Archive for the ‘Creative London’ Category
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
Nico Macdonald is producing the next InSync event which is being held as part of the London Design Festival: Life in the Day of the...Editorial Designer.
It's at 6:00 pm on September 21st at zero-one. The blurb for the event says:
"Can creatives in one profession inform they way other design disciplines ...
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
We're beginning to get some shape to the London Games Festival fringe programme' which will look at activity outside the mainstream video games industry, exploring aspects of interactive entertainment as culture, creative form and a market that falls outside the recognised games industry. The Fringe will involve performances, exhibitions, master ...
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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
A couple of people have written up comments following the Hyde Park event about the 'olympic fringe'.
Lloyd Davis speculates about the experience of 'guests' in London and wonders how well we will be prepared for the experience of being hosts of one the world's biggest cultural events.
David Wilcox has put ...
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
Hyde Park
3.30 > 9 August 2006
The recent World Cup in Germany has amply demonstrated what hosting a major global sports tournament can do for a country
Just imagine what it will be like in London and across the UK in six summer's time?
The 2012 bid success was founded upon London creativity, ...
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
The London Games Festival, another of the projects I helped to get off the ground while working at the LDA, is a new major international event to celebrate the diverse creativity and cultures of interactive entertainment. The festival is the first of its kind in a country that is both ...
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Lord Sainsbury and
Shaun Woodward in the
Cabinet War Rooms
Government policy as explained by Lord Sainsbury to Ian Livingstone of Eidos at the games ’summit’ at the Cabinet War Rooms today. Ian was arguing that one of the critical issues facing the industry was the loss of IP to foreign ownership. Sainsbury ...
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Saturday, July 8th, 2006
This event at 01zero-one was moderated by Canadian film-maker Peter Wintonick who started the discussion by suggesting current changes in how people make, get access to and share information is driving social and political changes as significant as those caused by the Magna Carta. He quoted a recent speech of ...
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Two contrasting but related events in the past couple of days.
Yesterday at Pact’s Rights Lab (which was one of the projects I funded through Creative London) the discussion was much the same as at Broadcast Live last week: what are the opportunities for independent producers to do business in the ...
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
The DCMS is currently engaged in a process of putting together proposals that could form the basis of a green paper on support for creative industries in the UK. I went to a meeting today of the 'Competition and Intellectual Property Working Group' at the London Business School - standing ...
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