Omniversity of Manchester

We’re excited to announce a new Omniversity course, WordPress for Beginners, run by  Mike Little – the co-founder of  WordPress. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of  Alexa Internet’s “top 1 million” websites and manages a quarter of all new websites. It’s currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet, with 75 million WordPress sites in [...]

We are excited to be featured in the Manchester Evening News about the HTML music video created by @mariaprohyena. This video promoting the Web Design Foundations Course taught by Chris Mills has gained an impressive amount of attention, including some remixes. We are happy to see MadLab’s fame as a place for realising ideas, however crazy they are, [...]

When we made a music video to promote the Web Design Foundations course run by Chris Mills , we never expected to have such positive feedback. Lately some remixes of Sam’s ( @samscam) original song have started to pop up and we would like to share them with you. What are you waiting for, start creating your own space on [...]

Elliot Woods and Omniversity joined forces for the second time to run the VVVV + MapTools : introduction to the tools of projection mapping course in March 2012. We’re looking forward to seeing what type of projects attendees will create with their newly gained skills! We’ve already had news from Stuart at the The Neighbourhood . He’s created a Cubic Light [...]

Omniversity is running the four part web design foundations course for the second time this spring. To get you interested, we decided to have a bit of fun with it and created a music video about HTML. The video was made by MadLab’s loyal filmmaker @mariaprohyena, big thanks to @samscam for the music @DeShannon for the choreography and [...]

Omniversity always aims to keep up with what is new and relevant and offers a beginners and an advanced course on  Arduino in March. ‘Physical Computing’ and Arduino devices have made physical interaction affordable and available to non-experts. Whether creating interactive installations, information systems, prototyping products, or making new interfaces, there is a whole world of [...]

Omniversity’s Short Story Writing Workshops have proven to be a success. This was the second time we ran the course and hopefully there will also be a third. Writers learned about structuring and editing their stories, but also how to communicate with the publishers. For many it seemed to be a great motivation to take [...]