London Design Festival, 13-23 September
The London Design Festival runs for the sixth time in September. Established to celebrate London as the creative capital of the world, the Festival has grown to include the widest range of design disciplines imaginable and over 200 events across the city.
Creativepool are proud to be a partner of this year's Festival and will be running our Pimm's & Portfolios Evening, on Tuesday 16 September, as part of the celebrations.
Whatever your design interest, the London Design Festival has something for you. Check out the latest details here.
Training Discounts for Freelancers
Academy Class - the premiere Adobe, Autodesk, Apple and Quark-certified training centre, has a very special promotion for you.
Sign up to any course from now until 30th November, mention Creativepool and you'll receive a whopping 40% discount!
Whether you're a novice with the software, or want to become an Adobe Certified Expert, Academy Class are there to help. Courses include Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Flex, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, 3ds Max, AutoCAD, Maya, AJAX, Final Cut Pro, Acrobat and QuarkXPress.
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CP Spotlight
At Creativepool, we're always developing ways to highlight the talent of our 35,000+ creative members. That's why we're introducing a new regular feature, running across the newsletter and website.
Each month, CP Spotlight will feature one Creativepool member and showcase their portfolio, with a full interview on the site.
Whoever you are, whatever your discipline, we want to spotlight your work. To be considered, email us and include some of the work you think our admiring public would like to see and/or a url of your portfolio site.
Don't Panic Poster Competition
The Don't Panic Poster Competition provides up-and-coming designers with a huge national platform to showcase their talent to both consumer and business audiences.
A well-respected entry point into the design industry, winners of this competition are published on 80,000 posters distributed to thousands of retail and social event outlets nationwide.
Previous winners include Kate Moross, Banksy and Jamie Reid. So choose from one of our upcoming themes, let your creativity run wild and enter today!
Save 45% on Digital Arts!
We've secured another fantastic discount with Digital Arts, the world's biggest creative design and technology magazine.
Exclusive to Creativepool members, Digital Arts are offering 45% off their subscription price.
Pay just £45 and get 13 issues of Digital Arts and 13 free CDs packed full with reviews, tutorials, stock photos and much more. They'll also send you a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book - worth £40 absolutely FREE.
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From the Best to the Worst
Every month, we tell you about websites which we think are cool via our 5 sites to check out feature. So, just for a change and to have a bit of fun, we'd like your votes for the worst sites on the web.
If your looking for some inspiration then take a look here.
Send your nominations for the worst websites here.
Insipiration from Vintage Kids
Focused on design work from the 1950s-1970s and contemporary designers that draw inspiration from that period, if you're interested in classic retro design, Grain Edit is the blog for you.
You'll find interviews, articles, designers libraries as well as examples of rare design annuals and type specimens.
So get inspired by the "golden age of design" and point your mouse here.
5 sites to check out
Checkland Kindleysides
Stunning Flash site featuring inspirational work from top Leicester design agency.
Bak Magazine
Achingly cool online visual arts magazine.
The World's Longest Sentence
An English Grammar teacher's worst nightmare: the world's longest sentence ...and it's still growing!
The Ad Battle
The site where print ads from around the world compete for votes.
Moofe
Brand new stock shot library of locations for CGI.
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