Protecting works from copyright in Australia

In Archive by Fredy Ore

The Australian Copyright Council have a useful introductory article on protecting writing, visual imagery, music and moving imagery with copyright in Australia. The website also contains useful information sheets, publications, news pages and useful links.
Screenrights for example, is a body that assists Educators where it is difficult or impossible to negotiate individual copyright clearances, in film and television. Following lobbying by both the film industry and the education sector, provisions were introduced into the Australian Copyright Act allowing educational institutions to copy from radio and television without having to obtain individual copyright clearances, provided they pay a fee. Screenrights was appointed by the Government to administer these provisions.

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Hutchison launches 3G is Australia

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Hutchison has today launched the next generation mobile phone network, 3G in australia. It is the first to offer services such as video news and sport updates, mapping services and video conferencing in it’s $3 billion initiative in Australia. Here is an article from the Sydney Morning Herald.
Some of the phones which takes advantage of the 3G services include, Motorola A830, A920 and NEC e808N. Here is an image of the coverage area in Sydney for Video, Messaging and Talk.

Australian INFront Visual Response

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Last Saturday, on Day2 of the Semi-Permanent Design Conference, there was a talk by Australian INFront members, Justin Fox, Matthew Willis and Sean Torstensson who commented on a Visual Literacy project.
They have been running a Project for several years now that asks designers to create an image without photographs and text which is representative of a “Word” they set out in a brief. The project is titled, Visual Response and contains visual responses by many designers from words such as Ant, Love, Marine, Eternity, Karma, Unity, Refugee, Traffic, Culture, Light and Magnetic, among others. The project was started in November 1999, by Domenic Bartolo and it’s aim is to promote creativity.

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The interesting life of Whitespace

In Archive by Fredy Ore

We often forget that most programming languages have a common character which sits silently in the background yet plays a significant role in any computer program.
During development and execution, the Whitespace (spaces, tabs and newlines) allows for programs to run correctly by invisibly guiding execution of code to either continue or stop. Finally someone has commented on the interesting life of Whitespace. :)

Flash MX and its accessibility features

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Jeffrey Veen writes in a recent post on some accessibility features of Flash MX. He comments briefly on Flash and Section 508 and how accessibility is turning into a hot topic, particularly for disabled users. Here is an excerpt from Jeff’s blog:

Making a Flash file accessible to disabled users used to be virtually impossible. In fact, the only recourse was to offer a non-Flash alternative — typically a less-usable text version of the content or features. Not exactly quid-pro-quo for your users.

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AGDA article on protecting identities

In Archive by Fredy Ore

AGDA has a useful article on protecting identities such as logos. The article comments on strategies and contains a useful list of things to remember and consider for both a client and designer perspective.
There is also a great 16MB movie on the AGDA site titled, What is Graphic design? which was shown at the AGDA awards last year and has Melbourne journalist Andrew Pegler asking the public questions about graphic design.

BBC Learning celebrates DNA Discovery with webcast

In Archive by Fredy Ore

BBC Learning are producing a live webcast on Friday 25th April to coincide with the 50 year anniversary of the Francis Crick and James Watson discovery of the DNA Double Helix.
The one-day webcast of the conference will include presentations by internationally renowned scientists on the history behind the monumental discovery and the progress made over the last 50 years by the science industry and society that resulted from the discovery.
More information can be found at the BBC Leaning Studies website.

Amit Pitaru's Insert Silence revisit

In Archive by Fredy Ore

I revisit Amit Pitaru’s Insert Silence website for a little creative inspiration. He has created some amazing creative digital pieces and his work is exhibited in the Design Museum’s Exhibition, among other designers including, Daniel Brown, Tom Dixon, John Galliano, Yugo Nakamura and Luis Barragán, one of Mexico’s most influential 20th century architects.
Amit Pitaru and James Paterson will be speaking at the Semi Permanent Design Conference this Saturday.

Shortlisted designers for UK Designer of the Year

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Voting has started for the UK Designer of the Year which includes a shortlisted group including Jonathan Ive, Industrial Designer at Apple.

The award by the Design Museum is given to the designer or design team living or working in the UK but are now based in another country.

More info can be found at the Design Museum.org website. Voting is open till June 29, 2003.