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AFTER THE NEWS: Video: Neil McGuire of Glasgow-based company After the News looks for a healthy balance between designing stuff, eating biscuits, and reluctantly making work-related phone calls.


A STATE OF MIND: How do Designers Republic balance commercial and creative work?


THE ESTATE OF THINGS: London new media agency Bold Creative has been bringing commercial design concepts to the public sector with surprising results.


BRUM IN THE USA: Digital design agency Clusta set their sights on the US market and succeed with campaigns for Yahoo! and Prison Break.


SWEET FA: The digital artists who find unqiue solutions to unusual challenges.


SOUND & VISION: After meeting on Napier University's Film Photography and Imaging course, Rob Hardcastle and Marianne Kuopanportti decided to put their heads together.


MOVING ON UP: Bet you didn't know Kylie could juggle kittens? She can on the web, thanks to the original thinking of Wangbar.


"NO BULLSHIT AT RALPH:" Get an insight into the minds of those who work at digital agency Ralph.


BITTEN BY THE MULTIMEDIA BUG: Kleber reveal how they stay one step ahead when creating music videos.


LATERAL THINKING: Jon Bains was there at the beginning of the web, survived the dotcom crash unscathed, and has successfully helmed award-winning design agency Lateral for a decade. Craig Grannell spoke to him about the web design industry, technology and what the future holds.


INSPIRATIONS: DESIGN & MULTIMEDIA: Audio: Multimedia pros Shane Walter, founder of OneDotZero, and Bob Sanderson, the lone wolf of graphic design, air their views on all things design-related.




Art direction


ART OF THE MATTER: Building an underground metropolis? That's no sweat for Art Director Ashleigh Jeffers.


HOLY MOLEY!: The Art Director who plays with knives and lets the kids run riot...




Graphic design


GIRLS INTO GRAPHICS: Video: Ladies with a strong sense of style.


TO BE FRANK: Video: Onwards and upwards. Meet the Belfast design company that's really going places.


ONE SCREEN, ONE MOUSE: Ella Davies chats with graphics geniuses TADO about finding inspiration in Sheffield.


PEEDY.TV: Video: Meet the friendly person collective brightening up local web design and animation.


TWO'S COMPANY: Deep in the heart of Derry's Nerve Centre, graphic designers John McCandless & Justine Scoltock create innovative multimedia with the odd game of Kerplunk thrown in.


NEW MEDIA: Video: Since making the move from graphic design into interactive, Hoss Gifford has made a name for himself as the nicest man in nu meedja.


GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Video: It's a digital world out there and graphic designer Graeme Hewitson has been quick to reap the benefits, using his talents with computer and camera to create digital art for the corporate market.


PLUS DESIGN EXPO 2006:Audio: Edited highlights from Birmingham's inaugural graphic design and typography festival.




Idents, stings & title sequences


BRAND IDENT-ITY: Attention grabbing graphics bring creative freedom for Blair Harrower.


ONE HELL OF A GO: Jonny Halifax has witnessed the pioneering days of promos and has come through on the other side as a rock god of title sequences.


LIGHTS! CAMERA! TITLES!: This designer revolutionised the movie title sequence industry with Se7en.




Interactive design


SENNEP: Video: Pushing the boundaries of interface design, the founders of Sennep talk about their inspirations and the future.




Motion graphics


GLOBAL RESOLUTION: Motion graphics has come a long way from revolving 3D shapes. Mark Penfold charts the development of the experimental digital graphics festival, onedotzero.




Product design


THE DESIGN FACTOR: While the rest of us were worrying about our acne and what we would wear on Sports Day, Alan Boyd was busy laying the foundations of his enviable career in product design.




Web design


PHOTO FINISH: Set yourself up with a slick online folio using only free software, a web host, Flickr! and Wordpress.


BLUE SKIES AHEAD: Nial Chapman on the growth of Blue Square, and the Sandhi Thom phenomenon.




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