled down to have a look at Lindsay's finished garden. The results were great, with food dye the bubble tubes really turned into test tubes. Lindsay won a bronze medal from the Royal Horticultural Society and attracted a lot of attention from the public, especially after encouraging people to write their own messages on the reverse of the blackboards.

The show is on until Sunday, be sure to get down if you can.