dSCAPE/07 Animation Night - Speakers Announced

Speakers for this year's animation night include:

Nicky Gogan, co-founder of Sink Digital Media and of Ireland’s prestigious Darklight Film Festival
Eoghan Kidney, one of the founder members of Irish animation collective, Delicious 9
Chris Shepherd of award-winning Slinky Pics
Matthew Talbot-Kelly, self-styled digital itinerant troubadour

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Y Design Awards 2007: People's Choice Party

They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch – but there’s certainly a free ‘fish and chip’ supper!

If you’re a digital designer who’s in Brighton on 5th November then you are hereby invited to claim your free fish and chip supper and join up with hundreds of other designers at the Y Design Awards “People’s Choice Party” on Brighton Pier.

There’s a complimentary bar, free funfair rides for all attendees and the chance to find out which designer has won this year’s People’s Choice Award for best overall digital campaign (log on here to see the 14 category winners). We’re taking over Horatio’s Bar from 6pm until 11pm so make sure you let us know if you want to come and join the free fun (this is an invitation-only event so we need your name for the door).

Drop me an email with your details, or with any questions, to elaine.delfino@ydesignawards.com

See you there.

Brighton & Hove Web Awards

The 7th annual Web Awards will put the spotlight on some of the best websites and creative minds in the Brighton & Hove area. With more categories and entries than ever before this year's event looks to be bigger and better than ever!!

Voting opens to the public on Monday 29th October.

A very big thank you to everyone who nominated a website into this year's Web Awards. Our team of judges are currently scoring all your entries and will be forming a shortlist of all the finalists. The shortlist will be put up on our website and available for the public to vote on the 29th October.

The winners of each category will be announced at the glittering awards ceremony held in Sallis Bennys, as part of Brighton Digital Festival.

Head on over to www.brightonwebawards.co.uk to see if you've made it into the final.

The Sonic Body

The Sonic Body is opening on November 1st, 6-9pm at Blank Gallery, Portslade. Come and join us for a drink and experience an interactive orchestra of the human body! Find more information here: www.sonicbody.co.uk.
Download an e-flyer: SONICBODY_EFLYER.pdf

Recess

As part of Brighton's Digital festival we will be taking over our regular spot the Cosmo bar (New Steine Kemptown) very special guest Visuals from the Flash Brighton group!

This is not one to be missed, as we will be mixing it up with an eclectic electronic barrage of tunes to leave you hungry for more!

We will also be promoting our Radio show which starts on radio4a
on the 13th of November, so expect promos and giveaways and sneak peaks via podcasts on our myspace.com/recessparties and facebook (search for recess - Join the group!)

We're excited, you should be too!


Expect some lovely tight fitting squeaky bleepy digital wonders for your eyes and ears!

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Countdown to Digital Festival 2007

Just 21 days to go!

It's going to be a bumper November. There are the ever popular dSCAPE events such as the Portfolio clinic, plus fantasticly innovative art works - from Sonic Body, an audio-installation creating an orchestra of the human body, to Pyrotechnics to the People, which uses sensor-powered technology to create an interactive fireworks display!

There will be design awards and web awards,film and animation programmes plus countless opportunities to meet others in digital media industries.You can even hear some of the leading authorities on Flash animation talk on their specialist subjects at the the Flash on the Beach conference.

Our dSCAPE portfolio night has still got a couple of spots left for forward thinking, local digital media companies to cast an eye on the fresh talent out there, and perform a mentoring role for aspiring creatives.

Meet the new hot shots before your competitors do! Drop Nish a mail.

We're also looking for people to participate in Designers night, a rapid fire presentation on the theme of design.


With a slot of under 7 minutes, you can wax lyrical, entertain the crowd, impart your wisdom, sell your business or soul, or even rant about the worst design you've ever seen (Brighton station ticket machines, perhaps?). You don't need to work in the industry - design is something that impacts us all on both practical and emotional levels, whether it's your Swedish flat pack furniture, confusing street signs, stylish electronics, costly branding (Olympics logo anyone?) or the mysterious icons on your cooker or mobile phone. Contact Jo to get involved.

We'll leave you with a few quotes about design:

"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."
David Hockney

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Douglas Adams

"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."
D. H. Lawrence