Eden Web – Design & Marketing Blog

One of the greatest things about attending NCAD (all those years ago!) was the exposure you had to a huge range of creative disciplines. So, wether you were studying Visual Communications, Fashion Design or Craft, it’s likely that you had friends and mentors across Painting, Sulpture, Industrial Design and Photography. You got to see what they were creating on a daily basis and often a visit to another department within the college would spark ideas for your own projects. EG a book cover design you were working on might involve a visit to the Craft dept. to photograph some coloured metals for the books background.  Instead of using some DTP software for the book title, a friend’s work over in Sculpture might have inspired new ways to create some interesting typography.

The point is, their work and creative field pushed yours and you became a better designer for it. So last week when we received a call from Dublin City Council asking us if we were interested in information on a new networking initiative specifically for the creative industy in Dublin, we signed up to  ‘CreativeD ‘ almost immediately.

If you’re involved in the creative sector, then this is an invaluable opportunity to be involved in something focussed specifically on your industry whose remit is to

“define, develop and promote creative businesses and ensure that individually and collectively the creative industries become a significant force in our  new economy.”

The first event is held in October at the Digital Hub and is titled ‘Capitalize on your Creativity’.

Details on CreativeD can be found on the Dublin City Council Web site. I think it’s a great initiative by DCC and a welcome development for Irish Creativity.

Before you rush off and download Google’s shiny new Browser, just make sure you read their End User License Agreement and are happy with this shocker.

And I thought their motto was ‘Don’t be evil’!

• 11. Content license from you
• 11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.
• 11.2 You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.
• 11.3 You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit Google to take these actions.
• 11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above license.

We’ve been quiet on the blog and news updates lately as we’ve been wrapping up a couple of great projects. I can’t believe it’s November 1st today! Anyway, in the interests of publishing *something* this month, I wanted to announce the following clients and welcome them to Eden Web and thank them for working with us too.

 We are also involved in some really nice work for Dublin City Council, The National Botanic Gardens, The Office of Public Works and more…

More soon!