Aaron Cottrell Archive

  • Guest blog: Designing to engage

    Guest blog: Designing to engage

    “Ok, I’m bored.” – The thought that goes through your head when you see something, on screen or in print, that is badly designed or ‘noisy’. From a billboard to a web site, every piece of information that crosses your path has a certain amount...

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  • Guest blog: Getting creative with buildings

    Guest blog: Getting creative with buildings

    Homes, offices, shops and clock towers. When we live or work in urban centres we are surrounded by buildings. Some are old. Some are new. Some are ugly and dreary. Others are almost works of art. I mentioned in my previous post about the need...

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  • Dozing, deckchairs and dates for your diary

    Dozing, deckchairs and dates for your diary

    Photo by ayupmeduck Could it be that the promised ‘mini heatwave’ is upon us already? Before you prepare to sit back in the sunshine this weekend, here’s how to get even more from your summer. How to work for Nottingham Writers’ Studio The Writer’s Studio has evolved quickly...

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  • Guest blog: How much energy are you using?

    Guest blog: How much energy are you using?

    How much energy are you using, right now? Chances are, unless you’re at home, really keen and on a new ‘smart’ electricity tariff, you don’t know. It’s funny then that we’re urged to reduce our energy consumption and help save the planet yet, we have...

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  • New guest bloggers for Creative Nottingham in May and June

    New guest bloggers for Creative Nottingham in May and June

    I’m excited to announce the launch of the latest addition the Creative Nottingham editorial team: you! Every two week’s we’ll be welcome a brand new guest blogger from Notts’ creative community to show and tell all about their work and share their views about the...

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