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• FLUID – Golden Roses – Fluid reveal (on their lazy blogger-unfriendly website) that they picked up two Gold awards at the Roses Design Awards for their work on SEGA’s House of the Dead: Overkill
• Life In Marketing Mag : Life Agency Blog – “We received some coverage in Marketing Magazine recently for the new promotional campaign we’ve created for the re-launch of Grolsch swing top that went live this month”
• Tax breaks plea for future of video games industry – Another week, another plea. Not that I’m not sympathetic, I just remember this story from a few weeks back
• Media Stars Shine at RTS Midlands Awards – Congrats to all the big winners. Incidentally, what exactly are they putting in the water at the University of Lincoln?
• Creative Communities | TAK! – “This month Creative Review features a piece on Creative Communities. I was asked to offer my thoughts on the creative community we belong to, that is of Digbeth and the Custard Factory” Here’s Dom’s unedited thoughts
• New for 2010: Retooled | Antonio Gould – “The project will work with ex-manufacturing employees from the West Midlands, skilling them up in social media and working together on a challenge which mixes old and new skills”
• Shakespeare « Mudlark – “Mudlark are working with the Royal Shakespeare Company to develop a new platform to explore Shakespeare’s place in a culture of cross-platform media consumption”
• Boxer Win at DBA Design Effectiveness Awards – “we won a DBA Design Effectiveness Award, hoorah!”
• Clusta: Clusta and the Computer Arts Magazine Designers Challenges – “Computer Arts magazine asked us to give our take on the London 2012 Olympic brand… here are the results”
• We started up with nothing | Business Insight | Design Week – Smile Creative Consultants get a nice feature in Design Week
• Film Forum West Midlands − Spoof Perfume Ad – Casting – Are you ridiculously good-looking? If so perhaps you’d like to appear in a spoof perfume advert. Details here
• [Event] Digital Treasures, West Brom, 26 November 2009 – Re-thinking archives for the digital age
• [Event] Rustling Brands, Birmingham, 25 November 2009 – A one day conference covering Advertiser Funded Programming (AFP), advergaming and other forms of brand-funded content. Thinkbox, ITV, Maverick TV, Drum PHD, Ag8, Bebo and Codemasters are involved
• [Event] Midlands Macintosh User Group, 12 Nov 2009, Solihull – “Join us for a tour of Snow Leopard server from the experts at the Apple Store in Solihull. Pizza Hut after the meeting… all are welcome”