Although a little later than originally planned, Iteration 3 of the Mint site is now live.

This update brings in a new visual style. We updated typography and tweaked the colours a little, then styled all the pages in line with this. You'll notice it's a little basic at places, but this is our first take and I'm sure the style will change as we bring in more content.

I've also started documenting the iterations over at Flickr, if you wanted to see how the site is changing.

The hardest person to design for is yourself. All intuition disappears and you over question every decision.

That's a familiar tale, I'm sure, to any digital company that ever embarked on redesigning their website. For ages, we too have been suffering from this. In the drive for perfection, it's easy to end up not doing anything. So, we decided to do something.

For the second year running, we hosted four graduates for three months at Mint under Foundry, our graduate scheme. This year, their brief was 'Make a toy that has a reason to exist.' What they ended up making is, well, insane.

A couple of months ago, we excitedly announced the return of Foundry for 2012. Following a call for applications, we took over one of the shipping containers at Boxpark and invited our shortlist down to a day long workshop, as part of Uncontained.

The workshop was lots of fun and the selection process tough, but it now gives me great pleasure to introduce you to the team following the footsteps of Foundry 2011 and Olly. In their own words, they are…

We are delighted to announce Sexperience came away as the winner for 'Best Website' at last night's Broadcast Digital Awards.

We have been working on Sexperience with Channel 4 for the last four years, improving it year on year. In this refresh, we concentrated on unifying the areas of the site under topics most relevant to teenagers. We also made waves with Sexperience 1000, an interactive data visualiser around sex we realised with the help of our partners Lingobee.

Thanks to the Mints who all worked very hard on Sexperience, thanks to Endemol for their contributions and thanks to Adam Gee and all at Channel 4 for the opportunity to keep making great work. Last but not least, thanks to Broadcast Magazine for the hangover.

Last summer was the inaugural year of the Foundry, our graduate scheme. Their brief was 'create something connected to the internet that doesn't live on screens'. In response, they came up with Olly, the web connected smelly robot. It turns your online notifications into smell.

Hello and happy new year from Mint!

On January 1st, we launched New Year Revolution for Channel 4.

The starting point for New Year Revolution was the observation that most of us make new year's resolutions, but few of us keep them. The ambition is that by harnessing faces of Channel 4 and the collective willpower of the social web, we might help people keep the resolutions, and have some fun along the way.

In the first five days alone, we had over 20,000 join the revolution, and it is still gathering pace.

Update: The interaction designer position has now been filled. We are still looking for our visual designer!

We are looking to grow the Mint Studio by adding two new designers to the team.

We think designing here at Mint has to be one of the most exciting jobs around. Just in the last year, we launched Speedo Pace Club, the very magnetic Stickygram, "the award-winning"* Sexperience 1000, ran 2Screen 2011, launched Olly, the list continues...

If you want to join this small team making big things, head over to jobs, take a look at the visual and interaction designer positions and drop us a line.

We look forward to talking.

* I always wanted to say that.

Last night we were at The BIMA Awards 2011, where The Sexperience 1000 picked up the award for 'Best use of Data, Mashups & Data-Visualisation'. We were also delighted to be nominated for the 2011 Grand Prix award!

Thanks go to all the Mints who worked on it, our tech partners for the project LingoBee, Ipsos MORI, Endemol and of course, Adam Gee and all at Channel 4 for allowing us to keep making great work.

On 8 August 2011, we launched Mint Foundry, our first ever graduate scheme. We set four makers the brief: Make something connected to the Internet that doesn't live on a screen.

Sadly, their three month tenure with us is coming to an end. As a final farewell, we are hosting an informal presentation by our four graduates on what they've been up to, followed by some drinks. There will be a bit of a grand unveil, and hopefully a chance to play with what they've made.

It is this Thursday, 27 October at the Mint Offices at Exmouth Market. You can book yourself a spot on the event page.

Hope to see you there!

Our tribute, made from the parts of a MacBook Pro. By Mint Foundry.

Click to see large version

We found a beautiful venue, confirmed the first bunch of speakers and finalised the booze order. 2Screen 2011 is set for 29 September 2011 at London's Finsbury Town Hall.

We launched Sexperience, the web partner to The Sex Education Show on Channel 4 back in September 2008. In time for Season 5, we undertook the most major overhaul of Sexperience since launch.

With a new site architecture and codebase, complete content reorganisation and refreshed interaction and visual design, this is the best Sexperience has ever worked and looked. Do check it out.

But as Steve would say, 'There's one more thing…' Alongside the site re-design, we have been working on another product to add to the Sexperience family.

We started 2Screen in 2009 with the question 'Can TV & the web make a baby?'. We returned in 2010 to explore what was by then becoming a mainstream trend.

Now, 2Screen is coming back for a third year on 29 September 2011. We're putting together an exciting line-up to discuss the intersection of TV and the social web.

We're going to be announcing more details in a couple of weeks time. If you'd like to receive an update when we do, leave your email address on the 2Screen site.

Mint Foundry is our brand new graduate scheme. This first year tasks four makers for three months with the brief:

Make something connected to the Internet that doesn't live on a screen.

Last week, Ed was at Lebowski Fest with the Mint Conference Policy. While we await completion of his illustration so he can post as himself, here are his impressions.

Of all the events in the world that hold a cultural or spiritual significance to you, which would you choose to visit? Perhaps the Hajj in Mecca if you are Muslim, or maybe Kumbh Mela if Hindu. Perhaps the World Expo is more up your street, which when held in Shanghai last year gained the status of the largest peaceful gathering in history.

Last week, I made my own pilgrimage. Travelling from London, England all the way to Louisville, Kentucky to an event they call Lebowski Fest.

On 19 June, eight cycling rock stars from Mint Digital - Team Extra Strong Mints - will be throwing their legs over their bikes to ride the 54 miles from London to Brighton.

They're doing it in aid of the British Heart Foundation. Please help them reach their target on the JustGiving page. All sponsorship appreciated.

Go Adam, Andy, Colin, David, Edd, Paul, Kejia, Tom!

After a search that began in April last year, a spat with the Crown over a potential property and a two-month build, this has been a long time coming. But here we are. Last week saw Mint London move into its fancy new digs in Exmouth Market.

We had an idea, so we quickly gave it a go. Version II coming soon.

UPDATE: If you like this, we've got a couple of other Instagram experiments: Quotagram and Stickygram

André put together a lovely video of this lunchtime's snowball fight.

(I feel the video may have been edited to make me look like the instigator, which is in no way true.)