RockMasters Announces 'Thats Edu-Tainment'

Spotting an opportunity to build on its flourishing business in the “experience economy”, RockMasters has launched a franchise opportunity specialising in providing schools in rock music for both children and adults, typically at summer camps and corporate weekends.

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OneScreen's Film Festival In Its Fifth Year

OneScreen, the original film festival for the creative community by the creative community, is back for its fifth year. OneScreen gives industry professionals a venue to showcase independently-produced film and video work made for any platform. It is an extension of the One Club's mission to elevate the creative standards in advertising and design in all its forms.

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Scrapblog Announces 2007's Biggest Online Scrapbooking Trends

After having more than one million pages created in its first nine months, Scrapblog shares 2007's biggest and most surprising developments.

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Your Toothbrush's Carbon Footprint

It's exciting that designers are talking about sustainability even though the concept of sustainability seems at odds, or downright antithetical, to a lot of graphic design. Afterall, don't designer's love itty bitty type surrounded by white space, glorious white space? Certainly, the AIGA has sent out its fair share of multiple page publications with florescent inks and vellum overlays. But, change is good and change is progressive and I do think that AIGA and designers are trying to change.

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Acknowledging, Finally, the Work of Women Artists

London – ‘I will show your Excellency what a woman can do,” wrote the 16th-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi to one of her aristocratic patrons. Some three centuries later, the American artist Georgia O’Keefe remarked: “The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I’m one of the best painters.”

The struggle of women artists to gain recognition as artists, regardless of their sex, is the underlying leitmotif of “The Art of Women from the Renaissance to Surrealism,” a far-ranging exhibition of 260 works by 140 artists at the Palazzo Reale in Milan until March 9.

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Etsy's Trademark Permissions Program: This Ain't No Cease and Desist

I am always amazed by Etsy’s dedicated and creative community. Many sellers and buyers have expressed a personal connection to Etsy by using the word “Etsy,” its logo, or other Etsy Marks on products, in running a website, in hosting an event, and in creating promotional materials. This use may seem like a win/win situation: the member uses the Etsy name to promote their shop and all of Etsy benefits from this promotion.

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The Creative Slice of Economic Pie

Among the group's expected recommendations: The region should work with organizations representing minority- and female-owned businesses; brand the city as a hub of creative enterprise; collaborate with entrepreneurship groups; and create financial-incentive programs to attract creative-economy businesses and to fund entrepreneurs.

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