The International EMMAs (Electronic Multimedia Awards) recognises excellence in digital media content creation through the acknowledgement of best practice and ongoing educational programmes. They celebrated their 10th anniversary last year and are their international awards programme attracts entries from over 40 countries and has the widest reach of any digital awards event worldwide. ::: www.emmaawards.com

A brilliant article by Claire Tristram which looks at the ‘The Next Computer Interface’, the desktop metaphor created 30 years ago and information management ::: www.technologyreview.com/articles/tristram1201.asp

An IMF article on some issues Acrobat Reader has with loading large PDF files. The page also contain a table of approx. download speeds for a 2MB PDF file on various internet connections. ::: www.imf.org/external/adobetip.htm

The fight for the DVD Burner ::: http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story

The ‘MacComedy’ website, a mac-centric humourous article, picture site ::: http://216.74.100.93/~flamebox/maccomedy/movies.html

An article by Karen Dearne on the 10Gbps ‘Super-Net’ surviving preliminary tests. The Super-Net is a key part of the federal Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy (CeNTIE) project with a focus in running high-end 3D and video applications. ::: [1] http://australianit.news.com.au/articles [2] www.centie.net

DS9R designer Kevin Vo’s work gets profiled in the latest ‘Helvetica’ issue of IdN Magazine CD. Visit his website and check out his ‘Digital Quilt’ project ::: [1] http://ds9r.com [2] http://ds9r.com/digitalquilt

Some free fonts from Maniackers ::: www2.wind.ne.jp/maniackers/designfont.html

The Flash Design Awards 2002 is calling for entries. Organised by Stefano Marini of Winkler & Noah, Italy, they are calling for entries in 10 categories from anyone out there who thinks they have something extra special to offer in the field of Flash design. Deadline 30.03.02 ::: www.web-master-republic.com

Here are some more useful design/creative websites and some nice interface design sites, [1] Net Mechanic ::: www.netmechanic.com/news [2] Little Factory ::: www.littlefactory.com [3] Vector Lounge ::: www.vectorlounge.com [4] Design Agency ::: www.design-agency.com/project/ [5] Color Matters ::: www.colormatters.com [6] Plumb Design ::: www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/index.html [7] The Cooker ::: www.thecooker.com/

Another useful user experience website by Mark Hurst, ‘Good Experience’. Sign up to the Newsletter.::: www.goodexperience.com