Decoded
Founder / Director
This year I have helped launch Decoded, a digital training venture.
The first Decoded Workshop, August 2011
Facilitating the workshops I teach attendees to write code in a day and walk them across the digital divide. The courses offer a complete history of the web, and a snappy breakdown of the code underpinning it, leading to an enhanced understanding of the digital landscape we are all working in today.
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Creative Director
Officially launched in January 2011, Web Devign Ltd. is a digital design agency that creates the online presence of companies, charities and individuals. Notable examples include the recently-launched website of the Kiyan Prince Foundation, committed to ending knife crime, and the new homepage of former Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
In November 2011 our site for David Miliband won the BCS MP Web Award for Best Use of Social Media.
135 City Road, Silicon Roundabout
If you would like to talk to Ali about a web design project, please visit divinewebdesign.com
Only Water Productions
Producer
In May 2010 we won £10, 000 from Deutsche Bank to produce three ten-minute web episodes of a TV comedy drama series called Behind Bars.
On set of Behind Bars, Nottingham, October 2010.
Image © Jo Irvine Photography
In October we filmed on location in Nottingham for five days, working with Anthem Films. For the last six months the films have been in the edit, and we should be seeing final cuts any day now. The next stage involves an online launch and a concerted effort to kickstart some viral spreading. We then go to major broadcasters and pitch to get the full-length series commissioned. Stay tuned.
London Arts Orchestra
Guest Presenter / Actor
The London Arts Orchestra is an ensemble featuring musicians from London’s conservatoires in collaboration with artists, dancers, singers, actors, and dramatists.
David Williams, co-Artistic Director of the LAO.
That’s me clapping in the background
As the compere / resident actor, you will find me reading poetry, performing scenes from plays, becoming Beethoven, Bach or Stravinsky (with a funny Russian accent), or simply welcoming the audience to the concert and telling them where the loos are. The orchestra itself always blows me away, and I consider myself very lucky to be a part of something so magnificent.