TheTin Limited | Digital Consultancy
Here you can get to know each of us a little bit better through an eccentric collection of books, films, websites, sports, alcoholic tipples and other leisure pursuits that gives TheTin its special culture.
How we got here
2001
TheTin was formed in a haze of drunken megalomania right in the middle of the dot com crash.
2002
TheTin got real with the entrance of Wes Hinckes as Technical Director & Sajida as Studio Manager.
2003
TheTin moves to its spiritual home (Clerkenwell) and into the basement of a Dickensian workhouse.
2004
We can't remember 2004...
2005
TheTin continues to grow and relocates around the corner to Hatton Wall.
2006-2009
Enjoyable years in the place that we feel happiest, Hatton Wall, new people have come and gone but the team grows stronger with every change. Pop in for a cup of coffee and see for yourself!
Our team
Best moment at TheTin so far? "Got to be filming Ronnie Wood in an imaginary caravan in a big green screen studio".
Favourite thing about Clerkenwell is: "It's character - it's an original London trade centre and it feels like it - The One Tun, our local, is set in Saffron Hill where Oliver Twist was located and Charles Dickens used to drink".
Favourite piece of design include: "Aston Martin DB5, Technics 1210's, my Spring copper saucepan".
Currently on the decks are: "Skatalites and J Dilla but always subject to change"
Most admired figure: Hunter S.
If Tim won £10 million he'd put on the mother of all music festivals on Streatham Common, "The Stones, Primal Scream and Alabama 3 would take the headline slots”
One of Tim's favourite places in Clerkenwell is the One Tun public house:
"Dave and Caroline, the proprietors have been with us since the beginning.
Dave's Karaoke Night on Fridays is the perfect remedy to a full on week"
Reading list is Americana flavoured including: On the Road by Kerouac, In Cold Blood by Capote and A Cricket in Times Square by Selden.
If Sajida won £10 million she'd: "follow the sun all year round and work towards Juvenile Arthritis Awareness"
To keep inspired Sajida checks out her atlas from time to time, "trying to work out where I'd like to live out the rest of my life!"
Best moment at TheTin so far was "our first official Christmas Party fuelled by copious bottles of Veuve Clicquot"
Ali is a self-confessed culture vulture who can usually be found somewhere on or near the South Bank. She is particularly partial to indie films and conceptual art.
On sunny days, Ali loves nothing more than getting lost in the backstreets of London with her mountain bike, Maud - "I like the feeling of not knowing quite where I am in a city I am so familiar with - it reminds me to look at London and remember how much I love it here"
Favourite books: 'catch 22 ' by Joseph Heller and 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy.
Shaggy doesn't like to talk about himself...but we all revere him as a god.
Partial to: The color black and science fiction, particularly futurist dystopias.
Inspiration comes from: feeding his information habit by reading the New Scientist and as many newspapers and websites as possible.
Reading list includes: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, Martian Timeslip by Philip K Dick, Insomnia by Steven King and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J K Rowling.
Favourite band: Marillion
David's favourite things include: Pinball table, Twin Peaks (David Lynch in general) and of course Elvis.
Not a big reader, Dave prefers collecting spirits over books: "I do have quite a good spirits collection that I'm trying to grow, but for some reason it keeps getting smaller?!"
"I really love a good TV detective, and am currently enjoying a fine Monk DVD box set, but always fall back to the best... Columbo."
Besides his undying love for colours, real coffee and his baseball cap Landry's a fan of DreamWorks masterpieces 'The Prince of Egypt' and 'Over the Hedge'
Props go out to Molly Holzschlag, Jeffrey Zeldman and of course, Eric A Meyer for pioneering the best practice of CSS and HTML and XHTML.
Most wonderful work of art is the Mona Lisa at Musée du Louvre... he's seen her smile!
Best day out was TheTin's trip to Newmarket races.
Jason’s passion is design – give him an interesting challenge and he’ll be happy for hours. Particularly if drawing twisted characters is involved in some way!
When the time is not right for creating, Jason can be found pounding the hell out of a drum kit, or partaking in some hardcore gaming. Wii or 360, depending on his mood.