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The South West Design Forum is thrilled to launch Design Train 09 – a series of training days delivered throughout the South West by industry experts, in partnership with universities across the region.

A training programme designed by designers for designers. The first dates of the series are:

"Project Management - Tuesday 15th September, Falmouth":http://www.swdf.co.uk/ProjectManagement
"Digital Imaging - Wednesday 16th Se… Continue

The South West Design Forum, in collaboration with Designed in Devon, The Somerset Design Network and Plymouth Media Partnership, is hosting a special one off, half day seminar aimed specifically at designers based in the South West region. The seminar will focus on:
* What clients really want from their design agencies
* The impact of the economic downturn on client-agency relationships
* How to better understand your clients’ businesses
* “War stories” and “hot tips” from what other design age… Continue

We are all aware how tough the current economic climate is, and the design industry is no exception. However, based on research and feedback from design businesses across the South West, the South West Design Forum (SWDF) have been working on ways to help the region’s designers keep their heads well above water. As a result we have developed a series of five innovative workshops to meet the needs of the industry and to help them to attract and win more business.

Working closely with the Higher… Continue

being held by Plymouth Media-Partnership in association with HP Labs and i-DAT

Thursday 21st May 2009 2pm-4pm

Stonehouse Lecture Theatre, Portland Square University of Plymouth. PL4 8AA

Mscapes is a mobile media gaming platform that can be used to create location-based games with the players GPS location an element of the gameplay by moving from place to place. The Mscape platform is flexible and encourages developers to use Mscape to create not just games, but also informational guide… Continue

More than half of the nominations for the 2009 Media Innovation Awards have been selected from entries submitted by media companies in Devon.

27 of the 46 nominated entries come from Devon-based media companies, providing strong representation in 15 of the 16 award categories. Two-thirds of the original 150 entries for the awards came from Devon and the high level of nominations demonstrates the wealth of media talent in the county.

Both the number and calibre of entries this year has been ext… Continue