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Comment by Les Selby on August 19, 2010 at 1:44pm

Call for Collaboration (August 2010 No 1): (Freelance Web Developer)

Alba Associates has been approached by a Manchester based businesses that provides specialist delivery of online support and advice services based platforms. The Client is looking for a freelance Web Designer / Developer to contribute in the following ways.

The client wishes to work with a partner (freelancer) who can contribute towards the team with their ability to turn ideas into specs for coding (mock ups, process maps / notes as well as help out with testing. The person is needed to contribute as a team member to current projects.

The client would like to partner with someone who has design and usability skills (Photoshop and CSS) as well as helping with graphics to make interface for users pleasant, usable and accessible. Would also be able assist with coding requirements (php / sql / ajax) would be most attractive.

The client would like the opportunity to meet in an informal manner at the next Wired City Reconnected event (Manchester 23rd September). By meeting at the event, will allow the client to meet and review a possible partner without have to hear any sales pitch or receive any unnecessary cold calls? Once they have received the business profile materials and met the potential business they would like to select the right partner with the most suitable solution.

The client is looking for a regional based business partner North East rather than overseas agency. Their preference is to partner with freelance business that is willing to work under their label on projects.

Alba Associates hold no additional information on the client or business. We would ask you to contact us to obtain a template business profile document ...which we will forward then forward to our client to explore possible introductions. (In this business profile you could include links to websites / evidence of work...as well as rates. The profile should be greater than 150 words. Please do not send us pdf of your work / profile).

Please note that there are no fees attached to arrangements for any introductions to meet the business.

To respond simply email me les.selby@albaassoc.com for a business profile, and once completed will be sent directed to the business concerned.

Comment by Frank Collins on May 13, 2010 at 5:01pm

Liverpool Design Festival

The Design Show: 19th – 21st November 2010

CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Call For Entries application pack can be downloaded from HERE

Alternatively, if you want a pack emailing to you please email Frank Collins with your contact details and the pack will be emailed or posted to you.

Our standard exhibition shell schemes, complete with power, lighting and name board, at 3m x 1m will be available and you’ll be able to purchase additional square metres to create bigger stands. We can also offer you a space only option allowing you to create and install your own stand.

The deadlines for applications and price points:
Apply before May 31st and if you’re selected you’ll qualify for the Early Bird Offer of a standard shell scheme of 3m x 1m at £250 plus £50 per additional square metre required.
Prices will revert to the standard charge of £350 per 3m x 1m shell scheme plus £50 per additional square metre required if you successfully apply after May 31st.
We welcome applications from group exhibitors and stand sharers conditional on all exhibitors on the stand being successfully selected by the panel.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Liverpool Design Festival was launched in November 2009 as a new annual design and contemporary craft festival in Liverpool. In 2009 the Festival incorporated, in its first year, over a dozen events in Liverpool city centre and wider Merseyside area and nearly 8000 people visited or participated in exhibitions, workshops, debates and talks and the Festival saw hundreds of designers from across the UK showcase their work.

The 2010 Festival, building on the success of the previous year’s events, celebrates and promotes quality design, encouraging an appreciation of craft and design by the widest possible audience, providing opportunities for participation, particularly by young people, in design and artistic appreciation whilst also supporting new and emerging practitioners.

The Liverpool Design Festival will run from the 18th November to 27th November 2010.

ABOUT THE DESIGN SHOW
The Design Show will be the signature event of the Festival and aims to showcase the best in contemporary design from the North West and the rest of the UK. It will present a selection of exciting and inspiring interior products, glass, ceramics, furniture, lighting, jewellery, textiles and fashion and will run from 19th to 21st November 2010.

The event will also welcome designers producing innovative new work and those that incorporate eco-design practices at the heart of their business. We offer an opportunity to launch new ranges in the UK and a high profile event that supports emerging talent and established designers.

JUDGING PANELS
For interior products and design and contemporary craft (including furniture, glass, ceramics, lighting, jewellery, textiles and wall coverings) our independent selection panel includes:
Maureen Bampton, Director - Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
Beatrice Mayfield, Maker Development Manager - Crafts Council
Frank Collins, Design Show Project Manager - Design Initiative
David Grimshaw, Programme Leader, 3D Design - MMU
Dick Mawdsley, Director - Utility
Claire Norcross, Designer - Jerwood Prize exhibitor

We also have an independent selection panel looking at specifically at designer fashion and fashion accessories (e.g. jewellery, other wearables and bags) including:
Joanne Watkinson, Head Buyer for mywardrobe.com
Kirsty Doyle, Luxury womenswear designer and winner Project Catwalk 2006 - www.kirsty-doyle.com

More judges will be announced soon.

OUR VENUE
The Design Show will take place at the Grade 1 listed St.George’s Hall in the city centre of Liverpool. St.George's Hall is widely regarded as one of the finest neo-classical buildings in the world and stands 169ft long and 74ft wide with a tunnel vaulted ceiling - the largest of its kind in Europe. St George's Hall is central to Liverpool's Cultural Quarter and is a key part of the area which is a designated World Heritage Site. It offers a ‘must see’ event to visitors and a not to be missed opportunity for designers to show and sell their work, promote their businesses and network with trade and public visitors in a breathtakingly beautiful setting.

MEDIA PROFILE
In 2009 the Festival generated the advertising value equivalent of approximately £130,000 in print, web and broadcast media coverage across 60 on and off-line publications, including The Guardian, Easy Jet Traveller Magazine, Big Issue, Your Move, BBC Radio Merseyside, BBC Radio 4, Liverpool Echo, Liverpool Daily Post, Lancashire Telegraph and sites such as Pure Design, Creative Boom and ArtInLiverpool.Com. The Festival will again expect to achieve press and media coverage at local and regional levels as well as attracting significant national interest in 2010.

If you need further details please contact:

Frank Collins
0161 834 3722
frank@designinit.org.uk

You can also sign up to Festival bulletins on the Festival website www.liverpooldesignfestival.com

Comment by Glenn Maguire on May 12, 2010 at 11:43am

On Friday the 14th May sparkleVFX will be at the FACT centre in Liverpool as part of the Light Night Event. As the evening coincides with sparkleVFX launch night we’re giving away some great prizes. We have 2 fully licensed copies of the excellent 3D package Silo www.nevercenter.com (used by sparkleVFX) and 2 copies of D’Artiste Character Modelling book from Ballistic Media. All you have to do to enter is turn up on the night or enter by email below. Please read the terms and conditions. We look forward to seeing you.

ENTER PRIZE DRAW ON LINE.

How to enter.

Silo 3D
Email prizedraw@sparklevfx.com with Silo in the subject box to enter for the Silo 3D License. In the email include your full name and a password to retrieve the prize.

Ballistic Media - D’artiste
Email prizedraw@sparklevfx.com with Ballistic in the subject box to enter for the Ballistic Media book. In the email include your full name and a password to retrieve the prize

Please read the terms and conditions before entering.





TERMS & CONDITIONS
1.By Entering the prize you are agreeing to the terms and conditions.
2.Decisions by the SparkleVFX staff is final
3.Prizes will be given out at approx. 8pm on May 14th. You must be at the FACT centre Liverpool to accept your prize or send a representative with your password to pick it up on your behalf. If you are not there to accept your prize the draw will happen again.
4.There is no cash alternative
5.FACT, Nevercentre or Ballistic Media are not responsible for this prize draw
6.There will be no personal email responses from the prize draw email address.
7.Only one email address can enter per prize.
8.The Prize draw can be entered on the evening at FACT Liverpool

Comment by Glenn Maguire on May 12, 2010 at 11:42am

On Friday 14th May sparkleVFX officially launches its new portfolio, to celebrate this launch we’ve partnered with FACT and Light-nights to bring you an evening of live 3D modelling. The night is aimed at people who are new to 3D and would like to see the pipeline in action., from concept drawing through to modelling and lighting. The live modelling will take place at 6.30pm (doors 6pm) and will be held my sparkleVFX new Creative Director Glen Southern. Several 20 minute session will be held up until 8pm. Also on hand we’ll have art directors from Activision Games to give any advice to up and coming 3D artists wanting to get into the games industry. We’re also bringing with us Small Fish Creations who set up an independent company straight from uni, they’ll be on hand to answer any questions about the troubles of setting up.

Sparkle staff will be on hand throughout the evening taking any questions, demoing software and giving some handy hints. We’ve prizes to give away on the evening including 2 x Silo 3D Licenses, 2 x Ballistic Media Arts books and 1 x latest Activision games title.

The evening has been branded by sparkleVFX’s new creation for FACT

Come along and check out new portfolio, see the new FACTOID modelled and animated. Relax, have drink.. watch a movie. This event is FREE but is based on a first come first served basis. For any further information please contact the FACT box office or email info@sparklevfx.com

Comment by Steve Tonkin on April 21, 2010 at 3:02pm

If you need a speaker at any of the events I saw Joanne Allday and said I'd recommend here check out http://www.marketingspeaker.co.uk. fantastic and very enthusiastic. Always willing to get real results so you know you can make a difference in your business.

Comment by Abscraft on March 27, 2010 at 2:13pm

With These Hands, wirral based visual creative visual arts networking event's next get together will be Tuesday the 20th of April at Home Cafe, Oxton, Birkenhead/Prenton. All welcome. 10 am in the cellar room.

Comment by Phil Northall on March 25, 2010 at 3:50pm

Creative Industries Networking Group welcomes the launch of Salford Business School’s Innovation Bazaar

The Creative Industries Networking Group (CING) is extending its regular monthly meetup for April to include the launch of the ‘Innovation Bazaar’ at CUBE Gallery on April 12th. This project, devised by the University of Salford Business School, aims to develop and support ideas from across the creative world and most importantly link the creators of these ideas with the larger businesses and institutions who have the capability to transform these seeds of innovation into market-ready products or services.

The Innovation Bazaar will be an open innovation marketplace based on a call for ideas around the theme of “new ways of working”. The Innovation Bazaar is a concept that is located between the point of an idea and the first prototype, making it different to, and more inclusive than, other exhibitions/awards for innovation.

After the initial call for submissions, the 50 best ideas will then be exhibited in the CUBE Gallery for a week in June. During this exhibition investors, business angels, product developers and institutions will be encouraged to peruse the ideas and to submit ‘bids’ in a blind auction, based on the support and resources they can offer to bring the idea to market. At the end of the exhibition the main Innovation Bazaar will take place in the exhibition space, allowing those with the ideas to mingle with those with the resources and knowledge on how to realise the full potential of the ideas.

This launch event will provide anyone who has a germ of an idea with more details about the Innovation Bazaar and will be a chance for interested parties to ask any questions or raise any queries they may have. The Innovation Bazaar is aimed at anyone with an idea including students at college or university; recent graduates; freelancers and the self-employed; small business owners or anyone, anywhere with an idea for a new product or service, we only ask that it addresses the key theme of “new ways of working”.

To add an element of experience to proceedings, we have also managed to secure Barbara Hastings-Asatourian, founder of Contraception Education and the creator of Contraception the Board Game. This original idea for a new way to teach children about sexual health has now been developed into a range of different formats and translated into a number of different languages to be sold around the world. Barbara will give us a brief account of her experiences getting her idea off the ground and on to worldwide success.

I hope you agree that this is a fantastic project with plenty of potential to both develop new ideas and to link key players from the creative fields with some of the many organisations and institutions that can develop ideas and talent further. Expect the usual relaxed and informal CING atmosphere, so get over to www.meetup.com/c-i-n-g and register to attend.

Date: Monday 12th April 2010
Time: 6.00pm - 9.00pm
Venue: CUBE Gallery, Portland Street, Manchester
Register and more information at www.meetup.com/c-i-n-g

Comment by Les Selby on March 12, 2010 at 11:13am

Calls for Collaboration (March 2010 Part 4): Freelance Adobe Flex Developer
Alba Associates has been approached by a North Manchester based business looking for Freelancers to address the following request / calls for collaborations.

Call for Collaboration No 4
We urgently require an experienced Adobe FLEX developer to work with us on the development of a new application for distribution via CD-Rom and the web. The application will be linked to the internet for updates, new languages etc. but the user data will be stored locally on the pc. We're based in north Manchester, and a local developer would be preferable, but remote working would be possible. Contract can be either freelance or employed. Please send previous examples of work and experience.
The business is looking for an individual freelance person....who is based in the North West of England...who can work in their office. They are not looking to hear from businesses who are specialist in this area of work or from freelance from outside the geographical area......thanks

Please note that there are no fees attached to arrangements for any introductions to meet the business. Alba Associates hold no other information on the business...and will forward interested freelancers business profile and arrange for introductions.

To respond simply email me les.selby@albaassoc.com for a business profile, and once completed will be sent directed to the business concerned.

Comment by monir ali on February 8, 2010 at 10:58pm

so hello people, not sure how groups are to work or how we network with people. i would like to start networking with people and get my one man plan to take over the world...i am a photograoher, and small time money maker....

Comment by Nicola Pinder on December 22, 2009 at 9:55am

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