All Blog Posts Tagged 'creative' (20)

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Added by Arvind Salwan on October 2, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Filmtrip Wins Creative Industries Innovations Award .. Twice

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES INNOVATIONS SUCCESS The Dept Culture, Arts & Leisure announced a funding scheme called the 'Creative Industries Innovations Fund' [CIIF] last year. It was hugely popular and was a great insight into how many creative companies & individuals there are in N.Ireland. Filmtrip have been fortunate enough to have both of it's projects awarded : 'Holosuite', which is the partnership with Queens University's Sonic Arts Research Centre, investigating emotional respon… Continue

Added by Gawain Morrison on September 21, 2009 at 4:28pm — No Comments

A little free assistance for creative start-ups, starting up...

Launch Your Own Successful Creative Business.pdf

I thought you might like to know about a free resource that we’ve created here in… Continue

Added by Gillian Easson on September 4, 2009 at 2:04pm — 13 Comments

Branding Talent: win £1,000 and potential commercial commission

Enter your seed idea, win £1,000 idea development money, and a potential commercial commission with Shop Direct! Just-b. Productions have teamed up with Aegis, NESTA and Shop Direct for Branding Talent #2 Shop Direct is a massive (and massively successful) home shopping organisation that has moved online in a big way over the last few years. They are currently in the process of preparing to launch a new fashion cloth… Continue

Added by Greg Povey on August 10, 2009 at 1:02pm — No Comments

Creative code graduates: pitch your idea for TV Platforms to win an industry placement

Pitch your idea for TV Platforms to win an industry placement and attendance to a BBC workshop The BBC’s aim is to make available its TV and radio programming to everyone in the UK We are looking to find talented individuals who combine great software skills with creative flair and who want to work with world-class content enhanced by the latest technological developments The “creative code-swingers” will have skills in the latest web-programming code, including Flash, Java, XML and mo… Continue

Added by Greg Povey on July 31, 2009 at 5:13pm — 1 Comment

Creative Industries Strategy Report 2009

The Technology Strategy Board has just published its first document outlining technology innovation within the creative industries sector. With Digital Media becoming increasingly important within the creative industry sector, creative companies must continue to stay one step ahead when it comes to technology in order to survive and flourish. Taken from The Technology Strategy Board Website: "Many players within the creative industries are able to react with agility to new op… Continue

Added by Lynn Banks on July 23, 2009 at 10:21am — No Comments

Free advice, it doesn't pay - or does it?

(Image care of Hugh at gapingvoid.com)
Not all of us do it for the cash, some of us consider 'The Godfather' way - but ultimately there are a few great people out there in our creative world that give up their time to help and assist startups and young companies without loo… Continue

Added by Colin Gilchrist on July 2, 2009 at 9:29pm — 9 Comments

The growth of social media and our creative industries - in response to posts by Stuart Cosgrove & George Falconer

If I had been able to confine this article to simply 140 characters, than I would have, and the end of this sentence would testify to this. The power of words has never been more important than during this past week. The Iranian government’s decision to censor media reports, to sever Internet connections, to block texting and international calls and to cut access to social networking sites backfired completely. These steps were meant to make a strong statement that all was well and that it was… Continue

Added by Arvind Salwan on June 18, 2009 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

Creative Scotland Meeting: 9:30 – 12:30 on Tuesday 23 June

Michael Russell, Minister for Culture, External Affairs and the Constitution, Ewan Brown, Chair of Creative Scotland, 2009 Ltd and Richard Holloway, Chair of the Joint Board of the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen would like to welcome members of the artistic and creative community to the first in a series of quarterly events to discuss Creative Scotland. These events are intended to update the community on ongoing progress and offer an opportunity for you to contribute towards Creat… Continue

Added by Colin Gilchrist on June 7, 2009 at 7:03pm — No Comments

THINK BIG NOW

Forget the media and the doomsayers, we live in exciting times and there are countless opportunities to do things differently, better and more economically. This is a time for fresh ideas and new beginnings. Those who grasp them will prosper. Innovation must be constant because the world around us constantly innovates For me, owning a small business that did well in the good times was never going to be a passport to recession survival. Business does not receive loyalty points or long-term medal… Continue

Added by Mike Stevenson on May 19, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Creative Scotland - Game on!

Culture Minister Michael Russell confirmed April 28th 2009 that Creative Scotland will launch Spring 2010 - the amalgamation of The Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen - it will be a modern body that provides funding that fulfils its creative objectives in benefiting specialisms - taking risks and supporting creative individuals and be a creative organisation. He is asking all of us to enter into the debate and discuss how it is formed, the focus it has and how choices are made. - There w… Continue

Added by Colin Gilchrist on May 5, 2009 at 4:14pm — 16 Comments

Header design competition for 38minutes.co.uk

Attention creative talents:

38minutes is in need of a proper masthead for the site and since we have the bulk of creative genius here, we are asking you, our members to design something for us. The top t… Continue

Added by Darcie on March 17, 2009 at 3:25pm — 6 Comments

How can we improve 38minutes?

We are looking for ways of improving 38minutes and want honest views and achievable suggestions? So far the network has got off to an impressive start with over 700 members, numerous groups and co-ordinated activity in several key areas. There is no doubt that the launch… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on March 2, 2009 at 2:30pm — 16 Comments

Why Creative Scotland could be based in Dundee but probably wont be

Dundee MSP Joe Fitzpatrick has written to Culture Minister Mike Russell to make the case for the new body Creative Scotland to be based in Dundee When I was the Transition Director for Creative Scotland, we based the project in Dundee thanks to the generosity of the University… Continue

Added by Anne Bonnar on March 1, 2009 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

The Mobility Paradox

Creative Class guru Richard Florida recently blogged about the mobility paradox - with more mobile media being used daily parad… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on February 28, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

new Culture Minister calms the Scottish arts community about Creative Scotland

new Culture Minister Mike Russell met the 'arts community' head on today at the Traverse to set out Scottish Government's priorities and to listen to concerns including those around Creative Scotland. You can listen to the podcast here http://podcast.scotland.gov.uk/MRusselltraversepodcast.mp3 Russell is an assured politician who gets the arts and culture - the central importance of the artist and creativity, the transfor… Continue

Added by Anne Bonnar on February 18, 2009 at 11:30pm — 7 Comments

£5m programme to help creative industries commercialise IP

Hi everyone - forgive my shameless cut and paste job for this posting, but the following describes a competition which presents an exciting opportunity for media practitioners... The Technology Strategy Board is to invest an indicative £5m in a programme to help digital content creators and rights holders realise and maximise the commercial return potential from their intellectual property (IP). Target sectors are: Advertising, Computer games, Content creators, Digital content distribution, Di… Continue

Added by George Falconer on February 12, 2009 at 1:30pm — 3 Comments

Joined-Up Thinking Goes Live

Framework Document - creative industries - 5 February 2009.doc The long-awaited framework agreement for the roles of Scottish public bodies and their support for creativity and media has been published this morning. We all universally hope it leads to speedier decision making. and clarity about who d… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on February 5, 2009 at 11:30am — 11 Comments

Right brain / Left brain (what do you see?)

By the very nature of 38minutes there should be a healthy mix of left-brain & right-brain members; with right-brainers being the arty-types, and the left-brain camp being jam-packed full of coders. I found the image above online a while ago and wondered whether… Continue

Added by Dave Brown | cross-platform director/producer on November 6, 2008 at 12:30pm — 16 Comments

The Great Rights Ownership Debate?

The launch of 4iP inevitably provokes debates about ownership of IPR. So what does owning rights mean in 2008? Channel 4 has a history of sharing rights with creative companies.It catalysed the indie TV sector in the '80s and has a rights framework that allows producers to exploit new media rights, based on traditional TV shows. Much of this was possible because of the buying-power of public service broadcasters the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV in the UK mar… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on September 6, 2008 at 5:30pm — 3 Comments

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