Business links
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Department of Trade and Industry
Range of information for consumers, small businesses, emplyees etc
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businesslink.co.uk
Impartial information and business support
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The Patent Office
To help stimulate innovation and international competitiveness of industry though intellectual property rights
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Design Awards
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Marketing Design Awards
Recognises the importance of the effective application of design to the marketing process.
Haymarket Events
174 Hammersmith Road
London
W6 7JP
Phone: 020 7413 4161
Fax: 020 7413 4381
Enquiries: Cait Merrigan
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DBA Design Effectiveness Awards
Awards open to clients commissioning and consultancies providing design services. Entries should be a recent design project which has achieved demonstrable commercial success in specific business objectives.
Design Business Association
32 - 38 Saffron Hill
London
EC1N 8FH
Phone: 020 7813 3123
Fax: 020 7813 3132
Enquiries: Sally Boulton
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CSD Designer of the Year
Awarded annually by CSD members to individuals from any design discipline, who in the previous year,demonstrated consistent creative excellence, innovation and professionalism.
Chartered Society of Designers
32-38 Saffron Hill
London
EC1N 8HF
Phone: 020 7831 9777
Fax: 020 7831 6277
Enquiries: Angela Beevers
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Design Week Awards
Open to individual designers, design consultancies and their clients. 13 categories ranging from corporate identity to retail environments and product design.
Design Week
St Giles House
50 Poland Street
London
W1V 4AX
Phone: 020 7734 0770
Enquiries: Fiona Hitchcock
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Eurobest Awards
Annual awards designed to recognise today's standard of creative excellence and effectiveness in European advertising. 3 categories: print, television/cinema, outdoor.
Eurobest Awards Ltd
Wolverstone House
61-62 Berners Street
London
W1P 3AE
Phone: 020 7636 6130
Fax: 020 7636 6086
Email: hatchuel@canneslions.com
Enquiries: Romain Hatchuel
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General resources
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Design Museum
Always nice to know what's going on there
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Antenna
Listings of design-related
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Visualartstrends
A quaterly 'state of the industry' report for the creative professional
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Alternativa
Interesting web directory for web sites
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Monotype
All you need to know about type
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Pantone
All you need to know about colour
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Photodisc
Online picture resource with powerful search facility
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Ariad
Essential resource for researches in all aspects of art and design
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Graphic design newsgroups
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graphicdesign.miningco.com
Lots of hints and tips for all fields of graphic design
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bizproweb.com
Resource for small business owners, professionals and home office entrepreneurs
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Hardware
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macandmore
Lots of macs and accessories
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Mac Warehouse
Many lines of the Apple Macintosh
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MacZone
Hardware, software and peripherals
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Jigsaw
24 hour online shopping
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Computer Warehouse
For mac OS products
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gotsc
Professionals need professional solutions
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Image Libraries
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Image100
A royalty-free
stock library. Their imagery is really
off-the-wall and their site is one of the best stock libraries around.
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Organisations
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Arts Council
Developing, sustaining and promoting the arts in Britain
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British Printing Industries Federation
Business support organisation for employers in the printing, packaging and graphic communications Industry
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Association of Photographers
Non profit-making trade association for fashion, advertising and editorial photographers
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Association of Illustrators
Support and promotion for the illustrator
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British Design and Art Direction
Professional association and charity representing UK's design and advertising industry
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Design Research Society
Established around the belief that the practice of design is common to many disciplines
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Design Council
Inspiring effective design within business, education and government
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Photography
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British Institute of Professional Photography
A searchable online database of professional photographers
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Printing
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Prepressworld
Aimed at the pre press and printing industry
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Publications
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Colors Magazine
Interactive Online Magazine with high design standards and great content.
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MacUser
Online version of the popular Macintosh magazine
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Artistica
The on-line graphic design artists' magazine.
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FontSite
A monthly magazine dedicated to typography and design, offering free fonts, fonts for sale, feature articles and an extensive book listing on typography and design.
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Pixart
Designed by digital graphic artist for digital graphic artists, includes reviews of the hottest computer graphics programs, how-to's, and a digital gallery.
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Adobe Mag
Published by Adobe Systems Incorporated for users of its software products and others involved with digital/online publishing and digital media.
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Graphics International
Publisher: Creative Magazines Ltd
Monthly graphic design magazine featuring interviews, packaging, literature, multimedia, corporate identity, illustration work, exhibitions and books.
35 Britannia Row
London
N1 8QH
Phone: 020 7226 1739
Fax: 020 7226 1540
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mad.co.uk
Design-related news and views
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Digit magazine.
An online edition of the printed magazine with news, reviews
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Creative Review
Publisher: Centaur Communications
Magazine featuring graphic, product and interior design, new packaging, video, film, computer, animation and advertising, typography and photography.
St Giles House
50 Poland Street
London
W1V 4AX
Phone: 020 7970 4000
Fax: 020 7970 4498
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Design Week
Publisher: Centaur Communications
News and articles of interest to anyone in retail, architecture, graphic and product design. Carries advertisements for design positions.
St Giles House
50 Poland Street
London
W1V 4AX
Phone: 020 7439 4222
Fax: 020 7734 1770
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Design News Service / Design Export News
Publisher: The British Design Initiative Ltd
Each month, the Design News Service provides design, export, business and trade journalists with the latest press releases from the UK's leading design consultancies, as well as opinion pieces, articles and presentation papers for publication. Subjects covered include - innovation, new technology, product design, interiors, packaging, brand, corporate identity, retail and architecture.
2-4 Peterborough Mews
Parsons Green
London
SW6 3BL
Phone: 020 7384 3435
Fax: 020 7371 5343
Email: initiative@britishdesign.co.uk
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Net Technical Solutions Ltd
A provider of web development to the Graphic Design industry.
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Software
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Quark
Find out the latest developments, upgrades and releases of this page makeup software
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Allaire
Makers of the popular html editor, homesite
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Xara
Software for web graphics
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Adobe
Leading software for web and print
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Macromedia
Leading software for web and print
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Training
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Aptec
Extensive range of courses
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EvEnt
Courses for applications, internet, databases, technical , service and support.
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Hoxton bibliotech solutions
Electronic media training
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Popcomm
Training for people working in corporate communicatioin, marketing and PR
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Outlawfx
Range of varied courses covering software packages for all aspects of the graphic design industry
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Typography
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Bitstream
Internet font company – developers of font technology, digital fonts and custom font designs for the graphic communiation industry
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redsun.com
All good things typography
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Web
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zeldman.com
A nicely written site with some entertaining content aswell as advice and hints for web site development
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killersites.com
David Siegel’s web site accompaniment to his book ‘Creating Killer Web Sites’ with useful tips for the web designer
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builder.com
Lots of useful tips and articles for the web designer and developer
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Net Technical Solutions Ltd
IT solutions company offering web application development, data integration and secure networking
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secretsites.com
David Siegel's web site accompaniment to his project management book. Useful tips for all those involved in the entire web process
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