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Archive for October, 2013

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The creative industries form one of the UK’s leading industrial sectors. Businesses ranging from advertising and crafts to performing arts and video games employ 1.4m people and contribute 5.3% of the country’s output (GVA). The strength of this UK sector is recognised globally, and it is seen as one that can help push economic recovery.  Read more

The Design Council has put together a short film highlighting the value of design in innovation, particularly for small businesses. As the film makes clear, design isn’t just about ‘shiny gadgets or a new logo’, but rather it’s a powerful tool that can help businesses to increase their productivity and competitiveness. Read more

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‘Design & Design Values’ is a series of evening debates and facilitated design-led workshop activities led by Lucy Wills FRSA and hosted by the Design Special Interest Group. These events aim to combine the experience and insight of attendees, and social media participants, to explore issues such as whether design should lead on embedding good practice at the core of global business and culture and what core values design should champion. Read more

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The £15m ‘Cross-Platform Production in Digital Media’ competition addresses the challenges of convergence in digital technologies, and covers film and television, online video, animation and video games (including pre-production, production and post-production processes). Supported by the Creative Industries KTN, the Technology Strategy Board is currently running a

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Somerset Innovation + Design is pleased to support and be part of VisLab.

‘Vis Lab’ is a group of highly specialised online 3D visualisers who enjoy meeting and discussing the most up to date developments in their field of specialism i.e. augmented reality, virtual and physical prototyping, architectural mapping, online 3D graphics and marketing, software and hardware interaction and applications, video and animation and innovative project development. Read more