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Back to (Business) School

As another truly mediocre summer draws to a close, thoughts turn once again to the resumption of schooling for our young’uns. Whether it be school or university, there are uniforms to buy, books to acquire, gadgets to appease them with – it’s a never-ending cycle for sure…

As a business owner, of course you’ve been finished [...]

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Links Round-up: Competitions and Commissions

 

Castle at Light Night 2010 by 1st Galaxy who organised these lights

It is all competitions and commissions this time:

Light Night Commission

The Light Night events have become a feature of Nottingham. If you missed the last one, you can relive it via our photographic record.  The next one will be on 18 February next year, [...]

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Links Round-up: Ideas and Skills

The Thinker, outside the Rodin Museum – photo by Paul Floyd on Flicker

Ideas

On Thursday, 19 August, while others are planning a trip to the Nottingham Riviera, you can steal some competitive advantage and have a free breakfast and learn about Strategic Thinking & New Business Ideas at the University of Nottingham’s Innovation Park. This is [...]

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Links round-up: click here for opportunities

Image by Evan Agee

Designers

Carrying a torch for the 2012 Olympics?

Like the idea of your designs being viewed by millions of people around the world? Find out how to apply to design the Olympic and Paralympic torches for 2012, plus the Olympic and Paralympic cauldrons, packaging for the torches pre and post use and more, here.

Filmmakers

Docs 360 [...]

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Links Round-Up: Don’t Need No Dragon’s Den

Image Credit Donna Bramhall, Spinster's Emporium

First off, I’d just like to say thanks to all the prospective new team members who came down to our team meeting last night in Antenna. It was genuinely exciting to see the breadth of talent on show, and though I can’t spill any details of exactly what’s going [...]

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Oh We Do Like to Be Beside the Council-House

If you’ve walked through Nottingham’s Old Market Square in the past week, you may have noticed some activity. That’s right, it’s summertime (allegedly), which means the Nottingham Riviera is back! So if you’re looking to entertain some young’uns in the summer holidays, you could do worse than heading down and sampling the deckchairs, fairground rides [...]

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All about Threerooms – The Designers behind our new Logo

Over the next few weeks you’ll notice a big change at CreativeNottingham, the look and feel of the blog and website will be going up a notch thanks to the creative folks at Threerooms, the winners of our recent Logo Competition. I interviewed Ian Morris, joint director of Threerooms, to see what this company is [...]

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Guest blog: When in doubt, get out

Inspiration is a fleeting thing, some people have it in on tap and others struggle. Either way we all need to experience varied environments to feel inspired. Sitting staring at a screen in your workplace probably isn’t the best place to do this. Yes you could walk around Brooklyn on Google street view, or take [...]

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Guest blog: A Day in the Life…

…well, a year actually

We run a creative design business in the city centre (graphic design/web design/motion graphics etc). Its just the two of us and you can find our website here. Below is a assortment of random snaps from the last year which gives a little glimpse into our daily schedule (or lack of)

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Guest blog: Nothing to lose…

1977. The year punk was born. A revolution which saw any tom, dick and harry pick up any instrument and play carefree. No fear of being able to read music. No fear of whether they will make a bucket of cash. No fear of being rubbish or what people would think. Just pure artistic expression. [...]

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