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DESIGN

• Better by Design
  Channel4's collaboration with the Design Council in which consultants Richard Seymour and Dick Powell are given the challenge of taking six everyday products and coming up with not just different, but fundamentally better versions.They set out to overhaul the kitchen bin, razor, burglar alarm, shopping trolley, life-jacket and airline seat. Complete with a jargon busting A-Z of design terms.
• British Artist Blacksmiths Association
• British Design and Art Direction
  professional association representing the UK's thriving design and advertising communities. It's purpose is to set creative standards, educate and inspire the next creative generation and promote the importance of good design and advertising in the business arena. This site also includes the D&AD Awards, familiarly known as the 'Yellow Pencils'
• Centurions
  the BBC's excellent on-line accompaniment to the Radio 3 series of the same name provides biographical information and further links to perhaps the most significant writers, painters, architects, film-makers, designers, sculptors and poets.
• Circlemakers
  site dedicated to crop circles and how to make them. Guardian 'Site of the Year'. Great design and content
• Crafts Council
• Creativity Tools On-Line
  creative thinking tools and techniques
• Deco-Echoes
  design from the 1930's to the 1960's
• Deepend
  outstanding award-winning design company display their creativity
• The Design Council
  information on UK design
• Design Museum
  keep up to date with events and exhibitions taking place down in SE1. Best viewed in the Flash option
• Eye4U Active Media
  web design company. Many links in the Showroom section
• How Stuff Works
  ...does what it says on the tin. Has an American bias, but still a killer site. Check it out!
  
• Journal of Contemporary Art
  for those interested in contemporary art
• Lucy Howell
  site for the artist Lucy Howell. Cartoonish Flash animation with sound. Contributions from CIC staff hence the shameless plug
• Mackintosh House
  the University of Glasgow's Hunterian Art Gallery present a virtual tour of the reconstructed home of architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh
• Matinee
  new media design and production company. Lots of Flash 4
• Movies in Miniature
  Animation site and useful info for students

• Multimania
  French designer's site contains excellent interactive animations. Uses Flash 4 with sound. Checkout 'The Dancer' and 'The Microbe' in the Gallery section

• New Beetle
  this commended web-site showcases the new VW Beetle and allows you to test drive one on-line

• Period and Style for Designers
  a collection of images organized by period, providing access to architectural, decorative and furniture styles

• RemediProject
  innovative on-line gallery showcasing various designers
• Scanner
  site for electronic sound artist 'Scanner'. Minimal and monochrome. Use speakers for full effect.
• Strange and Beautiful
  John Lurie/Lounge Lizards site. Very cool.

• Totemweb
  minimalist furniture design etc.,

• Volumeone
  American web and print design company. Lots of Flash 4.

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